Military Reports

Military Reports

UK MoD for September 22, 2016 – September 23, 2016
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Report Date

September 23, 2016

Thursday 22 September – Tornados and a Reaper destroyed four targets around Sharqat, Qayyarah and Mosul…Operations near Sharqat and Qayyarah continued on Thursday 22 September. South-west of Sharqat, a Reaper kept watch as a terrorist truck collected weapons and equipment from three different locations; it was then destroyed with a Hellfire missile. The Reaper’s crew then tracked a second vehicle, waited until the Daesh occupants got out, and struck them with another Hellfire. A Tornado mission conducted a successful Brimstone attack on an armed truck hidden in a culvert beneath a railway line near Qayyarah, then flew to the north-east of Mosul where a Paveway IV was used to destroy a Daesh-held building.

Report Date

September 23, 2016

Thursday 22 September – Tornados and a Reaper destroyed four targets around Sharqat, Qayyarah and Mosul…Operations near Sharqat and Qayyarah continued on Thursday 22 September. South-west of Sharqat, a Reaper kept watch as a terrorist truck collected weapons and equipment from three different locations; it was then destroyed with a Hellfire missile. The Reaper’s crew then tracked a second vehicle, waited until the Daesh occupants got out, and struck them with another Hellfire. A Tornado mission conducted a successful Brimstone attack on an armed truck hidden in a culvert beneath a railway line near Qayyarah, then flew to the north-east of Mosul where a Paveway IV was used to destroy a Daesh-held building.