Thursday 19 May – Tornados and Typhoons conducted attacks on multiple Daesh targets in northern Iraq, including a tunnel, ammunition stockpiles and rocket launchers…Royal Air Force Tornado GR4s and Typhoon FGR4s have continued to fly armed reconnaissance, strike and close air support missions over Syria and Iraq, destroying two Daesh headquarters in Syria and assisting the Iraqi ground forces as they commence operations to liberate Fallujah.

Tornados from RAF Akrotiri patrolled the Mosul area on Thursday 19 May. North of the city, they used a Paveway IV guided bomb to destroy a tunnel in which a group of Daesh extremists were based, then moved to the east of Mosul where 15 rocket launchers had been stored by the terrorists. Three Paveway IVs were used against ammunition stockpiles, before three Brimstone missiles were used to destroy the rocket launchers. The small warhead and high precision of the Brimstones avoided any structural damage being caused to the surrounding buildings.

Typhoons were also active over northern Iraq that day, operating north of Tall Afar where they employed a pair of Paveways to demolish a large weapons store, then two more Paveways against two other Daesh-held buildings.