Military Reports

Military Reports

UK MoD for January 13, 2017 – January 14, 2017
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Report Date

January 14, 2017

Friday 13 January – Tornados struck a tunnel west of Kirkuk, while a Reaper hit a rocket-laden truck in central Mosul…The following day [Jan 13th], two Tornados patrolled over northern Iraq, and were directed to a tunnel entrance which had been identified some 15 miles west of Kirkuk. Two Paveway IVs collapsed the entrance and set off secondary explosions from inside the tunnel. Reaper operations over Mosul continued, with our aircraft spotting a group of terrorists as they loaded a heavy rocket into a truck. They and the vehicle were promptly struck by a Hellfire missile. The Reaper then provided surveillance support to two Coalition air strikes which destroyed a heavy machine-gun position and a bridge.

Report Date

January 14, 2017

Friday 13 January – Tornados struck a tunnel west of Kirkuk, while a Reaper hit a rocket-laden truck in central Mosul…The following day [Jan 13th], two Tornados patrolled over northern Iraq, and were directed to a tunnel entrance which had been identified some 15 miles west of Kirkuk. Two Paveway IVs collapsed the entrance and set off secondary explosions from inside the tunnel. Reaper operations over Mosul continued, with our aircraft spotting a group of terrorists as they loaded a heavy rocket into a truck. They and the vehicle were promptly struck by a Hellfire missile. The Reaper then provided surveillance support to two Coalition air strikes which destroyed a heavy machine-gun position and a bridge.