Today in Gulf War History - January 3rd [C+149] On the ground, USCINCCENT estimates that Iraq has 532,900 personnel, 4,000 tanks, 2,700 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, and 3,020 artillery pieces arrayed against the 580,000 multinational troops in the KTO. Total sorties flown today is 689, with the increase being in air-to-air and air-to-ground training. An exercise was conducted to test ability to rapidly increase from one to four the number of airborne AWACS. The exercise consisted of scrambling air defense alert aircraft to provide CAP of high value assets, generating of one and two hour air defense alert aircraft to 5-minute status, and scrambling tankers to support additional AWACS and CAPS. An air defense exercise was conducted in conjunction with the scrambling of additional air defense assets, simulating attacks against KKMC and Riyadh, and exercising SAM weapon systems. The exercise included Saudi and RAF assets. The 4th Tactical Fighter Wing (Provisional) reports that maintenance problems with the emergency power units of newly-arrived F-16s stemmed from their arrivals during ongoing sand storms. Newly arrived F-15Es deployed with modules not compatible with chaff and flares currently on station Iraqi air activity increases to a still-below-average 93 sorties.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 14:00:00 +0000
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