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Looks like they have conducted some dumb-bombing without any precision guidance, could be conducted by high altitude or by wing assisted- GPS guided bombs to avoid SAM with the hopes of the shrapnel will damage systems or personnel. They might have targeted air-defence systems or the base, but due to lack of guidance it might have ended up in the fields surrounding the base while damaging some systems.
Even GPS guidance would be enough to take out those systems if they had guts, no need for SEAD missions or taking off from Egypt with mid-air refuelling and risking planes. The planes took off from Jufra or maybe some primitive runways in middle of the dessert.
Judging the precision, aside from being a message it could even be some cheap Libyan training jets which has conducted some airstrikes. There was a report of emergency landed Libyan L-39 in Nigerian border and Libyan air force once had mass numbers of L-39Z0, which some are still operational.
Even GPS guidance would be enough to take out those systems if they had guts, no need for SEAD missions or taking off from Egypt with mid-air refuelling and risking planes. The planes took off from Jufra or maybe some primitive runways in middle of the dessert.
Judging the precision, aside from being a message it could even be some cheap Libyan training jets which has conducted some airstrikes. There was a report of emergency landed Libyan L-39 in Nigerian border and Libyan air force once had mass numbers of L-39Z0, which some are still operational.