The plane is equipped with a 30-millimeter Gatling gun and can fire rockets as well.

A dart thunked into the trunk; the plane had fired at him.

The plane came down and fired a dart into the ground near the fallen finger.

Other planes fired guns "strafing children, women, and old people".

Iraqi officials said today that American planes never fired at radar sites.

American planes fired on the group and killed a number of them, Captain Nicholson said.

Earlier in the day, American planes fired on three other sites in northern Iraq.

A spokesman said the planes fired 16 projectiles but he gave no report of casualties.

In the case of the Stark, the Iraqi plane fired from 10-12 miles away.

It was the first time in at least 33 years that a Japanese plane had fired on a Soviet aircraft.