Malaysian Army Uses F-18 Jets against Filipino Rebels!

(This post is direct from the New York Times on 5 March 2013.)





Malaysian Air Force's F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets.


MANILA — Malaysia used airstrikes and mobilized
thousands of troops on Tuesday to try to put an end to a monthlong quixotic
incursion by a band of gunmen from the Philippines seeking to reclaim part of Borneo Island
for a defunct sultanate.



Three F-18 fighter jets and