B-1 Strike on Saddam
Credit: DASH2/RICK LLINARES
Another short-notice attempt to kill Iraq's leadership, using a B1 out of Oman, was an early success for the nascent network-centric system of warfighting being introduced by the U.S. Within 12 min. of its assignment, the crew dropped four GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs)--two...
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