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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 32)
Previous debriefings: Archive Although the battlefield is deadlocked, with fightings taking place more or less in the same manner at Misratah and other disputed cities along the northern Libyan...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 33)
Previous debriefings: Archive Since there’s no significant change in the battlefield nor any evident sign of an attempt to get out of the stalemate, the news of the day is that two photojournalists,...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 34)
Previous debriefings: Archive One of the most frequent questions I have received in the last days is: “how many aircraft are needed to provide a 24-hour cover of Libya?”. Obviously, who has asked the...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 35)
Previous debriefings: Archive Notice for my readers: please don’t expect the usual daily updates for the next few days. For sure, I’ll provide new updates after Easter but I’m still deciding if the...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 36 – 38)
Previous debriefings: Archive The Easter weekend was characterized by some interesting updates about Unified Protector operation in Libya. First of all, Gaddafi’s forces withdrew from Misratah, even if...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 39 – 42)
Previous debriefings: Archive Even if analysts have defined it as a “stalemale”, the situation on the ground in Libya is far from being completely static as Gaddafi troops have stretched westward the...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 43 – 54)
Previous debriefings: Archive Not so many things have happened on the battlefield during the last days, when media were focused on the Osama Bin Laden raid and the famous Stealth Black Hawk. For sure,...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 55 – 67)
Previous debriefings: Archive After more than two months of air campaign, Unified Protector seems to be making a slow progress across Libya, even if the air campaign is far from being decisive against...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 68 – 80)
Previous debriefings: Archive As reported in the previous Debriefs, although not being as intense as one might expect, NATO air campaign may be slowly paying off. Thanks also to the coalition’s air...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 81 – 104)
Previous debriefings: Archive With the air campaign in Libya in progress for more than 100 days, I think it’s better to give the blog’s reader an extremely quick recap of the main political and...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 105 – 137)
Previous debriefings: Archive Latest update: on Aug. 3, at 10.40LT, a missile exploded 2 km from the Italian frigate Bersagliere, that was patrolling the sea some 15 miles off Libya. According to the...
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RAF Tornados firing 900K Euro missiles in 8-hour round-trip mission from the...
Looks like the UK’s Royal Air Force is particularly proud of announcing a Long-Range Libya mission involving six Tornados carrying state-of-the-art (and costly) Storm Shadow missiles. According to the...
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 138 – 161)
Tom Cooper has contributed to this report. Previous debriefings: Archive Unlike all the reports I’ve written since April, this one comes in days of renewed interest about the current situation Libya....
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Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained: Final Report
Previous debriefings: Archive Second and last part of the report can be found in this post: Top military aviation stories of 2011: drones up and downs, stealth projects exposed and Libya’s 7-month-long...
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RAF's weapon of choice in Libya to be upgraded as export opportunities emerge
MBDA has announced it is to work on a successor to Brimstone the fire and forget anti-armour missile that had a starring role in the Air War over Libya. During Operation Unified Protector the RAF fired...
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