Libya 2011 ish"

[Pingodingo]

i think it would be cool to see a map representing the nofly zone over lybia and all the incidents that has happened 

the map i have marked is 3.665,47 NM

[bies]

It's nice, but 1980s would be more relevant, with the 1981 Gulf of Sidra Crisis, 1986 Operation El Dorado Canyon, the 1989 Gulf of Sidra Confrontation.

2011 was completely one-sided, first Kaddafi's military against Libyan civilian population, later NATO's swift annihilation of Kaddafi's military under UN resolution, without losing a single aircraft.

Or WW2 era with many large scale air operations.

[Pingodingo]

2 hours ago, bies said:

It's nice, but 1980s would be more relevant, with the 1981 Gulf of Sidra Crisis, 1986 Operation El Dorado Canyon, the 1989 Gulf of Sidra Confrontation.

2011 was completely one-sided, first Kaddafi's military against Libyan civilian population, later NATO's swift annihilation of Kaddafi's military under UN resolution, without losing a single aircraft.

yes that is very true. lol might have been a little focused of my own country particpating in the 2011, so thats why i want that version but dont really think its going to much of a diffrence

[Dragon1-1]

Honestly, how much did it change between 1981 and 2011? Aside from cities being pounded into ruin, that is. Improverished areas tend to change much less over the years, and while big cities (Tripoli and Sabha, I guess) had probably expanded and improved during those 30 years, all the other areas would have changed little. Tunisia might be another matter.

No matter what year, finding good imagery is always the problem. 2011 has the advantage of Google Maps existing, finding pictures of obscure areas from 1980s is going to be hard, if they even exist. In many cases you basically have what some random traveler snapped, scanned and uploaded.

[Pingodingo]

11 minutes ago, Dragon1-1 said:

Honestly, how much did it change between 1981 and 2011? Aside from cities being pounded into ruin, that is. Improverished areas tend to change much less over the years, and while big cities (Tripoli and Sabha, I guess) had probably expanded and improved during those 30 years, all the other areas would have changed little. Tunisia might be another matter.

No matter what year, finding good imagery is always the problem. 2011 has the advantage of Google Maps existing, finding pictures of obscure areas from 1980s is going to be hard, if they even exist. In many cases you basically have what some random traveler snapped, scanned and uploaded.

yeah the only diffrence i could think of it will be if there were some new airfields that has come since (which im pretty sure there might be) but other than that it should be the "same"

[Dragon1-1]

It seems that a good number of airfields operating today got their start in WWII. I wonder if any were actually added during that time. Everything from 70s to 2010s was Gaddafi years, in the first decade he did a lot of building, but after that there was a massive oil price slump and after the wars of the 80s, the good times were pretty much over. There likely wasn't much built at the time, maybe aside from the oil fields.