Did Libya Show the Need for Light Attack Planes?This is interesting, the high-cost of using some of the world’s most advanced fighter jets in Libya against Gadhafi’s joke of a military has led some NATO allies to consider buying cheap light attack planes similar to the ones the United States wanted to buy to fight insurgencies.
NATO’s chief targeteer for the Libyan campaign recently said that it simply cost too much money to deploy cutting edge jets like the Eurofighter Typhoon and France’s Rafale for long periods of time against an enemy that had almost no hope shooting them down. In other words, the fancy jets can be overkill, even in […]
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Did Libya Show the Need for Light Attack Planes?From Defensetech.org (DTEC)
