Prince Harry reveals how he sent fighter jet after Charles’ car while training for Afghanistan

Prince Harry sent a fighter jet after his father’s car in Norfolk while he was training for combat in the army, his controversial memoir reveals.

The Duke of Sussex writes in Spare about how hard he worked to prepare for his tours of Afghanistan, which included “driving jets over marshy flats at impious speeds” near Sandringham’s residence.

In a bizarre story, he tells how he used a Typhoon to attack King Charles and his gray Audi before “finally forgiving” him at the last minute.

Harry details how he faked blowing up targets in a practice exercise while holed up in a hotel room outside King’s Lynn.

The Duke of Sussex writes in Spare about how hard he worked to prepare for his tours of Afghanistan, which included “driving jets over marshy flats at impious speeds” near Sandringham’s residence. In the picture: a typhoon

The Prince claimed that his father “never dropped the ball” while he was there, despite the fact that the Sandringham estate was only a few miles away.

Harry explained how Charles, a helicopter pilot, was enthusiastic about his son’s job, but insisted that the locals in the town of Wolferton were less interested in witnessing a ten thousand kilo plane roaring over their rooftops. roof tiles.

He writes: ‘RAF Marham had received dozens of complaints. Sandringham was supposed to be a no-fly zone. All the complainants were told: This is war.

“I loved seeing Pa, I loved feeling his pride and was buoyed by his praise, but I had to get back to work. She was in mid control, she couldn’t tell the Typhoon to wait a moment. Yes, yes, dear boy, he is back at work. He’s gone.

‘As I was coming down the track, I said to the Typhoon: New target. Audi gray. I headed southeast from my position down the track. Towards a large silver barn facing east to west. The Typhoon followed Pa, driving right over him and nearly breaking the windows of his Audi. But finally she forgave him. At my command. He came to smash a barn of silver.

It is one of several revelations about his military career that the book reveals, including his claim that he killed 25 Taliban fighters during his second tour of duty in Afghanistan.

The duke, known as “Captain Wales” in the army, wrote that he did not think of those killed “as people”, but as “chess pieces” that he had removed from the board.

This is the first time Harry, 38, has specified the number of insurgents he personally killed during his time in Afghanistan, where he was in both 2007-8 and 2012 and flew an Apache attack helicopter during his second tour.

At Spare, the Prince said he flew six missions that resulted in “the taking of human life.”

While many soldiers don’t know how many enemies they’ve killed in combat, the Duke wrote that “in the age of Apaches and laptops” he was able to say “exactly” how many insurgents he killed.

Harry wrote that ‘you can’t kill people if you see them as people’ and said that he instead saw them as ‘chess pieces removed from the board’… ‘bad guys removed’.

In a bizarre story, he tells how he used a typhoon to attack King Charles and his gray Audi before “forgiving” him at the last minute.

The prince was first posted to Helmand province as a forward air controller in 2007, but his first tour of duty was cut short when an Australian magazine mistakenly broke a media embargo.

However, he returned in 2012 with the Ministry of Defense publicizing his second deployment on the understanding that the media would allow him to continue the job at hand.

After learning to fly Apache helicopters, Harry was posted to Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan in 2012, where he stayed for 20 weeks.

During his 2012 tour, Harry helped provide helicopter support to the International Security Assistance Force and Afghan forces operating throughout Helmand province.

Based at Camp Bastion, the 662 Squadron Army Air Corps, to which he belonged, flew over a hundred deliberate missions during 2,500 flight hours, providing surveillance, deterrence and, when required, close combat capabilities, as well as security tasks. escort for other aircraft. .

Captain Wales qualified as a co-pilot gunner in February 2012.

He was posted to the 3rd Army Air Corps Regiment, part of the 16th Air Assault Brigade, to gain more flying experience and operate the Apache in a series of exercises before deploying to Afghanistan in September 2012.

Harry trained to fly in the front seat as a mission or aircraft commander, but most of the time he operated the Apache’s sights, sensors, and weapons systems.