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Daily Mirror
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Nigel Nelson

SAS 'will lose vital minutes' as they can only parachute out of one side of new plane

SAS parachutists will lose vital minutes in battle because they can only jump out of one side of their new plane, according to a former Defence minister.

Labour MP Kevan Jones says special forces can now hop out of their Hercules C130-J transports from both sides.

But the aircraft are due to be replaced in six months by Airbus’s A400M Atlas which is not yet capable of symmetric parachuting.

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