Military Reports

Military Reports

UK MoD for May 13, 2016 – May 14, 2016
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Report Date

May 14, 2016

Friday 13 May – Reapers engaged mortar teams and a supply truck in northern Iraq; Tornados destroyed Daesh positions in western Iraq…Two RAF Reapers followed up by providing close air support to the peshmerga as they advanced on Friday 13 May, conducting a total of four attacks with three Hellfires and a GBU-12 guided bomb. They destroyed mortar teams and a Daesh supply truck, as well as providing surveillance support to a coalition air strike which destroyed a terrorist strongpoint. Tornados were meanwhile again assisting Iraqi ground forces in the Euphrates valley, and destroyed two Daesh-held buildings on the northern bank of the river.

Report Date

May 14, 2016

Friday 13 May – Reapers engaged mortar teams and a supply truck in northern Iraq; Tornados destroyed Daesh positions in western Iraq…Two RAF Reapers followed up by providing close air support to the peshmerga as they advanced on Friday 13 May, conducting a total of four attacks with three Hellfires and a GBU-12 guided bomb. They destroyed mortar teams and a Daesh supply truck, as well as providing surveillance support to a coalition air strike which destroyed a terrorist strongpoint. Tornados were meanwhile again assisting Iraqi ground forces in the Euphrates valley, and destroyed two Daesh-held buildings on the northern bank of the river.