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ID

OSMP1542

Date

22 April 2018

Source

Reported Location

Year

Munition Category

Functional use

Tentative Model

Research Organisation

Base Colour

Condition

Guidance

Domain

Analyst Note

This image shows remnants of the MXU series airfoil group, or the tail section, that is paired with Paveway series bomb guidance kits. The remnant on the right is the retractor mechanism, one of two, that are present inside the MXU series airfoil group. (ARES)

External Research

Mwatana for Human Rights

"At about 10 p.m. on Sunday, April 22, 2018, Saudi/UAE-led Coalition airplanes dropped a US-made GBU-12 bomb on a wedding celebration in Al-Raqa village, Bani Qais District, Hajjah Governorate. The closest military site identified was a checkpoint about twenty-five kilometers away. Of the 150 to 200 people gathered to celebrate the wedding of 20-year-old shepherd Yahya Al-Musabi, the attack killed twenty-one, including eleven children, and injured ninety-seven, including forty-eight children and two women."

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