The theater strike mission includes interdiction, CAS, and sorties that were capable of both SEAD and strike. This set of missions includes OCA and DCA missions as defined in table 1. Figure 2 depicts the same data in terms of the percentage of the total sorties flown in a given mission category each day.īecause the breakdown given in table 1 does not include all Navy fixed-wing sorties, and because the definition of mission categories imperfectly reflects Navy operations, table 2 employs a different set of mission categories to obtain another view of carrier activity. Figure 1 shows the daily distribution of Navy sorties by mission area. These mission categories include offensive counterair (OCA), defensive counterair (DCA), interdiction, close air support (CAS), suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD), aerial refueling, tactical airlift, and other support, including electronic support measures (ESM), electronic countermeasures (ECM), airborne early warning (AEW) and other support activities. The number of sorties is broken out into the eight mission categories reported in the daily Central Command situation reports. Table 1 shows the combat and combat-support sorties flown by all the carriers according to an analysis of carrier launch and recovery logs, air plans, and steam catapult logs. The remaining 1,218 sorties included logistics flights, functional check flights for newly arrived or repaired aircraft, or other indirect support activities. Of these sorties, 16,899 were combat or direct combat-support missions. aircraft carriers deployed to the theater flew a total of 18,117 fixed-wing aircraft sorties.
Statistics of Carrier Fixed-wing Flight Operations During Desert Stormĭuring Operation Desert Storm (from 17 January to 28 February), the six U.S.
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