ISBN: 979-8-9883127-9-6
Publisher: Rotorhead Media LLC
Formats: Paperback | e-book (Kindle, iBook/Apple, Nook, Kobo)
Pages: 346 pages
When Na’il Miraj arrived at an al Qaeda recruiting station in Paris, he was seen by the organization’s leaders as a gift from Allah. They hoped the former U.S. Army missile repair technician could turn their horde of out-of-date Stinger missiles into functioning weapons.
The discovery of Stinger missiles that failed to fire in a farmer’s field in North Texas in the fall of 2016 should have set off alarm bells within the last few months of a lame-duck administration. But they didn’t.
Yet there were those in the CIA who thought differently. Derek Almer is encouraged to start a small think tank by a friend in the CIA to research the threat of man-portable, shoulder-mounted surface-to-air missiles known by the acronym. MANPADS. Helped by a little luck and intelligence from his contacts within the Mossad, Derek’s firm learns that the terrorist group has smuggled Russian made Igla-S’s as well as Stingers into the U.S. Miraj’s plan – shoot down enough airliners to kill thousands and shut down the world’s air transportation system. The question Derek Almer had to answer was when and where will the missiles be used?
No one in any Western government wants to discuss the threat that the proliferation of MAN Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) poses to the flying public. These highly portable, shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles can bring down an airliner or cargo airplane of any size. They are cheap to manufacture, and their lethality has been demonstrated over and over again in Ukraine. Yet, there have been instances when they have been fired an airliners, cargo planes, and corporate jets. Click on this link and read The Threat No One Wants to Discuss to learn more about this danger to the flying public.