Dark Docs. Desert Storm Package Q - The Largest F-16 Strike Ever. Posted: April 15, 2025 | Last updated: April 15, 2025. As the Persian Gulf War was coming to a close, the coalition forces against ...

How One F-16 Pilot Survived Six Missile Attacks During Desert Storm’s Largest Airstrike. From our vantage point some 30 years later, Desert Storm seems like little more than an appetizer for ...

The SR-71 Blackbird and F-117 Nighthawk patrolled the skies far above the battlefield, while strike fighter jets like the F-15 Eagle or the F-16 Fighting Falcon were more up close and personal.

By the time Desert Storm began in the early morning hours between Jan. 16 and 17, 1991, "more than 188,000 personnel and 375,000 short tons of equipment had been airlifted by the Air Reserve ...

On Christmas Day 1990, 22-year-old Mark Anderson, a weapons loader for F-16 fighter jets of the South Carolina Air National Guard, got the word that he was to ship out to Saudi Arabia to help ...

The F-16 saw combat in American service for the first time during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, when 249 Air Force F-16s flew over 13,000 sorties, more than any other aircraft during the ...

The F-16 Fighting Falcon flew for the first time 50 years ago. ... New York, armed with Mk 84 2,000-pound bombs, stand ready for a mission at the start of Operation Desert Storm. ...

WRAL News and WRAL.com plan a series of stories in the coming days, Desert Storm: A Forgotten War, in which veterans will share memories of death, destruction, bravery, camaraderie and fear.

An F-117 Nighthawk flies over the Nevada desert on Oct 21, 2003. .From Desert Storm to Iraqi Freedom, the unique design of the F-117 provided exceptional combat capabilities.

A 401st Tactical Fighter Wing F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft refuels from a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft as another F-16 stands by during Operation Desert Storm on Feb. 1, 1991.