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U.S. Special Forces Utilized JASSMs, Hellfires In Successful Raid Of ISIS Leader’s Compound

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, October 28th, 2019

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U.S. Special Forces Utilized JASSMs, Hellfires In Successful Raid Of ISIS Leader’s Compound

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

U.S. special forces utilized an array of ordnances, to include Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) and Hellfire missiles, in their successful raid on the leader of ISIS’ compound, the U.S.’ top military official said Monday. Army Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters the mission that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi required JASSMs, Hellfires, Guided Bomb Units, mini-guns and small arms fires. “We used a variety of munitions. The…

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