dude, same!! my mom bought me this and 2 others as a collection from Sam's club. Joined at 25 and 14 years in, wouldnt change a thing. Thanks for your service!
While I was assigned to the 7440th Composite Wing at Incirlik AB in Turkey...I had the honor of being selected to be the first aircraft off the ground that first night. It was the Air Force's first deployment of a Composite Wing. We pretty much had every strike aircraft in the inventory as part of our strike package. It was a formation of about 75 aircraft. The mission was to destroy all the airbases in Northern Iraq. The whole operation was radio silent. We were to launch at exactly 3am. I was the first to take the runway. There was a sea of beacons on all the taxiways. Since the operation was radio silent...I was briefed to taxi into position and hold on runway and wait for a "Green Light" from the tower to clear us for takeoff. The only problem was we couldn't see the green light because of the distance the tower was from the runway, the sloping of the towers windows, and all of the red and green ambient light coming from all the aircraft amassed on the taxiways. So...at exactly 3 am I pushed up the power and took off...never actually knowing if I had a green light or not. Rather ironic that the Northern Air War might have begun without permission.
Well they were already used in a war, they are retired for us but will one day be used by other nations, if not already. At this point anyone can get on the internet and find out the weaknesses of each aircraft and train to destroy. We gotta keep bringing up new toys :D
Yea, i bet this comment a year later looks wack, being that the F-15 is now being brought back to life with an Updated F-15Ex version, can’t wait to see what this is capable of
My brother was a TOW operator with the Marines in desert storm. Also part of recon. He earned a few awards, one for taking out a group of enemy tanks as they were getting closer to their area. I remember my parents and I watching the war on tv constantly worried about my brother. It was kinda weird riding with reporters as they went into enemy lines, live on tv. Also hearing that because this generation of military was the first gamers, the strikes were right on. And the technology was amazing. Can only wonder what our military has now.
I'm glad the Tornado was correctly identified as having THE most risky job of the combined coalition air force, it was unbelievably dangerous to fly those missions because once you start your attack, everyone can see you and shoot at you with everything they have. The Tonkas, in all her variants, have been an exceptionally good aircraft to have in our toy box and I was pretty gutted when they retired them a few years ago but time and technology moves on.
Yes but unfortunately it didn’t have to. The low and fast flight tactics I don’t believe were necessary. I believe they were misused earlier on. Once they changed tactics and came in higher they stopped getting hit. A command problem not aircraft or crew.
@@deantait8326 Actually the only reason they were able to start bombing at higher altitudes is because new bombs and electronics came online that weren't available at the start of the campaign. The tornadoes had no choice but to go in low, once those bomb packages were operational they did a couple test runs in the middle of the desert, got the accuracy they needed, and from there started hitting from higher up, but at the start man, nope no choice at all.
@@jamesmaddison4546 I'm not entirely sure this is correct -- it may have been made up after the war to justify the original decision to go low. How would I know? I was the weaponeer working the Brit targets (and every other target) during the first three days of the war. A couple of months before the start of the Air War, I was given a special briefing on the JP-233 and how it would be delivered. Afterwards, I asked the British Wing Commander who was giving the briefing if there was any way possible they could change their delivery tactics and deliver from a higher altitude. I explained that in my opinion it was incredibly dangerous and unnecessary to attack the Iraqi runways that way, "since the one spot on the airfield that every single Anti-Aircraft gun can hit is directly over the runways." His response to me was, "Well, we've spent a lot of money on that munition, and that's the way we've trained to do it, and that's the way were going to do it." He was a Colonel, and I was a very junior Captain in someone else's Air Force, and that was it. The first day, Tornadoes took serious heat, and both a British and an Italian tornado were shot down (several others were severely damaged). By the third day of the war, the Tornadoes were delivering JP-233 from medium altitude.
When I was a 10yrs old kid in Warsaw - my father bought me a special DIY set - a mobile, two missiles launcher... he spent all night putting it together, and he proudly presented it to me next day! I didn't know it was SCUD... but I was happy it moves and shoots 2 big (spring) rockets into my plastic soldiers sets... :-) (and that was the most powerful weapon in my arsenal then)
those things are fearful weapons because they are so innacurate and so huge i imagine that when they crash and explode, the explosion of the residual fuel and shrapnel of the missile is almost half the power of the warhead 😂😂😂
DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY...!!! But till this day i LOVE WATCHING THESE OLD SCHOOL DOCUMENTARIES VS THESE NEW ONES NOW...!!! I FEEL LIKE THEY WHO'RE MORE RAW & GAVE THE VIEWER WAY MORE INFORMATION & THEY GAVE YOU A LOT OF UNEDITED FOOTAGE...!!! & EVEN TODAY I RATHER WATCH THESE DOCUMENTARIES VS THESE NEW ONES THAT ARE COMING OUT NOW IN DAY...!!! I DON'T KNOW IF IS ONLY ME OR DO SOME OF YA AGREE WITH ME...!!!??
I couldn’t agree more. I was just a freshman in high school when this was going on and remember thinking how awesome our technology was that our pilots could put a laser guided bomb right down a smokestack or through a window. Seeing the F-117 in action for the first publicized time was awesome too.
At the Houston air show last year and walked up to an F4 Wild Weasel with my Son and Grandson. I told them that this "old" plane had been THE most important plane in the air force as it was usually one of the first into find and destroy SAM's and their control systems. I told them how this plane had seen combat from Vietnam through two Gulf wars and everything in between, and that THOSE pilots were some of the bravest around. Well, I was just talking and as we began to walk away, an older gentleman came up to me and shook my hand. "I was the pilot of THIS plane." He stated. "And I want to thank you for what you just said. We just went up and did our job." I was really honored to have met him for even that brief moment...Not only did we get to see and talk about that fantastic plane, we actually met the man who flew it. He told us a few more things about "his" baby...What a great experience with my Son and Grandson.
They always forget to mention the initial attack, even before the Wild Weasels, by AH-64 Apache helicopters lead by Lieutenant Colonel Dick Cody of the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division. This attack took out much of Iraq's command-and-control, communications and air defense elements. The Air Force then had safe air space with which to attack! Cody went on to get 3 stars! Still an unsung hero in my book.
No! It wasn't just Apaches! It was also Air Force Pave Low's and Pave Hawk's that knocked out Iraqi radar sites!! I should know because several of my aircraft were part of that strike package! I was the deputy commander of that unit. Just setting the record straight!
Well, speaking as one of the USAF targeteers who helped plan DESERT STORM, his outfit (and their USAF PAVE LOW guides) played a critical role in opening the way for the main strike packages that first night, but he didn't "take out much of Iraq's command-and-control, communications and air defense elements." He destroyed two Iraqi border radar early warning sites, and that was it. Basically he cleared a path for the air strikes to proceed without the Iraqis seeing them, but he didn't single-handedly shut down the Iraqi IADS, which is more or less what you are claiming here.
Yep, you’re totally correct. The first attack was by AH64s, with PaveLows in support, to open up a 100mile wide ‘safe corridor’ for safe passage of fixed wing aircraft. There is a short documentary on this on RUclips somewhere, it even has Real footage from the cockpits and outside, of the helicopter mission. I can’t find the link…. But it is out there. If I find the link, I’ll post it, even though your post is no longer new.
It's the usual hyperbolic tripe with people salivating over sexy weapons, and with a (presumed) Brit commentator talking like a Yank (mIssels -rather than the correct missILES) Interesting nickname …:-)
Most of them were re-fitted F-4Es that had been leased to the Royal Australian Air Force. They were found to be in exceptional condition on their return and converted for Wild Weasel duties.
I mean to fair fair we'll never be back to 2000's or 2010's aviation. Hell, we'll never be back to 2019 aviation even. Having grown up an aviation geek watching these same documentaries these are very nostalgic. The music brings back a lot of memories lol
Not just Tomahawk missiles and steath bombers. The reason this "caught the Iraqis by surprise" was because of the valiant night air strike by attack helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division under LTC Dick Cody which took out the Iraqi air defenses and communications. That was essential task before the air force would launch. Kudos to the 101st and Colonel (now retired General) Cody.
Scott Hollingsworth - you are only HALF CORRECT! U.S. Air Force Pave Low helicopters were also part of that initial strike package that destroyed Iraqi radar sites!! So...don't give all the credit to Army Apaches, as Air Force Pave Low's were just as instrumental!! Just a word to the wise...if you're going to make a statement that you want other to believe as factual...make sure it IS factual!! Now it is! Hooah!!
