LIBYA: RAF Typhoons drop first bombs in combat
By Craig Hoyle
Chief of the air staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton says the aircraft each dropped one Raytheon Paveway II 454kg (1,000lb) precision-guided bomb against ground vehicles being operated by forces loyal to Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. Each target was struck "very successfully and very accurately", he revealed during the Royal Aeronautical Society's Aerospace 2011 conference in London.