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Nga Lufta ne Kosove
bombardimet e NATO ne serbi
lajmet e Shteteve Perendimore
bombardimet e NATO ne serbi
lajmet e Shteteve Perendimore
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00:00The 20th century.
00:02There are fearful and sleepless nights on site now
00:04as families wait nine hours
00:06to hear if crews have returned safely
00:09from what is a perilous journey.
00:11Seven hours en route, nine hours in the cockpit total.
00:14It is a long sortie, which we're not used to, again,
00:18but they're finding it tiring, obviously.
00:20A quick helicopter ride down to Bonn
00:22for a secretary of state, who also has his work cut out.
00:26German defence...
00:27Several cargoes of aid have already left RAF Lynam
00:30on military transport planes,
00:32but this was the first civilian flight
00:34carrying privately donated aid.
00:36This British Airways 757 carried about 20 tonnes of supplies,
00:40much of it given after an appeal in the Daily Express.
00:44Most of the seats inside the plane have been stripped out
00:46to make way for the cargo, tonnes and tonnes of baby food.
00:50We had originally planned to operate just one flight
00:53to carry the key emergency supplies required,
00:57but there are warehouses full of goods
01:00and we're now going to be operating a second flight
01:03probably on Saturday
01:04and we're looking to see if we can put some further services on
01:08early next week just to ensure that we can get everything
01:10which the British public has given to where it is needed.
01:14This flight was destined for Thessalonica in northern Greece.
01:17From there, with the British Army escort,
01:19its cargo was due to be trucked overland to Macedonia.
01:22The organisers of the flight are confident the aid will get to the people who need it.
01:27Andrew Moore, Sky News at RF Lynam.
01:30Well, the capital, Port Guritsa, fear the conflict is getting closer.
01:36Loud explosions were clearly audible in the city centre overnight
01:40and in the sky what appeared to be a brief burst of anti-aircraft fire.
01:44Access to the vicinity of the blast was highly restricted by the military.
01:52Limited damage to some buildings could be seen
01:54and scattered on the ground pieces of unidentified debris.
01:59NATO has confirmed its aircraft did respond to an attack threat in the
02:02in the Port Guritsa region firing missiles in self-defence.
02:07The Montenegrin government will only say it received conflicting information from the interior ministry
02:12which controls the police force and from the army.
02:16...developments for you. NATO says it's not only allied bombing which has caused damage
02:21to the Kosovan capital of Pristina. Commanders say the Serbs too are to blame.
02:26But NATO has warned that it's increasing the tempo and impact of its airstrikes
02:31across Serb territory.
02:34Britain says it's worried by the human shield reports.
02:36It's warned Slobodan Milosevic he'll be held responsible for the refugees' safety.
02:41Defence chiefs have insisted NATO warplanes will take every precaution
02:45to avoid areas where Kosovar Albanians could be held.
02:50Frontline Pristina in Serbia's embattled southern province.
02:54A scene of devastation and disorder.
02:57The city now an empty shell of its former self.
03:00It was the day after multiple explosions tore through the city.
03:05The shocking aftermath of a NATO airstrike so powerful, say officials here, it was beyond belief.
03:11The central post office and telecommunications centre bore the brunt of an attack.
03:16Its roof caved in.
03:18Most phone lines were cut, deepening a sense of isolation.
03:23Collateral damage to many buildings appeared extensive.
03:26It included a bank and the executive offices of the Serb-controlled administration,
03:32now overlooking a rubble-strewn centre of destruction.
03:36Officials claim the attack killed at least ten people, a mix of Serbs, ethnic Albanians and Turks.
03:43Some buried here, they claimed, beneath heaps of debris, splintered wood and smouldering embers.
03:49For visiting journalists, a glimpse of a now desolate city.
03:55The first on the ground independent verification that the very heart of the provincial capital
03:59has been severely damaged.
04:01Pristina held around 200,000 people before NATO dropped the first bomb.
04:06Now it appears to be a virtual ghost town.
04:09The streets are empty.
04:10Serbs, it seems, held their ground even as the bombs fell.
04:14Of the ethnic Albanian majority who once lived here, there was virtually no sign.
04:19We didn't force Albanians to leave.
04:21They went by themselves, says Milan Živković, a Serb.
04:26They couldn't live with us and left.
04:28But maybe they think they're coming back with NATO.
04:32Serbs blame NATO bombing for everything, for desecrating their holy places,
04:37and triggering a mass exodus of mostly ethnic Albanians from Serb ruled Kosovo.
04:45People were trying to save themselves, so they left, but now some are coming back.
04:50Without NATO, reports Serbian television, now claiming a refugee return is underway.
