Hogan, James P - Endgame Enigma

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Endgame Enigma

James P. Hogan

1987

named Grouse in Western military

parlance, was rugged, easy to maintain,

and equipped for a variety of ground-

attack roles, making it popular for

counterinsurgency operations among

rulers of the Third World's teetering

Marxist regimes. Western military

intelligence was interested in it, too,

because it carried the first production

version of the Soviet OC-27/K target-

designating and -tracking computer, which

the counter-measures experts were

anxious to learn more about.

Like most Soviet aircraft, ships, and

ground units, the MIG carried a black box

that could compute its position accurate to

Pilot Officer Abel Mungabo didn't know

when he took off on a training flight from

Ziganda, one of the two Madagascar

states into which the former Malagasy

Republic had fragmented, was that aboard

the Australian destroyer cruising fifty miles

offshore was a group of professional

mischiefmakers with some highly classified

equipment, which in conjunction with

transmissions from the USAF high-altitude

bomber that just happened to be pass-ing

over at the time, was causing Mungabo's

black box to come up with wrong

numbers. He turned back after becoming

hopelessly lost over the ocean, but missed

the tip of Madagascar completely and

ended up off the coast of the South

cleared up of-

2 JAMES P HOGAN

ficially. Mungabo swore upon his return

that he saw the plane go down in the sea.

The South Africans said he must have

been mistaken: the plane crashed on the

shore and exploded. They even produced

pieces of twisted wreckage to prove it. But

the Soviet engineers who arrived in

Ziganda to examine the remains were

suspicious. The damage, they said, was

more consistent with demolition by

explosives than with a crash. And it

seemed strange that not one piece of the

the way it was, and the ensuing diplomatic

accusations and denials continued for a

while longer.

But by that time, specialists in several

Western military laboratories were already

acquiring some interesting new toys to

occupy them. The OC-27/K target-

designating and -tracking computer found

its way to the US Air Force Systems

Command's Cambridge Research Labs at

Hanscom Field, near Bedford,

Massachusetts.

CHAPTER ONE

Dr. Paula Bryce brushed a curl of blond

hair from her forehead and studied the

waveforms on one of the display screens

that appeared alongside it, and

commanded a reconfiguration of the

circuit diagram showing on another

screen. "That's better," she said. "D-three

has to be the synch. E-six is coupled

capacitively to the second-stage gate."

On a bench a few feet away, the

Russian computer had been stripped down

into an assortment of frames and

subassemblies that were now lying spread

out amid tangles of interconnecting wires

and test leads. Ed Sutton, another Air

Force communications scientist, peered

through a microscope at a detail of one of

the boards and repositioned a miniature

probe clipped to it. "That's it again with

"Aha!"

"Bingo?"

"It's triggering. . . . Threshold's about

point two of a volt."

"So it is differential?"

"Come and look."

"But not for noise rejection?"

"Uh-uh. That wouldn't figure."

Sutton straightened up from the

microscope and sat down on the stool

behind him. He pivoted himself to look

across in Paula's direction. "It's starting to

look the way you guessed,"

from the aircraft's grid-fix."

Paula nodded. "Air-to-ground fire-and-

forget."

"That was a pretty good hunch you

had."

"Not really. It's a modification of

something I've seen before. This version

would permit tighter evasive maneuvers

while attacking." Paula shifted her gaze to

a screen displaying text, and began

updating her notes. As she tapped deftly

at the pad, glancing intermittently at the

display of the reconstructed circuit and the

data alongside, she was aware of Sutton

staring over the cubicle between them.

neck-length and battened down with a

clip, broke free into unruly wisps wherever

it got the chance. Her features were clear,

but somewhat sharp with a prominent

bone structure, and her nose a shade too

large and her chin too jutting to qualify

her as glamorous. Nevertheless, men

found her candid, light-gray eyes and the

pert set of her mouth attractive in a way

that derived from her poise and the self-

assurance that it radiated, rather than

from looks. "Challenging," was how many

of them said they found her. She didn't

find that especially complimentary. If they

meant formidable'as an object of

conquest, it wasn't exactly flattering, while

if it referred to something ego-related in

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