Fucik

Someone aboard the Fucik panicked and fired a hand-held SA-7 missile.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

The General went back up the jacob's ladder onto the Fucik.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

MV Julius Fucik Twenty miles southwest of Keflavik, the "Doctor Lykes" was also a beehive of activity.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

Except for brief periods at night, they'd be stuck down there until the Fucik cleared the English Channel.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

The soldiers were cutting away parts of the superstructure to conform with the silhouette of the Doctor Lykes, a U. S.-flag Seabee carrier remarkably similar to the Fucik.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

NORTH ATLANTIC The Julius Fucik was rolling ten degrees with a beam sea.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

The Fucik ran almost due north, the westerly wind and sea on her beam, and water was lapping at the missile wound.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

As each Soviet bomber squadron launched its air-to-ground missiles, its commander transmitted a predetermined codeword that the Fucik copied.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

Iceland's irregular terrain made for troublesome radar performance, and as with the surface-to-air missiles, the instruments themselves had been badly jostled by the trip aboard the Fucik The fighter flew circles around the airport while the radar operators determined that what their instruments told them was correct.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

The Fucik continued her turn, returning to a northerly course to make the next hovercraft trip a shorter one.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986