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#DesertStorm30 & first Tornado tasks are in:
Muharraq to hit Tallil
Tabuk go to Al Asad & Al Taqaddum
Dhahran to Mudaysis
JP233 night TFR attacks on massive, heavily defended Iraqi airbases (+ 2 Tabuk ALARM jets)
Engineers work hard to get everything ready
Night pic @Alderfen
#DesertStorm30 & first Tornado tasks are in:
Muharraq to hit Tallil
Tabuk go to Al Asad & Al Taqaddum
Dhahran to Mudaysis
JP233 night TFR attacks on massive, heavily defended Iraqi airbases (+ 2 Tabuk ALARM jets)
Engineers work hard to get everything ready
Night pic @Alderfen
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A Tornado 8-ship each with 2xJP233 drops 480 cratering & 3440 anti-personnel devices
Nasty
But we trained to attack a SINGLE 7000ft Soviet runway
Iraqi airfields like Tallil had 2x12,000ft
AND 2x12,000ft taxiways usable for ops; a Heathrow-sized base
It was going to be tricky
A Tornado 8-ship each with 2xJP233 drops 480 cratering & 3440 anti-personnel devices
Nasty
But we trained to attack a SINGLE 7000ft Soviet runway
Iraqi airfields like Tallil had 2x12,000ft
AND 2x12,000ft taxiways usable for ops; a Heathrow-sized base
It was going to be tricky
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Remember: NO ONE had flown ANY attack ops EVER
Greatest fear was Iraqi fighters like the Mig-29 & their INCREDIBLY sophisticated SAM system with
ZSU-23/4, SA-3, SA-6, SA-8 & MUCH more
No one had given 'too much' thought to basic AAA
We were wrong; it would be a baptism of fire
Remember: NO ONE had flown ANY attack ops EVER
Greatest fear was Iraqi fighters like the Mig-29 & their INCREDIBLY sophisticated SAM system with
ZSU-23/4, SA-3, SA-6, SA-8 & MUCH more
No one had given 'too much' thought to basic AAA
We were wrong; it would be a baptism of fire
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