Smoke Signals: A Jon Smith Short Story

An Experimental Top Secret US Navy Air-to-Air Missile is lost in the Sumatran Jungle and the Chinese want it!

While 29 friendly nations participate in the bi-annual RIMPAC exercise the United States demonstrates a new air-to-air missile to its ally Australia. Lightning strikes a US Navy Super Hornet as it flies through a rogue thunderstorm above the Indian Ocean causing the pilot to accidentally jettison an experimental top-secret AIM-174 air-to-air missile into the remote triple canopy jun...