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It was April 7, 2003, and the aircraft was flying fast, too fast. Captain Eric Das and Major William Watkins were aboard one of the most sophisticated flying machines ever built, the F15E Strike Eagle, on a desperate interdiction mission to support US special forces fighting at Tikrit, Iraq.
The F15E is capable of Mach 2.5 speeds and is armed with a dozen laser-guided missiles, an APG70 radar to detect any hostile forces from a long range, and two LANTIRN pods that can strike any objective with pin-point accuracy under any weather conditions.
Das and Watkins knew that once there, it was only a matter of seconds before they could locate their targets and drop their ordnance to get the job done.
However, they weren’t ready for the overwhelming anti-aircraft fire surrounding the Iraqi city, and they would have to use every state-of-the-art countermeasure in their arsenal if they wanted to make it out alive…
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