Reply #29: Jets did troop support in the first Gulf War and in this invasion [View All]

[NickB79]

In 1991 and in 2003, there were plenty of incidents where fighter jets were called in to destroy embedded Iraqi emplacements in the desert, with deadly effect. Then there are the A-10 Warthog and Spectre gunship close-support aircraft that were widely used to take out armored vehicles and tanks that are still used today to strafe resistance positions. There was plenty of opportunities for Saddam's military, at it's peak in the first Gulf War, to take out US aircraft, and they failed then. Their degraded military again failed to shoot down US jets in the second invasion, while they did take out quite a few helicopters though.