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Juan had never viewed the new and ion from a distance because she had been boxed up in a covered dry dock during construction He’d been waiting a long time for this moment, and he swelled with pride now that he could take her in from bow to stern

The 590-foot-long break bulk ship, designed to carry any kind of cargo in containers, boxes, crates, or barrels, was equipped with four cranes on the deck Each of the two pairs of cranes had their booether to forun was situated on top of the forward crane’s tower A sleeve rose back up to conceal it No one seeing the ship would ever know that the Gatling gun was one of thefaçade

An object the size of a dishwasher took off from her deck amidships It shot into the air and fleard the Dahar It was the Oregon’s cargo air drone, an octocopter that could lift up to one hundred pounds with its retractable claw

Juan wrested his eyes away froe

“Status, Hali,” Juan said

“Gomez has the CAD on the way All three bombs are ready for pickup One minute left on the timers”

Juan reached the bridge at the same time the CAD swooped over the Dahar The drone came to a stop over the bow, and Juan watched as it descended until Linda could latch her duffel onto the vehicle’s claw

As soon as it was secure, the octocopter leaped into the air and flew to Hali’s position

The drone hovered over Hali just a few yards fro like banshees Hali hooked up his duffel to the claw and backed away

“Go, go, go,” Hali yelled

“I’m out of there,” Gomez answered

The CAD shot into the sky and out over the water away froon and the Dahar

Juan watched it fly toward the horizon and silently counted down

in his head Finally, Gomez said, “A thousand yards out”

“That’s good enough,” Juan said “Get rid of them”