"Crows Feet" etched into Surface To Air Site

Iraq (IQ)

"Crows Feet" etched into Surface To Air Site

Iraq (IQ)

Military - Anti-Aircraft
By: pdunn

Nearby:

UFO or submarine in the desert???

A line of bomb craters in desert near Al Taqadudum

Two empty Iraqi SA-2 sites

Iraqi aircraft in the sand

Discarded Iraqi aircraft

Al-Taqaddum Air Base

Four destroyed jets at Al Taqaddum Airport

Iraqi SA-2 site

destroyed Tu-16 "Badger"

Il-28 Beagles at al-Taqaddum

Iraqi AAA battery

Discarded Iraqi aircraft

Comments

Analogman

@ 2005-09-09 21:08:19

It's an abandonded SA-2 site.

Pdunn

@ 2007-11-21 22:40:23

For those who thought the air component of the Gulf War was a cake walk, check out this video of a flight of F-16s being targeted by dozens of surface to air missiles. The number 4 plane in the flight was actually shot down and the pilot captured. Cinch up your seat belts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5PNhNEW-os&feature=related