Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Husiku hwaApril 14/15, 1986, 492nd TFS yakabatanidzwa muOperation El Dorado Canyon, kurwiswa kwemhepo paTripoli, Libya semhinduro kubhomba kweWest Berlin disco, pamwe chete nevamwe vese ve48th TFW. The 492nd deployed with their F-111Fs to Taif Air Base, Saudi Arabia, as part of Operation Desert Shield on 2 September 1990, as a response to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
. Kubva kuTaif Air Base, chikwata chakatanga kurwisa kuIraq sechikamu cheOperation Desert Storm pakati paNdira naFebruary 1991.