SHOW OF FORCE
TOP CNN STORY: Peace in the Middle East. Every country in the region is signing an historic peace accord under the supervision of the PRESIDENT Of The United States onboard the USS Stowers aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. Top Gun pilot TOM STONE, his RIO (co-pilot) JUDY BARTON, and the rest of the flight crew watch the signing on TV in the Ready Room. With the entire world watching, an assassin kills the Egyptian leader and wounds the President... then escapes into the maze of passageways on the carrier. An aircraft carrier is the size of a city, some even have their own McDonalds, and finding the assassin becomes a problem. Stone gives chase, captures the assassin, and is forced to kill him. The assassin's last words: "It is too late! The war has already begun!"
ACT TWO
A massive air war has broken out in the Middle East, with the President and the USS Stowers trapped in the middle. When the King Of Jordan insists on leaving, his helicopter is shot down. Tom Stone and Judy Barton lead the defense of the USS Stowers against massive enemy attack. It's the Alamo at sea as squadron after squadron attacks the carrier group. Amazing air combat maneuvers and fantastic dog fights.
After an attack, Stone and Barton follow one of the attacking planes and discover that a single country is behind the attacks... The country Secretary Of Defense Cohen called the greatest threat to America in the region (Front page LA Times 1/19/98).
Their plan: Sink the USS Stowers, kill the President and the other leaders, and reclaim the entire Middle East region!
As the attacks against the USS Stowers increase, Stone and Barton realize the enemy missiles are hitting the ship with amazing accuracy... They are using radio guided missiles! The assassin has planted a homing device somewhere on the aircraft carrier!
Then it gets worse: the President discovers that this enemy country has recently purchased high tech "ship killer" missiles from the Chinese... missiles designed to sink an aircraft carrier with a single hit! (Time Magazine 1/19/98, and LA Times Story).
ACT THREE
Now it is up to Stone and Barton to find and destroy the missile base, while the President organizes a room by room search of the USS Stowers for the homing device. But the missile base is heavily protected by the "Black Squadron"... enemy pilots with US Top Gun training flying US fighter planes (from when these guys were our allies). In an amazing dogfight, Stone faces off against the leader of the Black Squadron. In a "High Noon" style shoot out (in planes, with sidewinder missiles) they blast each other out of the sky... ejecting at the last minute. Stone, Barton, and the Black Squadron Leader end up in a para-shoot out! Firing at each other as they float to the ground. Stone wins the shoot out.
As the missile countdown ticks down to the seconds, Stone and Barton join a Marine Team to destroy the missile base. Like "The Guns Of Navarone" they have to sneak into the base, set charges, and get out... But when Stone gets captured by the enemy General in charge of the attack, Barton has to help save him. After a final action scene, the missile base is destroyed, and the President and Middle East leaders are saved.
"SHOW OF FORCE" by William C. Martell
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