With help from the underground, he is brought to where the plane is. The sight of his death brings about one of Gant's delayed stress attacks, but he gets away. He begins by pretending to be a man who the Soviet Police are investigating, when he goes to meet his contacts which includes the man he is impersonating, he is killed. They convince him to do it, even though the chance of his success is very slim. They need a pilot, and the best and probably only man for the job is Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood), a former Air Force pilot, who is now retired. When the West learns of it, they decide that it's necessary to get it before it could be mass produced. It's faster than any other fighter plane, and is undetectable to radar, and has a new weapon control system that is thought controlled.

The Firefox is a high tech fighter plane built by the Soviet Union. What follows is a harrowing, cat-and-mouse chase across the ice floes of the Arctic. But the Russians still have a trump card, a prototype MiG-31, and they send it up in pursuit of Gant after he completes refuelling. Now Gant will run the gauntlet of Russian defenses, land-based missiles, Naval warships, and helicopters, and reach a refuelling point from a U.S. Gant manages to overpower Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Voskov (Kai Wulff), the Russian test pilot, and steal the aircraft, just as the U.S.S.R.'s First Secretary (Stefan Schnabel) arrives at the base. to infiltrate the Russian airbase at Bilyarsk, where the Firefox/MiG-31 is being finished, and steal the Firefox. Air Force ace pilot, is smuggled into the U.S.S.R. Vietnam veteran Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood), a former U.S. Mass production of the MiG-31 will give the Russians a huge advantage. As soon as the pilot detects a threat, either visually or on a scope, his thought impulses will direct a missile to that threat, without so much as pushing a button. The Soviets have developed the MiG-31, a fighter that flies at six times the speed of sound, is invulnerable to radar, and worst of all, has a lethally sophisticated weapons system that the pilot can control through thought impulses.

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