Coalition Aircraft vs Iraqi SAMs

Operation Desert Storm 1991

By: Peter E. Davies, Jim Laurier (Illustrator), Gareth Hector (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 26 March 2026

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A detailed study of how Operation Desert Storm saw Coalition forces respond to Iraqâs surface-to-air missile defences with ground-breaking combat aircraft technology.

Developed in the wake of the USAâs ill-prepared entry into the Vietnam War, aircraft carrying electronic counter-measures equipment and anti-radar missiles were crucial to the success of Operation Desert Storm during the First Gulf War. Iraqâs air defence systems were elaborate and costly, but also well understood by Coalition planners, and its surface-to-air missile batteries struggled in the face of radar jamming, pyrotechnic deflection of infrared guidance and extraordinarily effective destruction of enemy air defences weapons like the AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile.

Written by aviation expert Peter E Davies, this fascinating study uses newly commissioned artwork to enhance its retelling of how aircraft and weapons, as well as crew training and command-and-control structures, proved decisive in the outcome of Desert Storm in 1991. Archive photos capture examples of the principal weapons involved, while first-hand accounts from Coalition aircrew and planners convey the realities of a conflict in which cutting-edge technology played an inestimable role.

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