RAF drone attack

3 Drone launches laser-guided missiles at target. For such a surgical strike it is likely that someone on the ground highlighted the target with a laser targeting system

1 RAF RC 235 reconnaissance aircraft monitors phone and radio chatter to locate targets

 

2 Reaper drone, controlled from RAF Waddington, is launched from Ali al Salem air base in Kuwait

RAF

Waddington

Kuwait

Ali al Salem air base

100 km

100 miles

Raqqa

Turkey

Mosul

Damascus

Baghdad

Iran

Iraq

Syria

1 RAF RC 235 reconnaissance aircraft monitors phone and radio chatter to locate targets

 

2 Reaper drone, controlled from RAF Waddington, is launched from Ali al Salem air base in Kuwait

RAF

Waddington

Kuwait

Ali al Salem air base

100 km

100 miles

Raqqa

Turkey

Mosul

Damascus

Baghdad

Iran

Iraq

Syria

3 Drone launches laser guided-missiles at target. For such a surgical strike it is likely that someone on the ground highlighted the target with a laser targeting system

RAF

Waddington

Kuwait

Ali al Salem air base

100 km

100 miles

Raqqa

Turkey

Mosul

Damascus

Baghdad

Iran

Iraq

Syria

1 RAF RC 235 reconnaissance aircraft monitors phone and radio chatter to locate targets

 

2 Reaper drone, controlled from RAF Waddington, is launched from Ali al Salem air base in Kuwait

 

3 Drone launches laser-guided missiles at target. For such a surgical strike it is likely that someone on the ground highlighted the target with a laser

RAF

Waddington

Kuwait

Ali al Salem air base

100 km

100 miles

Raqqa

Turkey

Mosul

Damascus

Baghdad

Iran

Iraq

Syria

1 RAF RC 235 reconnaissance aircraft monitors phone and radio chatter to locate targets

 

2 Reaper drone, controlled from RAF Waddington, is launched from Ali al Salem air base in Kuwait

 

3 Drone launches laser-guided missiles at target. For such a surgical strike it is likely that someone on the ground highlighted the target with a laser