Military Reports

Military Reports

UK MoD for January 11, 2017 – January 12, 2017
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Report Date

January 12, 2017

Wednesday 11 January – A Reaper engaged Daesh fighters in northern Mosul and destroyed a car-bomb in the east of the city…Reaper operations over Mosul continued on Wednesday 11 January. Our aircraft conducted one attack in northern Mosul against a group of Daesh caught in the open. It then kept watch on a building where over a dozen Daesh fighters were observed assembling. The surveillance effort enabled a successful strike by a coalition fast jet which demolished the building. The Reaper then moved to patrol over eastern Mosul, where another coalition aircraft had successfully disabled a car-bomb. A Hellfire missile from the Reaper destroyed the threat outright.

Report Date

January 12, 2017

Wednesday 11 January – A Reaper engaged Daesh fighters in northern Mosul and destroyed a car-bomb in the east of the city…Reaper operations over Mosul continued on Wednesday 11 January. Our aircraft conducted one attack in northern Mosul against a group of Daesh caught in the open. It then kept watch on a building where over a dozen Daesh fighters were observed assembling. The surveillance effort enabled a successful strike by a coalition fast jet which demolished the building. The Reaper then moved to patrol over eastern Mosul, where another coalition aircraft had successfully disabled a car-bomb. A Hellfire missile from the Reaper destroyed the threat outright.