Tag Archives: 1989 air battle near Tobruk

After two F-14 Tomcats from the VF-41 Black Aces shot down two Su-22 Fitters on Aug. 19, 1981, and, above all, after-operation El Dorado Canyon, the air strike launched on Apr. 15 1986 against Libya, Colonel Gaddafi, and its regime went off the U.S. high priority agenda. But in late 1988, …

On 4 January 1989, Two F-14 fighter jets Destroying two MiG-23 Floggers in combat The engagement took place over the Mediterranean Sea about 40 miles (64 km) north of Tobruk, Libya The USS John F. Kennedy was sailing toward the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Aircraft on the Kennedy included  A-6 Intruders, …