Word: tomahawk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real technological marvels in the U.S. missile array are the sea- launched Tomahawk cruise missiles that smashed Iraqi air-defense systems early in the war. Packed with advanced electronics and several different guidance systems, they are essentially flying computers capable of sailing through the goalposts on a football field from a range of several hundred miles. They can also perform dizzying acrobatics, as witnessed by U.S. reporters who, before they were ousted from Iraq, watched with amazement as a Tomahawk streaked below their hotel windows and made a pair of swooping 90 degrees turns to avoid the Al Rasheed...
...followed this pattern -- begins with an attack on the enemy's air-defense capabilities. Ground-hugging cruise missiles, flying too low for radar to detect easily, hit targets initially judged too dangerous for manned aircraft to handle. In the assault on Baghdad, some of the first blows came from Tomahawk cruise missiles fired by ships far out in the Persian Gulf. As the first explosions rocked the city, Iraqi antiaircraft fire was directed into the sky at planes that were not there -- yet. Stealth fighters also sneaked past radar to join the initial attack. Then high-flying aircraft, some launching...
Weapons experts are quick to point out the deficiencies of the Scud missile. It is unwieldy and inaccurate, practically antique, a dinosaur compared with the sleek and precise Tomahawk cruise missile. But clumsiness can still be dangerous -- as Israel discovered when a dozen Scuds came galumphing into Tel Aviv and Haifa last week. Designed by the Soviets to deliver nuclear warheads over a short range, the Scud can miss its mark by as much as a mile. It is most effective against large cities, where the goal is not to hit a specific target but to terrorize the population. During...
...addition, pentagon sources said yesterday that U.S. submarines, operating from the depths of the Mediterranean and red seas, are continuing to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at targets inside Iraq...
...Saudi and British air forces have a combined strength of more than 1,500 combat aircraft, enough to mount close to 2,000 bombing sorties a day against Iraqi targets. The initial attack would be led by radar-evading F-117A Stealth fighter-bombers and sea-based Tomahawk cruise missiles, attacking key Iraqi military and infrastructure facilities. In the second phase of the air campaign, hulking Air Force B-52s, F-111s and F-15Es would join Navy F/A-18s and A-6s in striking Iraqi ground installations, from water-purification works to command and control centers and airfields...