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F15-E. They started to come out only at night. They started to take advantage of environmental conditions which made it difficult for us to see them. And they began to move their operations' areas farther north. The intense air attacks on Scud sites

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During the Gulf War, American pilots flew the latest fighter model the F15C. One hundred and twenty were sent abroad. They fought alongside 82 royal Saudi Air force F15Ds, essentially the same plane as the C. Saudi F15s shot down two Iraq Mirage F1s

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Very roomy. For a single-seat fighter it's spacious. Plenty of room to lay out stuff we carry with us. The nose is cut and you won't see any perpendicular surfaces go around. The four probes in the front are not machine guns. And they are not hologra

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Threat posed by Iraq's Scud ballistic missiles. Militarily, Scuds were insignificant. But politically, Scud attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia could have torn the coalition apart. The political importance of hunting down the Scuds was so great that t

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January 1991, an F-15 pilot on combat-air patrol sweeps the skies of Iraq. Sheridan, I'm Captain Medrimans, Captain in the 27th fighter squadron, flying in F-15 over Iraq. Today's been a mixed sweep, we started from the central, swept up for Bagdad,

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(There's also a piece of safety wire that, em, showed up on the X-ray. So we have to...) In fact just the opposite proved true, the number of air planes ready to fly at any given time actually increased during the war. F-15s went from an 85 percent p

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Hundreds of coalition airplanes were in the sky at any one time. Airborne warning and control system airplanes better known as AWACS kept air traffic straight. Largely thanks to AWACS there were no air-to-air friendly fire incidents during the Gulf W

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Gulf health nearly at pre-spill level: AP survey

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