It is the morning of January 16th 1991. Within the next 24 hours, coalition forces will undertake a precision aerial campaign ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 Desert Storm had commenced with air strikes ... focusing on targets such as Iraqi anti-aircraft radars. This “Operation” continued until Operation Iraqi Freedom, when George W ...

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.

(These are the most widely used stealth planes.) To identify the aircraft used in Operation Desert Storm, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a catalog of aircraft from Military Factory, an online database of ...