Terror: Realising they were outgunned the special forces men called in an airstrike and coalition jets were diverted to the scene. To buy time an eight-man German commando team then obliterated one ISIS position with armour-piercing missiles, killing several enemy gunmen. Within seconds a firefight broke out as the special forces men dived out of their relatively unprotected cars and fired back hundreds of rounds of ammunition with high-powered assault weapons. The terrorists blasted the soldiers from mounted machine gun positions on American-built armoured Humvee vehicles, stolen from the Iraqi army. Read more: Dozens of SAS veterans rejoin elite squad to tackle threat to UK from ISIS Attacked: British, American and German special forces were on a patrol to find ISIS positions when they were ambushed by fighters with captured Humvee vehicles mounted 50 calibre guns and rocket propelled grenadesĭuring the patrol in pick-up trucks last week the crack troops wore local scarves and hid assault weapons in the floor of the trucks so as not to alert IS spotters.īut 10 miles south of the city’s airport the militants opened fire with 50-calibre guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
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