"Libya is turning into a battle lab for air warfare" Topic

"During Libya's proxy war this year, the skies over the North African country have filled with Turkish and Chinese drones, Russian MiG 29s and Sukhoi 24s and Emirati Mirage 2000s — reportedly — with Turkish F-16s and Egyptian Rafales waiting in the wings.

Russian air defense systems have taken down drones while fighters, civilians and air bases have been bombed by jets as C-130s and Turkish A400M aircraft keep up deliveries of new weaponry and fighters into the country…."
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Armand

According to Harchaoui, eye witnesses in Libya reported a number of misses notched up during bombing raids by the aircraft. "That suggests they were not Russian air force pilots," he said.

Hilarious!

By all accounts Russian aircraft over Syria have used very few precision guided bombs and use old fashioned unguided ones and as such have been rather innacurate compared to western strikes.

The aircraft deployed to Libya are obsolete (MiG-29) or not upgraded to modern standards (Su-24) so why would they be any more accurate if flown by Russians whose advanced aircraft (Su24M2, Su-30 and Su-34) have not performed any better in Syria.

And given Turks have deployed upgraded MIM-23 SAMS I suspect the Russian pilots are quickly dumping their ordnance without much care and getting out of dodge as fast as their afterburners let them..

Russia is dumb

Sadly, I can't game this in 1/600th scale, since no one makes HAWK missiles in metal, yet.

A pity, despite my constant bleating for them.

The US, Israel, NATO, South Koreans (I imagine), and now even the Libyans have them, but not me.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

It's like the Spanish Civil War all over again. Larger powers are using their soil and blood to test out their latest toys.