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Stryker. Stryker 4,466 . M1126 infantry carrier vehicle (ICV) M1126 Stryker (IAV) has two variants, he infantry carrier vehicle (ICV) and the mobile gun system (MGS).; The (ICV) variant has eight additional configurations: mortar carrier (MC), reconnaissance vehicle (RV), commanders vehicle (CV), fire support vehicle (FSV), medical evacuation vehicle (MEV), engineer squad vehicle (ESV), anti ...
The GBU-43/B MOAB is a 9,800 kg (21,600 lbs), GPS-guided bomb, the most powerful conventional bomb in the US military's arsenal. It was first tested in March 2003, just days before the start of the Iraq War [17] and is an evolutionary follow-up to the 6,800 kg BLU-82 "Daisy Cutters".
16 hours after the initial attack 2 US F-16 fighter aircraft from the 79th EAMU out of Shaw AFB SC bombed the area outside of the military base colloquially known as the Korean hospital, [2] due to its former usage by the South Korean military. Following the attack HHC, 307th AEB coordinated the closing of the breach in the perimeter created by ...
US military spokesman John Thomas said the attack was "significant," and commended security forces for bringing the "atrocity to an end," [10] while General John W. Nicholson Jr., overall commander of coalition forces, said, "The attack on the 209th Corps today shows the barbaric nature of the Taliban".
The bombing happened during rush hour near the National Assembly of Afghanistan. The blast destroyed 5 US military vehicles and 13 civilian vehicles. [8] Most of the dead were Afghan civilians including women and children in a public bus which was driving past when the explosion happened. [9] Five US soldiers were among the dead.
A female police officer was shot dead by unknown assailants in Jalalabad. [17] 4 April near Kabul 3 12 A car bombing near Kabul killed three security personnel and wounded twelve others. [18] 30 April Puli Alam, Logar Province: 30 90 A car bombing near a guesthouse killed about 30 people and injured about 90 others. [19] 8 May Kabul 85 150
U.S. officials say they are racing to evacuate as many people from Afghanistan as possible before the end of the month, when America's 20-year military presence in the country is scheduled to end.
A similar event occurred on July 27, 2019, when a suicide bomb near a police headquarters in Ghazni Province killed three police officers and wounded 12. [12] The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has stated that the month of July 2019 was the deadliest in Afghanistan since May 2017 due to a rise in civilian casualties. [13]