Watch as an A-10 airstrike takes out a Taliban drug lab

Well, there was a Taliban narcotics production facility there.

The Air Force released Wednesday video of what the service says is a March 8, 2018, airstrike on a Taliban drug lab in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

There’s an initial explosion from the airstrike followed by a secondary explosion that the Air Force says “is evidence that the facility was also used to store home-made explosives.”

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