Hogs #2: Hog Down
“By then it was far too late for anything he could do to have much of an effect, but he didn’t think about that. He keyed his mike to give the warning, and in practically the same motion he pushed the nose of his plane down and smashed the trigger, hoping that his flailing bullets would suppress any more fire. He couldn’t hold the angle well enough to nail the target, which passed by in a blur; he tried rolling and diving back but even A-Bomb could only bend Newton’s laws so far. He got a good glimpse of the bastard, though— a Roland SAM launcher, sitting atop an AMX tank chassis and just about ready to dish up another missile.
At him.
He yanked the Hog hard to the north, goosing the throttle and hunkering down, wondering why the Scuds hadn’t caused a big enough explosion to take out the Roland. The Hog’s ECM unit was useless against the missile’s Siemens J-band low-PRF tracking radar, which used techniques perfected well after the pod came on line. All he could do was jink and fly like hell.
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