Aerial formation from right to left, F-16CJ Fighting Falcon, 20th Fighter Wing (FW) Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina; F-15E Strike Eagle, 4th FW Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina; and F-16CJ Fighting Falcon, 27th FW, Cannon AFB, New Mexico during the 4th Aerospace Expeditionary Wing (AEW) in Doha, Qatar. The AEW was in country in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. SOUTHERN WATCH enforces the United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 that establishes a no-fly zone over Southern Iraq below the 32nd parallel. The missiles seen on the Shaw (SW) AFB F-16 from wing tip in are the AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder, and the AGM-88 HARM...
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
[Complete] Scene Caption: Aerial formation from right to left, F-16CJ Fighting Falcon, 20th Fighter Wing (FW) Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina; F-15E Strike Eagle, 4th FW Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina; and F-16CJ Fighting Falcon, 27th FW, Cannon AFB, New Mexico during the 4th Aerospace Expeditionary Wing (AEW) in Doha, Qatar. The AEW was in country in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. SOUTHERN WATCH enforces the United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 that establishes a no-fly zone over Southern Iraq below the 32nd parallel. The missiles seen on the Shaw (SW) AFB F-16 from wing tip in are the AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder, and the AGM-88 HARM (high-speed antiradiation missile).
Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Country: Qatar (QAT)
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Frank Rizzo, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Tags
Date
Location
Source
Copyright info