TITLE

Blinders for Iraq's defenses

AUTHOR(S)

Turque, B.; Waller, D.

PUB. DATE

January 1991

SOURCE

Newsweek;1/28/1991, Vol. 117 Issue 4, p20

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Considers how the United States used electronic countermeasures (ECM) that threw a shroud over Iraqi radar, causing Iraqi impotence in the early gulf war. Comments by Navy Cmdr. John Leenhouts; Previous probing of Iraqi radar; Use of Navy EA-6B Prowlers and Air Force Ef-111 Ravens to detect Iraqi battle radars; Questions concerning Iraqi air defenses; Missiles, jamming pods, chaff dispensers and infrared flares. INSET: Clearing a corridor..

ACCESSION #

9101281960

Tags: UNITED States -- Armed Forces

 

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