France and the United States had equipped the FANT with a large number of Toyota pickups, and antitank and antiaircraft missile launchers, such as MILAN ATGWs.

This was one of the first major combat victories employing the tactic of using light trucks armed with machine guns or rockets, later known as "technicals."

Although the Chadian commander's tactical ability played an important role in the victory, the anti-tank missiles were decisive.

On 3 and 4 January the Libyan Air Force sent several waves of bombers to Fada in an attempt to destroy the captured equipment and ammunition.

Still, these could not change the essential fact that Libya had suffered a major defeat that was to prove the beginning of the end of the Chadian-Libyan War.