Bombing tanks firing on a city is one thing, but it will be a stretch to be bombing unarmed trucks driving on a road. The UN mandate is to protect civilians not help the rebels win the war.

Even if the rebels win in Bengnazi they will face the same problem and then some if they try to take population centres already controlled by pro-Qaddaffi forces. If the rebels start assaulting say Tripoli, even the most biased commentators will be hard pressed to argue how the UN mandate allows foreign air power to aid them.

As I said before, this could easily lead to another Kosovo with a stalemate and a part of the country breaking off.

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Do you they are going to care about the UN mandate ?

They will do everything they can to topple Gaddaffi short of getting people on the ground.

Using Helicopter Gunships would be considered Aerial battle right ?

Don’t you see the theme in all this ? It would happen to each one of them at some point and finally the Middle East will be a great democracy.

It would be unwise for the west to support all of the popular movements at the same time, once Gaddafi goes the next guys turn would come.

The BBC livetext was quoting Al Jazeera that UAE will indeed send some Aircraft.

Should the IAF wisely wait to see how the Typhoon and Rafale perform in Libya ?

having “Sources code”, what ever that means, in this case, I am sorry to say, doesn’t mean a whole alot.

go back couple of threads above and read my post on one of many steps a new weapon, timed “15th March 2011 15:29”.

and “tech transfer” I presume does not involve OEM’s internal developemental and engineering data. to the levels of detail that you needed to do the analysis. usually the “tech transfer” in these license deals are good enough for a Knock-down kit assembly may be some parts manufacturing per spec, anything beyond that is very improbable.

with out OEM’s full comitment you may just have to do it with reverse engineering and cross your fingers.
and even with OEM’s full comitment you not be an easy task as you think.

India has an extensive history of carrying out upgrades and integrating third party weapons. It is not that difficult once you know the radar source codes etc.

For example Derby was integrated with Sea Harriers with Israeli help, I think it was the first time that missile has been integrated with that airframe.

So it begins. Go Go Go.

Hats off to Russia & China :).

Will the Brits be using ALARM ?