The forst air attack during GW 1 was an apache raid on a forward deployed radar station. As this attack was beign conducted F-117's hit the main telephone exchance and the air force headquarters, thats when the tomahawks hit.
The reason the apaches hit the single forward radar station was to open a corridor on an axis into Kuwait and Iraq for the swarm of allied planes now headed into combat. The strike opened a huge gap, Iraq knew the planes where there but they could not see them.
The stealth fighter strikes on the telephone exchange crippled Iraq. Saddam has investe dheavily in fiber optic technology that was all but imune to everything but severing the lines. So thats what the US did. This reduced much of the Iraqi military to radio transmission wich are subject to jamming,m spoofing, or evesdropping.
The third strike during the intial phase was hitting the IqAF head quartes taking out the uniformed leadership, Iraqi air defense experts and theorists, and the nations war plans.
With no radar coverage of the ingress/egress route, no way to communciate rapidly, and with the uniformed leadership decapitated Iraq's air defense net crumbled.
Iraq's air defense net was a mix of old and ultra modern but faced two serious handicaps. it was overly oreinted in the wrong direction and was built on the Soviet model and stressed central command. Togehter these two flaws let the USAF take the system apart at the seams.
Pakistan can and should learn some valauble lessons form this, and form 71 and 73. SAM's are a force multipliers, not a force substatute. No SAM net has ever defeated a modern airforce. The key for Pakistan is fidign a chink in the Indian network that can be exploited to at least deny India command of the air.
The reason the apaches hit the single forward radar station was to open a corridor on an axis into Kuwait and Iraq for the swarm of allied planes now headed into combat. The strike opened a huge gap, Iraq knew the planes where there but they could not see them.
The stealth fighter strikes on the telephone exchange crippled Iraq. Saddam has investe dheavily in fiber optic technology that was all but imune to everything but severing the lines. So thats what the US did. This reduced much of the Iraqi military to radio transmission wich are subject to jamming,m spoofing, or evesdropping.
The third strike during the intial phase was hitting the IqAF head quartes taking out the uniformed leadership, Iraqi air defense experts and theorists, and the nations war plans.
With no radar coverage of the ingress/egress route, no way to communciate rapidly, and with the uniformed leadership decapitated Iraq's air defense net crumbled.
Iraq's air defense net was a mix of old and ultra modern but faced two serious handicaps. it was overly oreinted in the wrong direction and was built on the Soviet model and stressed central command. Togehter these two flaws let the USAF take the system apart at the seams.
Pakistan can and should learn some valauble lessons form this, and form 71 and 73. SAM's are a force multipliers, not a force substatute. No SAM net has ever defeated a modern airforce. The key for Pakistan is fidign a chink in the Indian network that can be exploited to at least deny India command of the air.
its better to wait for india's MRCA deal, till then shop around Beijing........
