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Two retaliatory strikes on Raqqah

Operation CHAMMAL
Rafale engaged in Operation Chammal (credit: EMA / DICOD)

(B2) French planes carried out two raids on Raqqah in Syria on Sunday (November 15), respectively “ at 19 p.m. and 50 p.m. “ indicates the staff of the armies. The two targets targeted by the strikes — 1 command center and 1 Daesh training camp — were destroyed. 12 aircraft including 10 fighters - 6 Rafale, 4 Mirage 2000 (2 M2000D and 2 M2000N) - took part in the operation. This was carried out " simultaneously, from bases in the Arabian-Persian Gulf and Jordan; the crews joined over Syria to attack the two objectives occupied by Daesh ».

Located 6 km south of Raqqah, the first objective was hit by a patrol of 2 Mirage 2000Ds. The site was used by Daesh as " command post, jihadist recruitment center and arms and ammunition depot ". A patrol of 4 Rafale and 2 Mirage 2000D destroyed the second objective located west of Raqqah. " Unfinished industrial infrastructure, the objective housed a terrorist training camp and recruitment cells ».

Planned on sites previously identified during reconnaissance missions carried out by France, this operation was “ conducted in coordination with the Coalition “says the press release. Both sites made the subject of a long preliminary observation ". The raid was carried out thanks to intelligence flights carried out over areas controlled by Daesh in Syria since September 8. The French also benefited from invaluable help from the Americans, as the President of the Republic pointed out.

The Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean

Note that the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier will sail Thursday (November 19) finally and not Wednesday from Toulon. And he will go first in the Eastern Mediterranean » and not directly in the Persian Gulf as advertised (read: The Charles-de-Gaulle on an anti-Daesh mission with a Belgian-British escort).

 

(NGV)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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