Warzone/The Drive: Special Operators Fly Across Moscow Skyline On Tactical Platform Slung Below Mi-8 Helo
The spectacle caused plenty of confusion, but the system seen in action is used globally by counter-terror units to quickly access tight areas.
There was a flurry of videos and photos coming out of Russia on Friday showing what appeared to be people standing on an octagon-shaped disk-like apparatus that was attached to a Mi-8 helicopter via a long line. The helicopter was accompanied by at least one other Mi-8 as they descended toward the Kremlin. Although helicopters are a constant presence over Moscow, and especially near the Kremlin which has large landing pads that often receive the Mi-8MTIs that ferry President Putin around, as well as far more exotic government choppers, there usually aren't people performing what appears to be a grand circus act of sorts hanging below them. The reality is that what people actually saw was Russia's elite counter-terror operators training with a device known in the special operations community as Airborne Tactical Extraction Platform, or AirTEP for short.
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WNU Editor: It is just me .... but I always get nervous when I see military helicopters flying in and out of the Kremlin.
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They are filming the next in the 'Fallen' series.
"The Kremlin has Fallen"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Has_Fallen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Has_Fallen
Hollywood knows how to beat a dead horse.
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