Desert Storm - The Air War, Day 1 - Time-Lapse
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Channel: The Operations Room
Views: 2,748,181
Rating: 4.8856525 out of 5
Keywords: Time-Lapse, History, Documentary, aircraft, time lapse, animated, war, desert storm, operation desert storm, gulf war, f-15 eagle, iraq, kuwait, usaf, us air force, us navy, john nichol, john peters, fa/18 hornet, saddam hussein
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Length: 22min 0sec (1320 seconds)
Published: Sat Aug 08 2020
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Itβs hard to imagine the logistical complexity of managing that attack.
The son of a North Korean General defected to South Korea shortly after this. He had previously been doing work in Iraq and knew they had like the 4th largest standing Army in the world. When he saw how quickly the US was able to destroy Iraq, he realized that despite Dear Leader's claims to the contrary, the US could wipe out North Korea in about 48 hours. Due to a lifetime of propaganda he considered an attack on North Korea was a very real and immediate threat, and so he defected.
This has to be peak global US/NATO military influence. Just seeing all the moving parts come together....wow. Iraq stood no chance. Logistics are what really separates the super powers from the wannabes.
At the 15 minute mark:
HUD tape with radio chatter from Mongos and Foxs Mig 21 shootdowns:
https://youtu.be/cKQ-ztykaQY
Also an interview with mongo on the fighter pilot podcast talking about not only that engagement, but some details on his experiences in Desert Storm as well:
https://youtu.be/VYCl0AgM3XM
Billions in debt because of the last war? Invade a neighbour. Oh, and get your military force decimated.
This is why dictators are the worst fucking idea.
So I was deployed to Al Jaber in Kuwait a few yrs ago. Iraq took this base from Kuwait and would store their aircraft in these HASβs (Hardened Aircraft Shelters)
The base was absolute shit because it wasnβt really established like our other afcent bases. But we got to drive to the flightline every day past these HASβs that we bombed with bunker busters I think.
Some of them we occupied, like our Vehicle Maintenance shop was running out of one that I suppose was deemed safe. Others were blocked completely because rebar was hanging everywhere. We actually had an aircraft run off the runway during landing and go nose first into the sand. The intake scooped up a lot of shit. So they towed it to this old canvas hangar for the Safety Investigation Board. Only a few people had access, and I was working QA so I got to escort people there. They scooped out all the dirt in the intake and this giant metal thing plopped out. This Colonel picked it up and was like, βthis is a fragment of a bomb....probably from the Gulf Warβ
I have no idea if it was, but the intake scooped a lot of dirt and was pretty deep so itβs possible. It was a pretty crazy deployment.
This picture is my favorite. I posted it on OddltSatisfying when I took it and got permanently banned bc it was a βrepost.β I literally just took the picture so I argued the mod. Oh well.
Amazing Video.
One thing I don't really understand is why those B52 bombers flew basically around the entire world to fire cruise missiles and turn around, when it seems like they already had so much firepower in the region. Could they not have fired those missiles from ships in the area?
Here is a similar video about the battle of 73 easting during the land invasion of gulf war. It is the largest tank battle since ww2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJNk7DcFIkk
The republican guard was caught off guard because the US forced attack across open flat desert that was considered unnavigable because it was so featureless. But because of GPS US forces were easily able to navigate and flank the Iraqi armored forces destroying hundreds of tanks and armor vehicles with only a few casualties
Operation Desert Shield - Protect the Saudi Royal family and their kingdom.
Operation Desert Storm - Restore the Saudi's cousins back to the throne in Kuwait.
Of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers, fifteen were Saudis.
We thought at the end of Desert Storm that we had achieved an easy and decisive victory to end the war. Little did we know that it had been but the first battle in a very protracted, confusing, highly fluid, ridiculously costly and ever changing military quagmire that would last a generation, change American forever and still with no end in sight.