Libya crisis

So it is something like the german green RLM 81 , after some weather it become brounviolet....

I would stick to the grey color and sprayed on as grey not weathered to grey. It is the sand background that alters the visualization of the color. When they came over here they looked to have been recently sprayed and I was thinking that they would have weathered after all these months which they did not. 'Caso mai' it has got more of a bluish tint than a green/brownish tint.Have a look at the link, different color schemes but you can still recognize a dark brown, and there is also one with grey/sand/green scheme.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?134232-Libyan-Air-Force

skyhigh wrote:So it is something like the german green RLM 81 , after some weather it become brounviolet....

under bright sun it looked like gray violet and in lower light it looked brown violet

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7201798&nseq=10

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7201745&nseq=12

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7201779&nseq=11


Some more diversions we had during September

Very nice shots ...RAF

Today we had two other diversions. This time RAF Tornados. Here they are .....

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=3619098

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=3619128

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=3619140

They are fantastic Raf , I saw them this morning at park 4 along with the C-17...

skyhigh wrote:They are fantastic Raf , I saw them this morning at park 4 along with the C-17...

Thanks a lot !! They were at Park 4

BREAKING NEWS!

Ghaddafi's made his last stand and is dead!

http://english.aljazeera.net/

Probably the last diversion we had related to the Libya Crisis. Seen here take off from runway 13 in torrential rain.......

This is interesting ...

LARAF loss/claims to date 21-Mar, 2011 - currently count closed - [ACIG]:
17 February, An-26, captured by protesters in Kufra, after bringing 2000 rifles and US18 Million there.
20 February, Mi-8 or Mi-24, reported as shot down during the uprising in el-Beyda.
20 February, Mi-24 "853", destroyed on the ground at Benina AB.
20 February, Mi-24 "854", captured at Benina AB.
20 February, Mi-24, captured at Benina AB.
20 February, Mi-14 "1406", captured at Benina AB.
21 MiG-23BNs, 10 MiG-23MFs, and at least four G-2/J-21s, as well as several helicopters have been captured by the rebels at Benina, al-Abrak and Misurata ABs; most in inoperable condition.
21 February, unk. transport aircraft, claimed as shot down by ground fire while attempting to land at Gamal Abdel Nasser AB, south of Tobruq.
21 February, unk. helicopter, claimed as shot down by demonstrators.
21 February, unk. helicopter, claimed as shot down by demonstrators.
21 February, Mirage F.1ED "502", flown to Malta by defecting pilot.
21 February, Mirage F.1ED "508", flown to Malta by defecting pilot.
23 February, A.109, claimed as shot down by local protesters.
23 February, Su-22UM-3K, crashed after pilot activated ejection of the crew (WSO arrested for resisting defection; pilot evacuated to Egypt).
23 February, Su-22M-3K, crashed after pilot activated ejection (pilot evacuated to Egypt with severe burns and several broken limbs).
23 February, SF.260 "5A-DME", crushed by T-55 MBT during the fighting for Misurata AB.
27 February, Mi-8 or Mi-24, reportedly shot down by Manpads during attack on local radio station; crew of five captured.
2 March, Mirage F.1ED, claimed as shot down during fighting for Mersa el-Brega airport, (possibly only damaged, but this report by the Toronto Star indicates it was indeed shot down, and that the wingman made at least one turn around that area, looking for what was going on).
3 March, unknown fighter jet, claimed shot down during the fighting in Misurata.
3 March, Mirage F.1ED, claimed as shot down during fighting in Mersa el-Brega, (Most likely a re-report of the same plane claimed on 2 March).
4 March, Mi-8MT "2119/Air Ambulance", captured in abandoned condition at Ras Lanoof airfield.
5 March, unk. helicopter, claimed shot down during fighting in Ras Lanoof.
5 March, Mi-8 or Mi-24, shot down by ZPU-4 during fighting in Ras Lanoof.
5 March, Su-24MK "38", shot down by ZPU-4 during fighting west of Ras Lanoof, crew KIA, one was Syrian (claims about the Mirage with serial "538" supposedly shot down on the same day are definitely wrong, and based on pieces of wreckage from the Su-24MK "38").
6 March, Mi-24, claimed shot down by ZPU-4 during fighting in Bin Jawad area, crew KIA, one of pilots was Syrian.
6 March, Su-22, claimed shot down by ZPU-4s during attacks in Ras Lanoof area, pilot KIA; variously said to have been Sudanese or Syrian.
6 March, Su-22, claimed shot down by ZPU-4s during attacks in Ras Lanoof area, SyrianBenghazi ever since).
7 March, unknown fighter jet, claimed shot down by ZPU-4s during attacks near Ras Lanoof.
13 March, MiG-21bis, flown to Benina AB by defecting pilot (Col. Ali Atiyya), this same MiG-21 now flying for FLAF was lost while scrambling from Benina AB, on 17 March fate of the pilot unknown.
14 March, MiG-23ML, flown to Benina AB by defecting pilot. This MiG-23ML was lost after scrambling from Benina AB, on 19 March, during possible air combat with LARAF MiG-23s)
14 March, unknown fighter aircraft, reportedly flown to Benina AB by defecting pilot.
17 March, Su-22M-3K, shot down over Benina AB, pilot ejected safely and captured; said to be Algerian, (if true then without official sanction by Algeria, so true mercenary. Algerian AF has no pilots qualified on Su-22s, and denies having any pilots flying for LARAF).
17 March, unknown fighter aircraft (possible MiG-23), claimed shot down near Solluch, 50km south of Benghazi, fate of pilot unknown.
17 March, unknown fighter aircraft, claimed shot down over Benghazi around 07:30 local, but apparently came down south of the city.
19 March, unknown fighter aircraft, claimed shot down near Agedabia.
19 March, around 13:30hrs, unknown fighter aircraft, claimed shot down near Fawayhat (suburb of Benghazi).
source: http://theboresight.blogspot.com/201...ssey-dawn.html

Awesome Chris !!!!

Gaddafi is gone now, so who is really in control of Libya now??? Are we looking at Libyan version of what happened to yugoslavia when it disintegrated!

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/02/world/africa/libya-infighting/index.html?hpt=iaf_c2

J.Fenech wrote:Gaddafi is gone now, so who is really in control of Libya now??? Are we looking at Libyan version of what happened to yugoslavia when it disintegrated!

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/02/world/africa/libya-infighting/index.html?hpt=iaf_c2

I guess it is not the end of it yet ... the road to democracy gonna be long and difficult!

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120222/local/mirages-all-set-to-go.408004

inspecting NATO's handiwork [back in November]