Scott Hollingsworth and David Kelly you are both only HALF CORRECT. ADA Scouts and Scouts from 2/4 CAV, 24th Infantry Division cleared the way for Pave lows and 101st to creep to the Iraqi Radars. There were also French scouts to our left helping us clear a 15km linear lane. We painted about a dozen of them for two days straight with GLDS awaiting tomahawks. The hawks never flew. Then we were told HAARMS from F-111s would do the job. They never flew. We were running low on chow and water. That's when General Luck decided to pass us off to 101st Apaches for the strikes. The Pavelows swung further west to take targets from 5th and 3rd group in addition to the French. The very first aircraft we saw heading that mission was four Kiowa-scouts flying NAP. About 4 hours later, the sky was full of blue air like we had never seen before. We were ordered to pull back since the feared Hinds were no longer covering their forward ADA and our stingers weren't needed. We did kill a couple ZSU 23/24s with Tows from the Cav scouts on our way back to Task Force Tusker (4/64 Armor). Damn group guys just seem to pop up out of nowhere. We were like WTF did you guys come from. All of them were dirty as fk and cracking jokes the whole time they were in the wadi with us. Then as quick as they came, the just disappeared heading north.
In the 1980s I was designing power supplies for fighter radar. I got big contracts for the F16, some money from the Germans for the toronado, but lost money on an F111 project. I never saw planes, just my Aluminum boxes filled with electronics.
I was doing my British Army basic training while this was going on and every evening whilst doing cleaning and ironing, we listened to the BBC World Service as they were reporting live from hotels in Baghdad during the nightly air attacks from the Coalition air force.
A perfect example of the right commanders, the right personnel and the right tools for the job. To be honest, the air campaign in Gulf War 1 couldn't have gone much better, overwhelming power used in the correct way always wins whereas in Vietnam they got it all wrong and the lads in the air paid the ultimate price for it. It took years for the US military to develop better aircraft and better tactics but not before many many aircrew lost their lives.
“Deep knowledge is to be aware of disturbance before disturbance, to be aware of danger before danger, to be aware of destruction before destruction, to be aware of calamity before calamity. Strong action is training the body without being burdened by the body, exercising the mind without being used by the mind, working in the world without being affected by the world, carrying out tasks without being obstructed by tasks.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War: Complete Texts and Commentaries
When my Seabee battalion was at Al Assad AB in Iraq, we had to repair the runways from the cluster bomb attacks. We stored our package cement in one of the bombed out hardened bunkers. There were a number of taxiways that still had evidence of cluster bomb hits. It was quite impressive the results of the DS attacks.
I'm a Canadian veteran who served there in Desert Storm and Desert Shield...the Iraqis were not "caught by surprise". They just had no answer for the overwhelming wave that obliterated them. I did special security at The Corner. I also worked on building and programming RMUC(radar measurement unit and controller) and TerCom(terrain contour matching) systems for the Cruise missiles. I cannot say I am proud of what I did.
Oh cool 😊 Jeff Ethel I can listen to that guy tell me all day about anything military aerospace related and he does it so cheerfully and properly I loved all his input on Wings of the Red Star
@@RobertJamesChinneryH He was not a pilot, he hooked up the ship to shore phones and interior phones on the ship and troubleshooted electronic problems.
@@RobertJamesChinneryH This was Dessert Storm, there were 20+ countries who participated in it and it was over quickly. I am blown away by how stupid these comments on a war that predates the Iraqi war by more than 10 years you morons
I remember the night the war started. It was late Irish time and I went to wake my father who had gone to bed earlier. We sat up all night watching CNN reports coming from Baghdad.
The F-14 Tomcats dropped bombs as well as we signed many of them before we launched them from the deck of the Saratoga. I was with VF-103 and we were the first Tomcat squadron to drop bombs as a project before this war started.
@@pontiacGXPfan I'll be honest I don't remember who the XO was however that name does not ring a bell but I al horrible with names. He could've been after I left or before I got there.
If you think about the F-117, it was a very expensive, defenceless strike aircraft that could only carry a light bomb load, now we have proper all weather multirole stealth aircraft that can shoot down enemy fighters if they are detected by some small chance, almost invisibly go to the target and destroy it, get out and have a tussle with any other aircraft before it gets home. In Desert Storm, you might need 3, even 4, different types of aircraft to accomplish the same mission brief, now you only need one. F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lighting 2 might seem expensive for each airframe but..... when you think about how many aircraft from Desert Storm it would take to do a mission, you can do this with one modern 5th Gen aircraft. Hopefully this might make people think differently about our new multirole stealth aircraft.
The F-16 and F-15 entered service in the 70s... still the mainstay of US Air Power today. Most of those airframes (the newest still in service with the US (C/D models) are from the late 80s and 90s.
It's a bit disappointing that the video didn't mention the venerable B-52 bombers that fired cruise missiles to start the air war, and decimated the Iraqi army with carpet bombing against dug-in troops on the front lines. They are a big reason why the ground forces had much less opposition than initially expected.
pahtar : I agree B-52 is devastating. MLRS was also effective. Seeing those MLRS @night in desert almost made us feel sorry for the Iraqis. Almost!! Lol. #11Armored CavalryRegiment
Panavia Tornado and F-111, both were very specialized and fast AC! Both had shoulder swing-wing configuration. F-111 was the larger AC. Australia just outmoded them recently!
The F-15s swept the sky's that day. Desert Storm was a master class in warfare. The US UK and Saudis simply outmatched and out manuevered the Iraqis. The Iraqi army was experienced also from the Iran Iraq war.
The Coalition air force was used brilliantly and was totally dominant after a very short period of time. The CAPS were the key to allowing the attack aircraft to run riot all over the battle space.
My unit.."Rakkasans"..just got back from rotation up North..cleaning weapons just before midnight. We were in Camp Eagle..all of a sudden Aircraft were taking off in afterburners..loud...non stop...we were then told to prep then we were trucked to the airfield.
There's actually four videos to this one, one is operation desert shield the ground assault, this one, and the other two I don't remember, I remember I bought all four of those videos back in 1992 inside of a video store at The main place Mall Santa Ana California. That was like three decades ago and all those advanced war machines back then are completely out of date.
I could still remember clearly where I was and what I was doing when the war started never forget the memory of seeing anti-aircraft fire shooting through the sky I don't think they had any idea what they were shooting at the Iraqis 1991 feels like a long time ago
1991 was a long time ago. 30 years... I remember what I was doing too, I was sitting in front of the tv, 5 years old. I was afraid that the Iraqis would be coming here to the US and we'd have to hide from them. I even asked my mom if they would be coming to our house.
@@prehistoricguns6330 A craft similar to the Osprey but much smaller would be the perfect candidate for the name "Hummingbird" i.e., it has to be able to hover.
@@lessevdoolbretsim yeah.... The hummingbird deserves something. Sounds good tho. I saw a video of a humming bird beating a hawk up. All recognition to the hummingbird
F-111E/F Aardvarks, F-4G Wild Weasels, F-15A/B/C/D Eagles, F-15E Strike Eagles, F-16 Fighting Falcons, EF-111 Ravens, F/A-18A/B/C/D Hornets, A-6 Intruders, AV-8B Harriers, F-14A/B Tomcats are my favorite military aircrafts. A-10 Warthogs are fine. Pilots used HGU-68 helmets, those are my favorite helmets. Even F-14 Tomcat pilots use the HGU-68 helmets. F-14As using Phoenix missiles paired with Sparrow and Sidewinders. Classic configurations. Also, F/A-18C Hornets use the SJU-5/6 ejection seats, the same seats that were in the F/A-18A/B variants. Sparrows on F/A-18 fuel tanks are classic.
This might be a good example of air power alone being able to Bring a country to its knees since ww2 hitler and goering believed their luftwaffe alone would suffice in surrender of nations. Another reason why nations invest so Much capital in their air forces and why modern military planes are at this cusp of cutting edge technology and research.
@TJ Murphy - Hahaha. Ground "offensive???" What ground offensive?? AIR POWER destroyed the Iraqi's aircraft, killed the Iraqi's soldiers, destroyed air strips, buildings, radar sites, but MORE IMPORTANTLY, the Iraqi's will to fight!!! Air power won Desert Storm NOT the "ground pounders!!" BOTTOM LINE..our grunts (infantry) would have suffered great losses without air power!! Don't forget, the Iraqi's had a million strong military, and most of them were ground pounders!
@@billyreynolds4749 A million strong military, no. They had hundreds of thousands of conscripts that didn't want to be there and some Republican guard divisions who were actually paid. Learn something.
@TheCraigHudson...Wrong!!...The Nazi's were not bringing country's to their knees using air power alone!...They used the all out tactic of "Blitzkrieg" were air power/ground forces and armour were used at the same time...and thus overwhelm/overrun their enemy...dont they teach you guys anything at school anymore these days?
