Jane's F/A-18 "Operation Odyssey Dawn" Campaign AARs

[Bones]

I have been recalled back to the Fleet in support of the United States involvement in "Operation Odyssey Dawn"





Mission 1 AAR

VFA-143
USS Eisenhower
Task Force 76
Mediterranean Sea

DATE : March 29, 2011
LOCAL TIME : 0230
WEATHER : Partly Cloudy

BACKGROUND

Libyan Colonel Gadhafi has been using attack aircraft and helicopter gunships to attack protesters in the streets of Tripoli.

The U.S. Sixth Fleet's carrier battle group led by the carrier U.S.S. Reagan has moved off the Libyan coast near Tripoli.

Now NATO and the U.N. have authorized No-Fly Zone over western Libya. However, before NATO aircraft can fly over Libya, the threat from mobile SAMs must be eliminated. Even now intel reports the SAMs are being repositioned in and around Tripoli.

MISSION OBJECTIVE

Your flight of F/A-18E Super Hornets will fly over western Libya and destroy any mobile SAM launchers that target your aircraft. Any Libyan fighter aircraft that you encounter are also to be destroyed.

DEBRIEF

A flight of six VFA-143 Super Hornets flew the first mission over Tripoli lastnight and began eliminating the surface-to-air missile threat to coalition aircraft enforcing the No Fly Zone.

Mission pictures and video will follow as soon as they are cleared by the S2.

[Bones]

Here is the video of the entire mission.

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[=VG= Outlanders]

I like this

[=VG= SavageCDN (Inactive Duty)]

Nice vid!!

[Bones]

Thanks fellas, second mission will be up later tonight.