Several days before the 7 January 1991 commencement of Operation Desert Storm, a P-3C equipped with an APS-137 Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) conducted coastal surveillance along Iraq and Kuwait to provide pre-strike reconnaissance on enemy military installations. A total of 55 of the 108 Iraqi vessels destroyed during the conflict were targeted by P-3Cs.
several days before the 7 january 1991 commencement of operation desert storm a p-3c equipped with an aps-137 inverse synthetic aperture radar (isar) conducted coastal surveillance along iraq and kuwait to provide pre-strike reconnaissance on enemy military installations a total of 55 of the 108 iraqi vessels destroyed during the conflict were targeted by p-3cs