Index at bottom of the page.

1. How many Special Operations
Forces assets were deployed,
including helicopters and
AC/EC/MC/HC-130s?

2. How many F-15C/D's were
deployed to the Persian Gulf?


3. How many F-15E's were
deployed to the Gulf?


4. How many A-10's were
deployed to liberate
Kuwait?

5. How many sorties did the
F-117's fly?

6. True or False, B-52s flew
1,624 missions, dropped 72,000
weapons (totaling more than
25,700 tons) on targets in
Kuwait and southern Iraq, and
on airfields, industrial targets
and storage areas in Iraq.
Despite being more than 30 years
old, B-52s turned in higher
reliability rates in Desert
Storm then during operations
in Vietnam. In total, they
dropped 31 percent of all U.S.
bombs and 41 percent of all
Air Force bombs dropped during
the conflict.

7. True or False, With its
Forward Looking Infrared Radar
(FLIR) and laser designation
system, F-111Fs attacked
chemical, biological and
nuclear sites. The aircraft
also attacked airfields,
bunkers, command, control and
communications facilities, and
parts of the integrated air
defense system with great
success. F-111Fs flew more
than 4,000 sorties in Desert
Storm and only one was
damaged by enemy air defenses.
MiGs were the fighter planes
flown by Iraqi pilots.

8. How many F-4G Wild Weasels
were deployed to the theater
in support of Desert Storm?


9. How many F-16's were deployed
to the gulf?

10. True or False, Without
stealth, a typical strike
mission requires 32 planes with
bombs, 16 fighter escorts,
eight Wild Weasel aircraft to
suppress enemy radar, four
aircraft to electronically jam
enemy radar, and 15 tankers to
refuel the group. With stealth
technology the same mission can
be accomplished with only eight
F-117s and two tankers to
refuel them.

11. True or False, GBU-12
laser-guided bombs were
employed by F-111s to destroy
more than 200 tanks a night
during the last weeks of the
war. (GBU-12s weigh 500 pounds).


12. True or False, GBU-15
electro-optical glide bombs
were used by F-111s to destroy
the oil manifolds to stop oil
from flowing into the Persian
Gulf after Saddam Hussein's
forces opened the valves.
(GBU-15s weigh 2,000 pounds).


13. What weapon was used to
destroy armored targets?


14. True or False. At the
beginning of Desert Storm,
coalition air forces faced a
formidable enemy. Iraq had 750
combat aircraft, 200 support
aircraft, Scud surface-to-
surface missiles, chemical and
biological weapon capability,
"state-of-the-art" air defenses,
10 types of surface-to-air
missiles, around 9,000 anti-
aircraft artillery pieces and
thousands of small arms. The
Iraqi air force had 24 main
operating bases and 30
dispersal fields, many equipped
with the latest in hardened
aircraft shelters.

15. How Many Iraqi fixed-wing
aircraft and helicopters were
downed by the U.S. Air Force
during Desert Storm?