Watch as a B-52 takes out a Taliban training camp in Afghanistan

Earlier in the week, the Air Force released video of a B-52’s airstrike against a Taliban drug lab; now, here’s what the Air Force says is a B-52 airstrike against a Taliban training camp.

[Read: With first A-10 strikes in Afghanistan, Marines call in the heat on the Taliban]

The Air Force says that the strike happened on Feb. 4 and “took out three defensive fighting positions around the camp, degrading the Taliban’s ability to conduct training and operations.” To take out the camp, the aircraft used “24 precision-guided munitions were dropped, the most ever launched by a B-52.”

Take a look above.

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