#DesertStorm30

1/#DesertStorm30 Our daylight attack at Ar Rumaylah is a loft (toss) attackApproach 30ft/600mph 'ish, sharp pull up, bombs release to arc onto tgt, roll & overbank to 135 degrees, pull
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1#DesertStorm30@27_Sqn are attacking Shaibah with JP233"600mph, heading straight for a dome of AAA; an incredible curtain of exploding lead framed by darknessThe JP233 fired off like a machine gun under
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Found some interesting pictures from Operation Granby/Desert Storm. Showing Sterlings and SLR's still on active duty! Amazing to see them still in theatre during a time when the SA80 was
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TOP SECRET STORY TIME: #DesertStorm30 yrs ago today I endured my first of 3 actions in 100 hours. I was Cryptologic Intelligence Chief (forward) on USS Tripoli (LPH-10) sweeping Iraqi
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2/13/1991: Alpha Battery, 21st FA fires the first M26 MLRS rockets ever used in combat. The US Army says "the system performed extremely well," but that is only true if
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Some fascinating tweets about the #DesertStorm30 air campaign, especially from veterans like @JohnNicholRAF, @CobraBall3 & @PhilipClare1. However, The Gulf War was also 'the first space war'.A Sunday afternoon thread
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1/30/1991: first combat use of another failure-prone weapon system - FASCAM mines #gulfwar30 #desertstorm30 Developed in the 1970s, FASCAM, or Family of Scatterable Munitions, were artillery-delivered mines ejected from 155mm
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