5 iconic US military weapons that helped win the Gulf War
Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. US Air Force F-16, F-15C, and F-15E fighter jets over Kuwaiti oil fires, set by the retreating Iraqi army during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. During the combat phase of the Gulf War in early 1991, the US military quickly demonstrated its superiority on the ground against Iraqi forces. That superiority, and the decisive victory it produced, was due in large part to the quality of a few Cold War-era weapons that the US brought with it to the Middle...
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