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...Sandinista army, by contrast, is hell-bent on quashing the contras. Washington continues to warn that the Sandinistas may escalate the air war by introducing Soviet-built MiG jet fighters to the region, a circumstance that could provoke direct U.S. military action. U.S. intelligence reports show that about two dozen Nicaraguan pilots are currently receiving flight training in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria...
...RPVS is happy to see its planes go down in flames. Since 1981 the Barstow, Calif., company has been building radio-controlled replicas of fighter jets and selling them to U.S. military bases for target practice. Continental's remotely piloted vehicles bear the authentic markings of, say, a Soviet MiG-27 but are only one-fifth or one-seventh its size. As the RPVs fly through flak from antiaircraft guns, onboard electronic devices record the hits and near misses and send the information to a computer on the ground...
...supply and transport. A third target was the Benghazi army barracks, which Gaddafi uses as an alternative command post. Then came barracks at the naval port of Sidi Bilal, near Tripoli, a commando training facility. Finally, security officials recommended a strike at the Benina airfield, where Libya's MiG-23 interceptors are based, as a precaution against counterattack...
...Libyans also showed foreigners the residential damage wrought by U.S. bombs. But they showed no inclination to allow inspections of military targets. The U.S. displayed aerial photographs of the damage at the Benina air base near Benghazi showing the wreckage of at least four MiG-23 Flogger jets, two Mi-8 Hip lightweight helicopters and two F27 propeller-driven aircraft. The Pentagon estimates that at the Tripoli military airport the U.S. took out five Il-76 transports and caused major damage to several buildings. Defense officials admit that damage to the Sidi Bilal facility was less than they had expected...
Nonetheless it appears doubtful that the Soviets would risk the inevitable U.S. reaction to placing offensive weapons in Nicaragua. More than a year ago, after receiving erroneous reports that the Soviets had sent MiG-21 fighter planes to the Sandinistas, the U.S. firmly warned the Kremlin that any offensive weapons in Nicaragua would be "unacceptable." Though an ardent suppliant for Soviet aid, Nicaragua does not appear to be quite the Soviet client state that Cuba is. The Kremlin regards Nicaragua as a "target of opportunity, and therefore useful, but also expendable," says a State Department official. Moscow "provides only enough...