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Operation Red Wings, informally referred to as Battle of Abbas Ghar (often incorrectly called "Operation Redwing" and/or "Operation Red Wing"), was a combined / joint military operation during the War in Afghanistan in the Pech District of Afghanistan's Kunar Province, on the slopes of a mountain named Sawtalo Sar, approximately 20 miles west of Kunar's provincial capital of Asadabad, in late June through mid-July 2005.

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  • Operation Red Wings, informally referred to as Battle of Abbas Ghar (often incorrectly called "Operation Redwing" and/or "Operation Red Wing"), was a combined / joint military operation during the War in Afghanistan in the Pech District of Afghanistan's Kunar Province, on the slopes of a mountain named Sawtalo Sar, approximately 20 miles west of Kunar's provincial capital of Asadabad, in late June through mid-July 2005.
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  • Operation Red Wings
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causalties
  • 1 Chinook helicopter shot down
  • 19 killed, 1 wounded,
combatant
  • * Local pro-Taliban nationals
  • Local anti-coalition militants
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date
is part of military conflict
place of military conflict
result
  • * Insurgent forces temporarily withdraw from the area while U.S. forces sustain heavy casualties
  • * Insurgent forces return three weeks later
  • U.S.Pyrrhic victory; Though Insurgents are later stricken to inoperatbility.
strength
  • Ranging from 8–10 fighters to 70–100 depending on source
  • 12Navy SEALs
  • 2AH-64D Apachehelicopters
  • 2MH-47 Chinook
  • 2UH-60 Black Hawk
  • 8Night Stalkers
  • additional helicopter crews
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