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Modern Warfare 4 DMZ Extract
Extraction is the only score that counts in DMZ. Hajin will happily let you fill a backpack and then delete the run on a helicopter ramp. Official tools are helicopters and skyhooks. The helicopter is a twin-rotor with multiple doors. Explosives knock players off instead of neatly killing them — you can be blasted out of a successful extract in the last second.
This page is the rulebook. How to extract in DMZ is the run plan. Geography is Hajin. The loop is DMZ.
Helicopters and skyhooks
Call an exfil, wait the timer, and assume someone else heard it. Hold a trophy on the pad. Do not stand in a cluster on the ramp. Board from more than one door so a single nade does not wipe the trio. If you are solo, you should already be on the pad before the bird is visible — late sprints are how notoriety squads farm.
Skyhooks are the high-risk alternative: faster, louder in their own way, and easier to intercept if you telegraph. Use them when the helicopter timer is a death sentence, not because they look new. Weather on Hajin can make a hook feel safer than a long run across open farmland. That feeling is sometimes correct.
When the extract fails
Tourniquets let you self-stabilize to a wounded state without a full self-revive. You will not last. You need actual medical items after. Melee interrupts both tourniquet and self-revive, which is why camping a downed operator is still a real (if grim) tactic. MIA is the failed raid: you are gone, your trait progress may wipe, your backpack is gone, stash at the FOB remains.
Do not deploy your best operator on a greedy casino vault run. Infinity Ward’s own framing is that your most progressed operator is the one you should hesitate to send. Take a cheaper kit, learn the vault, then send the main. That is the opposite of 6v6 prestige logic and it is the point.
Extract discipline
Set a minute. Minute 25 is a fine first extract even if the backpack is half empty. A half kit in the stash beats a full kit on a corpse. If you completed the Story Mission step, leave. Dynamic Ops can wait. Other players’ notoriety is not your side quest unless you are the bounty.
For the scripted run — infil, one POI, one exfil — use how to extract. For loadout ideas that survive a raid, steal from loadouts but buy the attachments in the FOB Gunsmith with cash.
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Field questions
Frequently asked questions
Can I get blown off the helicopter?+
Yes. Explosives apply knockback. A “successful” board can still become a fall death.
What is a tourniquet?+
A new stabilize tool that puts you in a wounded state. It is not a full self-revive and can be interrupted by melee.
Do I lose stash on MIA?+
Items in the FOB stash stay. Items on your body and in the backpack you carried do not.