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Border soldiers in the damaged landing zone (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

heliport

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'landing zone' is the definition.
'heliport' can be an answer for 'landing' (thesaurus). I'm unsure of the 'zone' bit.

'border soldiers in the damaged' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'border' could be 'lip' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'lip' is found in the answer.
'soldiers' could be 'or' (Other Ranks) and 'or' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'the' is 'het' which is located in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for heliport that I've seen before include "Home for choppers?" , "Site for vertical take-off" , "Landing pad" , "Landing-place" , "Rotary-winged landing place" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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