While MIG jets dropped bombs, two helicopter gunships blocked escape routes.

Defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the American jets struck at three air-defense sites near Basra after detecting the MIG jets trying to lure them into fire.

Two more Iraqi MIG jets entered the southern zone today but quickly left, Pentagon officials said.

But as an instructor, Mr. Batouti had no place among the combat aviators and their Russian-made MIG jets; his job was with students, in single-engine propeller planes.

Iraqi forces have since challenged virtually every patrol, firing antiaircraft weapons, launching surface-to-air missiles and sending MIG jets darting into the zones.

Bond realizes there are nuclear weapons at the Bazaar on a MIG jet (in reality, the jet was a L-39 Albatros).

India's previous alignment with the former Soviet Union created a military weaponry dominated by Russian MIG jets, as well as French and British products.

McNamara: [MIG jets] could drop one or two or 10 high-explosive bombs someplace along the East Coast.

The first wave of MIG jets attacked just after noon, killing 50 people and wounding 101, the Government officials said.

A8 Croatia is accused of acquiring MIG jets in violation of an embargo.