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SAS Soldiers To Use ‘Transformers’ To Fight ISIS In UK

The SAS have a new deadly weapon in their fight against ISIS terrorist attacks on UK soil. The elite special forces of the British Army could deploy to any part of the UK in the event of a terror attack using a tilt-rotor multi-mission military aircraft nicknamed the “Transformer,” capable of vertical take-off and landing. The Mail On Sunday reports: In the event of an attack, the UK’s elite fighting force will swoop into action on a £43 million heli-plane nicknamed the ‘Transformer’. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that SAS troops on high alert to respond to a Paris-style strike in this country are training to use the V22 Osprey at Stirling Lines, their regimental headquarters at Credenhill, near Hereford. The Osprey is almost twice as fast as the SAS’s current fleet of transport helicopters and can carry at least 24 fully equipped personnel. With a top speed of 360mph it can deploy soldiers from Hereford to London in 30 minutes to bolster the SAS’s anti-terror squad which is permanently based in the capital, and to Manchester in about the same time. The Osprey has machineguns installed in the nose and on the rear ramp. Its range is also [...]