Word: mig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most surprising development was the disclosure that the Soviets had, in the past month or so, delivered 20 MIG-23 Flogger jets to Cuba. One version of this plane can deliver nuclear weapons. If this is the model now in Havana's hands, the U.S.S.R. has seriously violated the 1962 Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement that ended the Cuban missile crisis. The Soviet leader pledged not to give Cuba offensive weapons...
...cheering Tanzanians gathered in Dar es Salaam to urge on Nyerere's army, which commandeered buses, Land Rovers and trucks to drive to the front, 850 miles away. But Nyerere reportedly was compelled to ground his air force after Tanzanian soldiers shot down five of their own MiG fighters, mistaking them for Ugandan jets...
...blue-gray uniform of Egypt's supreme commander, President Anwar Sadat last week commemorated the fifth anniversary of the October War with an impressive military review in the desert west of the Suez Canal. A bagpipe band skirled It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, as MiG-21 fighters screamed overhead, and 10,000 Egyptian troops-accompanied by a stunning array of military hardware-paraded under a blistering sun. It was one of modern Egypt's most imposing military displays. Nonetheless, the message was that Anwar Sadat was ready to wage peace, not war-albeit from...
...perhaps 9,000 Cubans in Ogaden. Another 2,000 to 4,000 are assisting the Ethiopians in a bloody war against Marxist guerrillas in Eritrea province. Russian advisers and technicians number perhaps 1,000. Their task: training Addis Ababa's forces to use such sophisticated weapons as MiG-21 fighters and T-62 tanks-all provided by Moscow. The Cubans in addition have suffered 5,000 casualties, mostly against Somalia in the Ogaden...
...Chinese air force, for example, ranks behind only the American and Soviet in size, but comprises mostly various home-built versions of the MiG-19, a Soviet fighter of the 1950s based on now outdated technology. Facing the obsolescent Chinese MiGs are some of the Kremlin's hottest new war planes, including the high-flying MiG-25 Foxbat...