On 15 November 2015 , two days after the attacks in Paris by ISIL , AC-130s and A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft destroyed a convoy of over 100 ISIL-operated oil tanker trucks in Syria . The attacks were part of an intensification of the U.S.-led Military intervention against ISIL called Operation Tidal Wave II ( named after the original Operation Tidal Wave during World War II , a failed attempt to raid German oil fields that resulted in heavy aircraft and aircrew loss ) in an attempt to cut off oil smuggling as a source of funding for the group
attacks in Paris
November 2015 Paris attacks
Lockheed AC-130