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Flight of the Old Dog (Patrick McLanahan, Bk 1)
Flight of the Old Dog - Patrick McLanahan, Bk 1 Author:Dale Brown When the Soviet Union masters "Star Wars" technology, rendering the United State'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."
Dale Brown is just at the top of his game. From start to finish it is solid edge of the seat suspense. This gentleman has the power to hold your interest from start to finish. Dale Brown is a great writer.
Dan Brown at his military best. He is a great tech writer for military buffs and the plot was OK for the era it was written in. I do recomend it for aviation fans because as far as I can tell, not being an airforce pilot just an airforce wife, very accurate in the details.
This is a fun little sci-fi/military fiction about an older plane being used as a testbed for new technology becoming the most important single aircraft in the whole world.
This is set back a few years, with the Cold War still running strong, and some of the 'futuristic' technology feels a little dated and cumbersome, but is still believable.
Good military action novel, but it contained a lot of technical jargon/information. At first I tried to keep up with the technical passages, but eventually I just skimmed over them.
Techno thriller near future: The unthinkable has happened. The Soviet Union has mastered Star Wars technology before the U.S. and has neutralized America's arsenal of nuclear missles with a killer laser that can direct its superheated beam of energy to targets across the globe. Confronted by the loss of its nucler shield and weakened by a series of provocative attacks, the U.S. 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 veteral of countless campaigns which has had its antiquated weapons-systems removed and replaced with never-yet-used state-of-the-art armaments and stealth hardware. To this antiquated phoenix is given the near impossible task of outwitting Russia's air defense. Crewed by an intrepid group of men and women, the Old Dog challenges all that Russia can send against it.
Great suspense, good characters. I almost made myself late to work the following day because I couldn't put it down without knowing how things turned out.
