American planes have carried out more than 140 raids against targets of the Islamic State in Libya from 1 August to 11 last September. This is the data released by Stuttgart, headquarters of AFRICOM.
US forces carried out 143 air strikes against ISIS forces in the coastal city of Sirte, at the request of the Libyan government, until 9 last September. Three other bombing missions took place last September, with the destruction of nine enemy combat positions.
According to data released by the Africa Command, Sirte was hit every day from 1 August to 11 last September, except for two days: the 12 August and the 1 ° September. The main enemy targets included T-72 and T-55 tanks in addition to pickup armed, bulldozers, supply trucks, various VBIEDs (vehicle-borne improvised explosive device), trenches and fighting positions.
The raid peak reached the 16 last August, with nine bombing missions. At that time, US fighters destroyed four VBIEDs, an armed pickup truck, a command and control vehicle and 19 stations. Most attacks were conducted by the AV-8B Harrier and Bell AH-1W helicopters Super Cobra of the Marine Corps taken off by the USS Wasp.
AFRICOM detects the use of drones, not specifying the type.
(US Navy)
