Flight of the old dog : a novel

Flight of the Old Dog is the runaway bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Dale Brown. It is the riveting story of America's race for technology, overtaken by our greatest enemy's mastery of "Star Wars." The U.S. arsenal of nuclear missiles has been neutralized. America's only hope: The Old Dog Zero One, a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with modern hardware - and equipped with the deadliest state-of-the-art armaments known to man... When the Soviet Union masters "Star Wars" technology, rendering the U.S.'s arsenal of nuclear missiles impotent, America's only hope lies in The Old Dog Zero One--a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with enough weaponry and stealth hardware to earn it the nickname, "Megafortress." -From Goodreads The unthinkable has happened. The Soviet Union has mastered "Star Wars" technology before the United States-has, in fact, neutralized American's arsenal of nuclear missiles with a killer laser that can direct its superheated beam of energy to targets across the globe. Confronted by the loss of its nuclear shield and weakened by a series of provocative attacks, the United States calls on the one bomber in its fleet capable of destroying the laser before it is too late: the Old Dog Zero One, a battle-scarred veteran of countless campaigns which has had its antiquated weapons-systems removed and replaced with never-before-used, state of the art armaments and stealth hardware. TO this latter day phoenix falls the near impossible task of outwitting Russia's air defense. Crewed by an intrepid group of six men and women, the Old Dog challenges wave upon wave of surface to air missiles and swarms of deadly MiG fighters on its way to deliver a payload that threatens to touch off World War III. Rarely, if ever, in fiction or fact, has there been a dramatization of aerial combat this authentic- a dramatization of aerial combat this that powerfully demonstrated the degree to which the technology of war is limited, and enhanced, by the human players on stage The unthinkable has happened. The Soviet Union has beaten the West in the technological stakes. It has neutralised America’s nuclear arsenal with a killer laser that can direct its superheated energy beam at targets across the globe. In a desperate attempt to counter this threat the United States activates the one bomber in its fleet capable of taking out the laser installation before it is too late: Old Dog Zero One, a battle-scarred veteran B-52, stripped of its antiquated hardware and rearmed with the latest state-of-the-art weaponry. In a suspenseful and spellbinding dramatisation of aerial combat, the bomber and its crew will have to challenge wave upon wave of surface-to-air missiles and swarms of deadly MiG fighters. Patrick McLanahan leads a crew of engineers aboard the "Old Dog" to destroy a Soviet ground-based laser site. One of the world's classic military action-adventure novels. Patrick McLanahan leads a crew of engineers aboard the "Old Dog" to destroy a Soviet ground-based laser site