China Attacks

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The American B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber pilot suppressed a small wave of anxiety and concentrated on his radar imaging display. He knew he and his mission commander were as close to invulnerable as American science and engineering could make them — but he still had a tinge of fear. An Academy classmate of his was shot out of the sky in an F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter only six weeks before. Thankfully, he was rescued. The incident made the tight-knit brotherhood of pilots based in Central Missouri’s Whiteman Air Force Base somewhat circumspect during their nighttime bombing raids “downtown.”

There—the headquarters building of the Yugoslavian Federal Directorate of Supply and Procurement came into view on his radar imager. Every building around the target checked out — this was the one, the building that housed the bureaucrats who worked to supply the Serbian genocide in Kosovo. Not that he needed to double-check the target manually, given the precise capabilities of his aircraft and weapons.

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