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Old 07-17-2018, 06:27 AM
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Default How to steal a Soviet helicopter...

Now this would be ideal fodder for Merc: 2000 but I can imagine it would also be usable for some regions in Twilight: 2000 (say Africa in conjunction with Olefin's Kenyan sourcebook for example).

The US Army’s Night Stalkers once stole a Mil Mi-24 from an area near the Chad/Libya border. EDIT: Okay, technically it was an Mi-25 export version but it's part of the same family...
The weblink below is creatively titled "Hind heist".
https://tacairnet.com/2015/05/12/hind-heist/

More info here: -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mount_Hope_III
A document about the operation, censored for security reasons but with plenty of images: -
https://www.scribd.com/document/7084...-from-the-Army

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