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WATCH: RAF Hits Daesh Cranes With Brimstone Missiles
The Ministry of Defence has released footage of RAF Tornados using Brimstone missiles to attack three Daesh mobile cranes in Syria.
The MoD says the extremist group was using them to repair damage from previous coalition sorties.
Daesh fighters in both Syria and Iraq have been repeatedly struck by numerous Royal Air Force attacks over recent days.
The airstrikes in the video took place on Sunday, the same day a Typhoon mission identified an anti-aircraft gun and ammunition store near Ramadi, Iraq, and attacked with two Paveways, which destroyed both targets.
The Typhoons then switched their focus to a network of Daesh trenches located near Habbaniyah, where they were joined by a pair of Tornados.
The two RAF aircraft conducted six attacks with Paveways on the trench positions and a bunker. Tornado GR4s also patrolled south-east of Mosul, where they struck three Daesh buildings.
A further Typhoon mission dropped six Paveways on a terrorist command compound north-west of Ramadi.
The following day a further two cranes were destroyed by Brimstones, south-west of Raqqa, whilst a Reaper remotely piloted aircraft hit a Daesh position with a Hellfire missile, just on the Syrian side of the border.
In northern Iraq, Tornado GR4s bombed a mortar position and a sniper team which had opened fire on Kurdish forces advancing south of Sinjar.
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