Stealth fighters, high-end tank systems, and GPS all played their part.
Thirty years ago, new U.S. military technologies exploded onto the popular scene during the Coalition invasion of Iraq through Operation Desert Storm. Those weapons included radar-evading stealth planes, laser-guided precision bombs, GPS-enabled sensors and large radar-enabled surveillance planes.
The now famous 1991 Gulf War included “stealth” air attacks for the first time in history, used GPS for combat navigation, employed missile warning systems, unprecedented applications of force tracking technology, advanced surveillance plane radars, and large amounts of precision-focused laser-guided bombs. While beginning with Apache and Pave Low helicopters, the Gulf War air attack involved F-117 Night Hawk stealth bombers, B-52s, F-15 Eagles and low-flying A-10 Warthog aircraft.
potentially blind the u.s. in space, for instance. so there s a lot of talk about space technology. there s a lot about what they are going, what the service chiefs are going to need in the next budget in order to come up with the next generation of fighting tools. again, if you look behind me, the f-117, that was a state of the art stealth fighter jet back in the day, but it was retired in 2008 to make way for other platforms. this is about looking ahead. but what is notable about the pensacola shooting, the hawaii pearl harbor shooting as well as news that the u.s. is considering sending more troops to the middle east is that as much as each president continues to try and shift the focus to china and russia, they keep getting sucked back into the middle east and having to face real issues of protecting the forces and strain on the forces if you look at the pearl harbor situation. that strain on the force is also a part of having this very large
incident can be related to that, again, i think we ve got to see what the fbi uncovers and discovers. and to what extent saudi arabia cooperates with the fbi in the underlying investigation. leland: yeah. there have been a couple of statements by them that they say they will cooperate fully, although as we know with the saudis, that can have a lot of meanings yeah. words mean one thing [inaudible conversations] leland: a little different. want to turn you to where you re at the reagan defense forum. one of the few bipartisan events really left in terms of republicans and democrats coming together to talk about the nation s defense and how best to do it. you re standing in front of an f-117 fighter. as we look at the defense authorization spending bill and what s going to happen, we have some numbers to put up. white house asked $708 billion, congress approved 2019, $708 billion. in fiscal year 2018, actually. there was a little bit more than what the white house requested. you gu
secretary of the air force and the air force chief have just cut the ribbon of this new exhibit here at the reagan library, and it s a f-117 jet, the first stealth jet fighter of its time. you ll remember when it did come in, this put america way ahead of its competitors, having that stealth technology. now the competitors are catching up, that s what we re discussing here at the forum. and we re looking at new technologies that are going to be the next generation, in the next generation fight, fighting in space, fighting in cyber, how does that work. that s what i asked the chiefs about just moments ago. leland: interesting. all right. getting back to the issue in terms of the hooting and training the saudis shooting and training the saudis, the saudis buy weapons from russia or china, the two groups that you talked about. has there been any defense of
regulations. lois lerner broke laws and lois lerner under oath testified she didn t. i consider that perjury. i expect that she will be criminally referred and if not under this attorney general who seems to have no stomach for friends of the president, under the next president, those charges will be brought. we want to thank you for being with us. thank you. coming up, a bitter legal fight over a teen s medical diagnosis coming to an end. dr. keith ablow on why this should be scaring every parent. but first on this day in 1981, the lockheed f 117 night hawk, the first stealth aircraft made its first flight. sally ride becomes the first woman in space. in 1974, captain and tenille had the number one song in america,