Talk:Gulf War air campaign

contradiction
There appears to be a contradiction in the text about if Iran returned Iraqi jets after the war. One line reads "Iran never returned the jets" with a cite, while later it says "Iran did not allow the aircrews to be released until years later, but returned multiple jets over 20 years later" also with a cite. How to resolve this? Dbsseven (talk) 20:58, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

It was very awkwardly written. But, I figured out what they were trying to say. I added a reference that updates it and a sentence that makes it clearer (I hope) what was going on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jtgelt (talk • contribs) 22:09, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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Highway of Death
I think the article is missing a description/reference to the Highway of Death attack near the end of the air campaign. -- Roger Hui (talk) 22:23, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

F111s destroyed far more tanks than A10s
I think the following sentence needs to be reworked for 2 reasons.

"Armed with a GAU-8 rotary cannon and infrared-imaging or optically guided Maverick missiles, A-10 Thunderbolts bombed and destroyed Iraqi armored forces, supporting the advance of US ground troops. Marine Corps close air support AV-8B Harriers employed their 25mm rotary cannon, Mavericks, cluster munitions, and napalm against the Iraqi dug-in forces to pave the way forward for the Marines breaching Saddam's defenses."

1- Grammatically it is an extremely long for just one sentence 2- Despite only having half as many aircraft in theatre (64 F111s, 144 A10s) F111s destroyed far more Iraqi tanks than A10s. The success of the F111s using Pave Tack and LGBs lead to the creation of the term "tank plinking by the F111 crews." So effective was the combination of Pave Tack with the F111F, it was not uncommon for each 4 LGB loaded F111 to destroy 4 tanks on the same mission. One night 20 F111s destroyed 77 Iraqi tanks.

I think an article covering the Air component of the Gulf War mentioning the destruction of Iraqi armor should include this information. Not wanting to start barging in to the Author's otherwise good article, I thought mentioning it in the Talk section might produce a possible reworking of that part of the article. Kyle kursk (talk) 13:28, 16 October 2022 (UTC)