Red Jackal

Red Jackal
G.I. Joe character
Red Jackal
First appearance	1984 (As toy)
Affiliation	Red Shadows Cobra Command (as Destro)
File name	Anton Nobokov
Birth place	Riga, Latvia
SN	AF 935163
Primary MOS	Hand to hand combat
Secondary MOS	High Speed Driving
Previous affiliations	Z Force (Former) Red Shadows (Former)

Red Jackal (real name Anton Nobokov) is an Action Force action figure and comic book character. He is a Red Shadow and the driver of the Hyena battle tank.

According to his Battle Action Force depiction, Red Jackal (or Anton Nobokov) is a Latvian from Riga who joined the Soviet army, displaying a natural talent for driving, but failed to adjust to other aspects of life in the Soviet military.

After stealing a Commissioner's car and assaulting GRU officers who arrested him, Nobokov was court-martialled. However the charges were dropped after a senior officer realised his potential as a driver and he was transferred to a position as a chauffeur to a top-ranking General.

Whilst on an assignment transferring officials to a conference in Finland, the convoy he was leading was ambushed by Red Shadows (including Hyena tracked vehicles). Nobokov escaped by driving his vehicle into a log-strewn river and using the felled trees as a raft.

He was subsequently recruited by Action Force and assigned to their Z Force unit with the codename Jackal (and Action Force serial number AF 935163), attending a training camp in Turkey. In common with other Action Force characters he was assigned primary ("head and hand combat") and a secondary military specialties ("high-speed driving"). However he once again showed an aversion to comradeship and emerged as a loner, obsessed only with driving.

Whilst on a solo test drive in a Z Force jeep, Jackal was again ambushed by Red Shadows who forced him to crash into a gorge. Despite being critically injured, Baron Ironblood ordered the Red Shadows to recover Nobokov so that he could be operated on by the Red Shadows' own medical specialists.

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