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Daesh Lorry-Bomb Destroyed By RAF Tornado
The Ministry of Defence has released new footage of an airstrike on Daesh militants in Iraq.
The video shows RAF Tornado GR4s tracking a moving lorry carrying a prepared car-bomb on its trailer.
They fire a Brimstone missile scoring a direct hit on the vehicle, which was traveling west of the city of Mosul.
Meanwhile Iraqi forces, supported by Royal Air Force and other coalition aircraft, have made good progress in clearing Daesh extremists out of the town of Hit, strategically located on the southern bank of the Euphrates in western Iraq.
RAF Typhoon FGR4s assisted in the destruction of one of the group's remaining strongpoints on the eastern outskirts of the town last week, striking, despite the very close proximity of the Iraqi forces, a Daesh machine-gun position with a Paveway IV guided bomb.
When Iraqi troops liberated the town’s hospital, they found that it had been converted into a bomb-making factory, with a number of vehicles there, including an ambulance converted into truck-bombs.
In northern Iraq, Typhoons bombed rocket and mortar teams located some miles south-west of Sinjar, and in the Kisik area, which had opened fire on advancing Kurdish troops.
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