It was the opening aerial campaign of the Gulf War, and a sizable fleet of coalition fighters was skimming through the hazy Middle Eastern skies in one of their first massive ventures deep into enemy territory.On the ground, Iraqi radars began blasting incessantly as they detected suspicious activity. In mere minutes, squadrons of Mirage and MiG fighters took off to the skies to hunt down the invading air force.As contact was made, the murky heavens were lit by the sudden bursts of warplane fire. It was then that an Iraqi Mirage F1EQ detected a marooned, low-flying General Dynamics F-111.The American aircraft seemed like a prime target for a surprise attack, and a duel between the supersonic warplanes would have been a spectacular sight. However, this was not a conventional F-111; it was a Raven electronic warfare tactical electronic jamming aircraft that was not equipped with a single weapon.Stranded thousands of feet below other American fighters and with no way to strike back, the crew would have to use their only ace up their sleeve to level the odds or even take down their assailant: a state-of-the-art arsenal of electronic warfare equipment…