Mudaysis is a military airfield located in

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. The field was used various times by the

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during the 2003

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. During the 1991

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, the Mudaysis radar site was knocked out by

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. Several

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aircraft were shot down over Mudaysis by the F-15s. In 2003, radar sites at Mudaysis were bombed by American aircraft;CNN Transcript: Daily Defense Briefing, Aired April 1, 2003 - 14:01 ET
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attacked the radar site with a PGM.

External links

''Mudaysis Airbase''
at GlobalSecurity.org

References

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