Airborne Assault: A World War 3 Techno-Thriller Action Event (Nick Ryan's World War 3 Military Fiction Technothrillers)

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About Airborne Assault: A World War 3 Techno-Thriller Action Event (Nick Ryan's World War 3 Military Fiction Technothrillers)

"Nick Ryan knows his craft, and his topic. His World War 3 stories are tightly-written, fast-moving, with great characters." - LARRY BOND Co-author of Tom Clancy's 'Red Storm Rising' and New York Times bestselling author of 'Red Phoenix' When the Belarusian Army launches a surprise Motorized Brigade-sized attack into central eastern Poland, a Battalion of Polish regulars and two Companies of American paratroopers are all that stand in the way of catastrophic disaster. Isolated and unsupported, the small makeshift unit must somehow slow the Belarusian invasion as it surges towards Warsaw until NATO can send more troops to reinforce the overwhelmed defenders. Up against impossible odds, the handful of Allied troops must find a place to defend, and then find a way to fight the enemy to a standstill, while praying that an airborne assault by the American 173rd Airborne Brigade will reach them in time… From the book... The first Javelin team fired thirty-five seconds after their initial missile had blasted from the launch tube. The highway had become a target-rich environment. The Belarusian tanks were log-jammed along the length of the blacktop behind a haze of drifting smoke. The operator fired the missile in ‘Top Attack’ mode and it went streaking away into the sky on a thin feather of exhaust smoke, then plunged down into the milling chaos further along the road, spearing through the thin top armor of another T-72 and blowing the vehicle to pieces. The tank seemed to sag on its suspension for a split second and then exploded outwards in a huge tower of flames and roiling smoke. Metal fragments were torn from the tangled carcass and flung hundreds of yards into the surrounding trees. The Belarusian Captain commanding the Company of tanks frantically ordered two of his stranded T-72s to barge their way through the mangled wreckage to clear the highway. The MBTs nosed forward into the smoke and flames and began to shunt one of the destroyed vehicles towards the fringe of woods.

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