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The coalition throughout, transfer the command to a coalition command and then start using more of the capabilities that the coalition nations don't provide that we have, shift the main effort. that would be tankers, electronic support aircraft, i is sr, things of that nature. i would not rule out that we will probably most likely be continuing some portion of the fighter mission as well, but not the preponderance of the force. >> could you specify the, you know, specialized aircraft. you mentioned the growlers, hawkeyes, awacs, river joint, can you -- >> many nations will be be puttinging the...

Coalition throughout. transfer the command to a coalition command. and then start using more of the capabilities that the coalition nations don't provide that we have. so shift the main effort. tankers, electronic support aircraft, isr, things of that nature. i would not rule out that we will probably most likely be continuing some sort of the fighter mission, as well. but not the preponderance of the force. >> you mentioned hawkeyes. are you specify what -- >> many nations will be putting their -- you'll see things of that nature. the specialty electronic airplanes, accepts sores, of course t...

Hours leading up to today there's communications or talk to try to talk that down. >> we are on the leading edge of coalition operations where the united states under general hamm in africa command is in charge, he's in command of this at this point. in the coming days, we intend to transition it to a coalition command. >> can you specify how many british ships were involved compared to the u.s. ships? >> we had one british submarine. >> and the rest were all u.s.? >> yes, ma'am. >> and the number of that? >> i don't have that in front of me, any exact numbers. >> couple more minutes here. ton...

Operations -- >> we are on the leading edge of coalition operations, where the united states under general hamm under his command at this point and in the coming days, we'll transition to the coalition command. >> we had one british submarine. i don't have that in front of me the exact numbers. >> couple more minutes, tony. >> how sophisticated was this air defense system compared to iraq? give us a sense of that. >> this is integrated air and missile defense system, much like the one that iraq had and surrounded baghdad built on older soviet technology.

They're going to talk about this in some other fashion. in fact, if it is a war, we're not involved despite the fact that we're the leading edge of it. and they're going to work very, very hard to do what general courtney said we're going to do. to transfer the running of this operation to the african command to a consortium of countries -- >> coalition command. >> worldwide coalition command. >> general mccaffrey, is that even possibly? is that logistically feasible that you have the united states right now in control of operation "odyssey dawn" and that in the coming days -- he didn't lay ou...