On the F-117 episode of the fighter pilot podcast the guest was a F-117 pilot and stated that the aircraft could hold pretty much every weapon in the USAF arsenal except the sparrow and was also designed to shoot air to air against Soviet AWACS. Yes I agree with you it’s no F-15 but it was capable to shoot air to air missiles according to him.
I remember them showing a video of them sending a bomb down a chimney stack, and thinking, Holy shit! They can do that now? This was the first time laser guided bombs were introduced to the world. We went from carpet bombing, to precision bombing. From dropping as many bombs as the plane could carry, and hoping we hit the target, to sending a bomb right up the enemies asshole.
@Ben White true, but the ones from Vietnam like the Walleye were extremely primitive, and honestly weren't much better than unguided bombs in many circumstances. Desert Storm was the first time that Precision bombing - both laser-guided and GPS - was used on a large scale, and from mature platforms.
"We" ? Are you proud to be part of an improving weapon system ? wow. amazing, this is what fascinates you? Have we learned to take care of one another? Cured cancer? helped the ones in need? No, but we can kill suspects "better", great. What an "achievment".
My dad was in the air force and was talking to a guy about cruise missles. When dad asked him if they really were as accurate as everyone was saying, the guy looked at a housing estate outside the fence and said “pick a house”, so my dad did. “Right, now pick a window”. He wasn’t joking.
@@cschmidtler1 you know most of this tech is civilianized and turned into stuff like sensors for guiding self driving cars and if you don't like military tech why are you here and another question why are you getting mad at someone who is only amazed about the state of technology
haha funny but Ironic, Saddam was nothing like his Idol "Hitler". He was oddly apathetic combined with the thinking everything will work out fine, cuz Allah ya know. But, Yes Saddam was watching CNN and excessively according to his testimony. He actually thought right up until the end Allah would give him victory.
No shit, so true, and I think Donald Trump's idea about the media staying out of it until after, should be implemented with a quickness. Fact is: Life is not like the movie-"Billy Jack", where Billy tells the Land Baron that he is going to kick him in the side of the face and there's nothing he can do about it. If you tell an opponent in a fight what you are going to do, well then you've lost the element of surprise.
Desert Storm was my first tour and I remember it like it was yesterday, we landed on Iraqi shores between Iraq and Kuwait ! I remember everything was black smoke and you could see ten feet in front of you ! I'm GySgt of the 1st Marine Amphibious Assault Unit, we kicked ass and took names Iraqi troops were surrendering by the hundreds when they saw the American Forces ! We were advancing fast with the US Air Forces A-10's giving us air support taking out the tanks and turning them into Swiss cheese ! The A-10 is a Tank Killer, their ground troops couldn't stop us from advancing North, I remember when we came up on Iraqi land Forces they'd surrender holding their weapons over their heads ! My first tour was a success .......
Z Know what you're talking about before you start talking shit ! In 1990 Iraq had the third largest Army in the world, do your research pal ! Even so we kicked their asses lol they were surrendering by the hundreds weapons above their heads and begging us not to kill them ! I was there so I know what and how everything went down chump ! Im GySgt Bray you know nothing pal Iraq invaded Kuwait stole their oil and gold, and we got it back for them ! Open a book and do your research idiot...... 🇺🇸 USMC 🇺🇸
The First Air shots fired during Desert Storm were from the 101st Airbornes AH-64 Apaches, I believe Col Richard Cody fired it himself. Those shots took out the radar stations at the Saudi/Kuwaiti border and created the Air Corridor for the rest of the strike aircraft to go thru. I was at King Fahd International Airport in Saudi watching the strike aircraft take off when it started, fire trail after fire trail took off for over 2 hours. This video focuses ONLY on the Navy and Airforce side.
You're certainly right. They took out the border radars so the longer range guys and girls could get to Badbag undetected. And they later participated in the under-publised SCUD hunt (because it wasn't very successful, not their fault; they were just a bitch to find). Don't worry, the Army was definitely there.
You are correct. 101st also cleared a path for the first ground troops on that occasion - French Foreign Legion and British Gurkhas. They made the iraqi's start running for real.
It's hard to believe Saddam thought he could defeat the American's with Russian built tanks that were built in the early 1950's. Yes he had the 4th largest army in the world but without the right toys your army ain't that great.
@America That tactic is too risky. He should've run back to Baghdad with his tail between his legs. At least he'd still be alive and Iraq would be in a much better place than it is today.
Lived between Grumman Bethpage and Fairchild Republic in Farmingdale and everyday was an air show of F14’s, A10’s, E6’s and E2’s that is until Reagan gave all contract sales to California.
My Grandfather worked for Grumman as a tool and dye maker worked on the F-14, A-6 ,AE6B and EC-2 ..My Dad on the on the hand my father worked at Fairchild/Republic and designed the lifts to mount the Engines on the fuselage for the final assembly plant in Maryland.
I mean nothing really much different other then improved sensors and more accurate bombs and missiles and more unmanned vehicles. Theres no crazy weapons that have emerged since the 90s really. Its all the mostly the same weapons just improved in some ways and look cooler. Wars today are being fought exactly the same they were 30 years ago.
@@koc988 because if you work as a tech for 6 years for the Air force you find out how much basic shit the military still uses from the mid 1980s. Only thing that has improved is better GPS guidance and rocket motor technology. No crazy technology. Kinda common sense....
I was in 6th grade when we went to war in the gulf. I remember copying the map on a trapper keeper while i watched what was happening on the news one night.
H BOMB FB: Bush took out the little guy, but you see he NEVER messed with China, Russia, or Iran, because he knew America would have gotten more FUCKED UP than they/we have in Afghanistan!!!
@@janjohnson2061 We didnt go after Saddam during this war, just kicked him out of Kuwait....China and Russia lol. Russia can't even take Ukraine and lost miserably in Afghanistan, and We killed more Chinese than bad rice during the Korean Conflict & piled their bodies 6 high in substitute for sand bags. Russia is an absolute Joke, they have always been a joke and always will be a joke on the world's stage. If it weren't for American war hero's the Russians would be speaking German today. Russia can't win a war with the USA, they're only response would be to fire off nukes and try to destroy the entire world because your great big Navy of 1 Aircraft Carrier and 8 Su57 fighters and 48 Su35 Fighters really scares anyone. So you can't take Ukraine, couldn't take and lost in Afghanistan and lined up to die like sheep during the Nazianz occupation and you think we're worried about Russia? We go to war when we want to, we go for a lot of reasons, I went to kill communists and Russian and Chinese advisors and I did just that and had a good time doing it. Russia, that's funny!!!
@@janjohnson2061 We've attacked your allies many many times, we have you completely surrounded with military hardware in our many many bases all over Europe and Asia, the one time you came to our side of the world we kicked you the hell out of here and I watched your country crumble to nothing which led to the creation of a slew of new poor poverty stricken nations, sell off your nuclear facilities and equipment to your allies like Iran who squandered it and still can't produce a nuclear weapon. Americans have made themselves the richest and most powerful nation in the world's history exclusively killing communists and socialists. Russia has done nothing but kill their own people to the number of 150+ million. Russians what a joke
But how can anyone expect you to understand anything said here, you think this video was the Iraq war from 2003 and it wasn't. You can't even comment about the right war in the video. Russia and China, so funny.
Rookies learn tactics, professionals learn strategy, masters learn logistics. No matter how powerful the platforms or the weapon systems said platform carries into battle, no war is won without the help of logistics to keep the armed forces moving forward.
@@Booyaka9000 They didn't make the I-16 either. I was trying to list other competitors for flying brick. Then again I think the winner in that case would be the Space Shuttle.
What a lot of young people won't know is our war on Iraq was so decisive and so complete, it shot our militaries to stardom. We were fascinated by air power and there were all sorts of documentaries like this one made. Young guys like me couldn't get enough. It also sent a very clear message to the Soviets that their technology and tactics (used by the Iraqis) was inferior. We absolutely kicked the living shit out of them. I personally had this video series. They advertised them on TV and you could buy them in mail order. And then millennials were born...and twenty years later... everything was fucked up.
The fuck do millenials have to do with anything? Ultimately this was a war to eliminate a major power in the vicinity of Israel, at the behest of the Jewish lobby groups. We never went in to 'take the oil'. Obviously an excellent performance by the USA and friends.
i'm raising two very responsible millenials. but i wonder what the heck we got from the israelis? we are still fighting a war in iraq, you know, in 2018!
@@exceltraining You are welcome to use that at anytime freely @exceltraining. Not only is it funny but it is also true. Ask any US Service member who was there who has been diagnosed with tinnitus. A service disability which is constant ringing in the ears. I would know as I have tinnitus myself. That however is not funny.
