Image: Jet over mount

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Description: The Soviets deployed numerous strategic and tactical air defense assets in the 1980s that improved capabilities against aircraft flying at medium and high altitudes. The SA-12 missile, shown here tracking U.S. F-16 FALCONs, was capable of intercepting aircraft at high altitudes.
Title: Jet over mount
Credit: Defense Intelligence Agency, http://www.dia.mil/history/military-art/1980s-series2/
Author: Edward L. Cooper, commissioned for the US Army
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