Military Reports

Military Reports

UK MoD for February 7, 2017 – February 8, 2017
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Report Date

February 8, 2017

Tuesday 7 February – A Reaper sank a boat carrying a terrorist heavy machine-gun team across the Tigris near Mosul…A group of Daesh fighters, armed with a heavy machine-gun, attempted to cross the Tigris in a boat on Tuesday 7 February, close to where the Tornados had sunk the river craft two days earlier. The terrorists were unaware that they were being closely tracked by coalition surveillance aircraft, and a Hellfire missile from an RAF Reaper sank the boat in mid-channel.

Report Date

February 8, 2017

Tuesday 7 February – A Reaper sank a boat carrying a terrorist heavy machine-gun team across the Tigris near Mosul…A group of Daesh fighters, armed with a heavy machine-gun, attempted to cross the Tigris in a boat on Tuesday 7 February, close to where the Tornados had sunk the river craft two days earlier. The terrorists were unaware that they were being closely tracked by coalition surveillance aircraft, and a Hellfire missile from an RAF Reaper sank the boat in mid-channel.