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00:00It comes at an enormous cost.

00:01It is worth it, said the head of the Air Force today.

00:04I'll tell you this, it's worth every penny if we save one American line.

00:08Even in purely dollar terms, says the Defense Department.

00:11For example, hitting 16 targets could have taken 32 bombers, 16 escort jets,

00:17a few ground defense suppressor planes, and 15 tankers to refuel them all.

00:22The same 16 targets could be taken out by just one B-2.

00:26That's 75 aircraft, nearly 150 people, and $7.5 billion worth of planes

00:32versus just one B-2 with two pilots aboard.

00:36Tony Minetti, Brooklyn, New York, is ready for the next mission.

00:40Between penetration, its long range, carrying 16 2,000-pound bombs in a stealth aircraft,

00:48you combine all four of those assets together and you've got yourself quite a package.

00:52A package ready for more action if called upon in the NATO mission.

00:57I'm Jeff Locke, CNN at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.

01:02Cruise missile.

01:03The answer.

01:04The average price for one Tomahawk cruise missile is about $700,000.

01:09Now, back to Strike Against You.

01:11Uh, f***er.

01:12F***er.

01:22Planes flying the Kaira air cover over this base,

01:32and the aircraft that did violate the Bosnian airspace were not shot down,

01:38but they were intercepted.

01:40The early warning radar system did find them here.

01:42Our early warning system picked up two helicopters heading in from the east,

01:49approaching the Bosnian airspace,

01:51and immediately we took defensive measures in accordance with our force protection.

01:55Did they cross into Bosnian airspace?

01:57Our indications are they crossed.

01:59I'm not sure right now exactly how far into Bosnian airspace,

02:02but we're checking that right now.

02:03It is only the second time that these air raid sirens have been put into action

02:08outside of a drill.

02:10That was last night when the two MiG-29s were shot down,

02:13and then again this morning when the two helicopters violated the airspace.

02:17But they are on a heightened sense of alert here.

02:19Everyone has on their full battle gear,

02:21and the shelters are ready in case it comes again.

02:25What's the call, is it?

02:26Sorry.

02:27I don't have a word.

02:28Sorry.

02:29Just an announcement.

02:30Please, there's no need for stampede.

02:32on the material.

02:32We have got handouts for all of you after the briefing at the press service.

02:36Okay.

02:37Okay.

02:38Thanks, Howard.

02:38Commodore, please.

02:39Thank you.

02:40I'm sorry that we had a technical difficulty to start off with.

02:44No, I didn't do that.

02:45I'm not going to move from here.

02:47And I'm sorry that we still have a small screen for you.

02:52I am promised that by Monday we will have a large screen,

02:56and the production will be perfect,

02:58so that from even the back you'll be able to see everything that we have to show you.

03:02But what I can offer you today is those handouts,

03:05which I hope will be slightly more helpful than yesterday,

03:08and I know that there are some media productions of the video clips,

03:12which are also available.

03:14What you see on the board now is an indication of where our targets were struck last night.

03:20And as I briefed before,

03:25in the region of Beligrad,

03:27Nish and targets in Kosovo.

03:32Okay.

03:33This was a pictorial representation of the air-to-air engagement which occurred.

03:41Once again, I seem to be apologizing all the time,

03:44but those transport aircraft are, of course,

03:48the latest swept-wing fighter aircraft.

03:51Our two aircraft in blue were on their standard combat air patrol

03:55over the MND north sector in S4,

04:01and they were advised of two hostile contacts which were operating out to the east.

04:07Yes, please.

04:10They turned as part of their normal cap,

04:12and as they turned to a westerly direction,

04:15the hostiles turned towards them,

04:20threatening them and violating Bosnian airspace.

04:24At that stage, the aircraft did, as I said before,

04:28conducted a standard countermeasure,

04:31turned in towards their targets,

04:34and put out a copybook interception

04:37and launched their missiles,

04:39shooting down both the aircraft.

