Tom Cooper
During the U.S.-led air war on Iraq in 1991, a U.S. Air Force EF-111A electronic-warfare plane forced an Iraqi air force Mirage F.1EQ to fly into the ground. The EF-111 thus scored an air-to-air kill without ever firing a shot.
At least, that’s what the U.S. Air Force claimed. For their part, the Iraqis believed the Mirage pilot had shot down the EF-111. In fact, both the Iraqi and American plane survived the encounter — and no one scored any kill at all that night.
The story began shortly after 3:00 in the morning, local time, on Jan. 17. A formation of 21 U.S. Air Force F-15Es entered Iraqi air space on a mission to bomb 26 fixed Scud missile launchers within a complex of airfields in western Iraq known in the West as “H-2” and “H-3.”
Two EF-111 stand-off jammers, variants of the F-111 bomber, supported the F-15s by scrambling the radars that guided Iraq’s surface-to-air missiles.
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