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...tanks, of which 1,460 are from the U.S.: 810 highly advanced M-60s and 650 M-48s. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon effectively used the U.S.-made Ml 13 armored personnel carriers, of which Israel has 4,000. Nearly 1,000 American artillery pieces, including 175-mm self-propelled guns and 155-mm and 203-mm self-propelled howitzers, provide 90% of the Israeli army's powerful punch. Both the air force and the army rely heavily on U.S. missiles. The crunch in any cutoff of military aid would come only when Israel began...
...Khomeini government has been gaining increasing support from the Soviet Union and its allies, including North Korea, Cuba and East Germany. Most helpful, perhaps, has been Syria, an Arab neighbor with a long history of hostility toward Iraq. Through Syria, Iran received large shipments of Soviet weaponry, including 130-mm artillery pieces, antiaircraft guns and tank engines. In the meantime, Washington remained silent while Israel sold Iran an estimated $120 million worth of military hardware, including spare parts and ammunition for Iran's American-made equipment, which had been acquired during the rule of the Shah...
Ammunition. The U.S. sold Britain an unspecified quantity of 20-mm shells and supplied sonar-equipped buoys for use in antisubmarine warfare. Washington officials will not say if any of this equipment was ever used on the islands...
When stalking Syrian fighters, an F-16 pilot, again using the HUD windshield images, had only to position a computer-generated "tracerline" over the MiG and fire his machine-cannon for one second; 100 20-mm rounds would have streaked toward the enemy jet. However, many of the downed MiGs were apparently hit by the latest model of the Sidewinder missile, which is being used effectively by British Sea Harriers in the Falkland Islands. The weapon adjusts its aim in flight with an extremely sensitive infrared homing system that guides the warhead toward the enemy jet at 1,650 m.p.h...
...under the radar. The Harrier fights best low and slow. With its maneuverability, it can stop in midair, hover, veer off sharply in new directions and land on almost any flat surface. Armed with 1,000-lb. cluster bombs for ground attack, and 30-mm guns and U.S.-built AIM-9L Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles, the Sea Harrier has an advanced avionics and radar system that allows it to fly day or night in any weather, unlike Argentina's Mirages and Skyhawks. Says a Harrier flyer: "It's a pilot's dream...