RAF jets hit pro-Gaddafi targets as battle of Sirte intensifies 19.09.11

RAF Tornado GR4s have made a series of precision strikes in a NATO raid on pro-Gaddafi forces around Sirte.

Yesterday (Sunday) ammunition facilities were destroyed west of Sirte with Paveway bombs, while a battle tank was destroyed in Bani Walid.

And Tornado and Typhoon aircraft identified hostile vehicles near Waddan. A multiple rocket launcher and an armed pick-up truck were destroyed.

On Saturday a military headquarters near Hun in central Libya was destroyed with seven Paveway bombs, while further north in Sirte RAF aircraft took out an armoured personnel carrier and a pair of armed pick-up trucks.

General Nick Pope, the Chief of the Defence Staff's Communications Officer, said: "Since the start of military operations on 19 March, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Army Air Corps strikes have damaged or destroyed more than 960 former regime targets that presented a threat to the Libyan people."

Meanwhile anti-Gaddafi troops are advancing on Sirte, with some 900 armoured vehicles gathering for the offensive.

It comes after their forces fighting pro-Gaddafi fighters in the other loyalist stronghold of Bani Walid were forced to retreat under heavy fire at the weekend.

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@afferch *Royal Air Force.

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Why so many dislikes!? We've freed a nation from oppression and you DISLIKE this!?

[afferch]

RAF= RAT AIR FORCE.

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