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...from the Soviet Union, sometimes direct and [sometimes] through Cuba, is not appreciated by us." Only a day earlier a defector from the Nicaraguan counterintelligence forces, Miguel Bolanos Hunter, had declared in Washington that Nicaragua was in the process of acquiring a Soviet air-defense system along with 80 MiG fighter planes. In a press conference arranged by the State Department, Bolanos also contended that the Nicaraguan government had concocted the story of an American-sponsored plot to poison Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto, which was used earlier this month as a pretext to expel three U.S. diplomats...
...controllers; who knew the identity of the approaching flyer, usually directed him down with a certain audible deference. Glenn put the plane on automatic pilot and began talking about his early flying days. He was asked how clearly he remembered the dogfights over Korea, when he shot down three MiGs the last week of the war. He remembered every detail, he said. Two of the enemy pilots had been very good, but the third was slow. Glenn moved his right hand, fingers straight, slowly upward toward the palm of his left to show how he had zoomed up from underneath...
...Soviets have been equally generous in providing more conventional arms to the Syrians. Since the Lebanese conflict began, the Soviets have supplied Syria with about 100 fighter aircraft to replace those lost in dogfights over the Bekaa Valley. The bulk of the new aircraft are advanced MiG-23s. Some 300 to 400 T-62 and T-72 tanks have been added to the Syrian arsenal, well in excess of the number of older and smaller T-54s and T-55s lost in Lebanon. The Soviets have also provided about 200 armored personnel carriers, and between 600 and 800 trucks...
...also trying to counter U.S. naval superiority with a nuclear carrier resembling the Nimitz and missile-carrying nuclear submarines comparable to the Tridents. The Blackjack bomber is intended to fill the role proposed for America's B-1B. Two new fighter jets being developed by the Soviets, the MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-27 Flanker, are to contain high-tech radar and weapons-guidance avionics like those...
...Nicknames for Soviet planes are assigned by NATO officials. Bombers are dubbed with words beginning with B, such as Blackjack and Backfire, and fighters are labeled with an F, sometimes bizarrely, as in Foxbat and Frogfoot. The MiG and Su designations refer to two major Soviet design bureaus and honor the late Engineers Ar-tem Mikoyan, Mikhail Gurevich and Pavel Sukhoi...