A British soldier is using a quad bike as a rest for his sniper rifle (Picture: Alamy)

Members of the elite SAS are now thought to have taken out 200 Isis jihadis after just four weeks in quad bike squads after having targets confirmed by drone reconnaissance planes.

Defence sources have revealed that the Special Air Service had been killing ‘up to eight terrorists a day’ in co-ordinated raids.

This is the first time British troops have been acknowledged to be involved in combat missions against IS.

Previously, it had been stated that these special force units were only performing reconnaissance missions.


A British soldier riding a quad bike in Afghanistan last year (Picture: Capt. Dave Scammell/REX)

An SAS source told the Mail on Sunday: ‘Our tactics are putting the fear of God into IS as they don’t know where we’re going to strike next and there’s frankly nothing they can do to stop us.’



Elite sniper units are being transported to 50 miles of a target by Chinook helicopters with their quad bikes stowed aboard.

These covert missions behind enemy lines are in preparation for a spring offensive against the terrorist state by over 20,000 Iraqi and Kurdish forces

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