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The Libyan Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية الليبية) is the aerial warfare branch of the Libyan Armed Forces.In 2010, before the First Libyan Civil War, the Libyan Air Force personnel strength was estimated at 18,000, with an inventory of 374 combat-capable aircraft [4] operating from 13 military airbases in Libya. [5]
The Libyan Air Force was created after the US and UK pressured then-ruling King Idris to modernise his armed forces so that they could better stand off against revolutionary regimes in the Middle East. The LAF was created in 1963. [12] The Libyan Air Force had an estimated personnel strength of 22,000 in 2005. There were 13 military airbases in ...
The United States Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps carried out air strikes, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, against Libya on 15 April 1986 in retaliation for the West Berlin discotheque bombing ten days earlier, which U.S. President Ronald Reagan blamed on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The Libyan Armed Forces (Arabic: القوات المسلحة الليبية) or the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (Arabic: القوات المسلحة العربية الليبية) [2] are, in principle, the state organisation responsible for the military defence of Libya, including ground, air and naval forces.
27 March 2011 – A Libyan Air Force Su-22 was destroyed on the ground by a Belgian Air Force F-16AM. [17] 9 April 2011 – A Free Libyan Air Force Mi-25D (serial number 854, captured at the beginning of the revolt) violated the no-fly-zone to strike loyalist positions in Ajdabiya. It was shot down by Libyan ground forces during the action.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 5A-DAH, the Boeing 727 involved in the incident, in 1972 Shootdown Date 21 February 1973 Summary Airliner shootdown Site Sinai Peninsula 30°20′40″N 32°40′34″E / 30.3444°N 32.6761°E / 30.3444; 32.6761 Aircraft Aircraft type Boeing 727–224 ...
Al Jufra Airbase (ICAO: HL69) is a Libyan Air Force base in Waddan, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) northeast of Hun, a desert city in the Jufra District of Libya. It was originally used by the Libyan Arab Air Force during the Gaddafi-era from 1969 to 2011. The runway length does not include 198 metres (650 ft) paved overruns on each end.
The Free Libyan Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية الليبية الحرة) was the air force of the National Transitional Council during the First Libyan Civil War. It was established by and was a collection of Libyan Air Force defectors with captured aircraft that aligned themselves with the anti-Gaddafi forces in the civil war.