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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 28)

Previous debriefings: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12 Day 13 Day 14 Day 15 Day 16 Day 17 Day 18 Day 19 Day 20 Day 21 Day 22 Day 23 Day 24 Day 25 Day 26 Day 27...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 29)

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 30)

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 31)

Previous debriefings: Archive My Day 30 debrief, with some simple statistics about the number of air strikes conducted by NATO in Libya, opened a debate with the readers of this blog and Twitter...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 32)

Previous debriefings: Archive Although the battlefield is deadlocked, with fightings taking place more or less in the same manner at Misratah and other disputed cities along the northern Libyan...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 33)

Previous debriefings: Archive Since there’s no significant change in the battlefield nor any evident sign of an attempt to get out of the stalemate, the news of the day is that two photojournalists,...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 34)

Previous debriefings: Archive One of the most frequent questions I have received in the last days is: “how many aircraft are needed to provide a 24-hour cover of Libya?”. Obviously, who has asked the...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 35)

Previous debriefings: Archive Notice for my readers: please don’t expect the usual daily updates for the next few days. For sure, I’ll provide new updates after Easter but I’m still deciding if the...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 36 – 38)

Previous debriefings: Archive The Easter weekend was characterized by some interesting updates about Unified Protector operation in Libya. First of all, Gaddafi’s forces withdrew from Misratah, even if...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 39 – 42)

Previous debriefings: Archive Even if analysts have defined it as a “stalemale”, the situation on the ground in Libya is far from being completely static as Gaddafi troops have stretched westward the...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 43 – 54)

Previous debriefings: Archive Not so many things have happened on the battlefield during the last days, when media were focused on the Osama Bin Laden raid and the famous Stealth Black Hawk. For sure,...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 55 – 67)

Previous debriefings: Archive After more than two months of air campaign, Unified Protector seems to be making a slow progress across Libya, even if the air campaign is far from being decisive against...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 68 – 80)

Previous debriefings: Archive As reported in the previous Debriefs, although not being as intense as one might expect, NATO air campaign may be slowly paying off. Thanks also to the coalition’s air...

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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 81 – 104)

Previous debriefings: Archive With the air campaign in Libya in progress for more than 100 days, I think it’s better to give the blog’s reader an extremely quick recap of the main political and...

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You Gotta Be Shitting Me! The Story of the first U.S. SAM-hunters in Vietnam

In addiction to be the first of the so called “Century Series” fighters and the first U.S. Air Force plane able to reach supersonic speed in level flight, the North American F-100 Super Sabre was also...

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First In, Last Out: the story of the SEAD missions flown by the F-105 in Vietnam

Here’s why Wild Weasel missions were among the most dangerous sorties flown in Southeast Asia. During the Vietnam War the main threat to the strike packages was the V-750 (S-75) Dvina, the first...

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You Gotta Be Shitting Me! The Story of the first U.S. SAM-hunters in Vietnam

In addition to be the first of the so called “Century Series” fighters and the first U.S. Air Force plane able to reach supersonic speed in level flight, the North American F-100 Super Sabre was also...

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First In, Last Out: the story of the SEAD missions flown by the F-105 in Vietnam

Here’s why Wild Weasel missions were among the most dangerous sorties flown in Southeast Asia. During the Vietnam War the main threat to the strike packages was the V-750 (S-75) Dvina, the first...

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You Gotta Be Shitting Me! The Story of the first U.S. SAM-hunters in Vietnam

In addition to be the first of the so called “Century Series” fighters and the first U.S. Air Force plane able to reach supersonic speed in level flight, the North American F-100 Super Sabre was [...]

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First In, Last Out: the story of the SEAD missions flown by the F-105 in Vietnam

Here’s why Wild Weasel missions were among the most dangerous sorties flown in Southeast Asia. During the Vietnam War the main threat to the strike packages was the V-750 (S-75) Dvina, the first...

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