Operation Minotaur

28-30 July 2023: 36H Combat Mission, The Trees

Location: Darfur, IVO Korenga, Habillah, Sudan

DTG: 060024Z0723

RADIO TRANSMISSIONS/INTERCOM: KITE25 JTAC/SPOOKY61 AC-130

00:24 (Kite25): Roger those two vehicles, they appear to be moving south.

00:24 (Spooky61): We are now tracking three vehicles. Wait for update.

00:25 (Kite25): Copy.

00:25 (Kite25): *Static* Spooky61, Kite25 vehicles are confirmed target, we’re gonna have to get a work on trying to get enough to engage from what we are hearing on ICOM traffic they have *Static*

00:25 (Spooky61): 25 Copy that, again 3 vehicles all seem to be moving west bound off in the lumberyard we have our eyes on *Static* appears to be armed personnel in the back.

00:25 (Kite25): Estimate between the 3 vehicles over?

00:25 (Spooky61): Numbers fourteen, maybe more.

00:27 *Radio Static*

CLASSIFIED

00:28 (Kite25): Copy that we can hold off.

00:28 (Spooky61): 25 confirm that you copied we have about 18 pax dismounted.

00:28 (Kite25): Copy. Standby for fire mission.

00:28 *Radio Static*

00:28 (Spooky61): Kite25 I’m seeing possible MANPADs. Hurry *Radio Static* fire mission.

CLASSIFIED

00:29 (Spooky61): Kite25, shot. Wait for splash.

00:29 (Kite25): Spooky61, Kite25 splash, BDA?

00:29 (Spooky61): 25, that’s 7 pax down the rest are running. 40 Mike engaging.

00:29 (Kite25): Spooky61, check fire check fire, package seen *Radio Static* maintain observation only we are in range *Radio Static* QRF to intercept.

00:29 (Spooky61): Copy.

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Shortly after midnight on July 6, an AC-130 gunship, callsign Spooky 61, directed by ground JTAC, callsign Kite 25, engaged a group of vehicles near Darfur, IVO Korenga in South Sudan.

These vehicles were being tracked by ISTAR elements attached to JCTSF-C as they were confirmed to be operated by members of a covert Wagner PMC unit that has infiltrated the Chad/Sudan border region.

This Wagner unit is known to be transporting a CBRN weapon, one of two that was last identified at in Minguri, Mozambique in November 2022. The other was detonated in Minguri during the events of Operation Derwent.

While the exact intention of the Wagner unit is unknown, their most likely cause of action is to hand it over to Azearian militants. Based on previous interactions between these two factions it is only a matter of time before this device is detonated in an effort to further destabilise the situation in Sudan.

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