Showing posts with label F-18. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Spanish fighter planes in Libyan skies

LIBYA (Agencies) Two Spanish F18 Hornet fighters flew their first sortie over Libya on Monday morning, to enforce the no-fly zone decreed by the international coalition to prevent Muammar Gaddafi's forces from crushing a rebel uprising. Spain has contributed a total of four F18s from its air force to the military effort by the international coalition, which began air strikes in the North African country on Saturday. The two planes left their base in Sardinia accompanied by a Boeing 707 re-fuelling carrier, which also belongs to the Spanish army, and were back on the Italian island by the early afternoon.>