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PMF and defence forces have besieged Ramadi from all directions and have taken over strategic areas including former military barracks. They have managed to advanced on one front, however IS suicidals have been launching a series of large truck bombs which is slowing down the advance.
Air support is playing a major role in dealing with IS reinforcment convoys and VBIED's.
As the iraqi forces gained the upper hand and recovered over 1/3 of lost territory. The frontlines are getting isolated slowly, this gives a tactical advantage for iraqi forces as they are better able to repel any large scale IS attacks, since IS can only attack on so many fronts, the air cover is also less scattered and the response time much faster, making it extremely hard for IS offensives. Each time IS attacks they expose themselves to the Iraqi army avaiation. The current tactics have set them back. Each large scale offensive they attempt they loose no less than a 100 fighters and eventually pull back as we have seen in the numerous attempts in Mak-houl mountains. They lost the initiative and all their attacks are being squashed.
You can search up "جبال مكحول" and see the series of failures and the hundreds of dead bodies. Also in Samara they got pretty hyped up gaining ground before being forced to leave their equipment and dead rats and retreat.
Iraq Airforce needs a COIN aircraft that can respond to ISIS attacks quickly.
take for instance the OV-10 Bronco it's fast,powerful, and can operate from austere airfields.