04:45Some stills of some of the targets

04:50that we've attacked over the last couple of days.

04:54This is, as you can see,

04:56the Yakov-a-Sam site before destruction,

04:59and you will have to look carefully

05:00to notice where the destruction is.

05:04And let's have a look at the other one, please.

05:07And you will see a large black hole

05:11where the low-blow radar associated with that system was.

05:15Thank you.

05:18Next one.

05:22You've heard this,

05:23and you've seen this come up quite regularly

05:24over the last couple of days.

05:27At Janica Airfield, before.

05:30And yes, please.

05:35The aircraft taken out afterwards.

05:38Thank you.

05:39Thank you.

05:41We should now have some film from the aircraft.

05:45I think these clips will be available to you afterwards.

06:13Well, ladies and gentlemen,

06:37that gives you an idea

06:38of the technology that goes in.

06:40And whilst I must apologise

06:41for the problems that we had to start off with,

06:45to get that sort of technology,

06:47that sort of battle damage assessment,

06:49as quickly as we can,

06:52and in the form that it is for you all to see,

06:54is a monumental piece of progress.

06:57I can assure you that it takes the highest technology

07:01to be able to bring that sort of information

07:03into this audience in the time that it's taken.

07:07If we went back two years, three years,

07:10you would never see that sort of information

07:13come up in that sort of form,

07:15which is really very user-friendly.

07:17I'm sorry if you're sitting at the back

07:19and you can't quite see it,

07:21but afterwards,

07:21you're very welcome to come and have another look.

07:23You're very welcome to take away those clips

07:25because it really is amazing technology.

07:28The instructions to Allied air crews

07:48means that, as you say,

07:49these planes can fly in lower and slower.

07:55We're very alarmed

07:56by the deteriorating situation in Kosovo.

07:59And we've always said

08:00that our objective in beginning this operation

08:02was to halt the violence in Kosovo

08:04and to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.

08:06And therefore, to do that,

08:08we need to be able to go against those forces in Kosovo,

08:11those units, those tanks, those heavy weapons,

08:13which are responsible for the shelling of villages

08:15and all the suffering we see.

08:17Let me say one thing.

08:18We're not going to target troops as such,

08:20but we're certainly going to go after the heavy weapons

08:22and the command posts and the headquarters,

08:24which are used to sustain that violent campaign.

08:28Now, since Jamie Shea spoke to us,

08:30NATO officials have clarified slightly

08:33what he had to say.

08:34They say that Allied air crews pilots

08:37will be able to go after troops in the field.

08:41The troops are on the target list.

08:44Yugoslav military and police,

08:46if they are in the field,

08:47will be targeted by NATO air crews.

08:50They will only be safe

08:51if they are in barracks.

08:53Thanks, Joey.

08:54Patricia, there had been some talk yesterday,

08:56particularly about unity among NATO.

08:59Is this a decision that all of the NATO ambassadors

09:01made together to move forward into this new phase?

09:05Well, yes, of course, Joey.

09:07There's no way that this could have gone ahead

09:10without the agreement of all 19 NATO member nations,

09:14including the three countries that joined only last week,

09:17almost under combat conditions,

09:19Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

09:22There was a meeting of ambassadors earlier today

09:25at NATO headquarters.

09:26Those ambassadors then took a break to consult with capitals,

09:30and they came back and gave the go-ahead.

09:33Javier Solana, the NATO Secretary General,

09:36then made a telephone call just about an hour and a half ago

09:40to the NATO Supreme Allied Commander,

09:43U.S. General Wesley Clark,

09:44who is commanding this operation

09:46and authorised him to go further in the air campaign

09:51to move into phase two.

09:52Joey?

09:54CNN's Patricia Kelly for us in Brussels at NATO headquarters.

09:57Thank you.

09:57Dug in just down the road.

