WASHINGTON: US forces have fired so many smart bombs at Islamic State targets that stocks of the sophisticated weapons are dwindling, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday as he previewed the Pentagon’s enormous budget.
American drones and warplanes are at the forefront of an 18-month-old coalition effort to fight the IS group in Iraq and Syria, in a campaign that has so far seen some 10,000 air strikes, many of which the Pentagon says were carried out with pinpoint accuracy.
“We’ve recently been hitting ISIL with so many GPS-guided smart bombs and laser-guided rockets that we’re starting to run low on the …read more
Source: theSun
