Four USAF F-15E Strike Eagles worked with other coalition forces to target and strike a terrorist facility in southern Baghdad. The four F-15Es launched precision-guided munitions at the target after coalition helicopters scanned the area for civilians to ensure there would be “no collateral damage,” according to US Central Command officials. The terrorists were using the facility in the Babil province to acquire and transport bomb-making munitions.
A-10 Thunderbolt II attack planes in the Middle East are flying with fresh modifications as the Air Force looks to make the plane more versatile amid America’s ongoing blockade of Iranian ports and a tenuous ceasefire in the U.S. air war against Iran.