Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marked decline in the effectiveness of the Israeli air force. They began with 3,000 sorties a day and declined to about 1,500 on Oct. 16. But after Oct. 16 the number of daily sorties increased sharply. The U.S. supplied Israel with new planes, helicopters and tanks, and volunteers from the U.S., usually with dual nationality, arrived in large numbers. U.S. planes flew into El Arish airport on the edge of the Sinai with tanks that were sent to the front on tractor tank transports. This is the equipment that Israel is using...
These weapons include French-designed, Israeli-modified, wire-guided missiles and simple bazooka-type weapons with a warhead designed by the Israelis to penetrate the thickest armor (16 in.) on Soviet tanks. Using these missiles, the Israelis have decimated Russian T-54 and T-55 tanks and already scored an impressive number of kills on the T-62, the new Soviet main battle tank, which had never before been used in combat...
...Israelis also had available a small number of American-made Mavericks, one of the "smart" bombs first used in Viet Nam. Carried aboard a fighter-bomber, it has a small TV lens and computer in its nose. The pilot can fix the target (usually a tank) in his sights, and lock onto it. The Maverick will then hit the target even if the at tacking plane takes evasive maneuvers or leaves the area. About 200 more Mavericks are being shipped to the Israelis in the current U.S. airlift...
...swing-wing fighter-bomber being tested as a tank killer in Syria. Several have been caught on the ground and destroyed by the Israelis...
Britain's wage costs have risen faster than those of any other major industrial country in the world during the past three years. In a recent speech Victor Lord Rothschild, head of the government's think tank, the Central Policy Review Staff, declared: "In 1985, we shall have half the economic weight of France or Germany. Our difficulties and dangers are as severe and ominous as they were in World War II, though, of course, of a different sort...