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The USS Missouri fired 783 rounds of 16 inch against land targets during the first Gulf War...and launched 28 Tomahawk missiles.
On 29 January, the
Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate Curts led
Missouri northward, using advanced mine-avoidance sonar. In her first
naval gunfire support action of Desert Storm she shelled an Iraqi command and control bunker near the Saudi border, the first time her 16 in (410 mm) guns had been fired in combat since March 1953 off Korea.[SUP]
[30][/SUP] The battleship bombarded Iraqi beach defenses in occupied Kuwait on the night of 3 February, firing 112 16 in (410 mm) rounds over the next three days until relieved by
Wisconsin.
Missouri then fired another 60 rounds off
Khafji on 11–12 February before steaming north to Faylaka Island. After
minesweepers cleared a lane through Iraqi defenses,
Missouri fired 133 rounds during four shore bombardment missions as part of the amphibious landing
feint against the Kuwaiti shore line the morning of 23 February.[SUP]
[5][/SUP] The heavy pounding attracted Iraqi attention; in response to the battleship’s artillery strike, the Iraqis fired two HY-2
Silkworm missiles at the battleship, one of which missed.[SUP]
[31][/SUP] The other missile was intercepted by a GWS-30
Sea Dart missile launched from the British air defence destroyer
HMS Gloucester[SUP]
[5][/SUP]within 90 seconds and crashed into the sea roughly 700 yd (640 m) in front of
Missouri.
