U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Actually the fact that it involved Cubans did make a bit of sense the Soviets would have to use Cuba as an FOB for its airborne forces to be able to load up on IL-76s and drop over the US.

That's what I was thinking...But...In the movie, Soviet paratroopers land in Colorado. The IL-76 doesn't have that kind of range to get to Colorado and back does it?

Even if it did, how did it get past Radar? NORAD and stuff.... Would they have flown in the commercial lanes and pretended to be airliners? If they did that, how could they have gotten that far?

Cuba would make sense as an FOB but wouldn't you think they would go for the East Coast and Gulf Coast rather than Colorado?