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Code-named Gainful by NATO officials, the SAM6 is a slim (6-in. diameter), 19-ft.-long solid-fuel rocket mounted in a group of three on a tracked vehicle. Thus, unlike the older SAM-2 and SAM3 missiles, which require a permanent base, the new SAM can be moved along with armored forces, providing them with an umbrella of protection that extends from treetop level to an altitude of 35,000 ft. Furthermore, while the Israelis (with U.S. equipment and advice) know how to evade or neutralize the SAM-2 and SAM-3, they so far have no effective...
...light antitank weapon), a hand-held bazooka-type rocket that weighs only...
...Kelt, a 200-mile-range, winged, supersonic rocket that is fired at a ground target from a bomber a safe distance away. In the first week of the war, an Israeli pilot in an F-4 intercepted a Kelt flying toward Tel Aviv and shot it down...
...deep, intimate reportage that was almost routine in Viet Nam. The cost in blood has already been high. Three Israeli newsmen have been killed, including Radio Israel's Senior Producer Rafi Unger, 26. Nicholas Tomalin, 42, a respected English war correspondent (London Sunday Times), died when a Syrian rocket demolished his car near the Golan Heights...
...ship-to-ship Gabriel missile, developed by Israeli scientists, has a range of more than twelve miles. Israel also uses American-made jets, tanks and artillery, and arms its warplanes with missiles and rockets the U.S. perfected in Viet Nam. Especially deadly are the Sidewinder air-to-air heat-seeking missile; the Sparrow, an air-to-air missile that uses radar to direct it against either planes or tanks; and the Maverick, the so-called smart rocket of the Viet Nam War, which carries a TV camera that steers it to targets on the ground. These missiles have accounted...