MiGs in the Middle East. Volume 2 The Second Decade, 1967-1975 : Helion & Company : 9781914059360 : 1914059360 : 15 Aug 2021 : Hundreds of fighter-bombers of Soviet design and manufacture served in the air forces of multiple frontline Arab states during the first half of the 1960s. Not only older Mikoyan i Gurevich MiG-15s and MiG-17s, but also newer types such as the MiG-19 and MiG-21 were acquired in continuously increasing numbers, concurrently with Ilyushin Il-28- and Tupolev Tu-16 bombers, transport types such as the Antonov An-12 and Ilyushin Il-14, and trainers designed by Yakovlev. Nowhere else did they ? and their pilots ? play as important a role for the future of the local air forces ? or entire nations ? as in Egypt and Syria from 1963 until 1967. Whilst the period in question is still frequently described as a ?peaceful decade' in Israel and the West, they saw almost uninterrupted action: in Egypt, in Syria, as well as in Yemen, and especially in continuous incidents with