Libya No Fly Zone

trk29 · #1 03-18-2011, 05:55 PM

Ditto, God bless our troops.

SEE · #2 03-18-2011, 06:21 PM

UN Resolution "all necessary measures" = Mission Creep = Air Strikes against the miltary infrastructure in general, unless Gadaffi stands down and leaves - which I doubt unless his supporters desert him! Unfortunately, air strikes have a nasty habit of killing the people they are supposed to protect. I don't hold out much hope for a peaceful solution but I suppose it's the 'lesser of the two evils' if it comes to that.

P-51 · #3 03-19-2011, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by SEE

UN Resolution "all necessary measures" = Mission Creep = Air Strikes against the miltary infrastructure in general, unless Gadaffi stands down and leaves - which I doubt unless his supporters desert him! Unfortunately, air strikes have a nasty habit of killing the people they are supposed to protect. I don't hold out much hope for a peaceful solution but I suppose it's the 'lesser of the two evils' if it comes to that.

Well, an easy solution to destry the tanks has been used before - same tanks as the Libyans too, basically. So thats no problem.

If they do end up needing to ground attack in the city, then you can hit them with a Brimstone/Hellfire, I believe both the British Tornado and Typhoon can carry the Brimstone. I'm not sure what the US, Danish and French will use though. I'm suprised they aren't using UAVs to a greater extent.

dkwookie · #4 03-19-2011, 04:33 PM

The French airforce are there already and according to the BBC have started firing already. Looks like they are engaged in ground attack but what looked like a Libyan bomber was shot down earlier.
Don't know who knocked it out but close up photos on the news showed the pilot ejected way to close to the deck and was killed.

The mid east is turning into a real boiling pot. Military spending cuts are looking more and more stupid to me

SEE · #5 03-19-2011, 05:14 PM

I'm not convinced air strikes alone will see the job done and the USA senate commitee are divided with strong opposition to sending in more of their ground forces into another arena. A lot depends on wether Gaddafi loses internal support and leaves. The end game is 'regime change' despite not being the UN mandate and this intervention will continue untill that objective is realised.

dkwookie · #6 03-19-2011, 05:23 PM

Well I don't think the Gadafi forces look up to much opposition. The BBC showed some old banged up Russian T72s with some rabble in plain clothes on them. I thought they were rebels but they were Libyan army regulars. Seriously unimpressive looking fighting force

P-51 · #7 03-19-2011, 06:39 PM

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Well I don't think the Gadafi forces look up to much opposition. The BBC showed some old banged up Russian T72s with some rabble in plain clothes on them. I thought they were rebels but they were Libyan army regulars. Seriously unimpressive looking fighting force

They actually look pretty well matched if this is right.
http://worldnews-onlines.blogspot.co...sides-are.html

SEE · #8 03-19-2011, 06:47 PM

I saw that tank footage but on another News channel and they said it was a captured tank in one of the rebel strongholds. Gadaffi has a large number of mercenaries in his armed forces including African, Serbian and various other European countries. His regular army is very reliant on these but my bet is that they will start to leave.

hurricane · #9 03-20-2011, 01:29 PM

I watched an interview yesterday with someone that was on Bill Clintons staff and he basically said that the coalition is killing privates when it should be killing generals.

Zatoichi_Sanjuro · #10 03-20-2011, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by hurricane

I watched an interview yesterday with someone that was on Bill Clintons staff and he basically said that the coalition is killing privates when it should be killing generals.

They shouldn't be there in the first place. But the wolves can't help themselves when all those oil contracts are up for grabs.