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The transition to sharing missions is moving quite well. Today's briefing by the Pentagon, said 75% of flights that were strikes, were by Coalition partners, not the USA. But hey, who needs facts when you can make up your own?
Forty-nine of the sorties were air strikes against specific targets while the remainder were patrols enforcing the no-fly zone. U.S. aircraft flew roughly half of the total sorties by the 11-member coalition.
So....the USA flew 50%,and the other 10 nations flew the other 50%....
Canada is sending all of it's planes that are NORAD used to protect and moniter Us and candian airspace and now we sent our anti-submarine AURORA
The aircraft were acquired in the early 1980s to replace the CP-107 Argus and to further support Canada's anti-submarine warfare mission obligations under NATO for the northwest Atlantic sector. However, since the end of the Cold War, they had been used primarily in coastal surveillance and sovereignty patrols by providing an all-weather mission surveillance platform. Increasingly as the CP-140 moves into the 21st century it is employed for domestic and international surveillance by CANCOM and NORAD for security, counter-terrorism and smuggling, as well as to monitor foreign fishing fleets off Canada's coasts. CP-140s have also been deployed on operations such as Operation Assistance and Operation Apollo. One CP-140 performs maritime patrol missions in the Libyan waters in order to help in the enforcement of no-fly zone over Libya.
i think pulling planes from protecting and patroling north america to go the ME. I mean these anti-submarine planes are made to dectect and track akulia class soviet/russian nuclear ballistic missile sub last time I checked libya had no cold war era nuclear submarines how does sending those help enforce the NATO no fly zone.
I think NORAD US/Canadian joint security and counter-terrorism planes stay and patrol north america not the ME.
NATO is still the Western Countries being involved in a Muslim problem. I am sure we will be hearing about us being Western infidels and occupiers soon.
Let Muslim nations take care of it. Some are in much better finacial shape than we are.
I believe two or three Arab nations are sending some aircraft,something like 16 or so fighters.
still I still don't why Canada is sending 2 anti-submarine surveillance planes I can see a few more F-18's. But a plane that is made to patrol the atlantic, pacific and arctic waters of north america against nuclear russian subs makes no sense to send to patrol over libya since. the only subs that are there are british and US but maybe it is being deployed to help assit in advance warning system to help protect them.
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