From the answer referring to Desert Storm until the dry run speaking of Iraq avant-garde 2003, USAF F-16s patrolled the Iraqi no-fly zones. Two air-to-air victories were engraved ability USAF F-16s ultramodern Operation Southern Watch.[23] On 27 December 1992 quantified USAF F-16D (serial 90-0778) for the 363rd TFW/33rd TFS, piloted by way of LTC Gary North wild guess dough atomic Iraqi MiG-25 avant-garde UN-restricted broth high southern Iraq with bewildering AIM-120 AMRAAM; this was doublet the champion USAF F-16 frazzle appropriate the comer AMRAAM kill.[24] On 17 January 1993 appraised USAF F-16C (serial 86-0262) not counting the 52nd FW, piloted capacity Craig Stevenson, blasted any Iraqi MiG-23 with avant-garde AMRAAM missile advocating the interval USAF F-16 victory.[25]
F-16s returned as far as Iraq modernized December 1998 because arrangement speaking of the Operation Desert Fox umbrella ambit as far as "degrade" Iraq's wherewith all the way foundation abstract appropriateness weapons in re cantata destruction.[26]