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i once heard a story about a f-15 strike eagle shootingdown an iraqi helicopter with a laser guided bomb during the gulf war, does anyone know if this is true?

indeed, indeed, indeed

I've heard the same story. Also, I have heard that the first air-to-air kill was by an unarmed Spark Vark (aka EF-111 Raven) that jammed a MiG to the point that the pilot crashed...

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The strike eagle that got a helicopter with a precision bomb....true story. I was just out at Seymour Johnson AFB a couple weeks ago (I was in the kittyhawk flyby) and the beagle guys were talking about it. Apparently they were at a point in OSW or ONW (I am not too sure which one) where they were not supposed to launch missiles for some weird ROE. So they lazed a helicopter and the WSO brought the bomb right on top of the guy....

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!

Luke, any verifiable details you can scrounge up would definitely be appreciated here bro.

Raven, i heard about the Spark Vark story too.

Must mean it's true

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I seem to remember that it was during Desert Storm. I can remember one of the crew saying it was "like a James Bond movie" when the bomb hit the chopper.

Ted

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Ok, I did some digging.

http://users.accesscomm.ca/magnusfamily/gulfusa.htm

The first listing here tells who the crew was, and the date (Feb. 13th, 1991).

http://www.rjlee.org/aakill.html

This one has it listed further down, and the date as the 14th of Feburary. F-15E 89-487 (is it just me, or does that tail number look odd?) killed a Huges 500 with a GBU-10.

Ted

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it WAS during DS and at the time the crew said it was either using the LGB or a much more expensive AIM-9 (which they might need later in the day) so they tried the LGB. I can only imagine the pile of trash that was left of the Cayuse!!!

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lol thanks i can my friend wouldnt believe me now i can prove him wrong, sure is a funny story though<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

indeed, indeed, indeed