Word: mig
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MIND ARE A MYSTERY TO ORdinary people and foreign policy analysts alike, but Saddam Hussein may have thought he could take advantage of the transition in Washington to violate the U.N. coalition's no-fly zone in southern Iraq. He miscalculated. On Dec. 27 a pair of Iraqi MiGs committed the double offense of entering the zone and then turning to confront U.S. F-16s. The American aircraft shot down one MiG; the other fled to Iran. Iraqi officials blasted the incident as "blatant aggression." President Bush said the shootdown was consistent with the need to enforce U.N. resolutions...
...Iran is determined to regain its former stature as the pre-eminent power in the Persian Gulf. The Iranians are spending $2 billion a year on sophisticated weaponry -- from MiG-29 and Su-24 fighter bombers, to at least two Kilo-class attack submarines, all from Russia. They have a fairly crude chemical-weapons program, and we suspect they may have a biological program. The Iranians also continue their terrorism. In the past few weeks we know they've sent a large number of weapons to Hizballah...
...area was peaceful, the weather clear, and the two white helicopters flying toward Zagreb prominently displayed the insignia of the European Community's monitoring mission. Nevertheless, a Yugoslav army MiG-21 fighter fired four air-to-air missiles, scoring a direct hit on one chopper, killing all five observers -- four Italian and one French -- on board...
...turning point came when Croatian militia units laid siege to Yugoslav army garrisons in the republic and cut off power, water and food supplies. Federal soldiers inside responded with artillery, shelling civilian neighborhoods around their bases at random. Yugoslav MiG-21 fighter-bombers streaked over Croatia, and gunboats threw up a blockade of the republic's long coastline, pressing in with bombardments of major Adriatic ports, from the medieval stoneworks of old Dubrovnik north to Split, Sibenik and Rijeka...
...offer from the Soviet barnstormers is for the well heeled, not the fainthearted. For a mere $10,000, the American air-show buff can now buy a few minutes of thrills as a passenger in a MiG-29 Fulcrum, the U.S.S.R.'s hottest jet fighter. A few intrepid customers have signed up for rides ranging from a gentle swing around the airfield to a serious workout at 1,500 m.p.h. The thrills start this weekend at Massachusetts' Westfield-Barnes airport and then continue at shows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Kansas and California...