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Daemon hadn’t quite expected that.
A little straying.
Three bad nav computers. Would have been four if the fourth jet hadn’t gone in for service at the last moment—she hadn’t noticed the airframe changeout. Too late to reprogram the replacement’s onboard systems.
A North Korean Shenyang J-5 or J-6, just as old and primitive as the A-10s but much less well maintained, should have come up and chased them back out of the territory. The report should have been about failing equipment on the aging Thunderbolts.
Instead, North Korea had just sent five million dollars’ worth of missiles aloft to kill four pre-historic jets.
It was quite the show.
She played it back again from a different angle—the US had a vast array of surveillance cameras along the entire DMZ. It only took a moment to
