- [Voiceover] On July 4th, the Air Coalition employed
a strike package consisting of B-52s, F-16s,
F-22s, A-10s, and F-18s
against an IED factory in Mosul,
signalling resolve and a commitment to degrading
Daesh's ability to engage in terror attacks.
U.S. Air Force fighter pilots,
at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia
spoke about the precision capabilities
the Air Coalition is employing and the strategic targets
that are diminishing enemy resources.
- When you talk about something as technologically complex
as an air war, and what a combined arms battle is,
which is really what Operation Inherent Resolve
or any of the other named operations we're doing here.
You just can't help but think, man,
we are creating minor miracles here every day.
We are able to strike targets within feet
and we're able to know in advance that what we're striking
is a hostile target because we've got a whole array
of assets that let us establish patterns of enemy activity
as well as assure that they're gonna be away
from innocent civilians who unfortunately
find themselves living in the midst of Daesh.
- There's an incredible amount of precision that
has to go into every single mission.
It starts with the intelligence, the surveillance,
the reconnaissance.
Once you look at a target set,
you're not just looking to see if it is, in fact,
a valid military target,
but you're also making sure that the pattern of life there
does not include civilians.
Once that's completely vetted
then we bring it to the table as a valid target.
We start the mission planning process
that includes how we're gonna get at that target,
and then at any point in time if something were to change
on the ground how do we prevent civilian casualties?
It's an incredible opportunity to work in and part of
the 20-nation Coalition.
The teamwork that goes into every single mission,
the precision that comes out of every single mission,
and the effects that we're achieving are not possible
with one single nation or one single person.
- [Voiceover] The 20-nation air component,
part of a 66-country Operation Inherent Resolve Coalition,
demonstrated its precision, capability, and commitment
to deny this enemy a safe haven,
while degrading Daesh's ability to construct
their tools of terror.