Military Clash Between The United States and Iraqi Jets On Tuesday, January 5th, 1999, two air to air military clashes between American and Iraqi forces occurred approximately 15 minutes apart from one another. In the first incident, American Air Force F-15 jets fired on two Iraqi MIG jets. The Pentagon says the Iraqi Jets were flying in the restricted “no flight zone” over southern Iraq. According to the Pentagon, the U.S. warplanes were patrolling the no flight zone when they detected that they had been latched onto with radar. The F-15s then fired -and missed- three, air to air missiles on the Iraqi jets. Strangely though, the Iraqi jets retreated r