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...Vietnamese air force is vastly inferior to the Chinese in quantity, but the quality is vastly superior. Hanoi has 300 combat aircraft in all; about 700 Chinese planes are within striking range of Viet Nam. Most of those ready for combat, however, are outdated MiG-17s and MiG-19s, whereas the Vietnamese have not only the slightly more advanced MiG-21s but also the versatile F-5 "freedom fighters" captured from the Americans...
...both wards of the region's two Socialist superpowers. China has long supported Cambodia with arms and guerrilla training. Peking's technicians have been providing expertise in telecommunications and irrigation, while 49 North Koreans attempted (unsuccessfully, as it turned out) to teach the Kampucheans to fly MiG aircraft...
...SALT II agreement is now "more than 95 per cent complete" Warnke said, but he warned that "some American politicians may attempt to secure the passage of their favorite programs as the price for their support" of the accord, and the recent Soviet dispatch of 16 Mig-23 aircraft to Cuba indicates "there are also some in the Politburo who want to be bought-off as a precondition" to accepting the agreement, Warnke said...
Castro also took the opportunity to scoff at Washington's concern over the disclosure that the Soviet Union had delivered 20 high-powered MiG-23 Flogger jets to Havana. One version of the Flogger can carry nuclear weapons, and its presence in the Caribbean would be a serious violation of the 1962 Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement that ended the Cuban missile crisis. The MiG-23s are "purely of a defensive nature," insisted Castro. He added that Cuba had received the warplanes a year...
...Castro's claims about those "defensive" MiG-23s, the U.S. still plans on a series of high-altitude reconnaissance missions over Cuba before taking the dictator's word that the MiGs are not the ones with offensive nuclear capability...