"Mack Bolan - Stony Man - Triple Strike" - читать интересную книгу автора (Bolan Mack)

hot and let the mysterious black boxes in the belly
of his bird do their thing. If whoever it was that the
brass wanted him to find was down there, he'd find
him or her.
Checking his nay screen, he saw that he was ap-
proaching the end of this leg of his search pattern
and got ready to make his next scheduled turn. It was
a moonless night, which made his matte black air-
craft invisible to sight, as well as to radar, but at
twelve thousand feet, Hammer really didn't have to
worry about anyone on the ground seeing him any-

way. He was in his own world with only the stars
for company.
"Zero Seven Five," the voice of the airborne mis-
sion controller orbiting to the west over the Adriatic
Sea came over the earphones in his helmet. "This is
Blue Bell Control, over."
"Seven Five, go." Hammer felt his adrenaline
surge as he clicked in his throat mike. On this kind
of mission, the AWACS plane wouldn't be talking
to him unless it was important. One of the rules of
stealth on this kind of mission was that he didn't use
his radio except in an emergency. Radio transmis-
sions could be detected and used to track his flight
path the same as radar.
"This is Control," the AWACS answered. "Be
advised that we have picked up a bogey heading your
way, vector two-eight-niner. Over."
Hammer automatically looked out of the curved
canopy as he reached over to switch on his own air-
borne radar. Per SOP, Night Owl pilots made their
recon runs with their radars shut down so enemy air-
craft or ground stations couldn't pick up their emis-
sions and track them, either.
"Seven Five. Do you have an ID on him, over?"
he asked as his radar screen flickered on.
"That's a negative," Blue Bell answered. "But
he's coming on fast, Mach 1.4. Over."
Suddenly Hammer saw a shadow block out the
stars in front of him, and he knew he was screwed
big-time. Slamming the control stick forward, he put




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his plane into a steep dive, but it wasn't fast enough.
The other pilot apparently saw him at the same time