The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jet yesterday successfully intercepted a group of Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) in a Hilux vehicle mounted with anti-aircraft gun.
NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, said the armed vehicle was sighted at Talala in northern Borno by an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft on patrol.
The aircraft, he stated, proceeded to call for strike by combat platform.
Famuyiwa said following the alert, two Alpha Jets were immediately scrambled to the location.
“Whereas the insurgents, on sighting the attacking aircraft, fled for cover under nearby trees, the vehicles were attacked and were completely engulfed in an inferno.
“Follow-up battle damage assessment (BDA) by NAF ISR aircraft revealed that the air strike was successful as the vehicles were completely destroyed as shown by the enclosed declassified footage of the operation,” he further informed.
The NAF has intensified ISR missions over the entire theatre of operation in the north east, especially around northern Borno.
The objective is to prevent the remnants of the BHT from regrouping with a view to launching attacks on troops on clearance operations as well as those within the host communities.