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Because saudi armed forces numbered less than 1 lakh compared to 1 million strong Iraqi army.

According to this link at least the US air force never managed to hit any target with the missile. https://www.google.com/amp/s/theaircache.com/2012/07/13/aim-54-phoenix/amp/

Saudi definitely had army navy air force. Also they had paramilitary national guard which was better motivated than armed forces but was more bothered about implementing strict Islam in the country.

Does the f 15 c have CAS ground strike abilities ? I thought it was a pure air to air aircraft. F 15 e has ground strike abilities.

Iraqis had mig 29s with R 27 ( NATO name---AA 10 Alamo) semi active radar homing air to air missiles and AA 8 aephid short range air to air missiles. Saudi f 15s had AIM 7 sparrow medium range air to air missiles and sidewinder short range air to air missiles. But mig 29 was short range due to...

Iraq's was mainly a land army of a million men with huge number of tanks and artillery pieces. Air force was smaller with about 500 combat aircraft. Most of their combat aircraft could not match the f 15 C . But the Saudis were lazy people living on oil money and were no fighters. Some of...

Many saudi air force pilots who were princes refused to report on duty when they heard about Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.