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    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".
    The US Army’s Night Stalkers Once Helped Steal an Attack Helicopter From the African Desert
    https://tacairnet.com/2015/05/12/hind-heist/
    Back in the 1980s, when it still existed, the Soviet Union maintained a number of “friendly” relationships with a variety of African and Asian nations, mostly for the purposes of sellin…


    More info here: -
    Operation Mount Hope III - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mount_Hope_III

    A document about the operation, censored for security reasons but with plenty of images: -
    Operation Mount Hope III Documents from the Army
    https://www.scribd.com/document/70843061/Operation-Mount-Hope-III-Documents-from-the-Army
    Operation Mount Hope III was a 1988 mission by the US Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment to recover a Russian-built Mi-25 Hind helicopter from northern Chad. After months of planning, two CH-47 Chinook helicopters flew nearly 500 nautical miles under night vision goggles to reach the target, where they successfully sling loaded the Hind helicopter and returned to base, making two refueling stops. On the final leg, they encountered a severe sandstorm but managed to land just before it hit the airfield. The mission was completed successfully within 67 hours and provided the US with an intact example of the Hind helicopter for countermeasures research.
    Last edited by StainlessSteelCynic; 07-17-2018, 06:35 AM. Reason: Clarifying information
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    Yup - welcome to the real life application of Operation Harvester that AFRICOM put into place to gather any operable planes or helicopters they could get their hands on

    If you look at my sourcebook you can see that they grabbed two AB 205's from Zambia and one Mi-8T from Ethiopia (as well as aircraft from anywhere they could get their hands on them)

    1st Battalion/160th Special Operations Aviation, Task Force Kilo Three
    Manpower: 140 men
    Aviation: four AH-6J, two MH-60L DAP, four MH-60K, two AB 205 (ex-Zambia), one Mi-8T (ex-Ethiopia)

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