Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane that shot them down was a MIG-type fighter that opened fire from the rear without warning. The U.S. airmen "returned the fire with the RB-47's two remote-control, radar-directed...
...delegation to last autumn's meeting of the United Nations, Hassan lined up solidly with the Communists on a series of key votes- Red China, the Congo, Cuba. He had a private huddle with Nikita Khrushchev, who amiably promised Hassan anything he wanted. The first down payment: twelve MIG-17 jet fighters and two MIG-15 trainers now based on a Moroccan airstrip just 15 miles from Nouasseur, the biggest U.S. overseas air base (scheduled to be given up in 1963). At last count, some 39 Soviet technicians were tending to the MIGs...
...Twelve used MIG-15 jets, the same fighters clobbered by U.S. F-86s in Korea, along with another eight or ten newer MIG-17s. Total air force strength: 150 to 200 planes...
...intruder was passed from one Russian military zone to another. U-2 penetrations were no secret to the Soviets; Powers and other pilots had made them often during the past four years. The Russians had fired rockets, but the rockets had fallen short at some 60,000 ft.; MIG fighter planes had flashed after them and had mushed helplessly at the same altitude, well below the U2's lofty sanctuary...
Missing Again. The vagrant MIG flew on to the nearby port city of Tandjung-priok, opened fire at the huge gas tank of the Stanvac Oil Co., missed the tank but wounded 14 people. Next, the plane swept over Bogor, 30 miles from Djakarta, made a strafing run at Sukarno's massive Bogor palace, and missed again. With its fuel exhausted, the MIG made a bellylanding in a West Java rice field. As the pilot, Lieut. Daniel Mauker, 28, looking dazed and shaken, stumbled from his Russian-made plane, he was seized...