The Gulf War has been over for ten years. It's up to pilots like Cmdr. Brick Maxwell and his glory-seeking skipper, Killer DeLancey, to keep the peace by a narrow margin—a margin called the No-Fly Zone. The Iraqi pilots sometimes buzz the borders—just close enough to shake up the U.S Hornets' nest. And everyone knows these Hornets can't sting unless the Iraqis show hostile intent.

However, hostile intent is a hard thing to judge when you're in the air and the enemy is flying into your zone. When an Iraqi MiG goes down, chaos breaks out on both sides of the Zone—and peace is the last thing on anyone's mind...