 Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) and his pal Santini (Ernest Borgnine) head to Libya to recover Airwolf from it s diabolical creator, but Dr. Moffet (David Hemmings) turns up the heat by destroying a U.S. Navy warship. When Hawke s girlfriend Gabrielle (Belinda Bauer) goes undercover to discover Moffet s nefarious plans, she is captured and tortured and left to die in the desert. It s up to Hawke to recover the chopper, stop Moffet and save the girl, but will he do it all in time?