Word: interceptor
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...while, he was relaying his gleanings back to Israel on a tiny transmitter he kept in a riding boot. Through German friends, he established that Egyptian rockets were not an immediate menace because their guidance systems were unreliable. He also learned that the Egyptians' HA-300 jet interceptora great worry to the Israelis at the time...
...past three years, including the U-8 affair. However, none involved spying missions. Five of the violations occurred when U.S. polar-bear hunters overflew several small Russian islands in the Bering Strait. Three others concerned U.S. commercial flights along the polar route to Japan. Another involved a U.S. fighter-interceptor that flew over Soviet-held Big Diomede Island while chasing off a Soviet bomber near the Aleutian Islands...
...DEFENSE COMMAND, also a separate branch, has 500,000 men. It has 3,400 interceptor aircraft, mostly MIG-19s and MIG-21s, and a number of giant TU-114s, which patrol Soviet borders as early-warning radar aircraft. Long-range antiaircraft SA-5 missiles are installed on the Tallinn Line along the Gulf of Finland. Around Moscow the Soviets have deployed the world's first ABM system, consisting of 64 Galosh missiles, which carry a 1-or 2-megaton warhead and have a range of several hundred miles. Because the Soviets halted deployment of the Galoshes three years...