A German aerial bomb’s shriek “sends back” Marine Corps senior lieutenant Stepan Alekseyev into the future—where he finds himself alongside NKGB captain Sergey Shohin. What should they do next? After all, the first is listed as missing during maneuvers, and it turns out the second died back in autumn 1943 during the liberation of Novorossiysk.
The problems can be solved: the marine returns to his unit, while the counterintelligence officer—having mastered a computer and the Internet—begins to gather truly priceless information with which he hopes to return to their home time.
Thanks to a twist of circumstances, the comrades meet aboard the BDK “Novocherkassk,” which is escorted by two Black Sea Fleet missile ships with “Calibers” on board. The mysterious “haze” that appears in their path sends the ship group into the past.
Will the winged missiles of the Great Patriotic War and a Marine infantry unit with standard armored vehicles manage to change the course of events—or will everything only get worse?