Frederick Forsyth : The first of Good / 1994
The story of an Iraqi nuclear super-gun during the Gulf War.
USA :
Aurora :
"A new observation aircraft had gone into action, a new American reconnaissance aircraft so secret that Capitol Hill didn't even know about it.
Called Aurora, it flew at the edge of the atmosphere, reaching Mach 8, nearly eight thousand kilometres per hour, and propelling itself on its combustion chamber - the statoreactor effect - far above Iraqi radars and missiles.
Even the technology of the late USSR had been unable to intercept Aurora, which had replaced the legendary SR-71 Blackbird."
A-6 Avenger :
Mentioned in the list of US Navy carrier-based aircrafts during the Gulf War.
Probably a misidentification by the author of the A-6 Intruder and the A-12 Avenger II.
Described as carrying laser-guided bombs.
