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There are few instances where artillery can be considered a quiet addition to the battlefield. But as it turns out, the U.S. Army has hurled hundreds of rockets at Islamic State militants for months without much public attention.
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“We have fired over 400 HIMARS rounds at ISIL targets, since the middle of summer,” a public affairs officer with the main American task force in Baghdad told War Is Boring in an email. HIMARS stands for the six-wheeled High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launcher.
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The 227-millimeter rockets have enough range to keep the launchers far from the front lines. Carrying a 200-pound high explosive warhead and guided by GPS, the M-31 rocket can hit precise targets up to 43 miles away. Each HIMARS vehicle can shoot up to six rounds in rapid succession before needing to reload.
The trucks can also fire rockets filled with tiny bomblets or a single, larger Army Tactical Missile System missile. The Army is working on new warheads that will shred targets with a cloud of shrapnel.
In Iraq, the rockets’ accurate nature and ability to fall straight down onto a single target have been especially important. The round “strikes a target with pinpoint accuracy with minimal potential for collateral damage as it impacts a target at a 90-degree angle and has a relatively small blast radius for the effect achieved,” the public affairs official noted.
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State media reports IAF jets struck ballistic missile convoy from base just outside Damascus as well as fuel reserve.
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Iranci su sa 2 eskadrile aviona sleteli na avio bazu Tijas, koja se nalazi u pustinjskom predelu između gradova Homs i Palmira
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Dec 3 2015
Prime Minister and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Dr. Haider Al-Abadi renews emphasis on the lack of need for foreign ground troops to Iraq and that the Iraqi government is committed to not allowing the presence of any ground force on the land of Iraq, and did not ask any side, whether regional or from the international coalition to send ground troops to Iraq.
The Iraqi government confirms its firm and categorical rejection of any action of this kind issued by any country and violates our national sovereignty and we will treat any foreign ground combat troops sent by an country as a hostile act and deal with it on that basis.
The Iraqi government affirms its fixed position that it has declared repeatedly that it demanded and demands of the world and the international coalition to stand with Iraq in its war against the terrorism of Daesh by providing air support, weapons, ammunition and training, and stressed the need to increase the effectiveness of air support to Iraqi forces and the targeting of the members and leaders of Daesh terrorist gangs on the border and in the desert and to stop the funding, which is the demand that the US side responded to, ensuring to not undertake any activity without the approval of the Iraqi government and under full Iraqi sovereignty.
Prime Minister's Media Office
3 December 2015
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“American technicians have worked for more than one and a half months to expand and prepare the airport with a runway specialized for warplanes. Its length reaches 2500 meters and its width 250 meters,” the report claimed.
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Saudi Arabia is at risk of becoming a major destabilising influence in the Arab world, German intelligence has warned.
Internal power struggles and the desire to emerge as the leading Arab power threaten to make the key Western ally a source of instability, according to the BND intelligence service.