Word: 15s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scorched sands of Saudi Arabia, 180,000 American ground troops wait impatiently, cleaning their weapons, exercising, thinking of D-day. Flashing overhead are the best attack planes of the U.S. Air Force: F-15s, F-16s, radar-evading F-117 Stealth fighters. At sea, U.S. Navy Aegis cruisers train their Tomahawk cruise missiles on Iraqi targets, while aircraft carriers launch and recover squadrons of bombers and interceptors...
...would count on its own and the Saudis' F-15s to establish air superiority over the battlefield. While Iraq has 500 combat planes, only about 50 of its pilots are considered first-rate. They were trained by France when Iraq was importing more than $2.5 billion worth of French weapons, including 210 Mirage fighters and Exocet missiles. During the war with Iran, the Iraqi air force showed little daring, dropping bombs from 30,000 ft. that often missed their targets. Coordination between air and ground forces was usually lacking. Former Defense Secretary Harold Brown says, "I think we would achieve...
...Iraqi air-defense missiles. "Command, control and communications are their Achilles' heel," says an Air Force officer. In this kind of combat, "they would have to do everything visually." Meanwhile, Saudi and U.S. AWACS planes would spot Iraqi aircraft as soon as they left their runways and direct F-15s and Navy F-14s to intercept them with Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles...