Word: mig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They claim that Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, the so-called "frontline" Arab countries, now possess 3,750 tanks, mostly Soviet T-54s and T-55s; some 4,000 big guns, ranging up to 122-mm. cannon and 160-mm. mortars; and 1,230 planes, mostly MIG fighters but also Sukhoi and Tupolev bombers. Israeli estimates of Soviet equipment in the Middle East have sometimes been off by 25% and other sources give considerably lower figures. In any case, what alarms the Israelis even more than these statistics is Russia's recent dispatch to Egypt of advanced MIGs, SA3 antiaircraft...
...many as 100 MIG-21j interceptors, along with 70 to 100 Soviet pilots plus crewmen. The planes, with a longer range, better radar and a more effective fire-control system than earlier MIG-21s flown bv Eevotians. are based at Cairo West, Beni Suef, Aswan, Mansura and Inshahs. Only once, so far as is known, have they and Israeli pilots encountered one another; in Aoril, over Lake Qurun southwest of Ca;ro, Israelis suddenly discovered that the MIGs they were about to jump were being flown by Russian-speaking pilots. Both sides backed away and have steered clear ever since...
...Sudanese Strongman Major General Jaafar Nemery, who, celebrating the first anniversary of the coup that brought him to power in Khartoum, had asked Nasser to join the festivities. Nemery has admitted 1,000 Soviet military advisers and economic technicians to Sudan. Several are training his pilots to fly MIG-21s. East Germany, meanwhile, provides advisers for Nemery's increasingly elaborate internal-security program...
...Skyhawks. Premier Golda Meir requested the planes during her Washington visit last September, but President Nixon deferred action two months ago because, he said, Israel already had air superiority without them. Seeking to reverse that decision, Eban noted that as many as 250 Soviet pilots are flying late model MIG-21s in Egypt, and that the Russians have emplaced 25 advanced SAM missiles around the Aswan High Dam, the port of Alexandria and the Egyptian air force base at Cairo West. Strengthening Eban's case still further, Aviation Week & Space Technology last week carried photographs of concrete hangarettes, some...
...longer felt nearly so apprehensive about the possibility of Israeli air raids. The reason? During the past month, the Russians who now help man Egypt's defense have not only set up new SA3 antiaircraft missiles to protect Egyptian cities, but have also begun to fly Egyptian-marked MIG-21s over Egyptian territory to defend those sites from Israeli intruders...