During the engagement, enemy warplanes and drones intervened to secure the evacuation of the destroyed vehicle and to provide cover for the advance of a remotely operated booby-trapped vehicle toward the center of Haddatha town. When it reached the Baydar area at 14:10, the fighters engaged it with direct rocket fire, causing it to veer off its course and become disabled, forcing the enemy to detonate it on the roadside before it reached the town square: statement 11