Word: mig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-paid Western pilots who flew into Uli for relief agencies did so at night to avoid marauding MIG-17s and Ilyushin-28 bombers, supplied to Nigeria by the Russians and flown by Egyptian pilots. Food planes from the Portuguese island of Sao Tome, Red Cross flights and gunrunners from Libreville in Gabon circled over the airstrip only briefly, then dropped swiftly through the African darkness for bumpy landings during the ten seconds in which the runway lights were flipped on by a camouflaged control tower. A Nigerian night fighter nicknamed "Genocide" tried to pick them off as they landed...
...unit has a range of nearly 200 miles, controls both conventional antiaircraft fire and ground-to-air missiles, and is especially good at detecting low-flying planes. No other P12 has yet been seen in the West, and Israeli intelligence officers call it a more valuable catch than a MIG...
Because it is intended primarily to knock down other jets, notably the agile Soviet MIG-23, the Air Force calls its forthcoming F-15 an "air superiority" fighter. The designation is doubly meaningful to U.S. aircraft firms. They are finding that big Pentagon contracts, once frequent, are becoming frustratingly scarce. Thus, when the McDonnell Douglas Co. of St. Louis finally won the F-15 award over two competitors last week, it was a considerable coup for the No. 1 firm in the industry since the 1967 merger of McDonnell Co. and Douglas Aircraft. The contract calls for design and production...