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In the comic books, it is hidden under the desert near the Joe's Utah headquarters. Its knowledge is limited only to official members of the G.I. Joe team, raising suspicion among a new group of Joe rookies. They would have been told, except for a paperwork error. After an incident where the Crawler almost runs over two Joe vehicles parked outside the top-level Quonset huts, rookies Chuckles and Psyche-Out sneak out. They discover the machine's tracks leading to undisturbed sand. They do not understand it has hidden itself underground.
It is these very tracks which would later bring misery to the Joe team. Satellite photos of the vanishing treads (and a badly timed G.I.Joe football game) are what lead Cobra forces to know where the headquarters is located. This leads to a later battle.
The Defiant and crew are featured in G.I.Joe Special Missions #28. Payload, Slipstream and Ace take the Defiant into low orbit to discover if Cobra can detect a new military base in the fictional country of Punta Del Mucosa. Payload breaks off the mission to save several teammates, utilizing the Defiant's guns to destroy a Cobra jet fighter. At the end of the issue; Payload makes a safe landing on the USS Flagg. The craft is then featured in a splash page that breaks the fourth wall as #28 is the last issue of the Special Missions line.
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