U.K., France Fine-tune Libyan Air Ops

By Bill Sweetman, Angus Batey, Christina Mackenzie .
Washington, London, Paris .

Initial lessons learned from air operations over Libya have been both encouraging and embarrassing for European air forces. The Royal Air Force has found itself dependent on capabilities that the U.K. government plans to cancel, and France found itself with the wrong weapons.

While the RAF believes it is too soon to talk about lessons learned from the ongoing Libya operation, it is clear from ...

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