Explores a state of the art training facility where Cobra snipers, abseilers and explosive experts demonstrate the unit's ability to engage and defeat an enemy with speed, flexibility and decisive force. From the forests of Austria, Elite Special Forces travels to the streets of New York City where it fell upon the elite members of the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit to thwart a deadly gang of suicide bombers plotting to bomb one of the city's busiest subway lines. -- Cover.

Includes Operation Thunderbolt, the Entebbe hostage rescue