Four USAF F-15E Strike Eagles worked with other coalition forces to target and strike a terrorist facility in southern Baghdad. The four F-15Es launched precision-guided munitions at the target after coalition helicopters scanned the area for civilians to ensure there would be “no collateral damage,” according to US Central Command officials. The terrorists were using the facility in the Babil province to acquire and transport bomb-making munitions.
Denys Overholser, the Lockheed Martin engineer whose insights on the mathematics of radar cross section led directly to the first operational stealth attack airplane and permanently reshaped combat aircraft design and tactics, died April 28 at the age of 86.