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- OVER 75% OF IRAQ'S COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATION FACILITIES

  WERE STRUCK DURING OUR AIR CAMPAIGN

  -- AND AT LEAST 1/2 OF THOSE WERE CONPLETELY DESTROYED OR

     RENDERED INOPERATIVE


AIR D~FENSE
- DESPITE IRAQI RECONSTITUTION EFFORTS, THEIR NATIONAL AIR DEFENSE
  NETWORK REMAINED SEVERELY DEGRADED THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN


- F-117 REMAINED VIRTUALLY INVISIBLE WITH MORE THAN 1~3OO SORTIES

  FLOWN OVER IRAQI AND KUWAIT.


AIR OPERATIONS
- WE RAVE FLOWN ~ORE THAN 120,000 SORTIES

  -- LOSS OF ONLY 37 AIRCRAFT IN COMBAT


     --- 28 U.s  AND 9 COALITION
  -- IN AIR-TO-AIR COXBATt WE DEsTROYED 42 IRAQI AIRCRAFT
     (INCLUDING ~ IrELOS)

         F-iS's ACCOUNTED FOR 34 OF THE 42 AIR-TO-AIR KILLS
         WITH NOT ONE SINGLE COALITION AIR-TO-AIR LOSS

         NOT A SINGLE IRAQI AIRCRAFT PENETRATED COALITION AIRSPACE

         DURING THE WAR


- 139 AIRCRAFT ESCAPED INTO IRAN (113 FIGHTERS AND 26 TRANSPORTERS;

  6 CRASHED EN ROUTE)


AIRFIELDS
- AT LEAST M IRAQI AIRFIELDS WERE NON~OPERATIONAL/DEGRADED OPS AT

  THE END OF OUR OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS
  -- WE CAN CONFIRM AT LEAST 45 IRAqI COMBAT AIRCRAFT DESTROYED ON

     THE GROUND.  THE NUMBER IS MORE LIKELY BETWEEN 122 AND~2OO DUE

     TO ATRCRAFT BEING DESTROYED IN SHELTERS


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