US Apache helicopters involved in the battle of Mosul

US Apache helicopters involved in the battle of Mosul

Nov 07, 2016



WASHINGTON AP b Pentagon announced Monday that US Apache helicopters engaged in air support operations of the United States provided to Iraqi forces in their offensive aimed to restore the city of Mosul of the "Islamic state".

A spokesman for the US Department of Defense Peter Cook said Apache helicopters took part in the Battle of Mosul, especially for the destruction of the car bombs that attacked by suicide bombers jihadist organization of Iraqi forces.

According to information from the Pentagon nominated the US forces in Iraq has a limited number of Apache (about ten helicopters).

Before the battle of Mosul, a US Apache helicopters took part in only a few times in combat operations against the jihadists, especially in June in the valley of the Tigris.

But for asylum by US forces at the Battle of Mosul increasingly to the use of helicopters reflects the seriousness with which entailed by the Obama administration's decision to participate in the fight against jihadist organization, so that aircraft flying at slow speed and at low altitude compared with fighter jets and bombers, which means that the risk of exposure to fire jihadists much larger, and therefore the risk of the death of American soldiers is much larger.

Cook said, "We expect to continue to use this tool compliant and accurate to support the progress of the Iraqi forces in what we expect to be fierce fighting in the future."

Iraqi forces launched a major offensive to recover the second-largest city in the country from the hands of the jihadists, leads air support provided by the international coalition led by the United States a decisive role in this battle.

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10 apaches !!!...... put 75 of them there, Obama! what an idiot. Fill the sky with those killing machines and save some lives and get the job accomplished. You are the reason thousands have died already with your first idiodic move of pulling us out way to early in the first place, moron...

Send in the Warthogs

Yeh those babys are bad arse,many years back I would always stop at the fence line in tucson at davis/mothan afb to watch them come and go and of course seeing them in training excersizes over seas. I think I read on here years back how the iraqis nick named them THE BEAST. I know why