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Critics reply that it is misleading to emphasize the speed and maneuverability of comparable Soviet planes. More important in the age of first-look, first-kill aircraft is how far combatants can see, and that is largely a function of computers and electronics, where the U.S. retains a huge edge...
...Force's requirement that the ATF be both stealthy and highly maneuverable, a specification that helped push the cost of the plane to more than double that of the F-15. Planes must be agile to win dogfights, but since the ATF is supposed to destroy enemy aircraft long before it is seen, such encounters should never occur...
...however, accomplished somewhat the same purpose unilaterally. Backed by Britain and France, it warned Saddam not to use either fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters north of the 36th parallel, with the implicit threat that if he did they would be shot down, and not to employ armed forces of any kind to interfere with relief work anywhere in Iraq. The less than 10% of Iraq that lies north of the parallel takes in all the areas where the Kurdish refugees are now concentrated. So Washington's action in effect establishes most of northern Iraq as a safe haven in which...
Against Kirkuk, a city of nearly a million, Saddam had unleashed an indiscriminate barrage from tanks, helicopter gunships, heavy artillery, Katyusha rockets and ground-to-ground missiles. The Kurds reported raids by Sukhoi bombers as well -- despite the coalition ban on Iraq's use of fixed- wing aircraft. Kamal Kirkuki, a member of the Kurdish resistance, claimed that more than 100,000 women and children had been captured around the city. "If the Iraqis act true to form," he said, "they will all be butchered." One horror story was being passed from mouth to mouth: of Kurdish infants strapped...
...honor, the peshmerga buried all the Iraqi soldiers they killed with full military honors. Explained Idriss Makmoud, a peshmerga commander: "That is the honorable way." Attempting to retake Kirkuk, a band of warriors came under attack from Iraqi helicopter gunships near the town of Altun Kupri. As the aircraft came around again and again, the peshmerga opened fire. Suddenly a line of men rose up, wrapped their arms round one another and sang and danced. Only the setting sun prevented the helicopters from slaughtering them...