Released: 7 Jun 1999
At 10:15 a.m. EST, Navy F/A-18 Hornet and British Royal Air Force GR-1 Tornado aircraft used precision-guided munitions to strike an Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery site about 150 miles south of Baghdad near As Samawah, and an Iraqi surface-to-air missile site about 180 miles southeast of Baghdad in the vicinity of An Nasiriyah.
The strike was in response to anti-aircraft artillery fire directed at coalition aircraft patrolling the no-fly zone earlier that day.
There were no coalition aircraft damaged during the incident, and battle damage assessment continues.
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