04:57If Serbs thought a self-declared Yugoslav ceasefire in Kosovo might end their nightly ordeal, they were wrong.
05:04The center of the capital was attacked for a second time Wednesday.
05:09A former army building came under fire.
05:12NATO delivering the same unrelenting message to the authorities here.
05:16Capitulate or face a steadily ruinous air assault.
05:20Brent Sadler, CNN.
05:24Following that, we have, this is described as an ammunition production facility.
05:30NATO forces say they were targeting this one, of course, to cut off the supply of ammunition.
05:36You can see here as it is blown up.
05:42And then finally, we're going to see an attack against armed,
05:47armored, Serb vehicles on a road.
05:49That will follow the clip on the ammunition facility.
05:57NATO making all of this videotape available, showing the accuracy of its strikes.
06:04And accuracy did come into play this day.
06:08A lot of discussion.
06:08It shows that same convoy, or more accurately, the remains of that convoy.
06:14You can clearly see the abandoned military vehicles along the road.
06:23Today, I have some cockpit imagery from our recent operations against other Serbian forces within Kosovo.
06:30Unlike the area attack which I described to you yesterday, these attacks employ guided munitions.
06:36On the video I am about to show you, you can make out a road with Serbian vehicles on it.
06:44If you watch closely when the video begins to play, you will see that the pilot locks his missile to the target.
06:51Once the missile is launched from the aircraft, the video feed stops.
06:56But the weapon automatically guides to the target to which it is locked.
07:00The pilot then executes a rapid escape maneuver to avoid target defenses and the detonation of his own weapon.
07:09Unfortunately, that means you will not be able to see the result of this weapon strike.
07:20You can see the convoy on the road.
07:23It locks on the frame and it goes.
07:25If you want to see it more closely later on, then I am sure we will be able to run it for you.
07:33The next video I have shows a successful attack on an ammunition production facility.
07:39If you watch the right side of the image, you may see the bombs prior to their impact.
07:51You start to look for the bombs coming in now.
08:05And just to prove that it is not all done by mirrors and magic, the final clip very clearly shows
08:10one of our successful strikes against the Serbian armored vehicles operating within Kosovo.
08:15Because the guidance is from the aircraft, you can clearly see the final results.
08:32Toughest conditions.
08:34Its crews, their courage in lethal low-level combat.
08:38Their mission in Kosovo will be to seek and destroy specific high-value targets.
08:42The commander of Task Force Hawk, Colonel Oliver Hunter,
08:46says the chopper crews on alert live up to their motto, strike deep.
08:49The 11th Aviation Regiment can bring deadly force to bear on the Yugoslavian ground forces
08:56in Kosovo and they can do it quickly, accurately and continually.
09:02The 24 crews are on high alert.
09:05Our pilots are fired up mentally, physically, and tactically prepared to go.
09:14The Apaches will fly at night, hugging to the Soviet Union's war machine.
09:27Now retired, they protest NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and they volunteer to go and fight for the Serbs.
09:34We have only one request for the Yugoslav leadership.
09:38Use our knowledge and skills as military instructors, specialists in air defense,
09:43artillery and electronics.
09:46There are four to five hundred volunteers.
09:49There will be more, they say.
09:51The Yugoslavs say thanks, but for now, no thanks.
09:54In a training center outside Moscow, a place where members of the Yugoslav military once trained,
10:02officers using their latest technology to track aircraft say they know NATO's tactics.
10:10I would not hide the fact that we are getting such information and we corrected our training program
10:16to prepare people to work with their low-flying aircraft and with the other tactics they use.
10:21If the Yugoslavs had this F-300 anti-aircraft missile defense system, say the experts, they would be more effective.
10:30But for now, Russia wants to avoid being drawn into the Balkan war, no matter how much pressure the military applies.
10:37Our armed forces have developed into a structure which the United States can afford to completely ignore, as if they don't exist.
10:47An underpaid, undersupplied, unprepared military.
10:52When Comrade Stalin was still alive, neither Truman nor Roosevelt would ever think of bombing a Soviet Union ally.
11:00The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, is packed with 80 warplanes,
11:08including F-18 Hornet and F-14 Tomcat fighter bombers.
11:12Sky's David Crabtree spent a busy night aboard the massive ship of war.
11:21The arrival of the USS Theodore Roosevelt marks a significant new stage in the fight against the Serbs.
11:28This one tactical move has almost doubled the amount of NATO strike power in the Adriatic.
11:36Overnight, the activity along the ship's quarter-mile length was ceaseless.
11:41F-14 Tomcats and F-18 Hornets thundered off the ship, heading for Serb targets.
