Credible Sport was a back up then primary plan for the Iran hostage rescue using some crazily modified C-130 that had JATO rockets that where supposed to allow it to land VSTOL had a lot of problems and then they got let go so no more need for it.
Egale Claw failed because we lacked a specialist helo unit back then (no 160th Night Stalkers)and we just did not have the pilots trained for such a mission to work and we also had bad planning we did not know about the sand storms that pop up in Iran.The whole incident was learned from because they formed the 160th a few years later and the concept of the V-22 Osprey was largely inspired by the need for such an aircraft which we did not have back then.Eagle Claw also resulted in the formation of SOCOM.
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