Flight of the Old Dog
by Dale Brown · first published 1987
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Flight of the Old Dog is the runaway bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Dale Brown. It is the riveting story of America's race for technology, overtaken by our greatest enemy's mastery of "Star Wars." The U.S. arsenal of nuclear missiles has been neutralized. America's only hope: The Old Dog Zero One, a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with modern hardware - and equipped with the deadliest state-of-the-art armaments known to man... When the Soviet Union masters "Star Wars" technology, rendering the U.S.'s arsenal of nuclear missiles impotent, America's only hope lies in
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Read "Flight of the Old Dog" by Dale Brown. It's a bit dated by modern standards (it was written in the 80s, when the Soviet Union was still a thing), but still good. I won't spoil it for you, but the book features a heavily modified…
on “After 60 Years, B-52s Still Dominate U.S. Fleet” ↗…with Gentry Lee are decent but become more space opera than hard sci-fi. I enjoyed them but many sci-fi fans find them polarizing. 5. Silver Tower by Dale Brown. More of a military thriller than sci-fi (Flight of the Old Dog is another favorite of mine by him) and terribly dated by modern standards (it was written when the Soviet Union was still a thing). But it's the first "adult" sci-fi book I ever read as a kid, so it'll…
on “Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?” ↗Dale Brown - Flight of the Old Dog
on “Boeing lands $1.2B deal for eight F-15EX fighter jets” ↗…aircraft, or as transferring some of the attributes of the warships to the fighters. Alternatively, the idea could be seen as converging reality with a 1987 techno-thriller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Old_Dog
on “Should Future Fighter Be Like a Bomber? Groundbreaking CSBA Study” ↗Kinda reminds me of Flight of the Old Dog - in that case it was 80's high-tech stuffed in to a B-52, giving it 'escort' capabilities... As many have pointed out, this type of air-to-air platform may make sense for knocking out our current opposition,…
on “Should Future Fighter Be Like a Bomber? Groundbreaking CSBA Study” ↗Makes me want to dig out my copy of Flight of the Old Dog .
on “The B-52 Just Keeps on Flying” ↗It's been all downhill since "The Flight of the Old Dog".
on “Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)” ↗