Word: soviet-built
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...seven crewmembers died when a Soviet-built Yugoslav military transport loaded with medical equipment and other supplies went down 10 miles from the airport in Yerevan, capital of the Armenian republic. Boris Panyukov, first deputy aviation minister, made the announcement in Moscow...
...craft: the new supersecret F-19, a plane so hard to pick up on radar that I felt sure I could swoop in and blast Gaddafi's buddies without getting shot down myself. Suddenly, I saw something that shattered my composure. High over my stubby left wing, a Soviet-built MiG-25 Foxbat fighter was headed my way. Did the enemy know I was there? Whew...
...which held Maldives as a protectorate from 1887 until 1965. Following an emergency Cabinet meeting, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi dispatched some 1,600 troops to restore order in Male and commanded navy warships to head toward Maldivian waters. Paratroopers arrived less than twelve hours later, landing aboard two Soviet-built IL-76 transport aircraft at the national airport on Hulule, a few hundred yards off Male. Within minutes the mercenaries began racing back to their mother ship. On Sunday the mercenaries surrendered after an Indian frigate fired on the freighter...
Down south near the Namibian border is the other side of the war's legacy: a ^ state-of-the-art government air base bristling with the latest Soviet-built MiGs, tanks, radar, antiaircraft missiles and camouflaged bunkers. Angola is the tenth largest importer of arms in the world...
...Israelis have since backed down from that threat. In fact, they are more concerned about Soviet-built Scud B surface-to-surface missiles deployed by Syria and Iraq, weapons that have a range of up to 360 miles and can reach any part of Israel. Jerusalem is equally worried about Syria's SS-21 surface-to- surface missiles, also supplied by Moscow, which are more accurate than Scuds...