"Desert Storm Air War Photos" Topic

Here's a history of the opening air attack in the '91 Gulf War together with a collection of photos of of varying quality showing most of the combat aircraft which took part.

Hope it's of some use to desert aircraft painters :-)

Page 1 Air War Starts, EF-111 Raven, Nighthawk, F-111E
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Page 2 Cruise Missiles, F-4G Wild Weasel, MiG-29, Tornado
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Page 3 Scuds, Jaguar, EA-6Bs, EF-111, ship-fire
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Page 4 Tornado, Iraqi FT-7,
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Page 5 Tomcats, MiG-25 Foxbat
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Page 6 F-111F, Scud Launcher F-15, F-16 fighter bomber, A-10 Warthog, A-7E Corsair II, A-7E Corsair II, AV-8B Sea Harrier
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Page 7 F/A-18 Hornet etc
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Interesting note there about the F-16s. I know we lost 2 from my unit over there. One from engine issues,wich we were able to collect all the parts to. And 1 during the actual war in wich the pilot died. As far as they were able to figure out he fell asleep while flying and leaned on the flight controls and went straight down.

cacadores, great pics, thank you

My old wargaming mate Pete Edwards was an RAF armourer in Op Granby. He wisely took some figures and paints with him to keep himself occupied, but was collared by the aircrew, who demanded that he paint nose-art on their Tornados. He ended up painting a sizeable proportion of the Tornado and Bucanneer fleet out there. He photographed everything and the photo album was amazing – an Osprey book in its own right!

I didn't realize how important the EF-111s were.