Army Apache crews were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross 34 years after their combat operation kicked off Operation ...

By the end of the Desert Storm campaign in February 1991, this all-time great consortium of Coalition aircraft downed 36 Iraqi jets and helicopters in air-to-air combat and 259 to SAM fire and on ...

F-16s flew more sorties than any other combat aircraft in Desert Storm and yet, they achieved no aerial victories. The first ...

The Pentagon reports from 1991 estimate that 1,200 U.S. aircraft participated in Desert Storm, flying 69,406 sorties across a nearly 40-day period that saw strikes against Iraqi military ...

It all started at 3 a.m. Iraqi time on Jan. 17 ... for the nation during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. "I was a DART (Downed Aircraft Recovery Team) Tech Inspector. We picked up crashed ...

F-16A, F-15C and F-15E aircraft fly over Kuwaiti oil fires set by the retreating Iraqi army during Desert Storm. (U.S. Air Force photo) From start to finish, Desert Storm only lasted 43 days ...

Desert Storm's goal was to expel Iraqi forces from neighboring Kuwait ... Over five weeks coalition aircraft rained weaponry down from skies over Iraq and Kuwait. Then ground forces stormed ...

Desert Storm was a 43-day war in which aerospace forces operated from start to finish. Ground forces acted as a blocking force against any Iraqi incursion into Saudi Arabia for almost the entire war ...

Operation Southern Watch began in the aftermath of Desert Storm as Iraqi forces continued to brutalize ... Over the next decade, U.S. and coalition aircraft flew over 133,000 sorties, neutralized ...

On the first night of Desert Storm, the small force of "Black ... it was clear that when the EF-111s were cluttering Iraqi radar scopes, anti-aircraft guns would light up over Baghdad.

As a joint program, both Army and Air Force operators flew onboard the aircraft ... Throughout the course of Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm, JSTARS flew 49 consecutive, successful missions ...

Lee Schading) Without warning, a small Iraqi surface-to-air missile ... Bill Walter explained that after Desert Storm, all AC-130 aircraft were fitted with AN/AAR-44 Missile Approach Warning ...