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The crew managed to exit the aircraft safely. An HH-43B Huskie (tail number 59-1562) responded to the crash to battle the fire and rescue the crew; in an unfortunate twist of fate, upon approaching the crash site, the bombs on the B-52 exploded, destroying the helicopter. Two of three crew aboard the helicopter died.
B-1 Lancer and Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft ... Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters ... the U.S. dropped 12,192 bombs in Syria and 12,095 in Iraq. ...
A Pentagon investigation concluded that a US aircraft delivered a single precision-guided bomb (GBU-38 JDAM) with the intention of targeting two ISIL snipers on the second storey of a structure in al-Jadida neighborhood. But the bomb also caused a large cache of ISIL explosives to detonate, leading to the catastrophic collapse of the building ...
Less than two weeks before the raid on April 13, 2017, and less than a mile away from the location of the raid, the US military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb, a GBU-43/B MOAB on an ISIL-KP tunnel network once used by the Mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War in the 80s and Osama bin Laden during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 ...
The U.S. Army AH-64 Apache and AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters fired laser-guided AGM-114 Hellfire and TOW missiles which were guided to tanks by ground observers or by scout helicopters, such as the OH-58D Kiowa. [10] The Coalition air fleet also made use of the E-3A Airborne Warning and Control Systems and of a fleet of B-52 Stratofortress ...
The US dropped a 2,000-pound bomb only once during its fight against ISIS – the most recent Western war on a militant group in the Middle East. It fell on the so-called caliphate’s self ...
On 21 May 1956, a B-52B (52-13) dropped a Mk-15 nuclear bomb over the Bikini Atoll in a test code-named Cherokee. It was the first air-dropped thermonuclear weapon. [143] This aircraft now is on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, NM.
New Orleans ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar had researched online what kind of car was used in a deadly German Christmas market attack — just hours before carrying out his well-planned New ...