Long SAMs for Libya
NZPA-Reuter Washington Two Soviet ships docked in Libya were unloading advanced anti-aircraft missiles that could pose a threat to American combat aircraft, A.B.C. News reported at the week-end. The American network, quoting unnamed United States intelligence sources, said that the Soviet vessels were unloading long-range SAM 5 anti-aircraft missiles, launchers, radars, and transporters at the Libyan port of Misratah.
With a range of nearly 320 km, the missiles could, for the first time, give the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, an effective weapon to challenge American planes flying over the disputed waters of the Gulf of Sidra (Sirte), the network said. Two Libyan fighters were shot down over the Gulf in 1981 after provoking a dogfight with United States , navy Grumman Tomcats from the carrier Nimitz, and Colonel Gadaffi later vowed to get even.
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Press, 2 December 1985, Page 8
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