@americanmilitaryone: PART 3 ; Iraqi Extremists Attacked U.S. Forces – Big Mistake The third day of Operation Desert Storm, the US Air Force launched Package Q — the largest F-16 strike in history. Seventy-two Fighting Falcons flew a daylight raid into the most heavily defended airspace on Earth: downtown Baghdad. This video puts you in the cockpit of one of those jets, callsign Stroke 3, as the pilot rolls in on the Daura oil refinery and fights his way back out through a wall of surface-to-air missiles — with a chaff and flare dispenser that never fired a single round. We break down the radar warning receiver that tells the pilot what's hunting him, the difference between the command-guided SA-2 and SA-3 and the radar-homing SA-6 that stayed with him through the turn, why his countermeasures failed without ever warning him, and the last-ditch maneuvers that let one pilot out-fly six missiles on flying skill alone. No politics — just the tactics, the technology, and the four minutes that became required viewing for generations of fighter pilots. #usa #iraq #beyondmilitary

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Friday 17 July 2026 19:50:00 GMT