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  • Soldiers play chicken with Harrier jump jet (video)

    10/12/2006 7:15:56 AM PDT · by rawhide · 58 replies · 4,901+ views
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 10/12/2006 | Daily Mail
    Defence bosses dismissed footage of British soldiers apparently playing "chicken" with a low flying Harrier jump jet as servicemen "letting off steam". The 15-second video of the daredevil game was apparently filmed at Kandahar air base in southern Afghanistan. It showed one soldier standing with his back towards the horizon as the £40 million war plane approaches at high speed. The Harrier, capable of speeds of up to 660mph, can be seen and heard approaching as his colleagues behind the camera egg him on. But as it thunders just metres overhead the soldier glances over his shoulder and dives to...