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Space warfare timeline12/6/2023 The 24th Infantry Division’s heavy armor moved rapidly northward, meeting sporadic resistance from demoralized Iraqi troops. The next day the 1st Armored Division quickly crushed the Iraqi 26th Infantry Division as VII Corps pivoted to the east. The Iraqi troops-tired, hungry, and physically and psychologically battered-began surrendering in droves. soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division overran Iraqi positions within a few hours. Penetrating the minefields to their front, U.S. By midafternoon on the first day of battle, elements of the 101st and 82d Airborne Divisions were deep into Iraq, in one case just twenty-four miles south of the Euphrates River.ĭue to the speed of the allied advance, the VII Corps began its attack ahead of schedule early in the afternoon on the twenty-fourth. The Tiger Brigade (1st Brigade, 2d Armored Division), supporting Marine Corps units, pushed directly north from Saudi Arabia through blazing Kuwaiti oil fields set on fire by retreating Iraqis. and allied forces in the east attacked directly north toward Kuwait City. Kicking off the main attack in bad weather, the XVIII Airborne Corps quickly made an end run around the open right flank of the Iraqi Army. Hours before the start of the offensive, special reconnaissance teams from the 5th and 3d Special Forces Groups (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, flying out of King Khalid Military City on specially configured helicopters, were sent deep behind Iraqi lines to gather intelligence. First we’re going to cut it off, and then we’re going to kill it”įinally, on 24 February, the ground war began. “Our strategy to go after this army is very simple. Massive B–52 strikes, and almost equally devastating psychological warfare leaflet drops, did much to sap the Iraqis’ will to fight. and allied air forces pummeled Iraqi positions and supply lines. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coalition fixed-wing aircraft and cruise missiles. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle fighters, supported by EF-111 Ravens, raced into Iraqi air-space virtually unopposed followed by hundreds of U.S. The attack created a twenty-mile gap in the enemy's air defense network opening a corridor through which U.S. Army's 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st ABN DVN (Air Assault), accompanied by four Air Force MH-53 Pave Low special operations helicopters, flying fast and low, opened fire at 0236 - Baghdad time - on 17 January.Īfter their 27 Hellfire missiles destroyed Iraqi radar sites, the Apaches followed with 100 Hydra-70 rockets that knocked out the associated anti-aircraft guns. Task Force normandy, consisting of nine AH-64 Apache helicopters from the U.S. Bush announces the start of the DESERT STORM air campaign, 16 January 1991Įarly on 17 January 1991, Operation desert shield came to an end when the air campaign of Operationĭesert storm began. With its companion light pen, non-specialist users could interact easily with the computer-a form of interactivity Digital pioneered with the PDP-1.“Just 2 hours ago, allied air forces began an attack on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait. For example, Spacewar! required over 100,000 calculations per second to compute ship motion, gravity, user control inputs and the relative position of stars and the sun and the computer’s CPU sent over 20,000 points per second to the Type 30 display while running the game. Spacewar! was frequently used in demonstrations to potential customers as a way of showing the power of this unusually-small computer. The game made use of the PDP-1’s easy I/O structure to add game controllers and, soon after initial creation, a surplus jet fighter joystick. Spacewar! has two players-each in command of a spaceship-who are each trying to destroy the other against an astronomically correct star field as well as other characteristics that reflect real-world physics. Dennis allowed his students great latitude in using the machine, who returned the favor by developing highly-innovative programs for it. hanging around)-got access to the PDP-1 via Professor Jack Dennis who had taken delivery of a PDP-1 as a hand-me-down from BBN. The early MIT users-some were students, some were MIT employees, some were ‘just at MIT’ (i.e. Much of this work was performed under the impressive-sounding “Hingham Institute Space Warfare Study Group,” which was in fact Russell’s residence. The first version was written by Steve Russell with significant improvements made in the spring of 1962 by Peter Samson, Dan Edwards and Martin Graetz. Spacewar! was initially conceived by Steve Russell, Martin Graetz and Wayne Wiitanen in 1961, and largely inspired by the pulp science fiction novels of E. Though the graphical capabilities of the PDP-1 had serious applications, it was the game Spacewar! that has made the PDP-1 famous.
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