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Persian Gulf War Air Combat
Part of Persian Gulf War
Date
Persian Gulf War 17 January – 28 February 1991 (1 month, 1 week and 4 days) After Persian Gulf War 28 February 1991 - 20 March 2003 (12 years, 2 weeks and 6 days)
Location
Iraq and Kuwait
Result
Coalition victory
Belligerents
United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Commanders and leaders
Chuck Horner Norman Schwarzkopf Colin Powell Andrew Wilson Bill Wratten Khalid bin Sultan Saleh Al-Muhaya
Saddam Hussein Ali Hassan al-Majid
Strength
1,000+ aircraft
750 aircraft
Casualties and losses
1 F/A-18C and 1 MQ-1 confirmed lost, 1 pilot KIA 1 RAF Tornado shot down, several other aircraft damaged (Iraqi claim)
44+ aircraft shot down (in air-air combat varying on report)[1]
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Gulf War
Invasion of Kuwait
Kuwaiti Bridges
Dasman Palace
Failaka
British Airways Flight 149
Coalition intervention
Khafji
Wadi al-Batin
Naval operations
Ad-Dawrah
Qurah
Maradim
Bubiyan
Air campaign
Air to Air combat
Dhahran & Riyadh
"Package Q" Air Strike
Ras Tanura
Samurra
Amiriyah
Liberation of Kuwait
Order of battle
73 Easting
Al Busayyah
Phase Line Bullet
Medina Ridge
Highway of Death
Jalibah
Norfolk
Kuwait International Airport
Post-ceasefire
Rumaila
Safwan
During the 1991 Gulf War and subsequent operations in no-fly zones over Iraq, Coalition air forces faced the Iraqi Air Force (IQAF), the fourth largest air force in the world at the time. In the opening days of the war, many air-to-air engagements occurred, between Iraqi interceptors and a variety of different Coalition aircraft.
^("The First Night" by Cooper/Sadik (IAPR, Vol.26))
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