USAF Activity Drives Boom In Precision-Guided Munitions

Credit: U.S. Air Force
On the night of Jan. 18, a group of U.S. Air Force Boeing F-15E Strike Eagles sent eight 2,000-lb. bombs, one after the other, into the Rafidain Bank in downtown Mosul, Iraq, which housed cash that would have paid so-called Islamic State militants. “After this strike, it was reported that millions...

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