I read this in a Solid Snake "Metal Gear?!" voice in my head.

Fulton surface-to-air recovery system. The real one is you use a balloon to extract something/someone from a field and a plane snaps it up with a hook. In some of the Metal Gear Solid games, you get super silly things like retreating from the field by putting a massive Fulton balloon on a large cargo container, hopping on top of it, and that gets snapped up by a helicopter.