Wednesday 13 April – Typhoons and Tornados conducted attacks in northern and western Iraq, destroying heavy weapons and a truck-bomb, and sinking a number of terrorist-operated barges…Iraqi counter-terrorist forces, supported by Royal Air Force and other coalition aircraft, have made good progress in clearing Daesh extremists out of the town of Hit, strategically located on the southern bank of the Euphrates in western Iraq. On Wednesday 13 April, RAF Typhoon FGR4s assisted in the destruction of one of the remaining terrorist strongpoints on the eastern outskirts of the town, striking, despite the very close proximity of the Iraqi forces, a Daesh machine-gun position with a Paveway IV guided bomb. When the Iraqi troops liberated the town’s hospital, they found that it had been converted into a terrorist bomb-making factory, with a number of vehicles there, including an ambulance, converted into truck-bombs; fortunately, the speed of the Iraqi victory prevented these deadly booby-traps from being deployed. In northern Iraq, other Typhoons bombed terrorist rocket and mortar teams located some miles south-west of Sinjar, and in the Kisik area, which had opened fire on advancing Kurdish troops. West of Mosul, Tornado GR4s tracked an articulated lorry carrying a prepared car-bomb on its trailer; despite the lorry’s speed, a direct hit was scored on the car-bomb using a Brimstone missile. The Tornados then used Paveways to destroy two clusters of barges being used by the terrorists to move men and supplies across the Tigris.