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group in Afghanistan reacted in panic as the Afghan Air Force dropped the first laser-guided bomb on a hideout of the group in western Farah province.
A front man for the Taliban group Zabiullah Mujahid called the latest
a "small step", claiming that the coalition forces did not have any major achievement despite using such sophisticated weapons and equipment in the past 17 years.However,
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, calls the use of the first laser-guided bomb by the Afghan Air Force a major achievement and another chapter in the success story of the Afghan Air Force.
"On March 22, the Afghan Air Force tasked the A-29 squadron to destroy a Taliban compound in Farah. The Afghan attack pilots were equipped with both guided and unguided bombs, and elected to employ the GBU-58 laser-guided bomb to avoid collateral damage," according to a report by Resolute Support Mission.
"Key pieces that you’re seeing is that the Afghan Air Force itself, one of the more lethal organizations they have, and one that we’re looking to triple in size by 2023, is conducting significantly more air operations in direct support of the ANDSF on the battlefield, to the tune of 500 more sorties this year than they did the year before," said U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Lance Bunch, director of future operations, Resolute Support, in a December 2017 presser.
Bunch also noted the Afghan forces conducted their combat operations through 2017 with the lowest level of support from the coalition forces in the 16-year war here, yet has seen some of the most success they’ve ever had.