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Old 28th Nov 2004, 20:10
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Farsouth, I've seen this as well. It was how the US had originally planned to conduct a rescue during the Iranian Embassy siege (looked straight out of a far-fetched movie to me)

They planned to land the Herc on a nearby footy field, using retro rockets

Our course, they eventually used helicopters (CH53's, I think) and that didn't go too well either
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