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The air battles that punctu ated today's attack on ground targets began at 9 20 A.M., ac cording to the Israelis.

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The allies were conducting stepped up attacks on ground troops, military officials said, without fear of being shot down.

Until Monday, the Americans had performed most of the attacks on ground targets, with the French executing around a quarter and the British around a 10th.

He said that bad weather, limited capacity to send supplies by air and attacks on ground convoys carrying equipment for troops from Pakistan and other countries presented substantial hurdles.

Cloudy weather may also have cut the tempo of attacks on ground targets.But coalition commanders insist that their targeting policy and the rules of engagement are unchanged and that the sortie rate has been maintained.

This account confirmed the impression that Israeli combat aircraft, probably the French built Mirages, fly cover for the slower Skyhawks during the extended attacks on ground po sitions in the canal area.

One of the most structurally efficient aircraft ever built, it carried the burden of U.S. Navy attacks on ground targets in North Vietnam and was often used by Israeli pilots in the Middle Eastern conflicts.

Faced with such a prospect, many air forces choose not to engage a technologically superior force - and leave their planes to conduct patrols or attacks on ground targets.

Its secondary mission is to provide airborne forward air control, directing other aircraft in attacks on ground targets.