Wilco- Lone Wolf 18 by Geoff Wolak

Author:Geoff Wolak [Wolak, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

It took an hour, the day warming up nicely, and a truck was used to re-position a launcher. When ready, Dick hit the switch and ran to us, a whoosh signalling a good launch, the sled falling to earth as the missile flew off north.

Ten minutes later the call came, from Paras in the wadi. ‘Sir, a missile just went right over us! Nearly took our fucking heads off!’

‘What direction was it going?’

‘North, northwest.’

‘Nothing but sand north, must have been a misfire. Relax.’

Men sat around cooking, a brew on as Dick, Sasha and Salome worked on the next missile, this one aimed at a Saudi base that Dick knew of, no US forces based there, bearing 045, just about three hundred miles from us.

Truck revved, battery power built up, the switch was thrown, the would-be engineers running for cover. A whoosh, and the missile flew off, but suddenly climbed and veered left.

‘Shit!’ came from Dick.

‘Get to cover!’ I shouted as the missile circled us at about 500ft before climbing away and heading west. It came back over five minutes later, the team in hysterics as my phone trilled.

‘Wilco.’

‘It’s Slider, we saw a missile!’

‘What direction?’

‘Came from the west, heading east, but was erratic.’

‘OK, I’ll warn them.’ I took out my aircraft radio. ‘Ground Wilco to any US Navy in the vicinity of previously bombed camps.’

‘Ground Wilco, this is AWACS, receiving.’

‘Cruise missile has been launched, shoot it down!’

‘We have a radar contact, looks like an aircraft not a missile.’

‘It’s a fucking missile! Find it!’ I turned the radio off.

Moran said, ‘Let’s not report this one, eh.’

Dick pointed, and we looked up, a con trail seen as the missile climbed and curved around south, heading west, now up at around 7,000ft.

‘Look!’ Nicholson shouted, and we peered west, two F18s seen chasing the rogue cruise missile west.

‘Dick, another missile, please, a good one this time.’

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