This chart shows just how big the air war against the Islamic State was in June

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A U.S Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle approaches a KC-135 Stratotanker over Iraq in March 2016. (Staff Sgt. Corey Hook/U.S. Air Force)

By Dan Lamothe July 19 at 11:46 AM

The Air Force’s two-year-old bombing campaign against the Islamic State had its second-largest month ever in June, dropping 3,167 weapons, Air Force officials disclosed Tuesday.

It marks just the third time the Air Force has dropped more than 3,000 weapons in a single month in the campaign. The others occurred in November and December 2015 as U.S. forces supported a grueling effort to take back the Iraqi city of Ramadi from the militants.

You can see the data below:

The latest spike came as the coalition supported efforts to take back Fallujah in Iraq and Manbij in northern Syria. Notably, U.S. forces joined with the Iraqi military June 28 to destroy more than 500 vehicles that militants were suspected of using to flee Fallujah.

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