The 30mm Vulcan cannons on the A-10 Warthogs, as well as the 20mm eye-sighted Vulcan cannons on the AH-64 Apache chopper are built by General Electric.
Wait a minute. While USN did their part, the T'hawks were a prelim. Don't forget that when OUR missles are flying, manned aircraft keep away. The opening show in Badbag was called Puba's party, after the guy who devised it. It very basically consisted of two waves of manned aircraft, separated by a wave of UAVs, intentionally sacrified to SAMS. Iraq wasn't surprised, they were merely killed. USN's primary contribution was their intimate knowledge of Iran's air defense system (as configured by France), which was disabled "purdy quick". There is a lot more.
The Tomahawk missiles first flew into action on Jan. 17, 1991 during the Persian Gulf War. The United States fired 288 Tomahawks during the war - 106 during the opening hours of the air campaign. American war planners had considerable trepidation about this. Not only was it the Tomahawk’s first combat deployment, the coalition planned to launch the missiles on a course over Iran. Had a glitch in one of the missile’s computer guidance systems or some other navigational - or human - error occurred, it could have had dangerous consequences. But why did the U.S. fire them over Iran? The reason is because the guidance system on the early Tomahawk couldn’t navigate over the flat desert terrain of southern Iraq. This version used a terrain-contour matching system, as opposed to a GPS-guided system fitted on later variants. In a terrain-contour system, the missile cross-references a digital map with terrain data collected by a radar altimeter during flight. The problem is that the terrain has to be distinct enough for the altimeter to work. Southern Iraq is highly indistinct, and the Tomahawks risked “clobbering” into the ground. To solve the problem, the U.S. fired the missiles from warships in the Persian Gulf on a course over Iran’s mountains - using them as navigational landmarks - before they turned and proceeded toward their pre-programmed targets in the Iraqi capital. Tehran wasn’t given any prior notification or even a formal heads-up about this. Nor was Iran a member of the coalition against Iraq. The coalition also planned to launch Tomahawks from the eastern Mediterranean over Syria and Turkey, but later scuttled these overflights. warisboring.com/the-tomahawk-missile-s-first-mission-was-over-iran/
Thank you so much. I remember yakking about their nav system with squadron buddies after I got out of SAC in 1958. What you've written sounds like a another very good reason to keep GPS safe.
I owned this on VHS as a kid, and I watched it till the tape wore out. It's the main reason I joined the USAF. Love this documentary!
Two in the stunning and one in the brave.
dude, same!! my mom bought me this and 2 others as a collection from Sam's club. Joined at 25 and 14 years in, wouldnt change a thing. Thanks for your service!
While I was assigned to the 7440th Composite Wing at Incirlik AB in Turkey...I had the honor of being selected to be the first aircraft off the ground that first night. It was the Air Force's first deployment of a Composite Wing. We pretty much had every strike aircraft in the inventory as part of our strike package. It was a formation of about 75 aircraft. The mission was to destroy all the airbases in Northern Iraq. The whole operation was radio silent. We were to launch at exactly 3am. I was the first to take the runway. There was a sea of beacons on all the taxiways. Since the operation was radio silent...I was briefed to taxi into position and hold on runway and wait for a "Green Light" from the tower to clear us for takeoff. The only problem was we couldn't see the green light because of the distance the tower was from the runway, the sloping of the towers windows, and all of the red and green ambient light coming from all the aircraft amassed on the taxiways. So...at exactly 3 am I pushed up the power and took off...never actually knowing if I had a green light or not. Rather ironic that the Northern Air War might have begun without permission.
tremper tremper - Is there some type of compartment in the cockpit large enough to hold your enormous balls?
Awesome story, it all hinged on you! Thank you for your service, and I certainly admire what a bold move that was.
I was there as a kc-135 air refueling mechanic
RAF Mildenhall
What aircrafts are those?
All these jets that are now retired. Unreal how fast time has gone by.
Well they were already used in a war, they are retired for us but will one day be used by other nations, if not already.
At this point anyone can get on the internet and find out the weaknesses of each aircraft and train to destroy.
We gotta keep bringing up new toys :D
F16s are not retired
Not all have been retired
Yea, i bet this comment a year later looks wack, being that the F-15 is now being brought back to life with an Updated F-15Ex version, can’t wait to see what this is capable of
I mean the legacy hornets served until around 2018 and the vipers operate still, and the cat operated till 06
My brother was a TOW operator with the Marines in desert storm. Also part of recon. He earned a few awards, one for taking out a group of enemy tanks as they were getting closer to their area. I remember my parents and I watching the war on tv constantly worried about my brother. It was kinda weird riding with reporters as they went into enemy lines, live on tv. Also hearing that because this generation of military was the first gamers, the strikes were right on. And the technology was amazing. Can only wonder what our military has now.
Now the ground pounders get to play, sending robots into the Afgan caves to fuck shit up with light and medium machine guns
God bless the ground crews. They make everything WORK !!!
I remember seeing all the aircraft flying over. My dad said they were having a airshow for my birthday. Coolest sight I ever seen.
I'm glad the Tornado was correctly identified as having THE most risky job of the combined coalition air force, it was unbelievably dangerous to fly those missions because once you start your attack, everyone can see you and shoot at you with everything they have. The Tonkas, in all her variants, have been an exceptionally good aircraft to have in our toy box and I was pretty gutted when they retired them a few years ago but time and technology moves on.
Yes but unfortunately it didn’t have to. The low and fast flight tactics I don’t believe were necessary. I believe they were misused earlier on. Once they changed tactics and came in higher they stopped getting hit. A command problem not aircraft or crew.
@@deantait8326 Actually the only reason they were able to start bombing at higher altitudes is because new bombs and electronics came online that weren't available at the start of the campaign. The tornadoes had no choice but to go in low, once those bomb packages were operational they did a couple test runs in the middle of the desert, got the accuracy they needed, and from there started hitting from higher up, but at the start man, nope no choice at all.
@@jamesmaddison4546 I'm not entirely sure this is correct -- it may have been made up after the war to justify the original decision to go low. How would I know? I was the weaponeer working the Brit targets (and every other target) during the first three days of the war. A couple of months before the start of the Air War, I was given a special briefing on the JP-233 and how it would be delivered. Afterwards, I asked the British Wing Commander who was giving the briefing if there was any way possible they could change their delivery tactics and deliver from a higher altitude. I explained that in my opinion it was incredibly dangerous and unnecessary to attack the Iraqi runways that way, "since the one spot on the airfield that every single Anti-Aircraft gun can hit is directly over the runways." His response to me was, "Well, we've spent a lot of money on that munition, and that's the way we've trained to do it, and that's the way were going to do it." He was a Colonel, and I was a very junior Captain in someone else's Air Force, and that was it. The first day, Tornadoes took serious heat, and both a British and an Italian tornado were shot down (several others were severely damaged). By the third day of the war, the Tornadoes were delivering JP-233 from medium altitude.
Awesome footage! I've watched this twice and many more times to come. The 90s were something else.
When I was a 10yrs old kid in Warsaw - my father bought me a special DIY set - a mobile, two missiles launcher... he spent all night putting it together, and he proudly presented it to me next day! I didn't know it was SCUD... but I was happy it moves and shoots 2 big (spring) rockets into my plastic soldiers sets... :-) (and that was the most powerful weapon in my arsenal then)
those things are fearful weapons because they are so innacurate and so huge i imagine that when they crash and explode, the explosion of the residual fuel and shrapnel of the missile is almost half the power of the warhead 😂😂😂
Zdzichu S.
I bet house prices dropped off a bit!
"There goes the neighbourhood!"
know you now..hehe
My stepdad died trying to kill scud launchers in that war.
RIP Robert 'Bob' Consiglio MM
DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY...!!! But till this day i LOVE WATCHING THESE OLD SCHOOL DOCUMENTARIES VS THESE NEW ONES NOW...!!! I FEEL LIKE THEY WHO'RE MORE RAW & GAVE THE VIEWER WAY MORE INFORMATION & THEY GAVE YOU A LOT OF UNEDITED FOOTAGE...!!! & EVEN TODAY I RATHER WATCH THESE DOCUMENTARIES VS THESE NEW ONES THAT ARE COMING OUT NOW IN DAY...!!! I DON'T KNOW IF IS ONLY ME OR DO SOME OF YA AGREE WITH ME...!!!??
8:28 "This is my counterpart's headquarters in Baghdad"
Man, talk about a sense of humor.
Boy how time flies. I remembered being glued to the TV everyday watching the war.
I couldn’t agree more. I was just a freshman in high school when this was going on and remember thinking how awesome our technology was that our pilots could put a laser guided bomb right down a smokestack or through a window. Seeing the F-117 in action for the first publicized time was awesome too.
