What the records say
- When
- 21 Aug 1981
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 31.50° N, 18.00° E
- Description
- 1981 air battle between Libya and the United States in the Mediterranean
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
Air battle between Libya and the US in the Mediterranean
In the first Gulf of Sidra incident, 19 August 1981, two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22M3 Fitter-G fired upon two U.S. Grumman F-14A Tomcats and were subsequently shot down off the Libyan coast. Libya had claimed that the entire Gulf was their territory, at 32° 30′ N, with an exclusive 62-nautical-mile fishing zone, which Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi asserted as "The Line of Death" in 1973.
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