09:59They should have been inside Kosovo by now,

10:01policing an agreement for Serbs and Albanians,

10:03which means Christians and Muslims,

10:06to live side by side.

10:08Instead, they passed the time

10:09by entertaining the international media,

10:12whilst the people they were sent here to protect

10:14are being killed.

10:16Yeah, it is frustrating.

10:17We've come here to do a job,

10:18which is to implement the peace deal.

10:20We can't do that at the moment,

10:22and so it is a bit frustrating, yes.

10:24Just what the future holds

10:26for the NATO ground forces here is unclear.

10:28The politicians say that this force

10:30would never be used to aid the air campaign

10:33to try and bring the Serbs to heel.

10:35But they also say they'll do whatever's necessary

10:38to protect the Kosovo-Albanians,

10:40and that might mean deploying ground forces.

10:44Certainly, as this conflict enters its second week,

10:46its supporters' hopes of a quick end

10:48have come to naught.

10:50Keith Graves, Sky News, Petrovac, Macedonia.

10:54A pair of Prowler jets

10:57formed the vanguard of NATO's attack

10:59tonight from the Aviano Air Base in Italy.

11:02Electronic warfare is their speciality,

11:04armed with harm missiles

11:06to lock onto Serbian air defence radars.

11:09At last light, they were followed

11:10by a wave of F-16 jets

11:12and F-117 stealth fighter bombers.

11:15So far, resistance from the ground

11:17has been largely limited to anti-aircraft fire,

11:20but with a campaign switching its aim

11:22to attack troop and tank concentrations

11:24in Kosovo,

11:25the risks for the NATO pilots are growing.

11:28The Serbs...

11:28...built in northeastern Bosnia,

11:31the MiG was one of two shot down

11:32by NATO jets on Friday

11:34as they entered Bosnian airspace.

11:36Earlier today, air raid sirens sounded

11:43at the Stabilisation Force Base in Tuzla

11:46in Bosnia-Herzegovina

11:47as a Yugoslav helicopter approached

11:49the Bosnian airspace.

11:50NATO says its planes tracked the copter,

11:52but the craft did not cross the border.

11:55On yet another strike somewhere into Yugoslavia.

12:02We don't know where at this stage.

12:03This will be the third bombing raid

12:05by the B-52s,

12:06armed as they are with cruise missiles.

12:09But of course,

12:10since the policy has been changed

12:12into phase two by NATO tonight,

12:15whereby they will step up attacks

12:16against other targets

12:18south of the 44th parallel,

12:20that is in Kosovo itself

12:22and other areas in southern Yugoslavia,

12:25then clearly the targets

12:26perhaps will have changed.

12:27But this is just one of the planes

12:29we can barely see in the darkness

12:30there at the end of the runway

12:31waiting to take off from RAF Fairfoot.

12:36Well, we have the...

12:37...that we thought we would see,

12:39but we're not sure

12:41that that's just not a tactic

12:42that he may be using.

12:43The husband is weaponry

12:45and then use it at a point

12:46when he thinks he can surprise us.

12:48But I can tell you

12:49that's not going to happen.

12:50I mean, every mission we go out on,

12:51we're ready for the worst

12:52and we don't slack up at all

12:56in our defences.

12:59Aviano Air Base in Italy,

13:01the news emerged

13:02of a change of tactics.

13:04During this,

13:04the fourth wave of attacks,

13:06it won't just be fixed

13:08military installations

13:09that are sought out by the missiles,

13:11but mobile Serb tanks

13:13and forces too.

13:15The same forces

13:16who are being held responsible

13:18for atrocities like this,

13:20the burning of another Kosovo village.

13:22There are also reports

13:23of further massacres

13:25of ethnic Albanians.

13:26When people look at what's happening

13:28to these people now

13:31and they see

13:32the appalling sights,

13:34they hear the tales of massacres

13:35and people say,

13:37well, isn't this because

13:38NATO has committed itself

13:40to these airstrikes

13:40and is carrying out airstrikes?

