28 February 2011

CZECH REPUBLIC / LIBYA : Communist Era Czech Planes "Ideal" To Strafe Protestors.

PRAGUE D. MONITOR /

   The 181 L-39 Albatros fighters sold to Libya in the 1980's by the then-communist Czech government...are suited to strafe protestors reports the daily Lidove noviny.
   The Albatros' predecessor, the L-29 Delfin ("Dolphin"), was used against ground targets in Nigeria in the1960s.