It was an Army Op, so MH47 is their flying machine....great capability for night sneaking into town. On 1/3/2026 16:39, Marc Liebman wrote:
Amen…..
This was a cool op, kinda like the hit on Bin Laden. Back in the good old days, this was called a “body snatch….”
BTW, note three things. One, no MV-22s or at least none in the released photos, even those taken by folks in Caracas…. Two, what we deployed was overkill. Three, operating F-35As from Roosevelt Roads required tanking. Its 500 NM from Roosevelt Roads to Caracas. I know this sounds parochial, but a carrier air wing could have done this by itself augmented by F-35Bs off the /Iwo Jima /unless it was chock-ablock with 160^th helos//but then again, this is a purple world and everybody had to play.
Marc Liebman
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Thanks to Brian Miller on this list who has been sharing what he has been seeing over the last several weeks during his Frontier flights in and out of various places where our forces were for this action. Great discussion and pictures of parts of this package….mgb
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