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“Are you seeing this?” Holly whispered to Jeremy.
“Seeing what?”
She should have known better than to ask him. They were halfway down the cargo bay, inspecting each of the destroyed helicopters as they went.
Jeremy proceeded to answer the wrong question. “Every single helo shows the same pattern. There was heavy fire damage, then each airframe was subjected to a high-pressure blast event originating near the front of the aircraft.” He lined up five separate parts—chunks of shredded metal—on the cargo deck.
“That’s the nose section of a Kamov Ka-52 Alligator.” She’d know it anywhere—one of those had nearly killed her in Syria.
Jeremy made a note to that effect, then photographed the parts lying together. “Am I seeing it? They all exhibit the same burn pattern, before they were torn
