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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The Taliban vehicle was speeding off having just attacked “Afghan people,” according to the Air Force. They didn't get too far.

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Watch from ground-level an airstrike on an ISIS-K Afghanistan haven

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