Word: mig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patrolling in leisurely fashion off the Syrian coast near the port of Tartus last week, the two Israeli reconnaissance jets looked deceptively vulnerable. They were, after all, 125 nautical miles from the nearest Israeli border. But when alert Syrian MiG-21s moved in for the kill, the sitting ducks turned out to be seductive decoys. Israeli Phantoms and Mirages flying cover high overhead in the partly overcast skies pounced on the Syrian planes. In what was by far the biggest air battle in the Middle East since the 1967 Six-Day War, 13 Syrian MIGS were downed and one Israeli...
...another surrogate in the gulf. After its military advisers were ordered out of Egypt last summer, Russia revised its Middle East strategy around Iraq, which has only 35 miles of shoreline on the gulf but wants more. In return for oil, the Soviet Union agreed to provide Iraq with MIG fighter planes, other arms and technical assistance. At the same time, the Russians set about conducting covert political-military activities in the gulf area...
...North Vietnamese have lengthened the old U.S. Marine airstrip at Khe Sanh from 4,000 ft. to 5,250 ft.-long enough to accommodate MIG-19 jets...
...part, at least, is an attempt to draw Egypt back into the battle. Last week Syrian artillery once again pounded Israeli positions on the occupied Golan Heights, including the new settlement of Benei Yehuda. Israeli Phantoms scrambled to hit back at the Syrian guns and to tangle with the MIG-21s that climbed to meet them...
...only plane equipped to carry the Phoenix missile, which in turn is the sole U.S. defense system capable of knocking out the new high-altitude Soviet MIG-23 (NATO code name: Foxbat...