lmao :har: great song; gonna send that to a WSO acquaintance of mine

As the French did not allow the U.S. to fly over way back when?
Let them handle this now.
Or maybe just pay the U.S. what they owe?

We don't need to send Fighters, just send in the Drones!
Best way to insure a no fly zone is to take out the planes on the ground.

:sign_yeah: Nothing to add to that.

I'm with Joe, August and Skybird on this one. If this decision was going to be made it should have been made last month. It's obvious that the western viewpoint is now anti-revolution rather than pro because we're fine with the Saudis smacking down the Bahrainian (is that the plural?) revolution and the Saudis are the wests BFF (or so they like us to think).

Still, it'll be pretty AAA fireworks over Tripoli again as filmed through grainy green nightvision cameras.

This can only end in tears.

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/marvin2.jpg

I'd guess it would not take long before Gaddafi is ousted. Not long. I hope as many lives could be saved. I can't imagine what happened to captured rebels and their families and the families in the once rebel held towns. :-?

The fight if there's any at all will be short. The tedious part will be patrolling the skys. At the moment what is confirmed is the next:

US = IN - Carrier fleet
UK = IN - planes, ¿fleet?
France = IN - planes
Canada = IN - planes
Italy = IN - airbases, ¿planes?
United Arab Emirates = IN - planes
Qtar = IN - planes

Germany = OUT
Egypt = OUT (instead is shipping weapons to the rebel army)


The Spanish civil war also was inside sovereign borders however there were on the battlefield: with the fascist side german troops, german and italian fighters and bombers, and with the other side russian planes and operatives, and what was called international brigades (US, UK, French...volunteers).

So...nope, sovereignity is relative as always has been.

Bombs away!

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Fixed. There will always be a handful of cuffed deuces on the ground in these places. :)

Time to send out Ark Roy.....oh wait shes been decommissioned:damn:

Too little too late me thinks. I'm with Joe, August and Skybird. Never been a conspiracy theorist, bu the hand wringing up till today when Benghazi is surrounded, makes me think something is rotten in the state of Libya.

Nah, it's OK, our Harriers can fly off.....oh yeah.

Not sure what the hell our government is doing. They've pretty much crippled our armed forces, both with regards to equipment and also morale. They've also crippled our economy. But it's OK to get involved in yet another attempted regime change. This is despite them being violently against the last one in Iraq.

Hypocritical slimy lying pieces of ****

Would Gaddafi claim to be
"protecting Libya from robot invaders?":haha:

German media report that British Typhoons and Tornadoes are currently inflight to relocate to the theatre, probably Sicily I think. The French are said to prepare strikes with Mirages, from Southen France they could reach Lybia with maybe 2 or 3 inflight-refuelings. The Americans sooner or later probably send in a carrier. Italy donours airport facilities. UAE sends fighter planes.

And Germany sends cosy words of self-justification, and a late permission to use more German AWACS personell to Afghanistan. :dead:

Yeah, us Germans. :cry: Instead of "Never again war!" we should have subscribed to a different slogan: "Next time in defence of liberty instead of tyranny!" I hate my nation's basic attitude of always ashes on our heads. It so pitiful, and weak.

British Typhoons. Will this become the first real test for the European fighter to claim prey in a shooting war?

We should have done this earlier. When the rebels said they would welcome Wetsern air support, we should have send that in, but no ground troops. Just neutralising Gaddafi's airforce and heavy artillery and tanks. And kill the Gaddafi clan, if the opportunity arises. The rest, on the ground, the Lybians should have settled amongst themselves.

Yes, looks that way, I thought we'd sent them out to Afghanistan but it seems we didn't. Will be interesting to see how they handle against the Libyan Air Force...not that the Libyan Air Force is exactly that high tech, still, it'll give our boys some much needed air to air practice if it does go hot.

Personally I think Daffy will just ground his airforce and hide them like Saddam did.