Well, maybe with 110 of them we'll hit more than a tent this time.
Actually, when missiles were fired into his tent back in the late 80's, it wasn't done from a ship, it was done from a couple of FA-18 Hornets that had the "spittin' kitten" insignia from VFA-131 Wildcats painted on their tails.
It was one of my squadrons. I remember checking in and seeing a couple of aircraft with camels painted on their side. I asked what that meant, and they told me that they were the ones that fired the missiles at Quaddafi.
In March 1986 during Freedom of Navigation exercises in the Gulf of Sidra, the squadrons aircraft flew Combat Air Patrols during which a Libyan SA-5 Gammon missile was fired against an American aircraft operating in international waters. On 1415 April 1986, squadron aircraft participated in Operation El Dorado Canyon, along with other units of CVW-13 and A-7 Corsair IIs from CVW-1, providing air-to-surface Shrike and HARM strikes against Libyan surface-to-air missile sites at Benghazi. This was the first use of the F/A-18 in combat.
First use of an FA-18 in combat was them.