God bless everybody that had to fight in that war and thank you
At the Houston air show last year and walked up to an F4 Wild Weasel with my Son and Grandson. I told them that this "old" plane had been THE most important plane in the air force as it was usually one of the first into find and destroy SAM's and their control systems. I told them how this plane had seen combat from Vietnam through two Gulf wars and everything in between, and that THOSE pilots were some of the bravest around. Well, I was just talking and as we began to walk away, an older gentleman came up to me and shook my hand. "I was the pilot of THIS plane." He stated. "And I want to thank you for what you just said. We just went up and did our job." I was really honored to have met him for even that brief moment...Not only did we get to see and talk about that fantastic plane, we actually met the man who flew it. He told us a few more things about "his" baby...What a great experience with my Son and Grandson.
Awesome story, thanks for sharing it😉
They always forget to mention the initial attack, even before the Wild Weasels, by AH-64 Apache helicopters lead by Lieutenant Colonel Dick Cody of the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division. This attack took out much of Iraq's command-and-control, communications and air defense elements. The Air Force then had safe air space with which to attack! Cody went on to get 3 stars! Still an unsung hero in my book.
No! It wasn't just Apaches! It was also Air Force Pave Low's and Pave Hawk's that knocked out Iraqi radar sites!! I should know because several of my aircraft were part of that strike package! I was the deputy commander of that unit. Just setting the record straight!
The initial bombings were from the B52’s 35 straight hrs in air from Barksdale in Shreveport La.
Well, speaking as one of the USAF targeteers who helped plan DESERT STORM, his outfit (and their USAF PAVE LOW guides) played a critical role in opening the way for the main strike packages that first night, but he didn't "take out much of Iraq's command-and-control, communications and air defense elements." He destroyed two Iraqi border radar early warning sites, and that was it. Basically he cleared a path for the air strikes to proceed without the Iraqis seeing them, but he didn't single-handedly shut down the Iraqi IADS, which is more or less what you are claiming here.
Yep, you’re totally correct. The first attack was by AH64s, with PaveLows in support, to open up a 100mile wide ‘safe corridor’ for safe passage of fixed wing aircraft.
There is a short documentary on this on RUclips somewhere, it even has Real footage from the cockpits and outside, of the helicopter mission. I can’t find the link…. But it is out there. If I find the link, I’ll post it, even though your post is no longer new.
The airforce fired first but the army’s shots landed first.
11:44 using a missile as a desk to fill in the logs. That's some badass stuff 👌
"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."
Lmao 😂
I’m not sure why I like these videos. I watched this stuff in high school as it was happening.
It's the usual hyperbolic tripe with people salivating over sexy weapons, and with a (presumed) Brit commentator talking like a Yank (mIssels -rather than the correct missILES)
Interesting nickname …:-)
33 years after it's first flight, the Phantom was still in there dishing it out! The Wild Weasels were probably the coolest looking versions.
Most of them were re-fitted F-4Es that had been leased to the Royal Australian Air Force. They were found to be in exceptional condition on their return and converted for Wild Weasel duties.
I love the F-4 and it's low mean profile.
Jesper Clemmensen isnt that one of the F4's weaknesses is its size and its massively powerful engines? makes it an easier target for SAMs
@@parteibonza Well, the F 15 E and F 111 were bigger.
@@ricardosoto5770 Ok. But the F 15 was more maneuverable at all speeds, right?
brings back memories.
we'll be never back to '90's aviation.
I mean to fair fair we'll never be back to 2000's or 2010's aviation. Hell, we'll never be back to 2019 aviation even. Having grown up an aviation geek watching these same documentaries these are very nostalgic. The music brings back a lot of memories lol
@@joeg5414 It sure does! I so had to laugh when they played they goofy casio keyboard stuff! Ahh, the 1990's! i do miss it!
Just for the record, every Brit I ever worked with in the Gulf always pronounced it "tor-nah-do." I used to tease them about it all the time.
Im an EX Military Brit we call them Tor- NAY -d'oh
@@willsommers6477 Maybe you do, but in the Gulf, they didn't... Just sayin'.
now it's retired
25 лет искал этот фильм. Спасибо.
Not just Tomahawk missiles and steath bombers. The reason this "caught the Iraqis by surprise" was because of the valiant night air strike by attack helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division under LTC Dick Cody which took out the Iraqi air defenses and communications. That was essential task before the air force would launch. Kudos to the 101st and Colonel (now retired General) Cody.
I was a Final Assembly Mechanic/Electrician on AH-64 line 1986-89.
Intrepid Heroes one and all, just like GI Joe fighting man from head to toe on the land on the sea in the air
Scott Hollingsworth - you are only HALF CORRECT! U.S. Air Force Pave Low helicopters were also part of that initial strike package that destroyed Iraqi radar sites!! So...don't give all the credit to Army Apaches, as Air Force Pave Low's were just as instrumental!! Just a word to the wise...if you're going to make a statement that you want other to believe as factual...make sure it IS factual!! Now it is! Hooah!!
Scott Hollingsworth and David Kelly you are both only HALF CORRECT. ADA Scouts and Scouts from 2/4 CAV, 24th Infantry Division cleared the way for Pave lows and 101st to creep to the Iraqi Radars. There were also French scouts to our left helping us clear a 15km linear lane. We painted about a dozen of them for two days straight with GLDS awaiting tomahawks. The hawks never flew. Then we were told HAARMS from F-111s would do the job. They never flew. We were running low on chow and water. That's when General Luck decided to pass us off to 101st Apaches for the strikes. The Pavelows swung further west to take targets from 5th and 3rd group in addition to the French. The very first aircraft we saw heading that mission was four Kiowa-scouts flying NAP. About 4 hours later, the sky was full of blue air like we had never seen before. We were ordered to pull back since the feared Hinds were no longer covering their forward ADA and our stingers weren't needed. We did kill a couple ZSU 23/24s with Tows from the Cav scouts on our way back to Task Force Tusker (4/64 Armor). Damn group guys just seem to pop up out of nowhere. We were like WTF did you guys come from. All of them were dirty as fk and cracking jokes the whole time they were in the wadi with us. Then as quick as they came, the just disappeared heading north.
@@williampayton9515 im loving these stories! keep 'em coming! props for all ya'll brave ballsy cats!
In the 1980s I was designing power supplies for fighter radar. I got big contracts for the F16, some money from the Germans for the toronado, but lost money on an F111 project. I never saw planes, just my Aluminum boxes filled with electronics.
I used to cut class while the first gulf war was on so I could watch stormin norman on cnn. That guy was hilarious.
Storming Norman was the best.
I was doing my British Army basic training while this was going on and every evening whilst doing cleaning and ironing, we listened to the BBC World Service as they were reporting live from hotels in Baghdad during the nightly air attacks from the Coalition air force.
I was the mechanic that keeps the helicopter flying. We kept our maintenance support close by for any repairs.
Kaizaro123 hey ass hole I was the mechanic keeping them flying.
Kaizaro123 what did you do for your country.
A perfect example of the right commanders, the right personnel and the right tools for the job. To be honest, the air campaign in Gulf War 1 couldn't have gone much better, overwhelming power used in the correct way always wins whereas in Vietnam they got it all wrong and the lads in the air paid the ultimate price for it. It took years for the US military to develop better aircraft and better tactics but not before many many aircrew lost their lives.
They were fighting Arabs.
Let's not forget they were fighting a 4th rate military power that was reduced to throwing rocks in it's 8 year war versus Iran
@@jamesritchie1594 ? Iraq had the 4th largest army in the world. They had thousands of Russian tanks and air defences.
“Deep knowledge is to be aware of disturbance before disturbance, to be aware of danger before danger, to be aware of destruction before destruction, to be aware of calamity before calamity. Strong action is training the body without being burdened by the body, exercising the mind without being used by the mind, working in the world without being affected by the world, carrying out tasks without being obstructed by tasks.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War: Complete Texts and Commentaries
When my Seabee battalion was at Al Assad AB in Iraq, we had to repair the runways from the cluster bomb attacks. We stored our package cement in one of the bombed out hardened bunkers. There were a number of taxiways that still had evidence of cluster bomb hits. It was quite impressive the results of the DS attacks.
Mark Mayfield
Thank you mark for your service , and for removing another idiot from power.
Cheers from a Frenchman 👋
Mark Mayfield I was in Al Asad Iraq 2007-2010 Surport team for the military. Thank you for you service.
It’s amazing how far we’ve come since then ! 2000 mph with a 3000 mile range ! That’s fast !!!
