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EX500rider

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4. Not surprising

Reply to wcmagumba (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 5, 2026, 04:48 PM

Sunday

When you have a temp air strip/fwd arming & refueling point deep in enemy territory you have little time to do what you got to do and get gone.
2 planes sink enough in the sand to be stuck and blow em and leave is about all you have time for, you certainly don't have time or the equipment for much else.

Still a better outcome then the cluster during Operation Eagle Claw where they ran into each other in a sand storm and killed eight servicemen, also at a temp FARP deep in Iran in 1980.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw

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All I see is wasted money. CousinIT Sunday #1

Around $200 million worth NickB79 Sunday #3

So, our all mighty US military is reduced to destroying three of its own aircraft which were "stuck in the mud"...WTF? wcmagumba Sunday #2

Not surprising EX500rider Sunday #4