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Published: Mon, 5 Oct 2009
Description: Inside look at newest military tools in war in Afghanistan
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" It's the war at a crossroads. As the administration debates which direction the Afghanistan wars ago. Fox News is getting an inside look at how the troops are fighting insurgents there. Our Casey Stegall reporting on a high tech tools being used in the war zone."
" the US air force has given us unprecedented access to some of the tools in its arsenal. As we wage this war both by ground and by air. From the flight -- it looks like your average plane but from the belly of this -- you quickly realize it's anything but. Once the largest plane in the world the C five galaxy is still the largest bird in the US air force fleet. And can hold supplies equivalent to the weight of about twenty school buses. It's longer and taller than a Boeing 747. And it's what brought our Fox News crew into Afghanistan. From halfway around the world. Once on the ground that are precious cargo bloated we were quickly flowed into the third sister of this war victory. Nowhere is that more apparent than out here on the runways are real melting pot over there you have Canadian C 130. Next to those you have British C 130s in the back you have. Dutch F sixteen fighter jets over in this corner that's -- US marine corps RC 130. Another workhorse the eight. Fighter -- Capable black. 420. Miles an hour and holding sophisticated weapons even suiting up to fly this plane is a chore I quickly found out."
" And it says job one -- working again. Dreamed he'd have Afghanistan tried putting on seventy pounds more than a year."
" In this cockpit and flying. Nine our mission."
" Part of the job. From Kandahar we've flown here are way out west near the Iran border tomorrow we'll introduce you to good 615 contingency response swinging. Known as the 911. Of the US air force Jeb. Eagle reporting earlier in Afghanistan -- there's some."
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