Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employer of some 2,500 people, the company, says President John Hamill, has "worked hard for this contract, sinking five years of effort in winning the confidence of the Persian Gulf countries." But training of troops in the use of a wide assortment of weapons, from rifles to antiaircraft guns, as well as in small-unit tactics and advanced infantry training maneuvers is a new undertaking for Vinnell. To assemble the necessary expertise, a brisk company recruitment effort is under way among combat-skilled former soldiers. The veterans who will make up the training staff will enjoy, besides their regular...
...forces in small-unit action disrupted river and road communications and raided small government outposts in an effort to push Saigon's men back into provincial capitals and district towns. Saigon's response was to take to the air with more than 100 sorties daily against Communist antiaircraft positions and supply convoys. In one bombing attack northwest of Kontum City, Saigon claimed that it destroyed 203 Soviet-built Molotova trucks carrying ammunition, food and fuel for Communist soldiers...
...with shelter. In the past year, more than 100 Lebanese civilians have been killed or wounded while 58 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian guerrillas. Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres last week accused Lebanon of letting more Palestinians enter the country from Syria armed with Soviet-built antitank and antiaircraft missiles...
...besieged city. Because of heavy clouds, South Vietnamese air force planes at first failed to get off preliminary air strikes. Once Saigon did get some A-37 fighter planes into action, the pilots refused to fly below 12,000 ft. out of respect for the Communists' imposing antiaircraft arsenal. That, in turn, made it impossible for government helicopters carrying reinforcements to land within the city. In the end, the South Vietnamese were only able to put two Ranger companies totaling about 200 men into the battle. After two days of close fighting between outnumbered government troops and Communist tanks...
EGYPT, like Syria, was hastily resupplied by Moscow last year. All of the 650 tanks lost in the Sinai desert-more than a third of Cairo's 1,880-tank force -were replaced, along with all the destroyed or captured SA-6 and SA-7 antiaircraft missiles that proved to be so devastating to the Israeli air force. Egypt, however, is short of spare parts, and it is probably still missing about a dozen of the 150 MIGS that the Israelis shot down. In a move to redress the balance, the Egyptians are getting 36 Mirage V fighter-bombers...