An Air Force F-22 Raptor assigned to the 3rd Wing flies over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Feb. 27. The F-22 Raptor is the U.S. Air Force’s premium fifth-generation fighter asset. ( Jamal Wilson/Air Force)
Air Force Times: Pentagon corrects statements about air-to-surface missile, F-22 roles in Syria strike
The Pentagon on Thursday corrected the record on the use of an advanced air-to-surface missile and the F-22 Raptor fighter during the April 13 strike on Syrian regime chemical weapons facilities.
Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, director of the Joint Staff, originally said during an April 14 briefing that the Air Force had launched 19 of the advanced JASSM-ER, or Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range, weapons from B-1 bombers.
This would have been the first time the JASSM-ER had been used in combat.
McKenzie also said during that Pentagon briefing that because no allied air assets entered Syrian airspace, no F-22s were used to accompany and protect the B-1s.
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