To think in a century we went from first manned flight, to landing on the moon, to today’s marvels
I'm a Canadian veteran who served there in Desert Storm and Desert Shield...the Iraqis were not "caught by surprise". They just had no answer for the overwhelming wave that obliterated them. I did special security at The Corner. I also worked on building and programming RMUC(radar measurement unit and controller) and TerCom(terrain contour matching) systems for the Cruise missiles. I cannot say I am proud of what I did.
Scouts Out! 1st Inf Div 1-4 cav "Quarterhorse"
I hope they’re 72 virgins are going to be big hairy guys
@@estebanmorales6568 I agree!
Why are you not proud of what you did, if you don't mind me asking?
I am British and ex-military...I never heard a TornAdo refered to as a TornARdo!!!
Eh he’s from wales
@@FishyBusiness69 lol - so does he say "WAhRles" instead of "Wales" ? And what the f is a Jagwar ?
Oh cool 😊
Jeff Ethel
I can listen to that guy tell me all day about anything military aerospace related and he does it so cheerfully and properly
I loved all his input on Wings of the Red Star
I love those old military documentaries. Still playing Harpoon military simulation on my DOS machine.
Some of those air strikes came from the aircraft carrier my youngest son was on at that time. He has since retired from the Navy.
Houses PTSD these days or at least conscience nonexistent?
@@RobertJamesChinneryH He was not a pilot, he hooked up the ship to shore phones and interior phones on the ship and troubleshooted electronic problems.
Thank you Sir.
@@RobertJamesChinneryH She said he was a sailor, he didn't saw combat, so how the hell he could have PTSD?
@@RobertJamesChinneryH This was Dessert Storm, there were 20+ countries who participated in it and it was over quickly. I am blown away by how stupid these comments on a war that predates the Iraqi war by more than 10 years you morons
I remember the night the war started. It was late Irish time and I went to wake my father who had gone to bed earlier. We sat up all night watching CNN reports coming from Baghdad.
This was when CNN was a reputable news organization. Now they root for China, ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
@@mvisperas yep
@@astra7291 Sounds like old CNN is in deep trouble these days!
Honestly that intro music is ridiculous! It's a damn war! Doesn't matter which side you're on!
Love all the planes! Badass! Iraq has no clue what we could do! Used to as a kid build 1/32 scale model planes of most these models.
Big old scale that bro!!
I was 15 during ther first gulf war. Our teachers would let us watch it during lessons. Cool teachers.
The F-14 Tomcats dropped bombs as well as we signed many of them before we launched them from the deck of the Saratoga. I was with VF-103 and we were the first Tomcat squadron to drop bombs as a project before this war started.
I was V-4 Division on Sara during the war!
@@fredferguson290 hell yeah whats up shipmate!!
the Sluggers. was Rocky Fitzpatrick the XO?
@@pontiacGXPfan I'll be honest I don't remember who the XO was however that name does not ring a bell but I al horrible with names. He could've been after I left or before I got there.
@@bbarker5766 I think the XO was either Don "Santa" Santapaola or James "Bluto" McFillin
If you think about the F-117, it was a very expensive, defenceless strike aircraft that could only carry a light bomb load, now we have proper all weather multirole stealth aircraft that can shoot down enemy fighters if they are detected by some small chance, almost invisibly go to the target and destroy it, get out and have a tussle with any other aircraft before it gets home. In Desert Storm, you might need 3, even 4, different types of aircraft to accomplish the same mission brief, now you only need one. F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lighting 2 might seem expensive for each airframe but..... when you think about how many aircraft from Desert Storm it would take to do a mission, you can do this with one modern 5th Gen aircraft. Hopefully this might make people think differently about our new multirole stealth aircraft.
Feel bad for the pilots still flying the F-4 in 1990. But thankfully they did, saved a lot of lives.
1991....
The F-16 and F-15 entered service in the 70s... still the mainstay of US Air Power today. Most of those airframes (the newest still in service with the US (C/D models) are from the late 80s and 90s.
Took a lot of Iraqi lives......true......
@@joshuaguenin9507 á be able my mom is going to be by autttt to be a
Dont forget the British Bucaneer, same vintage doing laser illumination.
Been looking for this for ages! Thank you!
Love the old Tomcats!
deucesolo -Warthogs are pretty awesome too!
Phantoms?
@@dmcmaster3544 F-4 , the Wild Weasels...right
Yep and those old F4's are pretty badass too
One of my High School classmates was a F4G Wile Weasel Pilot.
Thats intresting did he always want to be a pilot?
Its me ! Im the pilot y'all were talkin bout
I used to fly the BL5H-1T Wile Coyot-e
@@rjs1jd Nope you weren't.
It's a bit disappointing that the video didn't mention the venerable B-52 bombers that fired cruise missiles to start the air war, and decimated the Iraqi army with carpet bombing against dug-in troops on the front lines. They are a big reason why the ground forces had much less opposition than initially expected.
pahtar : I agree B-52 is devastating. MLRS was also effective. Seeing those MLRS @night in desert almost made us feel sorry for the Iraqis. Almost!! Lol. #11Armored CavalryRegiment
The cruise missiles used at the start of the war were shot from navy ships.
@@johnkelly5949 Look up Operation Secret Squirrel!
Good call
B 52's can fire cruise missiles?
Panavia Tornado and F-111, both were very specialized and fast AC! Both had shoulder swing-wing configuration. F-111 was the larger AC. Australia just outmoded them recently!
Prof. M. Otto Zeee JCD ECS excuse me it’s Tora Nard Dough
Out of service in australia in 2010
21:10 War can't be won by brute force alone, tactics is the key.
great video. As old as it is great idea of the assualt in 91.
The F-15s swept the sky's that day. Desert Storm was a master class in warfare. The US UK and Saudis simply outmatched and out manuevered the Iraqis. The Iraqi army was experienced also from the Iran Iraq war.
Don't forget the Dutch, Belgian and Danish f-16's. Most beautiful fighter plane ever built
The Coalition air force was used brilliantly and was totally dominant after a very short period of time. The CAPS were the key to allowing the attack aircraft to run riot all over the battle space.
My unit.."Rakkasans"..just got back from rotation up North..cleaning weapons just before midnight. We were in Camp Eagle..all of a sudden Aircraft were taking off in afterburners..loud...non stop...we were then told to prep then we were trucked to the airfield.
The lessons of Vietnam, and the Cold War realized in execution. A huge victory for technology and its advancements in warfare.
AND HUNREDS OF LOST LIVES
@@josefrancis7126 millions of lost lives
You pay with your life if you mess with the US. NAVY. ARMY ..AIR FORCE MARINES. ...
Easy is with iraq was
@@josefrancis7126 well Duh, that's why it's called a War and not a picnic😜
There's actually four videos to this one, one is operation desert shield the ground assault, this one, and the other two I don't remember, I remember I bought all four of those videos back in 1992 inside of a video store at The main place Mall Santa Ana California. That was like three decades ago and all those advanced war machines back then are completely out of date.
I love me an RAF Torn-ardo!
We had stealth bombers. but we sent veitnam left over f111s and f4s in first. A6s, A7s and Harriers played a big role too.
One F-117 could make with one bomb what one B-29 couldn't with 16 bombs. Modern warfare can be cruel and fantastic at the same time
I could still remember clearly where I was and what I was doing when the war started never forget the memory of seeing anti-aircraft fire shooting through the sky I don't think they had any idea what they were shooting at the Iraqis 1991 feels like a long time ago
1991 was a long time ago. 30 years... I remember what I was doing too, I was sitting in front of the tv, 5 years old. I was afraid that the Iraqis would be coming here to the US and we'd have to hide from them. I even asked my mom if they would be coming to our house.
@@MrFarnanonical I was on one of the aircraft carrier's in the Persian gulf when it started
When one has the confidence in a fighter plane to name it an Eagle or a Falcon.....how much more confidence is there to have.
When one names it Raptor.
@@delten-eleven1910
Of course Raptor is the essence of what Eagles and Falcons are. Great point.
How about hummingbird
@@prehistoricguns6330
A craft similar to the Osprey but much smaller would be the perfect candidate for the name "Hummingbird" i.e., it has to be able to hover.
@@lessevdoolbretsim yeah.... The hummingbird deserves something. Sounds good tho. I saw a video of a humming bird beating a hawk up. All recognition to the hummingbird
F-111E/F Aardvarks, F-4G Wild Weasels, F-15A/B/C/D Eagles, F-15E Strike Eagles, F-16 Fighting Falcons, EF-111 Ravens, F/A-18A/B/C/D Hornets, A-6 Intruders, AV-8B Harriers, F-14A/B Tomcats are my favorite military aircrafts. A-10 Warthogs are fine.
Pilots used HGU-68 helmets, those are my favorite helmets. Even F-14 Tomcat pilots use the HGU-68 helmets.
