Raptor strikes in Afghanistan

摘要

THE US Department of Defense has publicly disclosed an F-22A mission over Afghanistan for the first time. The Raptor dropped its first bombs on the country during the night of November 19, hitting Taliban narcotics laboratories and other infrastructure in Musa Qala with GBU-39B Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs). Initial strikes had been flown the previous day by Afghan Air Force A-29s, which hit two opium-production facilities in northern Helmand Province.