US military aircraft played a pivotal role in the Gulf, ensuring air superiority and executing precision strikes in hundreds ...

F-16A, F-15C and F-15E aircraft fly over Kuwaiti oil fires set by the retreating Iraqi army during Desert Storm. (U.S. Air Force photo) From start to finish, Desert Storm only lasted 43 days ...

During Desert Storm, B-52s delivered 40% of all the ... for both guided and unguided weapons of any aircraft in the US Air ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Operation Desert Storm involved the combat debut of stealth technology, GPS for navigation, missile warning systems, more advanced surveillance plane radar ...

As of June 2022, the Air Force operates only 279 C-130s. The aircraft's numbers were cut over the decades from more than 500 during Operation Desert Storm to the current level of 279, while many ...

Service: USAF Propulsion: 4x Pratt and Whitney TF33-102C engines Speed: 587 mph Range: 9 hours Crew: (flight crew), four; (mission crew) normally 15 Air Force ... Desert Storm where it guided ...

Single seat jets, large transport planes, helicopters, and even expire mental projects lay across a vast expanse of desert. Some have been picked apart as the US Air Force and other branches of ...

Troy Meink, a Lemmon native and South Dakota State University graduate, was nominated Thursday to lead the Air Force.