I would pay good money to see Libyan pilots in subsonic trainers try to sink a US warship.
I would pay good money to see Libyan pilots in subsonic trainers try to sink a US warship.
Albatross!
Armament The armament configurations described are for the L-39 ZA/ART. An under fuselage pod below front cockpit, housing a single 23 mm GSh-23 two-barrel gun with the ammunition (maximum 150 rounds) housed in the fuselage above the gun pod. Gun/rocket/missile firing and weapon release controls in front cockpit only. Four underwing hardpoints, inboard pair each stressed for up to 500 kg (1,102 lb) and outer pair for up to 250 kg (551 lb) each. Maximum underwing stores load 1,000 kg (2,205 lb). Non-jettisonable pylons, each comprising of an MD3-57D stores rack. Typical underwing stores can include various combinations of bombs (two of up to 500 kg or four of up to 250 kg), four rocket launchers for 2.75 in FFAR or CRV-7 rockets, AIM-9 air-to-air missiles (outboard stations only), two 150 or 350 litre drop tanks (inboard stations only) or two training dispensers.
Communist Czechoslovakia delivered 181 L-39 Albatros fighter planes to Libya in the 1980s that can still be used... Albatros's predecessor L-29 Delfin ("Dolphin") proved an ideal weapon in the struggle against ground targets... Delfin helped massacre the rebels in the Nigerian province of Biafra in the late 1960s and then Gaddafi used the Albatrosses to put down a rebellion in Benghazi and other Libyan towns in 1979, LN writes. Unlike supersonic fighters, Albatroses are suitable to eliminate ground targets, including demonstrations.
And the US/UN has not declared a no fly zone for Libya....
Anyone think Bush would have done this?
They wouldn’t get within 100 miles of a carrier.
Looks like the jet from the movie “Hot Shots”