Dramatic moment an Australian fighter jet destroys an Islamic State bomb-making compound in Iraq

The Australian Defence Force has published extraordinary images of its planes dropping bombs on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria.
It includes dramatic footage of missiles destroying a former agricultural compound in northern Iraq which ISIS used to make bombs.



Footage of the exploding weapons-manufacturing site illustrates the contribution Australia is making to the American-led war on terror in the Middle East.



The Australian military has publicized the capability of its fighter Hornet jets in the Middle East, two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Syrian air force bases to thwart President Bashar al-Assad.



Australian F/A-18A fighter jets have been deployed as part of Operation OKRA's fight against the Islamist terror group, ISIS.



The ADF has tweeted vision of its jets 'striking targets to disrupt and degrade Daesh' - the Arabic term for Islamic State which the terror group violently objects to.



The Australian military's Air Task Group has flown been increasingly active in the former ISIS strongholds since the start of 2017, when Mr Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.



The Department of Defence has confirmed that about 780 ADF personnel have been sent to the Middle East.



Of those men and women in uniform, about 300 are part of the Air Task Group, about 80 linked to the Special Operations Task Group and about 300 to Task Group Taji, the Herald Sun reported.



The footage also shows aircraft being refueled midair by a KC-30a multi-role tanker.



The vision was shared on the official Twitter account for HQ Joint Task Force 633, which exercises command and control over the ADF in the Middle East region.