Arise News247 reports that, according to an Air Force Officer that prefers to remain anonymous, for the kind of airstrikes the America carried out on Christmas day in Nigeria, “long-range munitions like cruise missiles or long-endurance tactical drones were launched from maritime platforms domiciled in the Gulf of Guinea, near the coast of Ghana, for “precision strike operations against two major Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist enclaves located within the Bauni forest axis of Tangaza Local Government Area, Sokoto State.
“Obviously the flight path was a straight line from the ocean to the Sahel region.That line definitely runs directly over Offa, Kwara State and Jabo, Tambuwal Local Government Area of Sokoto State”.
In the course of this kind of operations, “long-range missiles shed weight as they fly. Meaning, they drop their fuel tanks or booster rockets once the fuel is spent, allowing the warhead to continue to the target locations.
Therefore, “what the people of Offa witnessed during the course of the operation is known as ‘staging'”, which means “debris from expended munitions fell in Jabo, Sokoto State and in Offa, Kwara State. As earlier explained, that is the long-range missiles shedding weight as they fly. And dropping their fuel tanks or booster rockets once the fuel is spent, allowing the main warhead to continue to the target,” to rain heavy bombardment on the enclave of the terrorists as a highly successful operation.
So it was not a misfire or wrong target or bombing Offa community and farmland in Jabo, as wrongly claimed by those who don’t understand such airstrikes operations.
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