11:48The exact nature of their task was being kept secret.
11:51All of us are very proud on Theodore Roosevelt and Air Wing 8 to be out in this area,
11:56to be called into the area with very short notice.
12:00But all our leaders, trusting us to be here with the training that we have,
12:05the aircraft that we have, the ships that we have, able immediately to come into the area
12:09and become an integral part of the force. We've done that yesterday, our first strikes,
12:15doing exactly as the Air Force and the other Allied forces have been doing.
12:19We joined right into the forces as if we'd been here for months.
12:23In all, the Theodore Roosevelt carries 80 aircraft. It's laden with bombs and missiles,
12:29making it capable of waging a sustained campaign.
12:32There's enough hardware here on the Theodore Roosevelt alone to bomb a country into submission.
12:39And that's exactly what they hope to do.
12:42Five and a half thousand people ensure that the carrier operates efficiently.
12:46The crew know this is a dangerous mission, but they remain focused on their jobs.
12:52There's danger everywhere you work in the world, so there's just everywhere to do your job.
12:57Once you do it good, there's no problem.
13:01As the sun came up, the fighters began to return.
13:05Little was said about the success or otherwise of the overnight mission,
13:09but all indications were that it went well. We're prevented from saying how many aircraft
13:15flew this mission, but there will be many more and they're likely to become increasingly intense.
13:21David Crabtree, Sky News, aboard the Theodore Roosevelt in the Adriatic.
13:26The countries and outside organizations are concentrating on providing humanitarian aid
13:33to where most of the refugees are, namely the countries around Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro.
13:46We can see that the situation...
13:49German Red Cross and aid officials were waiting to welcome the weary passengers.
13:53Red Cross staff boarded the plane to see whether any passengers needed immediate medical attention.
14:01They were followed by social workers and interpreters,
14:03who briefed the refugees on what the next days would hold in store.
14:08When the families finally left the plane and stepped onto German soil for the first time,
14:13Junior Interior Minister Zontag Volgast was there to greet them personally.
14:17This is what it looks like in the bomb bay of the stealth bomber.
14:21They're training, loading the sophisticated JDAM bombs, joint direct attack munitions,
14:28that they've been dropping on CERB targets.
14:30Large or small, mostly stationary targets, and they're very accurate.
14:33Accurate to within less than 40 feet.
14:36The small is a vehicle size up to a large warehouse or larger.
14:39The stealth can carry and drop 16 2,000-pound JDAMs, each capable of hitting a separate target.
14:46And because they are directed by a satellite global positioning system, bad weather doesn't stop them.
14:52This man loaded the first bomber.
14:54Very successful, from what I understand, phenomenal results. We couldn't be prouder.
14:59When that B-29 back there was dropping bombs in World War II, it generally had to be good weather.
15:04And you could either fly high and sacrifice accuracy, or fly in low and risk being shot down.
15:11The next generation, the B-52, flew farther, faster, and carried more bombs.
15:16But it was still either safety or precision, not both.
15:20Can you say what kind of altitude you were at?
15:22We were high.
15:23The wing commander, Brigadier General Leroy Barnage, wouldn't say how high,
15:27but a big advantage of the stealth is that it flies high, eludes detection, and is accurate,
15:32as this test from 40,000 feet showed.
15:36You would hopefully not want to be sitting in that trailer when it happened.
15:38Its sophisticated radar can acquire targets 30 to 60 miles out.
15:43This is what Washington, D.C. looks like to the stealth radar.
15:47From 12 miles away, they target the Pentagon, pinpointing individual trees in the courtyard,
15:53even cars in the parking lot.
15:55I see the space.
15:56They're not doing a very good job of parking. I'm packing them in there today.
15:59According to the Air Force, the B-2 makes it more likely the job gets done,
16:04and less likely a U.S. pilot is lost.
16:08For Science and Technology Week, I'm Jeff Flock.
16:15Now anyone with a computer can fly along with the NATO allies.
16:20Boom. Right there. Target destroyed.
16:23So, this is an excellent way to illustrate a lot of the stuff that's actually happening over there.
16:28Fly over real mountains, pass through real valleys.
16:32At the Jane's Combat Simulations Division of Electronic Arts,
16:35programmers use actual digital maps and satellite photos to help replicate the Balkan terrain.
16:41True color and elevation is what they call it.
16:43So, it's the right brown or orange or green, and the right mountains are in the right places.
16:48Okay, there's the missile being fired.
16:50Some news agencies and military writers use the images to illustrate the war in progress.
16:55There's our target, and target is destroyed.
16:59Former Navy aviator David Bonacci says that all good programmers try for realism in the cockpit.
