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- From: dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: desert storm operations
- Message-ID: <BxvFrA.9Ar@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:40:22 GMT
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- From Don Palmrose <dpe@inel.gov>
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- In article <BxtKCv.1pD@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, gawne@stsci.edu writes:
- >
- >
- > o The Iraqi artillery using the South African G5 155mm guns had
- > the means to do far more damage to coalition ground forces than
- > they did. The only reason we can conclude they held their fire
- > when we came thru the breaches at 0 hour was they wanted to
- > surrender as quickly as possible.
- >
-
- It was the extremely effective counter-battery of the US forces that negated
- this. Within minutes (or seconds) after the Iraqi artillery started to shoot,
- return fire, bombs, or missiles were incoming on them. They quickly got the
- message.
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- > This information is available thru non-classified media and I can assure
- > you its true. The AAA threat in particular was *BAD*. Fortunately we
- > made them keep the targeting radars turned off, but even shooting by eyeball
- > they kept our pilots flying so high that the bomb damage was significanntly
- > diminished.
- >
-
- The AAA threat being sooo great over Bagdad was the reason why only the F-117
- and Tomahawks were used on that city. I do not know of any other aircraft
- flying into Bagdad, please correct me if I am wrong.
-
- > -Bill Gawne, Space Telescope Science Institute
- > GySgt USMCR
- >
-
- Don Palmrose
- "There are only two kinds of ships..... Those that project power and those
- that support the power projectors."
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