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Prevent that. >> lets go through that list as quickly as we can. a lot of your colleagues, mostly republicans, but many democrats, say give ukraine the migs. russian-made fighter jets that poland has offered and give them to ukraine. you say that is a distraction because they simply couldnt fly them effectively anyway. explain. >> well, they have a number of mig aircraft themselves and theyre flying very few. that could be a combination of lack of mechanics, fuel, the safety of the pilots in the...

>> thats exactly right. and thats what weve seen, as you have heard the secretary of defense says that up to this point the response has been strong, and its been effective. and it looks like for the next phase, the actual enforcement of the no-fly zone that with the exception of the shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles that there wont be a lot of threat to our forces. theyll still be -- >> those fingers or those shoulder-fired missiles, theyre pretty effective and theyre pretty hard to find if ...

Much of it realistically -- and we dont know the results of the u.s. assessment right now -- but realistically, what would you think? how much of it was destroyed over the past few hours? >> you know, wolf, its really hard to say. my guess is the sa-5s were taken down, the long-range, high-altitude interceptor missiles that would pose a problem to high-altitude, unmanned aerial vehicles. but they were not mobile. they were fixed. but maybe gadhafi has figured out a way to remote them and do othe...

Lawrence is joining us with more details. that was a thorough briefing at the pentagon. you attended. they told us what has happened now. but theyre not telling us whats next. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. but we can pretty much surmise whats going to come next. after they establish some form of air superiority, after theyre confident that they have put down colonel gadhafis air defense forces, thats when youll start to see the no-fly zone kicking into effect. what these first strikes youre lo...

Key communication nodes. up on the slight to my left, youll see many of them. most of them are in the western part of the country. thats where the critical nodes are located and thats why we targeted them there. it does give us the ability specifically with taking down the long-range surface-to-air, the sa-5s, taking them down and the c-2 architecture that goes with that opens up as broad as space as possible for the no-fly zone. >> on the missiles themselves, these are these new generation tech...

Up on the slide to my left, youll see many of them, most of them are in the western part of the country. thats where those critical nodes are located. thats why we targeted them there. but it does give us the ability specifically with taking down the long-range surface-to-airs, the sa-5s and the architecture that goes with that, opens up as broad a space for the no-fly zone. >> on the missiles themselves -- >> it was a mixture of our old tomahawks and the newer tactical tomahawks. >> do the new ...