Friday, July 8, 2011

NATO operations report



Air Operations

Since the beginning of the NATO operation (31 March 2011, 06.00GMT) a total of 14,281 sorties, including 5,388 strike sorties*, have been conducted.

Sorties conducted 07 JULY: 134

Strike sorties conducted 07 JULY:46



*Strike sorties are intended to identify and engage appropriate targets, but do not necessarily deploy munitions each time.



Key Hits 07 JULY:

In the vicinity of Brega: 1 Military Refuelling Equipment.

In the vicinity of Gharyan: 3 Armed Vehicles.

In the vicinity of Waddan: 1 Military Storage Facility.

In the vicinity of Surt: 1 Tank.

In the vicinity of Zlitan: 1 Artillery Piece, 1 Radar.

In the vicinity of Tripoli: 3 Anti-Aircraft Gun, 1 Command and Control Center.

Editor: Does "Command and Control Center" mean yet another suburban house with innocent women and children?


NATO’s operational commander for Operation Unified Protector is Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard of the Canadian Air Force. His office and staff is located at the Allied Joint Force Command Naples.
For any operational query:
Naples Media and Information
Center tel: +39 081 721 31 11
Email: oup.media@gmail.com

Any other query:
NATO HQ Press Desk
+32 (0) 2 707 1010
+32 (0) 2 707 10 07
Mail to: moc@hq.nato.int

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