The American government would at the beginning of this year have considered to a large-scale cyber attack, the air defense systems of the former Libyan dictator Gaddafi to turn it off. The US feared, however, a precedent to create.
According to The New York Times have the military advisers of Obama on the eve of the Nato mission in Libya considered to be in addition to a conventional attack, a cyber attack to carry out. In this manner, the associated air defence systems of Gaddafi should be disabled.
The proposed cyber attack would be the U.s. army to the networks of the Libyan army to penetrate, then the paired early warning radar systems to disrupt. Below would Nato fighter planes with less danger about the African country can fly to perform missions and air strikes.
At the start of Nato’s operation Unified Protector, however, would not use, are made of large-scale cyber attack on the Libyan air defense. The Americans were allegedly afraid to take offensive action as a precedent to create. This would allow countries like China and Russia, it is legitimate to go consider electronic warfare as a lawful attack, as would military analysts have warned. Another disadvantage would be the likely long preparation time.
Even though the Americans, along with Israel by experts are seen as the builders of the Iran-targeted Stuxnet malware, the U.S. would also be at the military commando action against Osama Bin laden have apart from the disrupt of the Pakistani radar equipment through cyber attacks. Instead, Black Hawk helicopters deployed on radar almost invisible. Also, it was an unmanned aircraft, a drone, deployed.