F/A- 18 HORNET OPERATION IRAQUI FREEDOM DAYTIME PROFANE. REAL MISSION. The F/A-18 In-flight cockpit video demonstrated its versatility and reliability during Operation Desert Storm, shooting down enemy fighters and subsequently bombing enemy targets with the same aircraft on the same mission. It broke all records for tactical aircraft in availability, reliability, and maintainability.
F-5E/F Tiger II are part of a family of widely used light supersonic fighter aircraft, designed and built by Northrop in the United States, beginning in 1960s. Hundreds remain in service in air forces around the world in the early 21st Century, and the type has also been the basis for a number of other aircraft.
The USAF A-7D flew a total of 12,928 combat sorties during the war with only six losses -- the lowest of any U.S. fighter in the theatre. The aircraft was second only to B-52 Stratofortress in the amount of ordnance dropped on Hanoi and dropped more bombs per sortie with greater accuracy than any other U.S. attack aircraft.
