July 6, 2007 at 2:06 pm
There’s quite a lot of information on Saudi, Kuwaiti, and Bahraini operations in Desert Storm, but how about the other GCC air forces?
(Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE)
Any information gratefully received!
To start us off, Code One published a good piece about Bahraini F-16 ops at
http://www.codeonemagazine.com/archives/1999/articles/oct_99/oct99_p.html
This revealed that: “BAAF F-16s flew defensive and offensive counter-air missions, averaging about five sorties per day. The F-5s carried out interdiction missions, around four sorties per day, often teaming with F-16s as fighter escorts. The BAAF targeted a wide range of targets in Kuwait radar sites, artillery positions, and missile sites. In all, the BAAF flew about 300 combat sorties, of which 167 involved F-16s.”