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Iraqi EE-9 Cascavel armoured car hit by Coalition tank fire in February 1991. Coalition aircraft inbound during Operation Desert Shield.. List of Gulf War Military Equipment is a summary of the various military weapons and vehicles used by the different nations during the Gulf War of 1990–1991.
60 miles per hour (97 km/h) [ 1] The Desert Patrol Vehicle (DPV), formerly called the Fast Attack Vehicle (FAV), is a Chenowth high-speed, lightly armored sandrail -like vehicle first used in combat during the Gulf War in 1991. [ 2] Due to their dash speed and off-road mobility, the DPVs were used extensively during Operation Desert Storm.
Armored combat support vehicles. M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle – 39. M4 Command and Control Vehicle (C2V) – 25. M9 Armored Combat Earthmover – 447. M60A1 AVLB – 125. M88A2 Hercules. M104 Wolverine – 44.
Utility vehicles HMMWV United States: Light utility vehicle +10,000 [27] Promoter DAPC South Korea: Infantry mobility vehicle 50 Used by ISOF, possible replacement for HMMWV. [28] FMTV United States: Heavy utility truck ≈500 [29] HEMTT United States: Heavy utility truck 150 [30] MTVR United States: Medium utility truck 270 [31] Navistar 7000 ...
As of January 2014, the U.S. military operates a large number of unmanned aerial systems: 7,362 RQ-11 Ravens; 990 AeroVironment Wasp IIIs; 1,137 AeroVironment RQ-20 Pumas; and 306 RQ-16 T-Hawk small UAS systems and 246 Predators and MQ-1C Gray Eagles; 126 MQ-9 Reapers; 491 RQ-7 Shadows; and 33 RQ-4 Global Hawk large systems.
The US military has taken a number of retaliatory actions after multiple close-range ballistic missiles were launched against US and coalition forces at Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq on Monday evening.
Two Iraqi T-54/55 tanks lie abandoned near Kuwait City on February 26, 1991. The attack began on the 26th when A-6 Intruder attack jets of the United States Marine Corps' 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing blocked the head and tail of the column on Highway 80, bombarding a massive vehicle column of mostly Iraqi Regular Army forces with Mk-20 Rockeye II cluster bombs, effectively boxing in the Iraqi ...
A vehicle carrying rockets was intercepted by the Iraqi military Monday after the attack. The Iraqi military said in a statement that two rockets were launched from the vehicle in the Haditha ...