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launched her strike package. During the transit to the target area, the F-14As from CVW-15's strike package had to travel more than 644 km (400 miles) to reach a tanker aircraft to avoid alerting Iraqi Air
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assumed to be based in the No-Fly Zone at the time.
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1993 incident during the Iraqi no-fly zones conflict
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1407:Building bombings in Baghdad
1288:. 2010-09-29. Archived from
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