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- ACCURATE BOMBING.   EVEN IN BAD WEATHER SECONDARY EXPLOSIONS

  CONFIRM CONTINUOUS DAMAGE


- A RECENT B-52 STRIKE ON THE AL ISKAN DARIYAH AMMO FACILITY WAS

  REFERRED TO BY A CREW MEMBER UPON WITNESSING THE SECONDARY

  EXPLOSIONS, AS "LIGHTING UP THE WHOLE SKY - AS PINK AS COTTON

  CANDY',


- NOW ATTACKING FORCES CLOSEST TO OUR POSITION IN THE KTO WITH OVER

  1,200 AIRCRAFT SORTIES PER DAY

  -- REPRESENTS OVER 80% OF OUR AIR STRIKE EFFORT PER DAY

  -- TAC AIR IN KUWAIT WAS KEY TO OUR QUICK ADVANCE IN ALL SECTORS

  -- COALITION AIR POWER HINDERS IRAQI FORCES FROM MANEUVERABILITY

     NECESSARY TO SUCCEED IN GROUND OPERATIONS.


NAVAL OPERATIONS

- IRAQI'S LIMITED NAVAL FORCE (INCLUDING SEIZED KUWAITI CRAFT) HAS

  BEEN RENDERED INEFFECTIVE.


- OVER 180 COALITION FORCE SHIPS HAVE ESTABLISHED TOTAL SEA CONTROL

  IN THE WATERS OF THE ARABIAN GULF AND RED SEA

  -- SANK OR DISABLED OVER 90 IRAQI NAVAL VESSELS OF ALL CLASSES

         INCLUDES 12 OF 13 IRAQI MISSILE PATROL BOATS (1 OSA II

         PATROL BOAT ESCAPED TO IRAN)

  -- IRAQI NAVAL SURFACE ACTIVITY HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY NON-EXISTENT

  -- AT LEAST THREE OF SEVEN IRAQ SILKWORM LAUNCHERS ARE DESTROYED

     OR NON-OPERATIONAL.   ALL PREPARED LAUNCH SITES HAVE BEEN

     DESTROYED.

         LIMITED SILKWORM ATTACKS CAN POSSIBLY BE CONDUCTED AGAINST

         COALITION VESSELS.   BUT ONLY FROM THE AL FAW AREA.

         IRAQI LAUNCHED SILKWORMS ON 25 FEB.    ONE WAS SHOT DOWN BY

         A BRITISH ESCORT SHIP AND THE OTHER FELL WIDE OF TARGET.


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(INFORMATION CURRENT AS OF 27 FEB 1991)

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