Stealth Fighters, Super Tanks and More: How America Won the Gulf War
Stealth fighters, high-end tank systems, and GPS all played their part. Thirty years ago, new U.S. military technologies exploded onto the popular scene during the Coalition invasion of Iraq through Operation Desert Storm. Those weapons included radar-evading stealth planes, laser-guided precision bombs, GPS-enabled sensors and large radar-enabled surveillance planes. The now famous 1991 Gulf War included “stealth” air attacks for the first time in history, used GPS for combat navigation, employed missile warning systems, unprecedented applications of force tracking technology, advanced s...