F-14As using Phoenix missiles paired with Sparrow and Sidewinders. Classic configurations.
Also, F/A-18C Hornets use the SJU-5/6 ejection seats, the same seats that were in the F/A-18A/B variants. Sparrows on F/A-18 fuel tanks are classic.
Tl dr
This might be a good example of air power alone being able to
Bring a country to its knees since ww2 hitler and goering believed their luftwaffe alone would suffice in surrender of nations. Another reason why nations invest so
Much capital in their air forces and why modern military planes are at this cusp of cutting edge technology and research.
@TJ Murphy - Hahaha. Ground "offensive???" What ground offensive?? AIR POWER destroyed the Iraqi's aircraft, killed the Iraqi's soldiers, destroyed air strips, buildings, radar sites, but MORE IMPORTANTLY, the Iraqi's will to fight!!! Air power won Desert Storm NOT the "ground pounders!!" BOTTOM LINE..our grunts (infantry) would have suffered great losses without air power!! Don't forget, the Iraqi's had a million strong military, and most of them were ground pounders!
Tell you what it woke Irans ass up.
@@billyreynolds4749 Wrong
@@billyreynolds4749 A million strong military, no. They had hundreds of thousands of conscripts that didn't want to be there and some Republican guard divisions who were actually paid. Learn something.
@TheCraigHudson...Wrong!!...The Nazi's were not bringing country's to their knees using air power alone!...They used the all out tactic of "Blitzkrieg" were air power/ground forces and armour were used at the same time...and thus overwhelm/overrun their enemy...dont they teach you guys anything at school anymore these days?
I like that they call it the "F-117 black jet" and not a fighter like a lot of people do, there is nothing "fighter" about it.
Kris Frederick f for fighter. B for bomber, etc
@@robertbeck8670 So then it should have been a B-117 stealth bomber right? It's not a fighter.
On the F-117 episode of the fighter pilot podcast the guest was a F-117 pilot and stated that the aircraft could hold pretty much every weapon in the USAF arsenal except the sparrow and was also designed to shoot air to air against Soviet AWACS. Yes I agree with you it’s no F-15 but it was capable to shoot air to air missiles according to him.
I remember them showing a video of them sending a bomb down a chimney stack, and thinking, Holy shit! They can do that now?
This was the first time laser guided bombs were introduced to the world. We went from carpet bombing, to precision bombing. From dropping as many bombs as the plane could carry, and hoping we hit the target, to sending a bomb right up the enemies asshole.
@Ben White true, but the ones from Vietnam like the Walleye were extremely primitive, and honestly weren't much better than unguided bombs in many circumstances.
Desert Storm was the first time that Precision bombing - both laser-guided and GPS - was used on a large scale, and from mature platforms.
@callyharley classic
"We" ? Are you proud to be part of an improving weapon system ? wow. amazing, this is what fascinates you? Have we learned to take care of one another? Cured cancer? helped the ones in need? No, but we can kill suspects "better", great. What an "achievment".
My dad was in the air force and was talking to a guy about cruise missles. When dad asked him if they really were as accurate as everyone was saying, the guy looked at a housing estate outside the fence and said “pick a house”, so my dad did. “Right, now pick a window”. He wasn’t joking.
@@cschmidtler1 you know most of this tech is civilianized and turned into stuff like sensors for guiding self driving cars and if you don't like military tech why are you here and another question why are you getting mad at someone who is only amazed about the state of technology
Desert Storm was 1991? Holy fuck, I thought it was like 2006. Dammit Im old
I swear it was in the news just the other day!
@@Scorch428 LMAO!
"Caught the Iraqis by surprise", They must not have been watching CNN.
That's a good one 🤣🤣😅😂
Certainly the element surprise -- you want
haha funny but Ironic, Saddam was nothing like his Idol "Hitler". He was oddly apathetic combined with the thinking everything will work out fine, cuz Allah ya know. But, Yes Saddam was watching CNN and excessively according to his testimony. He actually thought right up until the end Allah would give him victory.
No shit, so true, and I think Donald Trump's idea about the media staying out of it until after, should be implemented with a quickness. Fact is: Life is not like the movie-"Billy Jack", where Billy tells the Land Baron that he is going to kick him in the side of the face and there's nothing he can do about it. If you tell an opponent in a fight what you are going to do, well then you've lost the element of surprise.
the leadership probably was, but they never told their junior officers!
10:20 that guy that flys the radiation jamming jet looks like he's had one to many RADS, he could use a shot of rad-away.
The narrator has a British accent. He must be smart and sophisticated.
Gotta love that he includes the "Unauthorized Viewing" warning at the beginning LOL
It was so unauthorised l had to close my eyes and have a wank 😋
Desert Storm was my first tour and I remember it like it was yesterday, we landed on Iraqi shores between Iraq and Kuwait ! I remember everything was black smoke and you could see ten feet in front of you ! I'm GySgt of the 1st Marine Amphibious Assault Unit, we kicked ass and took names Iraqi troops were surrendering by the hundreds when they saw the American Forces ! We were advancing fast with the US Air Forces A-10's giving us air support taking out the tanks and turning them into Swiss cheese ! The A-10 is a Tank Killer, their ground troops couldn't stop us from advancing North, I remember when we came up on Iraqi land Forces they'd surrender holding their weapons over their heads ! My first tour was a success .......
Z Know what you're talking about before you start talking shit ! In 1990 Iraq had the third largest Army in the world, do your research pal ! Even so we kicked their asses lol they were surrendering by the hundreds weapons above their heads and begging us not to kill them ! I was there so I know what and how everything went down chump ! Im GySgt Bray you know nothing pal Iraq invaded Kuwait stole their oil and gold, and we got it back for them ! Open a book and do your research idiot...... 🇺🇸 USMC 🇺🇸
@@kenbray5682 You got it back for them,you mean you got it back for yourself
I had no idea desert storm was this involved. My dad served in desert storm, and every war and armed conflict after.
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my step-father designed the tail-fin linkage assembly on the Tomahawk in the 70s
id like to aim one at my mother in laws home(CUNT)
Cool story, bro.....
How to readily identify a warthog pilot: single eyebrow, long fangs (often missing body parts)
Warthog pilots are the ones most likely to survive a mission, they destroyed over 1000 armoured vehicles in the war.
The First Air shots fired during Desert Storm were from the 101st Airbornes AH-64 Apaches, I believe Col Richard Cody fired it himself. Those shots took out the radar stations at the Saudi/Kuwaiti border and created the Air Corridor for the rest of the strike aircraft to go thru. I was at King Fahd International Airport in Saudi watching the strike aircraft take off when it started, fire trail after fire trail took off for over 2 hours.
This video focuses ONLY on the Navy and Airforce side.
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Yep, US Army fired the first shot of the air war. Was there.
You're certainly right. They took out the border radars so the longer range guys and girls could get to Badbag undetected. And they later participated in the under-publised SCUD hunt (because it wasn't very successful, not their fault; they were just a bitch to find). Don't worry, the Army was definitely there.
You are correct. 101st also cleared a path for the first ground troops on that occasion - French Foreign Legion and British Gurkhas. They made the iraqi's start running for real.
Don't forget about all of the advanced teams who would find targets on foot. They would call in hand held laser attacks.
11:16 after 5 1/2 months , its personal. 😂👍
What’s wild is how much runway the weasel needed to rotate
It's hard to believe Saddam thought he could defeat the American's with Russian built tanks that were built in the early 1950's. Yes he had the 4th largest army in the world but without the right toys your army ain't that great.
And then we shoved missiles up his ass
@America That tactic is too risky. He should've run back to Baghdad with his tail between his legs. At least he'd still be alive and Iraq would be in a much better place than it is today.
Salam could have had t80s and t90s he the combined arms might of the coalition would have still won. It would have just taken longer.
@@josephroessler8696 lmao
His troops were not up to par either though😉
Lived between Grumman Bethpage and Fairchild Republic in Farmingdale and everyday was an air show of F14’s, A10’s, E6’s and E2’s that is until Reagan gave all contract sales to California.
My Grandfather worked for Grumman as a tool and dye maker worked on the F-14, A-6 ,AE6B and EC-2 ..My Dad on the on the hand my father worked at Fairchild/Republic and designed the lifts to mount the Engines on the fuselage for the final assembly plant in Maryland.
First in: Nevada Air National Guard aerial recon F-4's.
Imagine the weapons they have now 😳 stuff we don’t even know about
smalltownmoto 1 the anal probes are insane
I mean nothing really much different other then improved sensors and more accurate bombs and missiles and more unmanned vehicles. Theres no crazy weapons that have emerged since the 90s really. Its all the mostly the same weapons just improved in some ways and look cooler. Wars today are being fought exactly the same they were 30 years ago.
