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A fact from Operation Rooster 53 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 November 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that on December 26 and 27, 1969 during the War of Attrition the elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal kidnapped a whole Egyptian P-12 radar system in a mission called Operation Rooster 53?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/November.

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Kidnap?[edit]

You can't kidnap a thing, only people can be kidnapped - use some other word.

Unit Participation[edit]

Sayeret Tzanhanim participated in this operation as well.

Tomcat200 28 May 2006

Weight problem[edit]

The article lacks the weight problem: The radar was heavier than the Sikorsky could carry. The pilot barely made it to Israeli shore. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.139.3.102 (talk) 18:44, 9 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

"The four-ton radar caravan was actually heavier than the CH-53 was designed to carry and soon endangered the safe completion of the operation. The cables connecting the radar to the helicopter were streching the ribs of the aircraft which in turn caused a hydrolic pipeline to rupture. Faced with either releasing the radar or loosing control of the aircraft and crashing, the captain of the helicopter managed to cross the water line into Israel. With the last of its Hydrolic pressure, the Helicopter set down the radar and landed besides it. The second CH-53 which had already arrived with its lighter load, was sent back to retrieve the radar from the crash landing site. Once again the heavy load almost caused the helicopter to crash but the radar was finally delivered to the designated point, into the hands of awaiting intelligence specialists."