US fighter jet hit by small arms fire in Afghanistan

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US Fighter Jet Hit Afghanistan: Taliban Militants Claim Responsibility For Jet Attack - An American F-16 aircraft  are  hit  from  small arms fire  though  conducting  a great  patrol  throughout  Afghanistan last week, U.S. military officials said  in  Monday.

The jet  \'m  flying  a  routine combat air patrol  within  Paktia province  within  eastern Afghanistan  from  Oct. 13  Any time   The idea   feel  hit  via  small arms fire,  the  U.S. military  public  said.

The fire hit  solitary   of any  aircraft's stabilizers  IN ADDITION TO  damaged  individual   of an  munitions  The item   are  carrying, said  an  second official, Captain Jeff Davis,  a great  spokesman  due to the   section   of  Defense.

"As  a good  precautionary measure  It  jettisoned  2   involving   its  fuel tanks (and) three  of   it is  munitions  before  safely returning  to the  base," Davis said.

The U.S. military  public  said  ones  F-16 landed  at the  Bagram air base, north  regarding  Kabul.

U.S. unnamed military officials  could  not yet say  regardless of whether   the  Taliban had  done   the  attack  for the  plane.  the  Islamist militants  usually are  fighting  the  guerilla war seeking  to be able to  restore  its  hardline regime 14  several years   after   It   \'m  toppled  by the  2001 U.S. invasion.