Fictional account called The Alpha Bug about an orbiting Soviet space weapon and the CIA trying to find out more and then disrupt it. The hero whose think he's NASA trained ex AF , spook is sent in first to Russia to find out more info,gets captured along with his female colleague tour tired then escapes and reduced by an USMC TAV-8C Harrier off the Black Sea. The trainer Harrier is painted in Soviet aggressor colors and red Star to resemble a Yakolev 38 Forger.
M.E Morris also wrote the book C-130 Hercules pub 1989 by Presidio Airpower books .
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