F-16 Viper: How it Destroyed the Iraqi Army

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The F-16 played a massive role in the Coalition's air campaign during Desert Storm. Though initially conceived as a fighter, in an ironic twist of fate it became a premier ground striker platform during the operations against the Iraqi army and Republican Guard.

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Sources -
Cohen, Eliot (ed.) (1993). "Gulf War Air Power Survey Volume 2 – Operations and Effects and Effectiveness", Washington, D.C.

Cohen, Eliot (ed.) (1993). "Gulf War Air Power Survey Volume 4 – Weapons, Tactics, and Training and Space Operations", Washington, D.C.

Cohen, Eliot (ed.) (1993). "Gulf War Air Power Survey Volume 5 – A Statistical Compendium and Chronology", Washington, D.C.

Hankins, Michael (2021). "Flying Camelot – The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia". Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.

Simmonds, Bertie (2022) "F-16 Fighting Falcon", Tempest Books, Horncastle.

Paquin, Robert (1999). “DESERT STORM: Doctrinal AirLand Battle Success or #The American Way of War?’”, School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Pyles, Raymond Q. and Shulman, Hyman (1995). “United States Air Force Fighter Support in Operation Desert Storm”. RAND, Santa Monica, CA.

“Operation Desert Storm – Evaluation of the Air Campaign”. United States General Accounting Office, June 12, 1997.

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00:40 - Air Campaign Expectation
01:37 - American Workhorse
03:03 - Accuracy and Precision
06:10 - Smart Plane Dumb Bomb
07:10 - F-16 Ground Strike Demonstration
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