UK MoD for September 23, 2016 – September 24, 2016
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Friday 23 September – Typhoons struck two mortar positions in western Iraq, while a Reaper destroyed a truck loaded with rockets in the north…Operations by the Iraqi army to clear the Tigris valley south of Mosul continue. On Friday 23 September, a Royal Air Force Reaper scouted ahead of the Iraqi advance near al Hawd. The Reaper’s crew spotted a Daesh truck on the move, loaded with rockets. A direct hit from a Hellfire missile on the driver’s cab and engine brought the vehicle to an immediate halt and a second missile safely destroyed its cargo. In western Iraq, two Typhoons patrolled to the north-west of Ramadi, where they used a pair of Paveway IV guided bombs against two terrorist mortar positions located within a palm grove.
Friday 23 September – Typhoons struck two mortar positions in western Iraq, while a Reaper destroyed a truck loaded with rockets in the north…Operations by the Iraqi army to clear the Tigris valley south of Mosul continue. On Friday 23 September, a Royal Air Force Reaper scouted ahead of the Iraqi advance near al Hawd. The Reaper’s crew spotted a Daesh truck on the move, loaded with rockets. A direct hit from a Hellfire missile on the driver’s cab and engine brought the vehicle to an immediate halt and a second missile safely destroyed its cargo. In western Iraq, two Typhoons patrolled to the north-west of Ramadi, where they used a pair of Paveway IV guided bombs against two terrorist mortar positions located within a palm grove.’
Col John Dorrian briefs the Pentagon Press Corps on September 23, 2016 from Baghdad, Iraq, on the Coalition’s progress against Da