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Two F-15Es Strike Militia Targets in Syria with 20 SDBs

Two F-15Es Strike Militia Targets in Syria with 20 SDBs
Six F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to the 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron line up on the flightline at Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, on April 25, 2021. Pilots and maintainers assigned to the 494th executed the first combat tactical ferry mission as part of an Agile Combat Employment operation in a deployed theater, the Air Force said at the time (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles struck two Iranian-backed Syrian militia targets with 20 GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs) in retaliation for recent assaults against U.S. personnel, including an attack on March 23 by a "kamikaze" drone--likely supplied by Iran--that killed a U.S. contractor and wounded U.S. service members at a U.S. coalition base in Hasaka in northeast Syria, DoD officials said. Boeing [BA] builds the F-15E and SDBs. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin "at the direction of Pres. Biden…

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