Strike
On February 16 eight Jaguars escorted by four Mirage F1s left Bangui for Ouadi Doum. When the French planes attacked, they were flying very close to the ground, preventing Libyan radar and surface-to-air missiles from detecting the planes until it was too late. The planes made only one pass over the target, dropping about forty bombs on the airstrip, severely damaging it and making it temporarily unusable. The entire attack lasted less than a minute.
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