Word: sukhoi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increase subsidies to industry and agriculture, arguing that otherwise too many Russians would be thrown out of work. Last week the 10-member Russian Security Council, the main executive decision-making body, approved funding for a nuclear-powered submarine, a heavy-missile transporter and a new generation of Sukhoi fighter planes. The program, the Moscow press reported, "will save many defense factories from extinction...
...Russian republic and the Ukraine, with heavy concentrations in Moscow, Leningrad and the Urals. Production is checked by Gosplan, the central economic planning agency, which operates on directives and specifications from the design bureaus of defense-related ministries. The bureaus, often named for chief designers like Sukhoi, Tupolev, Ilyushin, Mikoyan and Gurevich, are the Soviet equivalent of Boeing and Lockheed...
Against Kirkuk, a city of nearly a million, Saddam had unleashed an indiscriminate barrage from tanks, helicopter gunships, heavy artillery, Katyusha rockets and ground-to-ground missiles. The Kurds reported raids by Sukhoi bombers as well -- despite the coalition ban on Iraq's use of fixed- wing aircraft. Kamal Kirkuki, a member of the Kurdish resistance, claimed that more than 100,000 women and children had been captured around the city. "If the Iraqis act true to form," he said, "they will all be butchered." One horror story was being passed from mouth to mouth: of Kurdish infants strapped...
...incoming Iraqi jets before they reach the country's borders. Jerusalem calculates, however, that Baghdad would be able to fire 10 to 20 of its modified Scud B missiles before Israeli or U.S. warplanes destroyed the launching bases in western Iraq. And Israeli defense planners consider Iraq's Sukhoi-24 long-range bombers an even greater threat than the Scud B missiles, which are notoriously inaccurate. Iraq is believed to have 25 of the advanced Soviet-made warplanes, which can make the round trip to Tel Aviv without refueling and which boast terrain-hugging radar. If even a single...