"Dale Brown - Flight Of The Old Dog" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brown Dale)

antiaircraft artillery, and prowling patrols of the most advanced
interceptors in the world.

I.P inbound in three minutes. crew." First Lieutenant David Luger
announced over the interphone. He was following the B-52's course on a
narrow cardboard chart. mentally measuring the distance and computing
the time to the I.P. or "initial point," the start of a low-altitude
nuclear bomb run. Time to start reviewing checklists, Luger thought.

The action was going to start soon.

He glanced down at the plastic-covered checklist pages.

anticipating each step of the "Before Initial Point" and "Bomb Run
(Nuclear)" checklists before he came to it. Long years of training had
enabled him to fix in his mind the exact details of what he was about
to do.

-SRAM missile pre-simulated launch check, completed." he said.

"Computer launch programming completed."

No one acknowledged him. but he had not expected a reply.

The checklist had been reviewed hours earlier. As Luger reread the
checklist items over the interphone to key everyone else that the
busiest portion of the ten -hour sortie was about to begin. he found
himself squirming in his seat. trying to get comfortable.

"Radios set to RBS frequency." Luger said. He glanced at his chart
annotations. "Two seventy-five Point three," "Set," Mark Martin. the
co-pilot replied. -RBS bomb scoring plot is set in both radios. I'll
call I.P inbound when cleared by the radar."

"Camera on, one -to-four," Luger announced, flicking would now record
the bomb run and missile - A special camera small black knob near his
right shoulder a e launches on thirty five millimeter film for later
study. "E.W.

measures point in sixty seconds." start-counter "Defense copies,"
First Lieutenant Hawthorne replied, double-checking his jammer and
trackbreaker switch Positions.

The same age as Luger, Hawthorne was the E.W or electronic-warfare
officer. His job was to defend the B-52 against attack by jamming or
decoying enemy surface-to-air missile or artillery-tracking radars, and
to warn the crew of missile or aircraft attacks.

"Rog, Luger said. "Checklist complete." He checked the
Ai TG meter, an antique gear-and-pulley dial that showed the time in