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Iraqi Maps Post Thread
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Posted on 03/18/2003 4:26:32 AM PST by sonofatpatcher2

Iraqi Maps Post Thread

Found this sorce for Maps of Iraq and believe other Freepers will want to use maps to follow the coming campaign.

Other Freepers can post more current maps or links here.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqmaps; iraqwae; maps; oilfields
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To: finnman69
Thanks!
41 posted on 03/20/2003 11:06:55 AM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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H-3 Airfield
from: http://www.globalsecurity.org/


H3 under arrow

In response to recent Iraqi hostile acts against Coalition aircraft monitoring the Southern No-Fly Zone, Operation SOUTHERN WATCH Coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons today to strike an air defense command and control facility at a military airfield 240 miles west and slightly south of Baghdad, at approximately 2:30 a.m. EDT on 05 September 2002. Aircraft dropped precision-guided bombs on the H3 airfield. The strikes were carried out by nine American F-15 Strike Eagles and three RAF Tornado GR4 ground attack aircraft flying from Kuwait. The attack on the air defence command and control facility was the first time that a target in western Iraq had been attacked during the patrols of the southern no-fly zone. According to press reports, about 100 US and British aircraft took part in the attack, making it the biggest single operation over the country in four years.

The H-3 Southwest airfield is one of three dispersal airfields in the H-3 base cluster located 435 kilometers from Bagdad in western Iraq. The main H3 airfield was originally built to support the H-3 oil pumping station. H-3 Main is supported by two dispersal airfields, H-3 Southwest, and H-3 Northwest, and a Highway strip, 42 kilometers to the west. H-3 Southwest is served by a single 9,700 foot runway and has a parrallel taxiway that could be used as an alternate runway. There are at least 6 hardened aircraft shelters, and 6 revetments.

Chemical weapons were stored at the H-3 airfield (main) during Desert Storm according to declassified U.S. intelligence reports which describe Iraqi efforts to disperse chemical weapons by truck to other locations. The S-shaped bunker located at H-3 airfield (main) and the four at the H-3 ammunition storage facilty were damaged or destroyed during Desert Storm. Of the 22 S-shaped bunkers located across Iraq, 10 had been destroyed as of 8 February 1991. It is not known whether the rest were subsequently destroyed.

NIMA CIB imagery as well as Ikonos browse imagery taken as of November 2000, reveal no apparent change to the airfield since 1995.

42 posted on 03/21/2003 8:19:12 AM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: sonofatpatcher2
BUMP
43 posted on 03/21/2003 11:54:29 AM PST by Publius6961 (p>)
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To: sonofatpatcher2
reference bump
44 posted on 03/22/2003 8:45:14 PM PST by finnman69 (!)
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To: sonofatpatcher2
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/iraq/
45 posted on 03/22/2003 8:46:18 PM PST by tutstar
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To: sonofatpatcher2
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html
46 posted on 03/22/2003 8:48:21 PM PST by tutstar
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To: sonofatpatcher2
Great idea - thanks!
47 posted on 03/22/2003 9:38:51 PM PST by nutmeg (Liberate Iraq - Support Our Troops!)
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FYI

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48 posted on 03/22/2003 9:40:06 PM PST by nutmeg (Liberate Iraq - Support Our Troops!)
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49 posted on 03/24/2003 7:53:26 AM PST by finnman69 (!)
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To: sonofatpatcher2
http://www.jacksonville.com/

under the headline is a small rectangle "showdown with iraq" and link for mulitmedia map
50 posted on 03/24/2003 9:22:19 PM PST by tutstar
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