It had been many years since he had flown in actual combat, attacking rebels in the Second Chechen War, but he had not forgotten how to fight. “Come right three degrees,” he told the pilot in the seat behind him. Unlike earlier models of the Mi-24, which had a rotating turret, the 30mm autocannons on this machine’s nose were fixed and required the entire aircraft to be lined up on its target. The chopper banked gently. “Hold.” He switched the gunsight’s mode to infrared, the cold landscape becoming a dark gray with hot white spots revealing the Americans that al-Rais had warned him about. Two of the spots were at the shore end of the jetty. The line showing where the cannon shells would impact ran right over them. “Move in.” Small flashes of light on the IR display. The Americans were shooting at him! An act of pure desperation: Even if they scored a hit, the gunship’s armor was impervious to anything smaller than a .50-caliber round. His finger tightened on the trigger, ready to fire … Something flicked through his peripheral vision—not on the screen, but outside the cockpit canopy.
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