DESERT STORM: DAY 2 : Military

Pentagon officials told Congress today that just 11 of an estimated 700 Iraqi warplanes had been destroyed in the nonstop bombardment. The rest of the Iraqi air force had dispersed to the north or was protected in concrete bunkers, they said.

Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the U.S. commander in Saudi Arabia, said seven allied planes--three of them American --were lost during the first 36 hours of fighting. The military launched a new wave of attacks on Iraq following its missile assault on Israel. Schwarzkopf said six Iraqi mobile missile launchers, three of them aimed at Saudi Arabia, were destroyed today and that an air barrage was continuing on the five others that had been located.

Hours after Iraqi missiles hit Israel, air raid sirens wailed again throughout the nation tonight, signaling another missile attack, an army spokesman announced. The alert lasted about half an hour. The Israeli army then said it was a false alarm.

In Saudi Arabia, allied ground forces were moving into final positions to be ready for immediate deployment when the joint command decides Iraqi resistance has been softened enough by the air strikes, pool reporters said.