@@voidwalker9223 and you would know because...
@@koc988 because if you work as a tech for 6 years for the Air force you find out how much basic shit the military still uses from the mid 1980s. Only thing that has improved is better GPS guidance and rocket motor technology. No crazy technology. Kinda common sense....
@@voidwalker9223 and you worked at DARPA Edward AFB Groom Lake?
the point about need to know stuff is that not everyone needs to know
I was in 6th grade when we went to war in the gulf. I remember copying the map on a trapper keeper while i watched what was happening on the news one night.
H BOMB FB: Bush took out the little guy, but you see he NEVER messed with China, Russia, or Iran, because he knew America would have gotten more FUCKED UP than they/we have in Afghanistan!!!
@@janjohnson2061 We didnt go after Saddam during this war, just kicked him out of Kuwait....China and Russia lol. Russia can't even take Ukraine and lost miserably in Afghanistan, and We killed more Chinese than bad rice during the Korean Conflict & piled their bodies 6 high in substitute for sand bags. Russia is an absolute Joke, they have always been a joke and always will be a joke on the world's stage. If it weren't for American war hero's the Russians would be speaking German today. Russia can't win a war with the USA, they're only response would be to fire off nukes and try to destroy the entire world because your great big Navy of 1 Aircraft Carrier and 8 Su57 fighters and 48 Su35 Fighters really scares anyone. So you can't take Ukraine, couldn't take and lost in Afghanistan and lined up to die like sheep during the Nazianz occupation and you think we're worried about Russia? We go to war when we want to, we go for a lot of reasons, I went to kill communists and Russian and Chinese advisors and I did just that and had a good time doing it. Russia, that's funny!!!
@@janjohnson2061 We've attacked your allies many many times, we have you completely surrounded with military hardware in our many many bases all over Europe and Asia, the one time you came to our side of the world we kicked you the hell out of here and I watched your country crumble to nothing which led to the creation of a slew of new poor poverty stricken nations, sell off your nuclear facilities and equipment to your allies like Iran who squandered it and still can't produce a nuclear weapon. Americans have made themselves the richest and most powerful nation in the world's history exclusively killing communists and socialists. Russia has done nothing but kill their own people to the number of 150+ million. Russians what a joke
But how can anyone expect you to understand anything said here, you think this video was the Iraq war from 2003 and it wasn't. You can't even comment about the right war in the video. Russia and China, so funny.
@@tcar3654 I know, what is this clown vomiting here!
out the whole programme, 2 things stand out. 1 - Tornaaaados. 2 - Tayhayran :D
The U.S. doesn't play when it comes to air strikes
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No mention of the single most important airplane of the war............. the KC-135.
Fact.. NKAWTG.. Nobody!
Rookies learn tactics, professionals learn strategy, masters learn logistics.
No matter how powerful the platforms or the weapon systems said platform carries into battle, no war is won without the help of logistics to keep the armed forces moving forward.
McDonnell Douglas F-4
"Americas proof to the world you can make a brick fly if you put a big enough engine on it"
That is the B70
Your both wrong, it was the F-104 star fighter.
@@fredgilligan7265 I raise you the I-16 and the Electric Lightning.
The US didn't make the lightning though. They did make the F-105 however...
@@Booyaka9000 They didn't make the I-16 either. I was trying to list other competitors for flying brick. Then again I think the winner in that case would be the Space Shuttle.
Must be an early production as the erroneous information about Patriot missile performance is repeated.
10:14 - This pilot's face still has the impression of the air mask he wore.
After nearly thirty years, the rest of the world is only now catching up.
Still got a long way to go before they use nuclear weapons on 2 city's of civilians. well done USA
Left out were the BQM-74 drones which soaked up the SAMs and let the F-4 hit their radars on the first night.
*A one hour long yawn fest. If you're having trouble getting to sleep at night, this is PERFECT.* 🥱😴
LOL! At 22:13 the editors used the sound effect of an Abrahams tank for the background sound of the taxying Tornado :D
Or it could be background noise that was recorded, such as a truck, aircraft tug, or a bomb jack.
yeah it's not a mistake. it's background noise. you *can* hear the jet very faintly in the background. there is most likely an abrams off screen
nobody says TORNADO like this.
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Magnificient!the heroes have done their duty to protect the innocent being murdered by an aggressor.thank you for sharing us this document
What a lot of young people won't know is our war on Iraq was so decisive and so complete, it shot our militaries to stardom. We were fascinated by air power and there were all sorts of documentaries like this one made. Young guys like me couldn't get enough. It also sent a very clear message to the Soviets that their technology and tactics (used by the Iraqis) was inferior.
We absolutely kicked the living shit out of them.
I personally had this video series. They advertised them on TV and you could buy them in mail order.
And then millennials were born...and twenty years later... everything was fucked up.
The fuck do millenials have to do with anything?
Ultimately this was a war to eliminate a major power in the vicinity of Israel, at the behest of the Jewish lobby groups. We never went in to 'take the oil'.
Obviously an excellent performance by the USA and friends.
Our middle east policy continues to be based on Israels desire to keep their neighbors weak.
i wonder who brought up those millenials...
i'm raising two very responsible millenials. but i wonder what the heck we got from the israelis? we are still fighting a war in iraq, you know, in 2018!
Ur not wrong
The Iraqi people were answering phones that weren't even ringing. That ringing in their ears still hasn't stopped.
i might steal that... that's funny :-)
@@exceltraining You are welcome to use that at anytime freely @exceltraining. Not only is it funny but it is also true. Ask any US Service member who was there who has been diagnosed with tinnitus. A service disability which is constant ringing in the ears. I would know as I have tinnitus myself. That however is not funny.
The 30mm Vulcan cannons on the A-10 Warthogs, as well as the 20mm eye-sighted Vulcan cannons on the AH-64 Apache chopper are built by General Electric.
Wrong on the second count. The AH-64 Apache sports the M230 30mm chain gun originally designed by Hughes.
Now the enemy knows who and where to attack. you've pinpointed a target for them. well done
@@Tamburello_1994 Yes, its a 30mm huges chain gun. The Cobra helos are the ones with 20mm GE Gatlings.
@@Tamburello_1994 Correct.
If I had been there I probably would have been a fighter ace
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And this was 80s technology. Imagine what the weapons are like today.
@Anthony Z Really?
I don't think so
Wait a minute. While USN did their part, the T'hawks were a prelim. Don't forget that when OUR missles are flying, manned aircraft keep away. The opening show in Badbag was called Puba's party, after the guy who devised it. It very basically consisted of two waves of manned aircraft, separated by a wave of UAVs, intentionally sacrified to SAMS.
Iraq wasn't surprised, they were merely killed. USN's primary contribution was their intimate knowledge of Iran's air defense system (as configured by France), which was disabled "purdy quick". There is a lot more.
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Vidio Ordance is a UK Production. And they done a great. Vidio about the US Forces.
The Tomahawk missiles first flew into action on Jan. 17, 1991 during the Persian Gulf War. The United States fired 288 Tomahawks during the war - 106 during the opening hours of the air campaign.
American war planners had considerable trepidation about this. Not only was it the Tomahawk’s first combat deployment, the coalition planned to launch the missiles on a course over Iran.
Had a glitch in one of the missile’s computer guidance systems or some other navigational - or human - error occurred, it could have had dangerous consequences.
But why did the U.S. fire them over Iran? The reason is because the guidance system on the early Tomahawk couldn’t navigate over the flat desert terrain of southern Iraq.
This version used a terrain-contour matching system, as opposed to a GPS-guided system fitted on later variants. In a terrain-contour system, the missile cross-references a digital map with terrain data collected by a radar altimeter during flight.
The problem is that the terrain has to be distinct enough for the altimeter to work. Southern Iraq is highly indistinct, and the Tomahawks risked “clobbering” into the ground.
To solve the problem, the U.S. fired the missiles from warships in the Persian Gulf on a course over Iran’s mountains - using them as navigational landmarks - before they turned and proceeded toward their pre-programmed targets in the Iraqi capital.
Tehran wasn’t given any prior notification or even a formal heads-up about this. Nor was Iran a member of the coalition against Iraq. The coalition also planned to launch Tomahawks from the eastern Mediterranean over Syria and Turkey, but later scuttled these overflights.
warisboring.com/the-tomahawk-missile-s-first-mission-was-over-iran/
Thank you so much. I remember yakking about their nav system with squadron buddies after I got out of SAC in 1958. What you've written sounds like a another very good reason to keep GPS safe.
Did the Iranians have the equipment to make them aware there were Tomahawks flying over their country?