Ugly 5-1 And Ugly 5-2... Apaches On The Attack! Gaddafi's Radar HQ Is Destroyed In First Blitz By Helicopters From Prince Harry Base -- The Daily Mail
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British pilots have unleashed the awesome firepower of their Apache attack helicopters for the first time to blitz the forces of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi.
Two £40million Apache WAH 64Ds obliterated a key radar and communications centre and killed a number of Libyan soldiers who fired at them from the back of a pick-up truck.
The Apaches - call signs 'Ugly 5-1' and 'Ugly 5-2' - lifted off in the early hours of yesterday from the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean in the Mediterranean, two miles off Libya's eastern port of Brega.
They were each manned by a pilot and co-pilot of 656 Squadron Army Air Corps from Prince Harry's air base at Wattisham in Suffolk.
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