Despite these Iraqi threats, the Coalition launched a 38-day aerial campaign on 17 January 1991.[3] Flying an estimated 2,000 sorties a day,[9] Coalition aircraft rapidly crippled the Iraqi air defense systems and all but destroyed the Iraqi Air Force,[10] whose daily sortie rate plummeted from a prewar level of an estimated 200 per day to almost none by 17 January.[11] On the third day of the campaign, many Iraqi pilots fled across the Iranian border in their aircraft rather than be destroyed.[12] The air campaign also targeted command-and-control sites, bridges, railroads, and petroleum storage facilities.[13]



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