I'm serious, those of the UAE think their leaders have developed their countries to what it is and without them they would be a poorer state like Bahrain. I was told this by my friends from UAE in Germany.
Yes f-18 was killed by Mig-25 first day of the war.
The U.S. Navy maintained in a 1997 document that Speicher was downed by a surface-to-air missile.[9] However, an unclassified summary of a 2001 CIA report suggests that Speicher's aircraft was shot down by a missile fired from an Iraqi...
I remember a MiG-25 shot down a F/A-18 which is the only air to air kill I think.
I wonder if saddam had infrared guided SAMs could he have gotten more air kills. The problem with the missiles he had were that they didnt have enough altitude range but it is certainly possible to make infrared...