Operation Unified Protector - Imagery

UK MOD Operation Ellamy

RAF Tornado Airstrike on Lybian Multiple Rocket Launchers

Released April 27 2011

Video footage of airstrikes conducted on April 23, 2011, by RAF Typhoon and Tornado aircraft as part of NATO Operation Unified Protector / UK Operation Ellamy.

Targeted in these airstrikes were Libyan regime armoured vehicles and surface to surface rocket launchers. Three armoured personnel carriers near Misratah, as well as a surface-to-surface missile facility near the city were struck. An additional eight rocket launcher vehicles were assessed to have been seriously damaged with eight support vehicles assessed to have been destroyed.

That missile facility was again attacked by RAF aircraft on Sunday April 24, 2011. As a result of that operation rocket storage facilities, as well as a main battle tank located nearby were assessed to have been destroyed.