Libya Air War Archives - The Aviationist

War in the Web 2.0 era: how Air Forces deal (or don’t) with Internet-based flight tracking tools

October 13, 2014 David Cenciotti

During Libya air war, you could track Canadian tankers circling over the Mediterranean Sea while they refueled allied planes heading to bomb Gaddafi. Three years later, nothing has changed. Flightradar24 and PlaneFinder are two famous […]

Rare look inside the elusive EC-130J Commando Solo, the U.S. Air Force PSYOPS plane

May 6, 2013 David Cenciotti

An EC-130J Commando Solo (00-1934/STEEL74) of the 193 SOS, operating out of Sigonella, in Italy, became particularly famous in 2011, during the Libya Air War. The aircraft broadcast messages both English and Arab language inviting […]

Libya: NATO must acknowledge and compesate 72 civilian victims of potentially unlawful air strikes, Human Rights Watch says

May 14, 2012 David Cenciotti

Last year’s Libya Air War saw the coalition of NATO and non-NATO members, operating within Operation Unified Protector, dropping some 3,644 LGBs, 2,844 GPS-guided, 1,150 precision-guided direct-fire weapons, to enforce the UN Security Council resolutions […]