Firefox
- PG
- Year:
- 1982
- 136 min
- 782 Views
One target left.
Rejoin to the west. I'll clean up.
Lead, this is 3 Watch.
37 mm off the left.
Roger. Rolling in left.
Leave your cover. Get out of there.
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
I've been hit 20 miles
southeast of San Juan. Heading 1-3-0.
Major Gant?
Can you hear me?
Sorry we had to surprise you like that.
Come on, get him out of here.
This was taken on Friday.
It is the secret complex at Bilyarsk.
If you look at the top right corner,
you will make out the main hangar.
Could we...?
This is a detail of that section.
Take a good look...
...because we have every reason to believe
you're looking at the Firefox.
When the first rumors began to filter
out of the Soviet Union...
...our theoretical weapons strategists
stood before NATO to explain...
...with confidence, that it would take
the Soviets a minimum of 10 years...
...to develop a Mach 5 aircraft
with thought-control weapons.
I stand before you today to explain,
with much regret...
...that they were wrong.
At 0400 hours, on Thursday...
...we were stunned by the encoded
transmission...
...that sits in front of you.
-General Rogers?
-Along with satellite surveillance...
...planes were flown up Saturday over
the Turkish-Soviet border, roughly here.
And the Finnish-Soviet border, here.
Using the information
of Dr. Baranovich...
...about the time and flight path
of the Firefox...
...we monitored the arena
formed by these coordinates...
...here, with our most sophisticated
radar devices.
Except for a flight of cranes headed south,
nothing entered that airspace all day.
We checked immediately
with our source in Bilyarsk.
The Firefox flew,
and flew at the exact time...
...and within the specified coordinates
given to us by Dr. Baranovich.
We are left with only one explanation.
It is quite inescapable.
The Soviets have developed some
sort of anti-radar capability for the aircraft.
The Firefox is...
...to all intents and purposes...
...invisible.
All right, captain.
You came 5000 miles for this.
-Let's hear it.
-Captain Buckholz, sir.
It's been, what, three years now?
You're still keeping in shape. That's good.
A lot of people miss you back home, major.
All the guys think you must have
sprouted wings and flown away.
I had one hell of a time
tracking you down.
Look at these figures!
Fifty thousand pounds of thrust, per!
These Tumanskys deliver an excess
in a capacity of 100 percent.
Combat ceiling, 120,000 feet plus.
Note the increase in capacity,
100 percent.
Speed in excess of Mach 5, even Mach 6,
and able to maintain it.
Our best body design begins to melt...
...at Mach 3.
It should be very clear why the Soviets...
...were willing to risk using
a man like Baranovich.
A genius in theoretical physics, yes...
...but still a prisoner,
and a dissident Jew.
as far as we can ascertain...
...one of the most advanced
ever conceived.
detection devices...
...with a thought-guided,
thought-controlled arsenal...
...onboard the plane.
The pilot's actual brain emissions
are translated into a central computer...
...through sensors in his helmet.
Whatever target the pilot chooses
is instantly destroyed...
...without his even pressing a button.
Or, as quickly as his eye
detects a threat...
...either visually
or on one of his scopes...
...his thought impulses are guiding
a missile to that threat.
This amounts to a two- to three-second
speed advantage...
...in reaction and attack time over
any defensive system we have today.
If the Soviets can mass-produce it...
...it will change
the structure of our world.
We at the S.I.S. have been working...
...on the pipeline into Moscow
and on to Bilyarsk for two years.
The mechanics of that phase
are ready to be implemented.
I understand that your Navy's phase of the
operation can be functional within 30 days?
Am I correct on that, admiral?
That is correct, sir.
How do they expect me to fly?
You've seen me.
We're not worried.
We have three months to train you.
It's getting you there, that's the problem.
Oh? Where is it?
Russia.
You've got to steal it.
Well, I don't choose to mount
an operation this way.
We didn't expect you
to be happy with it, general.
We're aware of his health record.
But his mother is Russian,
he's spoken the language since childhood...
...and is exactly the same size
as Colonel Voskov...
...who the suit and cockpit are fitted for.
You mean the operation is reduced to
the decision that he fits the pressure suit?
You're asking me
to put our resources on the line...
...for somebody who's never be
on an intelligence mission...
...who's subject to these kind of seizures.
Delayed stress syndrome
It manifests itself in civilian life,
not battle conditions.
-This is suicide.
-That's exactly why it'll work.
They'll never expect it. It's too
unthinkable for them to ever defend.
We'll get you on that airplane.
You just have to fly it.
-You guys are amazing, you know?
-We need you, major.
-You're the best we've got.
-You'll find somebody.
There's a lot of guys
who could fly that plane.
You fly it.
Not with your qualifications.
The decision has been made, gentlemen.
I'm afraid we have on other choice.
It's already been set in motion.
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