13:42No, the reason why

13:43these massacres are going on

13:44is that Milosevic

13:45is simply continuing

13:46the programme

13:47of harassment,

13:49repression,

13:50ethnic cleansing

13:50that he's been carrying out

13:52for months and for years.

13:53This was another message

13:55for Milosevic,

13:56the wreckage of one

13:56of two Yugoslav

13:58MiG-29s

13:59shot down

14:00over Bosnian airspace

14:01by NATO aircraft.

14:03This flight recording

14:04captures just what happened

14:05during the attack.

14:07Magic the same contact,

14:08Muggy,

14:09to print hostile hostile.

14:11Two's engaged.

14:13Fox three.

14:15Flash two,

14:16Flash two,

14:16MiG-29,

14:17bullseye.

14:21Air-to-air combat

14:22will be an increasing risk

14:24for the NATO pilots

14:25and the new task

14:26of hitting

14:26Serb artillery

14:27in the field

14:28is likely to mean

14:29more involvement

14:30for the RAF Harriers

14:31based in Italy.

14:32Tonight,

14:33the Prime Minister

14:33pledged

14:34extra British airpower

14:35for the strikes

14:36against Yugoslavia.

14:38As the US B-52s

14:41trundled off the runway

14:42at RAF Fairford

14:43in Gloucestershire,

14:44this,

14:45the fourth night

14:45of airstrikes,

14:46is starting to seem

14:48like just the beginning

14:49of a long campaign.

14:51Emma Heard,

14:52Sky News.

14:55It's when they're

14:56over the target

14:57that the pilots

14:57sense a difference.

14:59When you release

15:00the bombs,

15:01it's still all dark.

15:02Move your aircraft

15:03to look out

15:04for surface-to-air missiles

15:05or AAA

15:06that may be coming up

15:07and when the bombs

15:09went in,

15:09I was looking right

15:10down at the spot

15:10and there was

15:11a huge explosion.

15:12It was an ammo

15:13storage facility

15:14that went up

15:14with a tremendous

15:15explosion

15:15with bits of

15:17red-hot something

15:18going thousands

15:18of feet up

15:19into the air.

15:19It was a very

15:20impressive sight

15:20and at that moment

15:21there's a degree

15:22of, you know,

15:23yes,

15:23we've done it.

15:25For now,

15:26the main concern...

15:27...specials say

15:27those troops

15:28are meant only

15:29to police

15:29an eventual peace

15:30accord

15:30and won't be sent

15:32in to stop

15:32the fighting

15:33even as the violence

15:34continues just

15:35across the border.

15:37It is frustrating.

15:38The soldiers here,

15:39we have been given

15:40a task.

15:41We're not able

15:41to implement

15:42that task

15:42at the moment

15:43so clearly

15:43it is frustrating.

15:45Frustration

15:46while Kosovo

15:47continued to burn.

15:48Chris Burns,

15:49CNN

15:50at the Yugoslav-Macedonian

15:52border.

15:53Gunning directly

15:54for the approximately

15:5510,000

15:56Serbian troops

15:57and special police

15:58reportedly responsible

15:59for the looting,

16:00pillaging and murder

16:01of ethnic Albanians

16:03in Kosovo.

16:04We need to be able

16:05to go against

16:06those forces

16:06in Kosovo,

16:08those units,

16:08those tanks,

16:09those heavy weapons

16:10which are responsible

16:11for the shelling

16:12of villages

16:12and all the suffering

16:13we see.

16:14NATO aircraft

16:14will fly lower

16:15and slower

16:16in the more dangerous

16:17phase two

16:18of its operation

16:19intended to make

16:20Serbian forces pay

16:21what one senior

16:22U.S. official

16:23called a heavy price.

