Equipment for the mission included supply ships, frigates, destroyers, submarines, amphibious assault ships (also called landing platform docks) and aircraft carriers.At its peak, 21 naval assets were assigned to NATO in support of the operation.
10 nations were providing 12 naval assets to enforce the arms embargo.
Sixteen countries provided air assets and flew sorties in support of the operation.
This effort was complemented by NATO-owned AWACS surveillance and reconnaissance planes.
NATO's 26,000 sorties
including 9,600 strike missions
destroyed about 5,900 military targets
These included Libya's air defences and more than 1,000 tanks, vehicles and guns, as well as Gaddafi's command and control networks.
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FACTBOX - NATO'S MISSION IN LIBYA
Sources Reuters/NATO
Reporting by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit; Editing by Alistair Lyon
Oct 31, 2011
Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/31/uk-libya-nato-factbox-idUKTRE79U2V620111031
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