Video Footage Of Moment Airman Blasted Taliban Bomb Factory From Nevada -- Herald Sun
FOOTAGE has been released showing the pinpoint accuracy of an RAF drone, controlled from an air base in Nevada, destroying a Taliban bomb-making factory in Afghanistan.
The strike by an unmanned Reaper aircraft was so precise the walls of the compound surrounding the building remained standing.
Reaper drones provide backup for soldiers in southern Afghanistan and are operated from Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, by the British Royal Air Force's No. 39 Squadron.
Images filmed in September showed the drone aircraft taking aim at a building used by the Taliban, before it was blown up by a missile.
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WNU Editor: A detailed commentary of this strike, and another strike on a Taliban IED operator can be seen here.
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