Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...near the city of Mosul fired two surface-to-air missiles at a pair of U.S. jets patrolling the U.N.-imposed "no-fly zone" over northern Iraq. Though the attackers missed their targets, the U.S. response was swift and unusually aggressive. After fighter-bombers dropped cluster bombs on the antiaircraft site, laser-guided bombs were directed at it by another pair of U.S. planes...
...tails of flame. As they climb through the gathering darkness, signals from the radar domes and computers of Air Force AWACS planes direct the jets to targets nestled in the forests and pastures of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ahead of them, electronic-warfare jets swoop down to jam any Serbian antiaircraft radar that might still be working...
...Hercules cargo planes based at the Rhein-Main air base outside Frankfurt, each capable of hauling 12 tons of supplies at a time; the land convoys usually carry from 60 to 100 tons. Dropped from altitudes of 10,000 ft., to stay above the range of antiaircraft fire, the parachuted supplies, says a skeptical Pentagon source, "would be lucky to hit Yugoslavia." Finding and hitting the drop zones in tightly surrounded enclaves only 5-to-10-miles wide, at night, in the poor weather and mountainous terrain of the region will be difficult, and there will be no trained personnel...
...Clinton. It claimed to be sticking to it even after U.S. jets, fired on while flying through the northern exclusion zone both Thursday and Friday, attacked radar sites and missile emplacements with HARM missiles and cluster bombs. Saddam's intentions had become more menacing by Saturday night, when Iraqi antiaircraft batteries fired on three U.S. fighters patrolling in the southern no-fly zone. The pilots returned fire and made it safely back to the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk...
...when 80 U.S. Navy and Air Force planes took off from the carrier Kitty Hawk and four air bases in Saudi Arabia. With 30 French and British warplanes joining in, they struck four SAM missile and four radar emplacements in the no-fly zone. Iraq responded with only light antiaircraft fire, and all the allied planes returned safely...