Insiden Teluk Sidra (1981)

Dalam insiden Teluk Sidra pertama, 19 Agustus 1981, dua Su-22 Fitter milik Libya buatan Rusiahttps://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/su-17.htmhttps://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=192 ditembak jatuh oleh dua F-14 Tomcat milik Amerika Serikat di lepas pesisir Libya.

 Latar belakang 
Pada 1973, Libya mengklaim Teluk Sidra sebagai teluk tertutup dan bagian dari wilayah perairannya."Congressional Research Service Issue Brief for Congress: Libya". (2002, April 10). Foreign Press Centers, U.S. Department of State, Retrieved 20 January 2012.St John, Ronald Bruce. (2002). Libya and the United States: Two Centuries of Strife. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 125. .Davis, Brian L. (1990). Qaddafi, Terrorism, and the Origins of the U.S. Attack on Libya. Praeger Publishers. p. 14. .

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 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

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