Desert Storm – Additional Information
“… while aircraft devoted as many as 2000 air strikes against mobile Iraqi Scud missiles, they may not have hit a single one.”1
“Limitations of weather had a large impact on sortie generation.”1
“Presence of enemy Air Defense imposed major limitations on sortie profiles”…1
“8% of air delivered munitions tonnage was guided, but was 84% of the total munitions cost”1
“I went to Kuwait with 39 tanks. After 39 days of bombing, I still had 32 tanks. After 20 minutes of battle against the M1A1 tank, I had none”2
1 Gulf War Air Power Survey, 1993
2 Iraqi Battalion Commander