NBC News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-17 - 7 p.m. (E)
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[0:01] NBC Nightly [music] News continues with
[0:03] America at war. Here again is Tom
[0:06] Brokoff.
[0:08] It is called Operation Desert Storm and
[0:10] this is the latest on the war in the
[0:11] Persian Gulf. The bombing of Iraq and
[0:13] Kuwait now in its second full day. The
[0:15] results so far appear to be right on
[0:18] target. Well over a thousand bombing
[0:20] raids have taken place. There has been
[0:22] very little resistance so far from the
[0:24] Iraqis at the Pentagon. NBC's Katherine
[0:26] Kurrick with how the United States
[0:28] gained the upper hand so swiftly.
[0:33] >> The situation evolved down to an actual
[0:37] shooting war.
[0:38] >> Just before h hour, 3:00 a.m. Persian
[0:41] Gulf time. Tomahawk cruise missiles
[0:43] burst into the night sky, traveling
[0:45] hundreds of miles to light up Iraqi
[0:47] radar on their way to key targets in
[0:50] Baghdad. According to Navy sources, the
[0:52] missiles, more than 100 of them, hit
[0:55] nine out of 10 targets and paved the way
[0:58] for war plananes like the Wild Weasel,
[1:00] to seek and destroy Iraqi radar.
[1:04] 30 stealth fighters, first used in
[1:06] Panama with limited success, slipped in
[1:09] to take out targets, including Scud
[1:11] missile sites in western Iraq that
[1:13] threatened Israel. B-52s carrying
[1:16] 100,000 pounds of bombs a piece took out
[1:19] buildings and carpet bombed Iraqi
[1:21] armored units in Kuwait, while F-15 jets
[1:24] protected them against Iraqi fighters.
[1:26] The same role assigned to carrierbased
[1:28] F-14s.
[1:30] >> Of all of the uh air sorts that went in,
[1:33] we are rating 80% of them as having been
[1:35] effective, meaning the aircraft got to
[1:38] its uh target, delivered its ordinance,
[1:41] and returned. A-10 warth