Fog of war … We just heard from the ABC news team who finally cleared up the confusion surrounding how the Libyan Galeb actually ceased to be. Unlike our earlier assumption based on the first reports that mentioned a “shoot down” it turns out that the Galeb was not hit by an air-to-air weapon launched […]
From the monthly archives:
March 2011
While US officials deny any “ground forces” are deployed to Libyan soil, you’ve got to think this may technically correct, but the statement may be objectively misleading. Here’s what I’m thinking: The US is pretty risk averse as it is to put bombs on a civilian target — even when it has ground forces down there […]
Crank up the T-shirt and bumper sticker production lines … Here’s what we know so far: ABC News has reported that a few hours ago a French fighter shot down a Libyan fighter that had violated the UN-mandated no-fly zone. ABC subsequently reported that the Libyan jet was a Galeb, which is by no means […]
Defense Tech attended a roundtable interview with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughhead this morning and he dropped an interesting tidbit we thought our readers would enjoy. There’s been some speculation that the EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft now flying over Libya came from a carrier wing. We’re here to report they did not… […]
Adm. Samuel Locklear III gave a teasing glimpse at the ISR aircraft being used to support the air war in Libya today when he acknowledged that E-8 JSTARS radar jets and RQ-4 Global Hawk spy drones are likely on scene. While he refused to give details of all the different aircraft on station, Locklear said […]
