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Lockheed's TR-1, derived from its famous U-2 was a major reconnaissance asset, providing invaluable information allowing intelligence officers to properly assign targets to pilots. Much of the information provided by the TR-1 (nicknamed the Dragonlady) was relayed in real time, further enhancing its usefulness. (Lockheed)
Lessons of the Gulf War
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Lessons of the Gulf War – a Hughes Aircraft Perspective
This article presents a set of findings about Desert Storm put together by the military systems experts at Hughes Aircraft and based on their extensive discussions with the US Defense Department and military officials from all the services.
Rarely in wartime history has one side gained such an edge over an adversary nation simply from the errors of that nation’s leadership.
Saddam Hussein mounted one of the most powerful armies ever faced by many of the coalition countries. He not only deployed many modern aircraft and other advanced equipment but could draw on people who had been well trained in the Soviet doctrine of military operations. But he undercut these strengths by making independent judgments that were almost invariably ‘. “‘ wrongheaded to a surprising extent. That naturally played right into the hands of the coalition.
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