17:05Okay. It's basically a game being used to illustrate what's happening in real life.
17:14Game designers force players to think like a pilot under fire.
17:18A lot of times you see the war, you know, it's big and it's grand.
17:20But really, it boils down to people doing their tasks that are laid out for them.
17:25On a stealth bombing run, Bonacci is hit.
17:27Incoming missile! Six o'clock!
17:29Oops!
17:29We're going in!
17:30Warning! Engine! Fire!
17:32Warning! Transfer pump!
17:33I'm gonna go ahead and eject that here.
17:35Bad news.
17:37Game fans contrive their own missions and play against each other on the internet.
17:41A new one follows the real life rescue of the American pilot last Saturday with a mission
17:46to destroy the remnants of his crashed plane. War games are among the most popular computer games.
17:53They offer adventure with safety. The worst threat posed in these simulated skies is to the pilot's self-esteem.
18:00In 20 years in Frankreichs Diensten, durchpflügt wegen der Kosovo-Krise, im Auftrag der NATO, die Gewässer der Adria.
18:13Es ist Mitte März und wieder einmal läuft ein Ultimatum ab.
18:19Unter Deck bereitet sich der Amerikaner Chris Simmermann auf seinen nächsten Einsatz vor.
18:24Die Franzosen arbeiten mit deutschen, italienischen, türkischen, griechischen, amerikanischen Seestreitkräften zusammen
18:31und tauschen auch Offiziere aus.
18:33Simmermann, der amerikanische F-18-Pilot, fliegt in einem französischen Kampfjet Trainingsziele in Bosnien an,
18:40denn dort sind die Bedingungen ähnlich wie im Kosovo.
18:46Alltag auf einem Flugzeugträger wie eh und je.
18:49Aber neue Formeln haben die ideologischen Parolen aus dem Kalten Krieg abgelöst.
18:54Um Krisenmanagement geht es nun.
18:56Erweiterte Wirkungsfelder, multinationale Antworten auf Konflikte.
19:00Kein Wunder, dass ihn die Frage nach seinem Feinbild höchst amüsiert.
19:05Unser Feind heutzutage wissen wir nicht.
19:08Könnte wohl jeder sein. Das ist das Problem.
19:20Katapultstart auf Tempo 200 nach nur 50 Metern.
19:24Während der Flüge haben die Piloten ihre simulierten Angriffe mit Kameras aufgenommen.
19:36Auswertung an Bord.
19:38Wenn der Befehl aus dem obersten NATO-Hauptquartier kommt,
19:42haben sie den Einsatz hunderte Male geübt.
19:44Jede ruckartige Landung belastet Mensch und Maschine Unbeheuer.
20:01Die Foch ist kein NATO-Kriegsschiff.
20:03Frankreich hat sie dem NATO-Oberbefehl nur während der Kosovo-Krise unterstellt.
20:07Es geht um eine Personnel-Karriere in der Umgebung.
20:12Next, wir haben A-10 Aircraft.
20:14The first one here I'll go through right now is an F-16
20:16on an APC, Armored Personnel-Karriere, in der Umgebung.
20:21Das war gestern.
20:22Das war gestern.
20:24Der nächste Film wird ein A-10 Aircraft mit einem Maverick elektronischen
20:28Missile
20:30auf einem Bord.
20:31Das war der Tag vor gestern.
20:34Es sieht ein bisschen schlauend aus, als Sie kommen in.
20:36Als Sie kommen in näher, Sie sehen, Sie sehen,
20:38Sie sehen, die Brücke starten zu werden mehr und mehr klarer.
20:41Die Brücke hat ihn schon wieder geübt,
20:43aber da sind die Brücke auf der Brücke,
20:45eine Brücke auf der Brücke, an der Brücke ist,
20:46ist noch immer wieder geübt.
20:49Und Sie sehen, als Sie ist es zu sehen,
20:50Sie sehen, Sie sehen, es wird mehr klarer.
20:51Als Sie kommen, Sie sehen, Sie sehen,
20:53für die Main-Bridge-Span-Embundung
20:56in dieser Region.
20:57After I'm done with this clip,
21:03and you'll see down to impact,
21:05at impact, of course, the TV goes off
21:07because it explodes with the bomb itself,
21:09the missile itself.
21:11But I'll show this clip again
21:12and show you that this is not without risk.
21:17And as you can see,
21:18it tracks it all the way down into the target area.
21:21And that band coming in from the left
21:22is probably the last time you'll see
21:24the light of day.
21:25On this particular film,
21:28same one, but you'll see a highlighted area
21:29in the upper right-hand corner of the screen,
21:31and you'll see flashes.
