https://open.spotify.com/episode/6HKVIALTmt8xw0tjSPgVsM?si=6TOfCaNkTMiN8IBcww23Ow
Recommend listening to this one (y)
Former U.S. Air Force F-16 Viper pilot Jeff "Tico" Tice was callsign 'Stroke 1,' the flight lead for the ill-fated "Package Q" strike on Iraq just days into Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Stroke 3 miraculously dodged multiple Iraqi SAMs and made it home safely where his HUD footage became a sensation. Tico was not so lucky...
Read about Package Q here.
Watch the Stroke 3 video here.
The Package Q Airstrike was the largest airstrike of the Persian Gulf War and the largest strike of F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft in military history. Many aircraft including the F-117 Nighthawk were used to attack targets in...
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Some solid podcast episodes to check out if any of you are into listening. Goes over the entire mishap situation due to the unfamiliar dark desert conditions operating out of a field in Jordan. Very similar to our situation at King Hussein AB, so figured I would share. 77th operates out of Shaw while CONUS.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YC5cXXecE7I47RqAIauIh?si=ApSDmhDUROunFt2JKTMsdg
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LHILH7hsWxV9ZqoXY9ntz?si=ZD8f5Y8yTn-aGITC-qhA4w
I know this is not US military history, but still a legendary F-16 mission to read about. they flew fingertip for a long haul so close they showed on rader as one, and pretended to be a Jordanian Transport. Crazy mission, that Inspired both Iron Eagle 2, and Top Gun Maverick.
Operation Opera (Hebrew: מבצע אופרה),[1] also known as Operation Babylon,[2] was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located 17 kilometres (11 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.[3][4][5] The Israeli operation came after Iran's partially successful Operation Scorch Sword had caused minor damage to the same nuclear facility a year prior, with the damage having been...