The warplanes had targeted two camps in the Gedo region, used by
al-Shabab to cross into Kenya, the spokesman added.
This is Kenya's first response to the al-Shabab assault which
left 148 people dead at Garissa University last week.
President Uhuru Kenyatta had vowed to respond to the attack
"in the severest way possible".
Kenyan army spokesman David Obonyo told the BBC that the
military had responded to "threats" by launching the air strikes on
Sunday night in the remote region.
Two camps had been destroyed, he said, adding: "The
bombings are part of the continued process and engagement against al-Shabab,
which will go on."
The attack on Garissa University, about 150km (90 miles) from
the Somali border, was the deadliest by al-Shabab in Kenya.
The al-Qaeda affiliate says it is at war with Kenya, and wants
it to withdraw troops sent to Somalia in 2011 to help the weak government in
Mogadishu fight the militants.
Governors and MPs from north-eastern Kenya have called for the
closure of the Dadaab refugee camp, where about 500,000 people who fled
conflict in Somalia are taking shelter.
They told a news conference in the capital, Nairobi, that the
camp was used by al-Shabab as a training and coordination centre.
Aid agencies have rejected previous calls for the closure of
Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in Africa.
An MP in Garissa, Aden Duale, said Kenya should
"engage" with the international community to step up patrols along
its long and porous border with Somalia.
Meanwhile, Kenya's government has
denied accusations that its security forces were slow to respond to Thursday's
assault on the university.
Mr Kenyatta's spokesman Manoah Espisu
told the BBC that the military was at the scene within minutes of the attack,
and had helped save the lives of many students on campus.
Local media reported that it took
special forces several hours to arrive at the university because of delays in
their flight from Nairobi.
The attack ended when the four
militants were killed by police more than 15 hours after they stormed the
university.
One of the gunmen has been named as
Abdirahim Abdullahi, a law student who graduated from Nairobi University in
2013.
His father is a local chief, and had
reported his son missing, according to local media.
A former fellow student of Abdullahi
told BBC Newsday that he had been a "charming fellow" who did not
show any sign of holding militant views at university.
"He was very intelligent... I was
very shocked that a person I sat with in class - what would drive someone to
change so much?" said the former student, who asked not to be identified
for fear of reprisals.
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