I Super Étendard Modernisé (SEM S.5) embarked on Charles de Gaulle entered into action against ISIS. Reached the new carrier in the Persian Gulf, the French aircraft carrier, head of the joint forces in the Anti-IS struggle, started to launch its fighters embarked in support of the Iraqi ground forces engaged in Ramadi.
Last Tuesday, the reactors of the French navy Super Étendard in their latest 'standard 5 SEM' update which allows them to employ laser-guided bombs Paveway, they destroyed a logistic center located between Ramadi and Falluja. During the week just ended, 16 were well strike in support of the ground forces carried out by the Armée de l'Air forces involved in the operation Chammal. All the 'air support' interventions were brought to the areas of Mosul, Tal Afar, Sinjar, Falluja, Ramadi. In the same week i Mirage 2000 D and Flurry stationed at Allied bases in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, they hit and destroyed an oil site in the Raqqah region. The objective had been identified previously and the sortie planned with the rest of the international coalition.
In the last weeks of 2015, French crews conducted 71 missions over Iraq and Syria, including 57 in support of Iraqi troops on the ground, as armed aerial reconnaissance or support and 6 as observers for information gathering. 43 Daesh targets were registered as destroyed.
(photo: ministère de la Défense)
