And the Meek Shall Inherit (Harbinger of Change Book 2) by Timothy Jon Reynolds

Author:Timothy Jon Reynolds [Reynolds, Timothy Jon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: suspense, thriller
Publisher: American Pride Press
Published: 2016-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

5 – Precipice

U.S. Air Force Major Woody Park was wondering if he would ever get this bird out for a spin. His modified 747 was now called the YAL-1, or the ABL (Airborne Laser Anti-Ballistic Missile Weapons System). They’d had it in a hangar in Keflavik, Iceland, for some years now.

Every now and then the IT guys would show up and handle some Technology Insertion or conduct Advance Processor Builds to upgrade their systems, but they still never got to take it out of the hanger. He knew that they had the next generation of these planes, but even the next generation was soon to be mothballed around here. Soon they would have unmanned aircraft to do his job. What then?

These planes could easily start another Cold War if they proved to be too lethal against a sub’s ability to strike back in case of a sneak attack on its home country. With lots of time to muse and play cards, Woody and his co-pilot, Lt. Dave Dutton, talked about all these scenarios. One of the ones they talked about would be the day they were called out of their hangar in the middle of the day and scrambled in an unbelievable five minutes! The brains in charge had figured out a fuel replacement system that enabled them to keep her fueled at all times. Since the base was decommissioned some time ago, being here was by a special deal between the two governments. So no test flights were allowed, not even at night, which made the quick scramble even more impressive.

All the testing was done in the U.S., but thirty minutes ago they became a secret no more. He was given a route to fly and his fuel capacity enabled him to loop it many times before refueling was needed.

It felt good to be out and about even though he knew the why. He’d been given the warning that there was to be an imminent missile launch and he was to wait for intercept orders. Apparently they were running the fail safe for the current mission. His plane carried a Mega-Watt Class Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) that could reach out and get a missile at over three hundred miles—theoretically. Although the farthest test he knew of was a hundred kilometers.

Just like that, the launch detector warning went off and radar picked it up at only fifty miles. He felt like a fisherman who walked up to a lake, threw in a line and landed a “trophy fish.” Only this trophy fish was of the nuclear variety. Both of them had goose bumps without even realizing it as the reality of watching a real launch was something that until this moment seemed like complete fiction.

Woody thought no one is ready for this reality, even if it’s his or her job to thwart it. He was confused by the launch, however, as the sub had to have seen them approaching, yet no anti-aircraft defenses were launched in their direction?

His targeting

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