21:33This is the same run I showed you a moment ago,
21:35and that's AAA, air-to-air artillery,
21:38being fired at this A-10,
21:40probably either 27mm or 23mm or 37mm.
21:45You can see the flashes coming on.
21:46He sees this himself as he's coming in.
21:49The ground flashes and then the air bursts,
21:51and the tracer air burst,
21:53you'll see that usually only the tracer
21:55is about every fifth or sixth bullet,
21:56so he's taking what we would consider
21:58moderate to heavy AAA
22:00all the way in on this run.
22:01So, as I explained earlier,
22:03this is not without risk.
22:05Why do you bother to hit a bridge
22:07that's already collapsed?
22:08They were still using part of that bridge,
22:10and the determination at that point
22:12was to take the full bridge down
22:13so they couldn't repair it with ease.
22:15What does the acronym N-R-D-Y mean
22:17in the upper right-hand corner
22:19where your AAA is?
22:21That just means his weapon is ready.
22:24When you drop the bridge,
22:25is it closing that bridge
22:26and it's strange?
22:27That's another reason for dropping the bridge.
22:29It does close navigation
22:31in that particular river area.
22:32The daniel is open or closed.
22:33I can't tell you if the daniel is open or closed.
22:36I can defer to Admiral Wilson on that.
22:38Is that the daniel of that bridge?
22:40I beg your pardon?
22:41Do you have a name for that bridge?
22:41I do not have a name.
22:42on an A-10 again with a convoy,
22:44and you'll see he has to break this off.
22:47He does not attack it,
22:48and the reason is he's being fired at,
22:50but he does relay that information
22:52of that convoy back to other aircraft,
22:54and our understanding is
22:55that it was probably attacked
22:56by other aircraft later.
22:58The next video I'll show you
22:59will be a highway bridge
23:00attacked in southern Serbia,
23:03five miles north of the Kosovo border.
23:04This is the Raska Bridge,
23:06F-15Es with 2,000-pound laser-guided bombs.
23:10This is at night.
23:11It looks like day
23:13because of the infrared,
23:14and he destroys that bridge.
23:18That was three days ago.
23:23The next clip I'm going to show you
23:24will happen fast,
23:25so you've got to get ready,
23:26but just to show you,
23:26this is not without risk.
23:27It's an F-16 that's flying
23:29toward his target
23:29with his infrared lantern video on,
23:32and in the upper portion
23:33of the screen of this next video,
23:34you'll see surface-to-air missiles
23:36being fired at the aircraft.
23:38It looks like a black streak going by,
23:40so you'll have to look close.
23:42But once again,
23:42we're not making this
23:43for television production.
23:44This is combat,
23:45but you can see that
23:45it's not without risk in this area.
23:47First one coming up,
23:48you see it right there.
23:49That's one SA-3
23:51followed directly by another one,
23:54and those were probably
23:55not guided by radar,
23:56maybe ballistic,
23:57but still the threat is there.
23:58The last clip will be
24:01F-16 video,
24:04laser-guided 2,000-pound bombs
24:05against the Lucani explosives plant.
24:08You can see in the cursor
24:09he's tracking the building.
24:11On this film,
24:12I want you to notice on the bottom,
24:13just before his bomb impacts,
24:15in about four seconds,
24:16you'll see four more bombs
24:18from other aircraft
24:18into the screen
24:19that hit their targets,
24:21and these have a direct hit.
24:22All those bombs were direct hits
24:23with no collateral damage.
24:25Although that is still well below
24:28what was achieved
24:28during the Gulf War.
24:30The fight is now very much
24:31being taken to Serbian ground troops.
24:34Those who've been working
24:35with refugees
24:35say more help has to be given.
24:38It is still unacceptable
24:39that people were kept
24:40in the conditions
24:41that they were at the border,
24:42or this later story
24:44of the thousands
24:46that were then bussed overnight
24:47from that hellhole
24:49to be dumped on another border
24:51somewhere else,
24:52probably most of them in Albania.
24:54Serbian television tonight
24:56showed pictures
24:56of what it says
24:57is a downed reconnaissance plane,
24:59which NATO admits
25:00to having lost.
25:02Yugoslav Orf...
25:03It's NATO's fighter bombers,
25:07night and day,
25:08roaring towards Serbia
25:09that have been
25:10in the forefront
25:11of the air campaign.
25:12But none of their missions
25:13would have been possible
25:14without the unsung dedication
25:16of aircraft less glamorous,
25:19but just as important.
25:19podcast...
25:34What was it that is that?
25:39So Ok отдельly,
25:41what is that?
25:42So as of December,
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