Brits Make a Cannoball Run

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How do you take 220 tons of turbine equipment, worth tens of millions of doolars, across 100 miles of some of the most hostile and heavily mined and Taliban contested territory in Afghanistan?

Reader A.M. sends this article in the Times UK that describes the daring mission...

Triumph for British forces in Boy's Own-style Kajaki mission
Jeremy Page in Kajaki

It was 2.30am when the convoy finally reached Camp Zeebrugge, crawling through the moonless night like a herd of prehistoric beasts, headlights peering into the dust ahead, brakes squealing at the stars above.

As attack helicopters circled overhead, and mortar rounds thumped in the distance, the first of the juggernauts came into sight - a 36-wheel, 34-tonne tank transporter carrying a container plastered in Koranic verses.

Then came another. And another. And more and more until the entire road through the camp was blocked by a procession of lorries, mine-clear-ers, bulldozers and armoured personnel carriers that stretched at times for more than 2 1/2 miles...

Go read the rest at the Times UK.  It involved hundreds of SOF, thousands of troops, fighter jets, attack helicopters and one springer spaniel...

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Brits Make a Cannoball Run

How do you take 220 tons of turbine equipment, worth tens of millions of doolars, across 100 miles of some of the most hostile and heavily mined and Taliban contested territory in Afghanistan?

Reader A.M. sends this article in the Times UK that describes the daring mission...

Triumph for British forces in Boy's Own-style Kajaki mission
Jeremy Page in Kajaki

It was 2.30am when the convoy finally reached Camp Zeebrugge, crawling through the moonless night like a herd of prehistoric beasts, headlights peering into the dust ahead, brakes squealing at the stars above.

As attack helicopters circled overhead, and mortar rounds thumped in the distance, the first of the juggernauts came into sight - a 36-wheel, 34-tonne tank transporter carrying a container plastered in Koranic verses.

Then came another. And another. And more and more until the entire road through the camp was blocked by a procession of lorries, mine-clear-ers, bulldozers and armoured personnel carriers that stretched at times for more than 2 1/2 miles...

Go read the rest at the Times UK.  It involved hundreds of SOF, thousands of troops, fighter jets, attack helicopters and one springer spaniel...

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