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stream of molten copper which cuts through the thin top armor of the Caliphate tanks, once the top is cut open, the shell’s main warhead fires, cutting apart everything inside the turret. The explosion blows up the twenty main gun rounds stored in the turret. Thousands of tank turrets are hurled skyward. Every shell fired strikes a tank. One shot, one kill, the Caliphate military is taken completely by surprise.
     
    The shells are an Israeli improvement of an American design. The shells were originally designed to overcome the large numbers of the Warsaw Pack tanks in the Cold War. America needed a force multiplier in order to slow down a massive Soviet tank invasion of Germany. Intelligent armor shells were developed; the design was given to Israel at the end of the Cold War. Israel quickly updated the shell’s sensor with the most up to date microprocessor, enabling the shells to quickly determine a tank from other vehicles on the battlefield and guide itself to the top of the turret. Once a shell selects its target, the shells communicate with each other. No shell is wasted striking a previously killed tank. The explosions wake the Caliphate troops, who, half dressed, run out of their tents seeing flames shooting up from their tanks; they stand in shock watching turrets flying through the air. They are caught in the open when the next wave of the attack commences.
     
    Hundreds of multiple rocket launchers launch their missiles across the border into the Caliphate bases. Each missile carries a warhead of anti-personnel shells that explode over the troops, showering them with hundreds of steel cubes, cutting the surprised Caliphate troops apart. The second wave of missiles carries FAE (Fuel Air Explosive) warheads. The warheads spray a fine mist of explosive over the camps, once the mist is evenly spread, an igniter fires, causing the mist to explode. The FAE warheads kill everything under them through a combination of blast, fire, and overpressure. Nothing living survives under the explosions. An FAE warhead is the most powerful warhead next to a nuclear warhead. Over one-hundred-thousand, Caliphate soldiers are killed within the first five minutes of the Egyptian attack, without a single Egyptian loss of life.
     
    The Caliphate invasion force in the Mediterranean is soundly sleeping on their ships thinking they’re not going to be used when American heavyweight Mark 48 torpedoes begin exploding under the keels of the troop ships. When the torpedoes explode under the ship’s keel, they cause a large gas bubble to form which lifts the ship out of the water, when it crashes back into the water; her spine/keel is broken, usually causing the ship to break in half. The Egyptian and Israeli submarines snuck up and struck the troop ships and destroyers floating calmly in the Mediterranean. None of the Caliphate ships survives the surprise attack. Ten minutes after launching the first torpedo, fifteen Caliphate ships are sunk in the Mediterranean, killing more than ten thousand people. The burning ships can be seen along Egypt’s coast, surveillance satellites in space report the explosions and fires from the burning camps and ships.
     
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    Ms. Clayton swallowed two sleeping pills before laying down and getting comfortable in the Presidential bed smiling that all of her hard work and blackmail finally gave her what she’s dreamed of since high school. She closed her eyes knowing she’d find a way around the problems the Russians, Chinese and Caliphate demanded to keep her secrets, this wasn’t new to her. She spent most of her adult life negotiating under the table deals; buying and selling people’s secrets. She drifted to sleep when the phone next to her bed started ringing. She opened one eye, looking at the phone’s flashing red light. She ignored it, rolling over. The longer she ignored the ringing phone, the louder it rang, after trying to pull the pillow over her head to block out the ringer she gave