Meteor pulled into a steep, turning climb, zig zagging to make any attempts to lock difficult. She kept an eye on Scott below her, watching for missile trails behind him. She punched into the clouds a second before Scott, hooking hard to the side and continuing to zig zag. She replied to Scott on the squadron frequency.

"They have to use radar in the clouds, fire off some chaff and it should blind them."

She dropped some chaff of her own and reversed the direction of her turn, hoping that her idea worked. If they were lucky one of the bandits might take some into its engine.