A sudden Taliban rocket attack shatters the night at Kandahar Airbase, forcing the base commander to dive for cover mid-video call as his terrified children watch from thousands of miles away. Step inside a frontline base under active siege: from the chaotic emergency scramble to treat soldiers hit by lethal, bone-shredding shrapnel, to a cutting-edge NATO hunt utilizing a secret, long-range camera system to spy inside a hostile village 7 miles away. Finally, walk the ultimate minefield with a specialized disposal unit risking everything to unearth a massive, highly volatile graveyard of over 25,000 live Soviet explosives buried right beneath the troops' feet.

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