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Justin didn’t envy the ride they were having in the back of his Chinook or the Little Bird gunship that Claudia was flying close behind him. They had discussed diverse scenarios to insert the action team, and the one they’d chosen wasn’t no lazy trot acrost the pasture.
A jump from a high-altitude aircraft was out of the question. Israel had one of the most advanced radar missile-detection systems ever built. It was used to spot incoming Scuds from Jordan or Egypt, or mortars from the West Bank. A plane entering Israeli airspace at any jump-capable altitude would certainly be spotted and fired upon.
Ramon Airbase was eighty kilometers from the nearest international waters so a HAHO jump was also out. By jumping from a high altitude and opening a flying chute right away, a team could
