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Goals of campaign
Achieve air supremacy - Did in first few hours of the war
Support the ground invasion
Destroy industrial systems and command centres i n Baghdad
Aid transport of coalition soldiers
Destroy scuds
Force Iraq out of Kuwait, reinstate Kuwaiti gov, and ensure regional stability
Technology used in Gulf
Laser guided bombs for precision targeting
GPS guided cruise missiles
Nighthawk stealth technology allowed it to be undetected
Anti-radiation missiles
Use of B-52’s carrying air launched cruise missiles
Casualties of Gulf
Iraq lost 407 aircraft
Coalition lost 52
"2500 Iraqi civilians killed
10k Iraqi soldiers killed
Highway of Death
25th - 27th Feb 1991
Intruders and Warthogs hit retreating Iraqi forces on highway 80
Killed roughly 1k Iraqi soldiers and destroyed roughly2k vehicles
Controversial as Resolution 660 had been met and Iraqi forces were retreating from Kuwait
Name of invasion
Operation Desert Storm
Led by Schwarzkopf