Even so, it took U.N. resolutions and thousands of NATO sorties to degrade Gadhafi's forces.
And NATO will continue to fly sorties and take action as the mission continues.
By August the two K-MAXs had flown 485 autonomous sorties carrying over 900 tonnes of cargo.
In the past 24-hours, the coalition flew 1, 750 sorties, 550 of them strike sorties, Pentagon officials said.
In recent days, French fighter jets and helicopter gunships have conducted about a dozen sorties a day.
Maj-Gen Bolden grew up in segregated South Carolina and flew on more than 100 combat sorties in Vietnam.
In that instance, for instance, in two weeks you had over 2, 000 sorties flown by the United States.
Of those sorties, 80 percent of them are strike sorties, which use bombs or missiles going into Iraq.
Japan has meanwhile ordered U.S. refueling aircraft, which will enable it to make round-trip sorties on the Asian mainland.
In fact, Navy Air was responsible for fully 75% of all strike sorties.
The Valera factories have been subject to labor action, strikes, guerrilla sorties.
She has been on weekly sorties across the country and to such places as Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul earlier this year.
For example, in OIF, bombers accounted for less than 3 percent of the strike sorties, but dropped approximately 28 percent of all munitions.
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This air armada conducted 41, 000 sorties, fired more than 800 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and struck 20, 000 targets from a list that grew to 30, 500.
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Russian warplanes and helicopters fly dozens of sorties a day 130, for example, on April 27th but have been unable to stop the rebels moving about.
Even so, it took some 17, 000 NATO air sorties and a lot of help from Arab states such as Qatar before Moammar Gadhafi was beaten.
There have been 7, 725 US sorties including 145 predator drone strikes.
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The ministry did say air force operations are continuing, including in the Tessalit region, where close to 100 air sorties were carried out this week.
Only eight out of 28 allies conducted strike sorties over Libya.
He told them that Flt Lt Cunningham had fulfilled his dream of being selected to fly with the Red Arrows in 2010 after flying operational sorties in Iraq.
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More than half of all American sorties were conducted by carrier-based pilots, as Turkey and Saudi Arabia refused American requests to operate Air Force jets from land bases.
Since its debut in the 1999 air war over Kosovo, the B-2 has flown combat missions exclusively from Whiteman, logging sorties that have at times exceeded 40 hours.
Mr Sirangelo emphasised SNC's stepwise approach to getting into space, with the first launches going only suborbital (a short hop above the atmosphere) followed eventually by fully orbital sorties.
Instead of mounting massive frontal assaults, OODA warriors assess the battle as it evolves, using small sorties to gather information and applying force where the enemy is the weakest.
Frank Cilluffo, an expert formerly at the White House, says that the attack's signature suggests that more than one group was at work, with small-time hackers following the initial huge sorties.
Mr Cameron has said the RAF carried out around a fifth of all strike sorties against forces loyal to Col Gaddafi, while HMS Liverpool shelled positions in Sirte during the city's siege.
It uses an estimated 2.6 billion gallons of jet fuel a year, and that could increase if future military conflicts require more flying sorties (North Korea, Iran) and fewer ground troops (Iraq).
Now, like the simultaneous air sorties of the Gulf war, a battalion of seven Bama executives fans out to meet with McDonald's franchisees, regional division heads, and buying cooperatives to discuss new products.
The United States needed to consider the possibility of involvement in conflicts in two widely separated regions of the globe as well as sorties by major adversaries against the East and West Coasts.
Operating from Turkey and from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, we should have less difficulty generating enough sorties to make quick and devastating use of air power than we had against landlocked Afghanistan.
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