16:25One NATO military source

16:26says commanders

16:27believe three nights

16:28of airstrikes

16:29have damaged

16:30Yugoslav air defenses

16:31to a sufficient level

16:32and that there will be

16:33minimal risk

16:34to NATO personnel.

16:36This despite the fact

16:37that bad weather

16:38hampered Friday's strikes.

16:40With their laser-guided bombs

16:41useless in heavy cloud cover,

16:43some NATO aircraft

16:44returned to base

16:45with their payloads intact.

16:47The weather is expected

16:48to be a factor again tonight,

16:50but satellite-guided weapons

16:51can operate

16:52in any weather conditions

16:53and even before darkness

16:55fell Saturday,

16:55at least two cruise missiles

16:57had been fired

16:58from U.S. ships

16:59in the Adriatic.

17:00In light of the dire situation

17:02in Kosovo,

17:03there have been calls

17:04in some quarters

17:04for NATO to commit

17:05ground troops.

17:07Even the former

17:07Supreme Allied Commander

17:09says the option

17:09should be seriously considered.

17:11I think it will send

17:12a very strong message

17:13to President Milosevic

17:14that we are indeed serious

17:16about not only

17:17an air campaign,

17:19but putting that together

17:20in a combined campaign plan

17:22with a ground force.

17:24And if we can do that,

17:25it may assist

17:26in getting us to perhaps

17:28a negotiated settlement.

17:29But in top NATO

17:30and U.S. government circles,

17:32there clearly is no appetite

17:33for a high-risk ground offensive.

17:36Assistant Secretary of Defense.

17:37and then on my rudder

17:38I had a target

17:39and I wanted to

17:42hit it

17:43and then I launched

17:45my rocket.

17:48In this moment

17:49I felt

17:51blow

17:53from their rocket.

17:58They launched

17:59several rockets on me

18:00and my plane

18:04turned into a torch.

18:08Late-breaking news

18:09from Yugoslavia

18:10reports that a NATO plane

18:11has been downed

18:12in Yugoslavia.

18:14The Pentagon,

18:14we should report,

18:15and NATO

18:16have both refused

18:17to confirm this report.

18:18However,

18:19we have on the telephone line

18:20from Belgrade

18:21CNN's Brent Sadler

18:22with the latest there.

18:22Brent.

18:23Thanks, Joey.

18:24Serbian television

18:25broke into broadcasting

18:26a short time ago

18:27with pictures

18:28showing

18:29what was the F-117

18:31is concerned.

18:32The Yugoslav authorities

18:33are saying

18:34it's a Nighthawk

18:35from the Holman Air Force Base,

18:37the 8th Fighter Squadron.

18:39Joey, that's the latest

18:40service, sir.

18:43And I think we could

18:44defend ourselves

18:44very well

18:45against anything

18:46that he might do,

18:48but it certainly

18:49would make it

18:50a little more intense

18:51in the flying

18:52if he decided

18:52to start using

18:53some of his surface threats.

18:56Has been rescued, yes.

18:57And we will hear

18:57from Ken Bacon

18:58in about 15 minutes' time

18:59from the Pentagon.

19:00That's absolutely correct.

19:01We'll be here.

19:02Okay, let us recap

19:03for our audience then.

19:04This F-117

19:05that was shot down

19:06about 30 miles,

19:07or the wreckage

19:07that was spotted

19:08and identified

19:09by Serb television

19:10about 30 miles

19:11out of Belgrade.

19:12We've been talking

19:12about that,

19:13seeing that over

19:14Yugoslavia

19:14this afternoon.

19:15I'm happy to report

19:17that the pilot

19:18has been rescued

19:19and is safe

19:20at an Allied base.

19:23He and the combat

19:24search and rescue team

19:25that picked him up

19:26are all safe.

19:29I do not now

19:30have a report

19:31on his condition.

19:32That's something

19:33that we will have later,

19:34but not tonight.

