The Grail by Robert Doherty

Author:Robert Doherty [Doherty, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Space ships, Area 51 (Nev.), High Tech, Extraterrestrial beings, Political, General, Science Fiction, Adventure, Grail, Fiction, Espionage
ISBN: 9780440234951
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2001-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

160

and loaded it into the top of the gun. "Want to give it a try?" Turcotte picked up the heavy gun and aimed out the hangar doors into the desert.

"You have a laser aiming sight," Graves said, "that is turned on when you activate the gun's main power—the switch is there. When you're wearing the suit, you'll get an aiming point on your screen that's one hundred percent accurate."

Turcotte turned the gun on and aimed at a small boulder on the edge of the runway. He pulled the trigger. There was no report as it fired, but a loud pinging sound. The rock disintegrated as the round smashed into it.

"It'll go through any body armor made," Graves said. "High tension, pre-loaded, ten rounds per cylinder. Pulling the trigger releases the spring. The barrel is electromagnetically balanced so mat the round goes right down the center, never touching the walls and thus not losing any velocity and staying true to target. That's why you have to turn the gun on—to charge the barrel and to rotate the cylinder. It fires the rounds as quickly as you pull the trigger, which unfortunately is not as fast as you can pull the trigger. It's as fast as the weapon will allow. The trigger locks up until the barrel is set. The cylinder also rotates, aligning a new round. You can fire once every second. When the system is attached to the firing arm of the TASC-suit, the suit's power system will allow you to handle it with more ease than you can here.

"We also have the Mark 99." He tapped another gun that looked just like the Mark 98. "The only difference with this one is that it can fire a high-explosive round. Better than the M-203 grenade launcher and more accurate. Combine that with the fact the suit can take hits 161

from small arms up to and including 7.62mm machine gun fire, we've got a big advantage over the bad guys."

Turcotte was pleased with that. "Communications?"

"Integrated secure SATCOM."

Turcotte considered that. Not much help underwater or underground. "What about among team members?"

"FM capability."

That would restrict them to line of sight. Better than nothing, Turcotte allowed.

"Let's run you through your suit orientation," Graves said. '

Down below in the Cube's main room, Larry Kincaid was staring at a computer screen feeding him live images from the Hubble of the surface of Mars. Quinn had managed to wheedle more live time off of the scope, but Kincaid had a feeling he was going to get shut down soon.

The mech-robots directed by the guardian on Mars had uncovered something, of that there was no doubt. Something that had been destroyed long ago and covered with rubble. There were still mechs at the site, but only a fraction of those had cleared away the rubble. The imagery wasn't detailed enough to know exactly what the object was or what they were doing. All he could make out was a network of black metal. And it was moving.

Kincaid stared at the imagery for several moments.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.