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An SAS soldier ready for the aborted operation Mikado. The plan harked back to the regiments origins, raiding German airfields in North Africa.

The operation was planned during the Falklands war to knock out the Argentine Air Force's anti-ship Exocet missiles. Two Hercules aircraft loaded with 60 troops and armed land rovers were to land at the Rio Grande air base at Tierra del Fuego and destroy any aircraft and armaments present. Following the attack the surviving troops and aircrews were to make for friendly Chile either in surviving aircraft or on foot.
It was widely believed by those ordered to carry out the operation that the whole thing was a suicide mission. The raid was eventually aborted, it later transpired that the airfield was defended by three battalions of Argentine Marines.

Description
An SAS soldier ready for the aborted operation Mikado. The plan harked back to the regiments origins, raiding German airfields in North Africa.

The operation was planned during the Falklands war to knock out the Argentine Air Force's anti-ship Exocet missiles. Two Hercules aircraft loaded with 60 troops and armed land rovers were to land at the Rio Grande air base at Tierra del Fuego and destroy any aircraft and armaments present. Following the attack the surviving troops and aircrews were to make for friendly Chile either in surviving aircraft or on foot.
It was widely believed by those ordered to carry out the operation that the whole thing was a suicide mission. The raid was eventually aborted, it later transpired that the airfield was defended by three battalions of Argentine Marines.