The Mooch Report
February 12, 2025
That ISIS Hit…
This week Team Mooch dropped an analysis video of the massive airstrike this month against reported ISIS top leaders hiding in a cave in Somalia.
Details are emerging that the strike was carried out by 16 F-18 Hornets off the USS Harry S. Truman cruising in the Red Sea, hitting a total of 10 targets in the northern Puntland region of Somalia.
This was a major operation for naval aviators in the region, and a testament to their capabilities to pivot from Houthi drone defense to striking major strategic targets.
And we haven’t forgotten about the tragic CRJ/UH-60 crash near Reagan National Airport. The team posted an update video on the investigation and will continue to dig into the details as new facts emerge.
Stay tuned for more videos on the way, and as always, keep us posted on your thoughts and feedback.
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With the Trump National Security team assembled in the White House situation room, on February 1st at 9:50 am Red Sea time 16 Carrier Air Wing One Super Hornets, both F/18Es (the single seat model) and Fs the two-seat model, dropped enough precision-guided ordnance to hit ten targets, that were mostly caves in Cal-Miskaad area of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland where the ISIS terrorists were hiding.
The NTSB hasn’t released its initial report but did verify that they’ve recovered the black boxes from both aircraft and initial data analysis confirmed the route of flight of both aircraft until the midair and that the Blackhawk was at an altitude of 300 feet when it collided with the CRJ, 100 feet higher than the maximum allowed when flying on Helicopter Route 4.
ENCORE: A U.S. Coast Guard pilot who's flown the helicopter route by Reagan National Airport "thousands of times" just posted a detailed explanation for what happened the evening of January 29, 2025 when an American Airlines regional jet collided with an Army H-60 over the Potomac as the airliner was on final approach for landing.
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