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Clockwise from top:
USAF
F-15Es,
F-16s, and an
F-15C flying over
burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops from the
Staffordshire Regiment practicing casualty evacuation; camera view from a
Lockheed AC-130; the
Highway of Death; and
M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Coalition
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 Iraq |
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| Strength | |||||||||
| Over 950,000 soldiers 3,113 tanks 1,800 aircraft 2,200 artillery pieces |
1,000,000+ soldiers (~600,000 in Kuwait) 5,500 tanks 700+ aircraft 3,000 artillery systems[4] |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Total: 13,488 Coalition: |
Total: 175,000–300,000+ Iraqi: 20,000–50,000 killed[17][18] 75,000+ wounded[5] 80,000–175,000 captured[17][19][20] 3,300 tanks destroyed[17] 2,100 APCs destroyed[17] 2,200 artillery pieces destroyed[17] 110 aircraft destroyed[citation needed] 137 aircraft flown to Iran to escape destruction[21][22] 19 ships sunk, 6 damaged[citation needed] |
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| Kuwaiti civilian losses: Over 1,000 killed[23] 600 missing people[24] Iraqi civilian losses: 3,664 killed directly[25] Total Iraqi losses (including 1991 Iraqi uprisings): 142,500–206,000 deaths (According to Medact)[a][26] Other civilian losses: 75 killed in Israel and Saudi Arabia, 309 injured |
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Clockwise from top:
USAF
F-15Es,
F-16s, and an
F-15C flying over
burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops from the
Staffordshire Regiment practicing casualty evacuation; camera view from a
Lockheed AC-130; the
Highway of Death; and
M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Coalition
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Iraq |
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| Strength | |||||||||
| Over 950,000 soldiers 3,113 tanks 1,800 aircraft 2,200 artillery pieces |
1,000,000+ soldiers (~600,000 in Kuwait) 5,500 tanks 700+ aircraft 3,000 artillery systems[4] |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Total: 13,488 Coalition: |
Total: 175,000–300,000+ Iraqi: 20,000–50,000 killed[17][18] 75,000+ wounded[5] 80,000–175,000 captured[17][19][20] 3,300 tanks destroyed[17] 2,100 APCs destroyed[17] 2,200 artillery pieces destroyed[17] 110 aircraft destroyed[citation needed] 137 aircraft flown to Iran to escape destruction[21][22] 19 ships sunk, 6 damaged[citation needed] |
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| Kuwaiti civilian losses: Over 1,000 killed[23] 600 missing people[24] Iraqi civilian losses: 3,664 killed directly[25] Total Iraqi losses (including 1991 Iraqi uprisings): 142,500–206,000 deaths (According to Medact)[a][26] Other civilian losses: 75 killed in Israel and Saudi Arabia, 309 injured |
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