[hc87]

This should bring some perspective to the losses over the last few days. According to this site, by day 6 of Gulf War I, we had lost 19 fixed wing aircraft. As of day 6 of the Iraq War, we had lost 1 aircraft to enemy fire,1 to friendly fire and 3 to accidents. All but one are helos.

[servantoftheservant]

Good post. This war is is total victory so far. The Iraqis are reduced to scattered 'terrorist' attacks by Fedayeen and Republican Guard in civilian dress. They have gotten lucky a couple of times. However, most of the time they've tried this tactic, they've done a little shooting and a lot of dying.

Let's put this in perspective. We've lost about 20 KIA (tragic), but moved nearly 300 miles in 4 days against one of the largest armies in the world, that has had at least 9 months to prepare for us.

[paws_and_whiskers]

Good article. bttt

[Physicist]

This post is a keeper. You wouldn't happen to have the figures for losses due to accident/malfunction for GWI, would you?

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Wing of Navy A-6E damaged by AAA during Desert Storm.

[aristeides]

How well do our aircraft do in sandstorms?