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Iraq
Australia Launches First Airstrike In Iraq
2014-10-10
[Ynet] An Australian fighter jet has made the country's first Arclight airstrike against an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 target in Iraq since the Australian government committed its air force to combat missions, defense officials said on Thursday.

The Australian Defense Force did not say what type of facility had been attacked or where in northern Iraq it was.

"Two bombs were dropped from an F/A-18F Super Hornet on to an ISIL facility" overnight, a Defense statement said.
Congrats, guys! More, faster please.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  2 bombs, a full Hornet bomb load out. needed to leave the other wing stations available for drop tanks......
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2014-10-10 13:30  

#2  Hat tip to the Convicts. They never fail us.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-10 10:56  

#1  "Two bombs were dropped from an F/A-18F Super Hornet on to an ISIL facility"

What kind of facility? 'Comfort station' (second dune on the left)? Empty at the time? Or do they not have to go through layers of target approvers like we do?
Posted by: Glenmore   2014-10-10 08:40  

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