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COMBAT AIRCRAFT’S REGULAR COLUMN
THE BRIEFING
TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO, a US-led coalition launched the first Gulf War air campaign, one part of which involved US and allied warplanes hunting for Saddam Hussein’s ‘Scuds’ — Soviet-supplied tactical ballistic missiles. The Iraqi ‘Scud’ missile blitz targeting Israel and US bases in the Middle East largely failed as Saddam’s enemies adapted to the threat. However, the results of the coalition air campaign to destroy the missiles’ mobile launchers on the ground remain inconclusive and hotly debated to this day.
