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- Subject: SAM Site hit in N. Iraq
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.141023.595@doc.bmd.trw.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:10:23 MST
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- Posted: Thu, Jan 21, 1993 5:51 PM PST Msg: WPJD-5068-5235/20
- To: aerospace.daily/TRW
- Subj: IRAQI SAM SITE is hit by U.S. planes in first military action of
- Clinton
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- IRAQI SAM SITE is hit by U.S. planes in first military action of Clinton
- Administration.
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- U.S. planes, in first action of new Administration, hit Iraqi SAM site
- A pair of U.S. aircraft attacked an Iraqi surface-to-air missile
- site yesterday in the first military action of the new Clinton
- Administration.
- The Pentagon said that a "hunter-killer" team of an F-4G fighter and
- an F-16 fighter struck the site at 5:09 a.m. EST Jan. 21, just over 17 hours
- after President Clinton assumed office.
- Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the new Administration
- will protect American pilots despite a cease-fire declared by Baghdad the day
- before the presidential inauguration.
- The two aircraft were escorting a French Mirage F-1 in a "routine
- monitoring mission" north of the 36th parallel near Mosul when the planes were
- fired on by anti-aircraft artillery, the Pentagon said. Because they were out
- of AAA range, they did not return fire.
- Minutes later, however, the planes were "painted" by the Iraqi SAM
- radar. The F-4G immediately fired an AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile
- (HARM) at the site. The F-16 then attacked the missile site with cluster
- bombs, but the Pentagon didn't immediately know the effects of the attack.
- The planes continued their mission "without further incident."
- The F-4G and F-16 "hunter-killer" concept was first tested in the
- 1980s as a way to get more effect from a limited number of dedicated F-4G Wild
- Weasels. While The F-4G uses its radar and electronic warfare equipment to
- "tease" enemy radars into turning on, the F-16 escort provides both cover and
- additional weapons to fire at enemy SAM and AAA sites.
- Rules of engagement for coalition aircraft flying over Iraq permit
- them to attack any radar or missile site which threatens them within either of
- the two "no-fly" zones.
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