Word: phantom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight officers who were preparing to join another group and take over Nowjeh Air-base in Hamadan, 175 miles southwest of Tehran. The guards then arrested twelve pilots as they sat in their quarters awaiting the "coast-clear" signal from co-conspirators who were to have commandeered U.S.-built Phantom jets. Eleven other rebel groups, en route to the air-base in private cars and buses, somehow learned that the plot had been frustrated and went into hiding. Other insurgents in Tehran were supposed to attack the Central Committee of Islamic Militiamen simultaneously. Some were captured before firing a shot...
...identification, trained both to rescue and to kill, S.A.S. members have thrived on the unit's mystique ever since it was founded in the Libyan desert in 1942. The goal then was to penetrate and operate behind enemy lines in North Africa. Moving swiftly and with seemingly phantom-like invisibility, the S.A.S. destroyed hundreds of Nazi planes on their own airstrips, freed countless Allied prisoners and blew up scores of Axis ammunition dumps. The commandos were also sent on missions to assassinate leading Axis generals. One of the unit's few known failures involved an attempt to kidnap...
...hours later, in a display of whipped-up outrage, the Iranian air force dispatched American-made F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers to blast the ruins of the charred aircraft and to disable four other undamaged Sea Stallions abandoned by the U.S. Ironically, as the rubble bounced, one Islamic Guard patrolling the site was killed and two others wounded...
...week to turn into open warfare. Following several days of mounting tensions, sporadic clashes broke out across the 700-mile Iranian-Iraqi border. Then, to the momentary alarm of capitals around the Middle East, an air battle erupted in the border area between Iraqi helicopter gunships and several Iranian Phantom jets and helicopters. There were also reports of increased military activity at Iraq's two main naval bases: Basra, on the Shatt al Arab, and Umm Qasr, at the northern tip of the Persian Gulf. Since more than 50% of the West's oil supplies originate...
Except for the Phantom being downed, these remarkable pictures (all but one never before published) were shot by U-2 aircraft flying high over the Soviet Union as long as 24 years ago. The glider-like plane was conceived in December 1953 by the brilliant Lockheed Aircraft Corp, designer Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson, now 70, for one purpose: to gather hard data on Soviet military capabilities. Its mission was to soar beyond the range of any jet interceptor or antiaircraft missile and provide the photographic and electronic intelligence necessary for accurate military assessments...