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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:28 pm ]
Post subject:  France 'shoots down Libyan plane'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12850975

Quote:
One US official quoted by Associated Press news agency said the Libyan plane shot down by France was a G-2/Galeb, a training aircraft with a single engine. The French plane involved was a Rafale fighter, the same US official said.
Author:  brataccas [ Thu Mar 24, 2011 7:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: France 'shoots down Libyan plane'
what a waste of an antique :(

Ive only seen one of those in reallife, was a red colour and it looked like a spaceship from some cheesy 1950s b movie :cry:
Author:  jonbwfc [ Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: France 'shoots down Libyan plane'
Looks to me a bit like the UK Hawk jet trainer. They were/are more than occasionally sold to 3rd world nations as cheap multirole combat aircraft. You can fit bomb racks and/or rocket pods to them if you like. If the other side only has small arms, one of those things could still do an awful lot of damage. One rack of clusters could take out a couple of blocks of a town no problem.

wikipedia seems to confirm they can be used as combat aircraft

Quote:
Guns: 2× 12.7 mm (.50 in) machine guns in nose
Hardpoints: 4 with a capacity of 300 kg (660 lb) total


You can do a real nasty amount of harm with a pair of .50 cal and four bomb points.

However, what it was doing while int he air is kind of irrelevant. There's a no-fly order in place, it broke the order, it paid the price. By the sound of things the French were nice enough to let the aircrew get out of it before they blew it up.

Jon
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