B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport Louisiana arriving at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar on April 09, 2016 in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. This is the first time the B-52 Stratofortress has deployed to a base in the United States Central Command’s area of responsibility in 26 years.
U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, Louisiana, arrived at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, April 9, 2016 in support of theater requirements and Operation Inherent Resolve.
Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) is the U.S. military operation name for the military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) covering both the campaign in Iraq and the campaign in Syria.
Accordikng toe Air Forces Central Command Public Affairs, the deployment is the first basing of the B-52s in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility in 26 years. The B-52s were based in Saudi Arabia supporting Operation Desert Storm. The B-52s were last flown operationally during Operation Enduring Freedom in May 2006, and during Exercise Eager Lion, a USCENTCOM-led multilateral exercise in Jordan, in May 2015.
The coalition conducted more than 33,000 airpower missions in support of OIR. Since the beginning of the operation, the coalition struck about 459 vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, 776 mortar systems, 1,933 logistics buildings housing these weapons, 662 weapons caches, and 1,341 staging areas.
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