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在人们的记忆中,海湾战争中空战的情景到底是怎么回事呢?一次又一次,美国飞行员把他们瞄上伊拉克飞机无一例外地揍下来,而伊拉克飞行员却毫无建树。“我们击落了29架伊拉克飞机,而我方部队在空战中没有损失一架飞机。”施瓦茨科普夫将军去年1月30日在利雅得说。报纸和电视都大肆渲染这些战果,报道多国部队在空战中没有飞机被击落。即使战争结束后,五角大楼仍津津乐道这种“完全一边倒的”空战胜利。五角大楼在给国会的报告中说:“多国部队在空战中共击落41架伊拉克战斗机和直升飞机,而己方无一损失。”但海湾战争的空战并不像美国的宣传机器所吹嘘的那样。就在“沙漠风暴”行动开始几小时后,美军便发生了空中
In the memory of people, what happened to the air war in the Gulf War? Time after time, the U.S. pilots took them on Iraqi aircraft without any exception and the Iraqi pilots made absolutely no contribution. “We shot down 29 Iraqi aircraft and our troops did not lose one of the aircraft in combat,” General Schwarzkopf said at Riyadh on January 30 last year. Both the newspapers and the television have done their best to render these victories and report that no multinational force has been shot down in air combat. Even after the war ended, the Pentagon relished this “one-sided” air-war victory. In its report to Congress, the Pentagon said: “The multinational force totally shot 41 Iraqi fighter jets and helicopters without any loss in the air operations.” But the air war in the Gulf War was not like the one proclaimed by the propaganda machine in the United States. Just hours after the Operation Desert Storm took place, the U.S. military took the air