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Weapons

AIM-9X—American heat-seeking air-to-air missile

AK-12—Russian assault rifle

AMRAAM—Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, American radar-guided air-to-air missile

AN/APG-77—American advanced aircraft radar system

AN/PRC-162—American handheld tactical radio

Anza Mk III—Pakistani shoulder-fired antiaircraft missile

F-22 Raptor—American fifth-generation fighter aircraft

FPS-117—American phased array air surveillance radar

HC-130J—American combat search-and-rescue aircraft

IL-38—Russian radar-equipped patrol plane

IL-78M-90A—Russian aerial refueling aircraft

IRBIS-E—Russian advanced passively scanned phased array fighter radar

IRST—Infrared Search and Track, Russian passive air detection and tracking system

Kamov Ka-60 Kosatka—Russian medium-range troop transport helicopter

Korshun-KN-N—Russian long-range aerial search radar

Mil Mi-26T2—Russian heavy-lift helicopter

RC-135V—American reconnaissance aircraft

Tu-95—Russian long-range bomber aircraft

Tu-142—Russian long-range reconnaissance aircraft, converted from the Tu-95 bomber

Tu-214R—Russian advanced long-range reconnaissance aircraft

Acronyms

ACAWS—Advisory, Caution, and Warning System; aircraft systems alerting system

ARCC—Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, directs rescue responses in Alaska

ARTCC—Air Route Traffic Control Center, American wide-range air traffic control

AWACS—Airborne Warning and Control System, American aerial radar system

CSAR—Combat Search and Rescue

DEFCON—Defense Condition, a series of coordinated actions in response to a military crisis

DNI—Director of National Intelligence, American executive in charge of all intelligence agencies

ECR—Emergency Conference Room, American Pentagon meeting area

ELINT—Electronic Intelligence

GRU—Glavnoje Razvedyvatel’noje Upravlenije, Russian military intelligence

HUD—Heads-Up Display, a system that displays flight and weapons information so a pilot does not have to look down to readit

HUMINT—Human Intelligence

JBER—abbreviation for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, American military installation near Anchorage, Alaska

JCS—Joint Chiefs of Staff, the senior uniformed leaders of the six branches of the American military

MILES—Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System, a “laser tag” infantry training system

NORAD—North American Aerospace Defense Command, the joint American-Canadian command that directs air defense of North America

RAOC—Regional Air Operations Center, a U.S. Air Force unit that directs airborne air defense activities

RCAF—Royal Canadian Air Force

RCS—radar cross-section, a value relating to an object being detected by radar

RWR—radar warning receiver, a device that detects and classifies radar energy

SecDef—abbreviation for the American secretary of defense

SIGINT—Signals Intelligence, the process of obtaining, identifying, and disseminating radio signals

SVR—Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service

About the Author

DALE BROWN is the New York Times best-selling author of numerous books, from Flight of the Old Dog (1987) to, most recently, Eagle Station (2020). A former U.S. Air Force captain, he can often be found flying his own plane in the skies of the United States. Helives near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

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Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiouslyand are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead,is entirely coincidental.

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