To: Mr. K
Kaddaffy was acting up quite a bit, so Ronnie sent some stealth bombers over there to say hello.
stealth bombers? ... not in 1986 ... the raid consisted of F-111 Aardvark's with F-18's firing HARM's into Libya radar sites ... the F-111's use their PAVE TACK pods to guide their laser-guided bombs to the various targets ... F-14's provided air cover just in case (a pair of F-14's shot down a couple of Libyan SU-22's around that time IIRC) ... one F-111 was hit by Libyan ground fire and went down with the loss of the 2-man crew ... in addition, one bomb was pickled off near the French embassy for not letting the F-111's fly over from Lakenheath, I believe, in England, forcing them to take extra longs flights and multiple refuelings ... Operatin El Dorado Canyon ... around April 15, 1986 ...
To: Bobby777
I believe some Navy A-6 Intruders also bombed terrorist camps during that raid ...
To: Bobby777
I stand corrected - I was only 12 at the time
564 posted on
12/19/2003 10:33:19 PM PST by
Mr. K
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