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Will 2,000 lb. bunker busters make a difference where Storm Shadow, Paveway IVs, Enhanced Paveway IIs, and Dual-Mode Brimstones have not?(Credit: Crown Copyright)The U.K. seems to think it just might. The government confirms now it has deployed Paveway IIIs for combat operations in Libya. The precision-guided weapon would be dropped by Tornado GR4s.The move comes just days after the U.K. also decided to dispatch WAH-64 Apache helicopters to Libya.NATO has reached a new milestone with its air operations over Libya, having now logged more than 9,000 sorties. More than one-third of the missions were strike sorties, although not all end in dropping ordnance.
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