Word: sukhoi
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...claim that Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, the so-called "frontline" Arab countries, now possess 3,750 tanks, mostly Soviet T-54s and T-55s; some 4,000 big guns, ranging up to 122-mm. cannon and 160-mm. mortars; and 1,230 planes, mostly MIG fighters but also Sukhoi and Tupolev bombers. Israeli estimates of Soviet equipment in the Middle East have sometimes been off by 25% and other sources give considerably lower figures. In any case, what alarms the Israelis even more than these statistics is Russia's recent dispatch to Egypt of advanced MIGs, SA3 antiaircraft missiles...
...They manage to operate ordinary equipment. As far as airplanes go, they put up a poor show. I think the MIG-21, MIG-17 and the Sukhoi are very good planes-no worse than Western planes. But you have got to have men operating them who really know the ropes...