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发信人: wonderment (wonder), 信区: Military
标 题: （讲讲纯军事）利比亚内战：美军无人攻击机参战。
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Apr 22 09:52:27 2011, 美东)
利比亚战场的胶着状态也许会被这个新角色打破。
Libya: Obama sanctions use of US Predator drones
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/21/us-obama-predator-d
Unmanned Predator aircraft will allow low-level precision attacks on Libyan
government forces, according to US General James Cartwright.
Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, says Barack Obama has approved the
use of armed Predator drone aircraft in Libya.
Gates told a Pentagon news conference that the Predator is an example of US
military capabilities that the president was willing to contribute to the
military campaign in Libya, while other countries enforce a no-fly zone.
"President Obama has said that where we have some unique capabilities, he is
willing to use those," Gates said. "And in fact he has approved the use of
armed Predators."
The first Predator mission following Obama's go-ahead was flown on Thursday,
but the aircraft armed with Hellfire missiles turned back because of poor
weather conditions, Marine General James Cartwright, the vice-chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the same news conference.
"What they will bring that is unique to the conflict is their ability to get
down lower, therefore to be able to get better visibility on targets that
have started to dig themselves into defensive positions," Cartwright said. "
They are uniquely suited for urban areas."
Cartwright did not reveal the intended targets of the first, aborted
Predator mission. |
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