British RAF Tornado jets have carried out their first air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria just hours after British MPs approved the bombing campaign...
The strikes targeted the Omar oil fields in eastern Syria which is under IS control.
Four Tornado jets took off, with the UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon saying the strikes were "successful."
LBC reporter Tom Swarbrick was by the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus when the first British jets took off...
IN: We saw...
OUT: ...just that.
DUR: 37"
Elizabeth Quintana is a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence & Security Studies - and explains British Tornado jets will be particularly useful to joint operation in Syria...
IN: It can...
OUT: ...in one sortie.
DUR: 20"
http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/1203syria-quintana-1.mp3
The strikes targeted the Omar oil fields in eastern Syria which is under IS control.
Four Tornado jets took off, with the UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon saying the strikes were "successful."
LBC reporter Tom Swarbrick was by the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus when the first British jets took off...
IN: We saw...
OUT: ...just that.
DUR: 37"
ADD
Elizabeth Quintana is a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence & Security Studies - and explains British Tornado jets will be particularly useful to joint operation in Syria...
IN: It can...
OUT: ...in one sortie.
DUR: 20"
http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/1203syria-quintana-1.mp3