London: Prince Harry has killed his first Taliban leader in an airstrike in Helmand, Afghanistan.
He hit the target with a 100 lb Hellfire missile fired from an Apache helicopter.
The attack is said to have happened in late October, shortly after the prince returned to Afghanistan for his second deployment as gunship co-pilot, Mail Online reports.
A defence insider said, “We were on patrol and the Apache helicopters were called in. We heard this posh voice come over the radio and knew it was Big H. They were tracking a Taliban leader – he was commander-level.”
Captain Harry Wales—as he is known in the Army—is a co-pilot gunner in the Apache unit which has the highest ‘kill rate’ in the war, PTI reported.
Harry learned to fly Apache helicopters during an 18-month training course in February.
Designed to hunt and destroy tanks, the fearsome Apache is capable of flying at 205 mph and boasts a mix of weapons including a wing-mounted aerial rocket, Hellfire laser-guided missiles and a 30 mm chain gun.
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