Insiden Teluk Sidra (1981)

Dalam insiden Teluk Sidra pertama, 19 Agustus 1981, dua Su-22 Fitter milik Libya buatan Rusia^[1][2] ditembak jatuh oleh dua F-14 Tomcat milik Amerika Serikat di lepas pesisir Libya.

Rekayasa Insiden Teluk Sidra

Latar belakang

Pada 1973, Libya mengklaim Teluk Sidra sebagai teluk tertutup dan bagian dari wilayah perairannya.^[3][4][5]

Referensi

Kutipan

1. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/su-17.htm
2. https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=192
3. "Congressional Research Service Issue Brief for Congress: Libya". (2002, April 10). Foreign Press Centers, U.S. Department of State, Retrieved 20 January 2012.
4. St John, Ronald Bruce. (2002). Libya and the United States: Two Centuries of Strife. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 125. ISBN 0-8122-3672-6.
5. Davis, Brian L. (1990). Qaddafi, Terrorism, and the Origins of the U.S. Attack on Libya. Praeger Publishers. p. 14. ISBN 0-275-93302-4.

Pranala luar

• Description of the incident
• Air Aces record
• U.S. Department of State Country Study of Libya, reporting that both Libyan pilots survived.
• Naval Aviation 1911-1986. A pictorial study pp. 91
• Actual Radio conversation recorded by U.S.S. Biddle, Aug. 19, 1981