Swansey's latest assignment is to arrange the illicit purchase of military helicopters, which he acquires in the form of surplus Bell UH-1s being auctioned from a United States Air Force base in West Germany.

However, word of this transaction is soon leaked to a foreign office of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which applies strong political pressure in an attempt to kill the deal in its cradle.

Meanwhile, Gideon Marunga (Roundtree) is a guerrilla fighter in the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA), ZANU's armed wing.

Marunga learns that the South African authorities are going to allow Swansey and the Rhodesian Special Air Service to stage a mock raid on the airfield where the helicopters are being stored, with the intention of loading them onto Douglas C-47 Dakotas bound for Rhodesia.

The international fallout from the helicopter affair exposes Swansey's illegal activities, and he finds himself unable to continue conducting business outside Rhodesia.

[7] Cuts include an injured soldier being run over by the disabled Land Rover during the early ambush, and the scene towards the end in which Danny Batten confronts and stabs his sister, before he himself is killed with a garden fork, which may have been removed to achieve the lower certificate, while other cuts appear to be for other reasons, such as when Raglan Thistle attends a pro-Zimbabwe demonstration in Hyde Park.