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Article: RAF Fires About 20 Storm Shadow Cruise Missiles Against Iraqi Targets.(Other news items are discussed)
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- Defense Daily International
- Article date:
- March 28, 2003
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By Neil Baumgardner
Royal Air Force (RAF) GR4 Tornado strike aircraft have so far fired about 20 Storm Shadow cruise missiles, made by the European missile consortium MBDA, against Iraqi targets during Operation Iraqi Freedom in the weapon's operational debut, a spokesman with Britain's Ministry of Defence yesterday told sister publication Defense Daily.
"The new generation of precision guided weapons has greatly increased the RAF's ability to attack a wide variety of targets in all weathers," British army Maj. Gen. Peter Wall, the chief of staff for British forces taking part in Operation Iraqi Freedom, on Sunday told reporters during a briefing by the ...