Word: tomahawk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Force F-15E fighter-bomber lifted off from a Saudi airfield, deadly Sparrow and Sidewinder air-to-air missiles glistened beneath its wings. Not far away, in the Persian Gulf, sailors on the battleship Wisconsin ran through training drills with their 32 Tomahawk cruise missiles, each capable of hitting targets 700 miles away with a 1,000-lb. conventional warhead. At a desolate desert site in northeast Saudi Arabia, tanks of the U.S. 1st Marine Division blazed away in live-fire exercises. In the last nerve-racking hours before "K-day" -- the U.N.'s Jan. 15 deadline for Iraq...
...squadron of F-15E Eagles took off from air bases in Saudi Arabia at 4:50 p.m. EST., and correspondents in Iraq began reporting flashes of light and heavy anti-aircraft fire around Baghdad shortly before 6:30 p.m. CBS News reported that the U.S. launched unmanned Tomahawk cruise missiles against Iraqi targets. No ground fighting was reported...
...hail of ground fire. Missile-firing Cobra and Apache helicopters would hit Iraqi armored units from distances beyond the pilots' sight; A-10 antitank planes belching more than 4,000 cannon rounds a minute would blast away from closer range. The battleships Wisconsin and Missouri might chip in with Tomahawk missiles launched from far out in the gulf. "When you concentrate that kind of firepower, you can kill an entire regiment in less than five minutes," says one American general...
...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...
...list are at least 1,000 M1-A1 main battle tanks, hundreds of Bradley Fighting Vehicles, a large number of Apache attack helicopters, Hellfire tank-killing missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles aboard ships...