Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoELI5 The Iran-Contra situation? Because it kind of seems dumb that a country who was holding US hostages for so long. Then the US thought hey lets give them money for guns?message-squaremessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareELI5 The Iran-Contra situation? Because it kind of seems dumb that a country who was holding US hostages for so long. Then the US thought hey lets give them money for guns?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square5linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNasan@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-215 days agoBonus detail that didn’t amount to much: one of the plans to rescue the hostages involved developing a rocket assisted takeoff and landing system for a military cargo plane to get a team on the ground to extract the hostages and exfiltrate via said plane using a soccer stadium as an airstrip. Edit: jet and rocket could be used interchangeably but rocket is more accurate in this case.
Bonus detail that didn’t amount to much: one of the plans to rescue the hostages involved developing a rocket assisted takeoff and landing system for a military cargo plane to get a team on the ground to extract the hostages and exfiltrate via said plane using a soccer stadium as an airstrip.
Edit: jet and rocket could be used interchangeably but rocket is more accurate in this case.