In the weeks that preceded the launch of air operations over Libya, a number of Nato countries, reportedly Germany; Great Britain and Italy, deployed Transall C160s and C13OJs in challenging missions inside Libyan territory, landing on strips and airfields near oil camps to extract national and international citizens and workers. The British and Italian C-l 3OJs (the Italians landed on Sabha airport around 640 km south of Tripoli) flew in a fast evolving theatre of operations, characterized by a variety of air defence surveillance radars, electromagnetic and infrared missiles, without threat detection systems.
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