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Showing posts with label Unified Protector. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unified Protector. Show all posts
2011-11-28
Departure from Araxos air base
The Belgian Air Force mission in Greece departed from Araxos air base on 21 November (rather late, as the NATO-led mission in Libya ended on October 31), thus ending its participation in the operation Unified Protector.
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2011-11-03
Fwd: SBAP site update on 01-11-2011
Dear aviation enthusiast,
This week on SBAP web site :
Events :
"Operation Freedom Falcon - Unified Protector"
Operation is over...the last informations and pictures thanks to Gérard Gaudin (Belga)
Many other reports coming soon...
Thanks for your support, enjoy your flight and always safe landing...
The SBAP team
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Serge VAN HEERTUM
2011-11-02
Plucky Little Belgium
Small nations like Belgium are earning praise for their participation in NATO's Operation Unified Protector, which officially ends just before the witching hour on Halloween today at 23:59 CET. Since the operation began exactly seven months ago, NATO aircraft flew over 26,000 sorties, more than 9,600 of which were strike sorties.
The last four of six Belgian air force F-16s which participated in the operation returned to their home base of Florennes today. They clocked up 2,560 hours during 614 sorties, dropping 472 laser-guided bombs which hit 96-97 percent of their targets, according to Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem, reportedly without causing any collateral damage.
According to Belgian media reports, Belgian F-16s came close to attacking Muammar Gaddafi's convoy on 20 October as they were patrolling the area half an hour before it was attacked by a French air force Mirage 2000D and a US Predator unmanned aerial vehicle.
A Financial Times blog posted on De Crem's website includes praise for Belgium for taking on dangerous missions (although it starts with a quote about the battle of Waterloo rather than the World War I quote about "plucky little Belgium), pointing out that 40 percent of missions over Libya were conducted by smaller NATO members and Gulf state air forces.
The last four of six Belgian air force F-16s which participated in the operation returned to their home base of Florennes today. They clocked up 2,560 hours during 614 sorties, dropping 472 laser-guided bombs which hit 96-97 percent of their targets, according to Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem, reportedly without causing any collateral damage.
According to Belgian media reports, Belgian F-16s came close to attacking Muammar Gaddafi's convoy on 20 October as they were patrolling the area half an hour before it was attacked by a French air force Mirage 2000D and a US Predator unmanned aerial vehicle.
A Financial Times blog posted on De Crem's website includes praise for Belgium for taking on dangerous missions (although it starts with a quote about the battle of Waterloo rather than the World War I quote about "plucky little Belgium), pointing out that 40 percent of missions over Libya were conducted by smaller NATO members and Gulf state air forces.
Source: Aviation Week
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