19:36Unfortunately,

19:37I'm not going to give you,

19:38I'm not going to be able

19:40to give you very much

19:40detail about this incident.

19:42We do not know,

19:44for instance,

19:45what caused this plane

19:46to crash.

19:46That's one of the things

19:48we'll learn

19:48as we interview the pilot

19:49and we talk to the people

19:51who flew a mission

19:53with him.

19:54But I can stress

19:55three points.

19:56The first is

19:57this operation

19:58will continue.

20:00Nothing that happened

20:01today over Yugoslavia

20:03has dampened our resolve

20:04to see this operation

20:06through to its military ends.

20:09Second,

20:09we will continue

20:13to expand

20:14the target set

20:15as NATO Secretary General

20:18Solana said today

20:20to focus more

20:21on the forces

20:24within Kosovo,

20:25both the Yugoslav Army forces

20:28and the special police forces

20:30operating in Kosovo now.

20:32And third,

20:33I'd like to stress

20:34both the bravery

20:36of the pilot

20:37and the heroism

20:39of the team

20:40that rescued him

20:42this evening.

20:44They performed

20:45in a way

20:46that should make

20:47all Americans proud.

20:49And with that,

20:49drilled into pilots

20:50until its reflex.

20:52What happens

20:53the first few minutes

20:54after a pilot

20:54goes down

20:55in hostile territory

20:56fills a long way

20:57towards designing his fate.

20:59Upon getting on the ground,

21:01they try to get away

21:02from the aircraft

21:03and then they look

21:06for hide sites

21:07and basically,

21:08as the name would imply,

21:09escape and evade.

21:10Now's the time

21:11to gather your thoughts,

21:13recall your training,

21:14your briefings,

21:15and your evasion

21:16plan of action

21:17for EPA.

21:19It's military training

21:20like this

21:21that helped

21:21Scott O'Grady

21:22evade capture

21:22for six days

21:23after being shot down

21:24over Bosnia

21:25in 1995.

21:26Jumped into a quick

21:27hold-up point

21:28and then

21:28must have been,

21:29geez,

21:30just a couple of minutes

21:31to where I could hear

21:31where people were at

21:32at the parachute

21:33followed by just

21:34a few brief minutes

21:35after that

21:36people were walking

21:36right by me.

21:37Training, luck,

21:38and wits

21:38kept O'Grady alive,

21:40ingredients every NATO pilot

21:41in trouble will need.

21:43The Geneva Convention

21:43is designed

21:44to protect down pilots

21:45but the Pentagon

21:46is prepared

21:47for the worst.

21:47We have significant assets

21:50repositioned

21:51in the theater

21:52for getting pilots back

21:53and obviously

21:55our first effort

21:56would be along the lines

21:58of what we did

21:58to get Scott O'Grady back.

22:00The effort's

22:01a sophisticated one.

22:02It begins in earnest

22:03once a pilot's

22:04been located

22:05and his position

22:05confirmed

22:06through a radio beacon

22:07all NATO pilots carry.

22:09That's when

22:10specially trained

22:10rescue teams

22:11are dispatched

22:12and assault helicopters

22:13like this

22:13CH-53 Super Stallion

22:15that went in

22:16to get O'Grady out.

22:17They can fly

22:18day or night.

22:20They fly very low

22:21to the ground.

22:23They have

22:23extended range on them.

22:25They carry extra fuel bags

22:26so they can go further.

22:27For the Pentagon,

22:28the goal is a scene

22:29like this one.

22:29a pilot safe

22:31and surrounded

22:31by loved ones.

22:33For a pilot,

22:33the trick is never

22:34having to deal

22:35with this

22:35at all.

22:48There's been a gun battle

22:49of a wider

22:50Balkan conflict

22:51but history

22:52could even repeat itself.

22:53The First World War

22:55began in neighboring

22:56Bosnia-Herzegovina.

22:58World War II

22:59also

22:59was

22:59times.

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