The Hunt for Red October/Awesome

Novel

 * Marko Ramius taking out an enemy sub, with his own totally unarmed.
 * The President, National Security Advisor Jeff Pelt, DCI Arthur Moore, and DDO Robert Ritter successfully tricking the Soviets into buying a totally false cover story, and flushing out a long standing traitor.
 * Jack successfuly taking out the GRU agent hiding in the Red October's missile bay.
 * Worried about the Soviet fleet sailing close to the Eastern Seaboard, the US sends them a message: a flight of four A-10 Warthogs boxing in Kirov, the fleet flagship, with flares. Flares that happen to show off their anti-tank cluster bombs and the 30mm Avenger cannons they're packing.
 * What makes it even more awesome is that the A-10s were flying at low altitude, almost above sea level, and were being used for the naval strike because they were the first available unit - and antishipping isn't an A-10 mission, but A-10s carry weapons that can kill heavily armored tanks, and what can kill a tank can hurt an armorless ship.

Film
"Navigator: Turn plus thirteen, plus fourteen, plus fifteen seconds! Captain, if we're out of position by so much as a boat length...!"
 * It's rare for a submarine to get its own crowning moment of awesome, but The Reveal on the Red October is a definite example.
 * Ramius getting his entire crew to sing the U.S.S.R.'s National Anthem. Even more so when he tells them to keep singing after one of his officers raises concerns about their noise level.
 * Ramius' navigating blind through underwater canyons as part of an underwater Canyon Chase also qualify. It's exposited that Soviet captains get extremely accurate undersea maps of the canyons with precise times to follow for each leg to allow them to do this safely - which Ramius then proceeds to throw out the window as he navigates round the Neptune Massif by the seat of his pants.

"Ramius: "It brings me back to the heady days of Sputnik, and Yuri Gagarin, when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. And they will tremble again, at the sound of our silence.""
 * "Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only, please."
 * Not to mention the intervention of the USS Dallas, drawing off Tupolev's torpedo and then blowing all its ballast tanks. "I hope to Christ this works. Alright, Chief. Put us on the roof."
 * Followed by the Dallas practically flying out of the water.
 * Captain Mancuso has the final CMoA by blowing up the enemy submarine with their own torpedo.
 * The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch. Oh yes.
 * Ramius' speech upon revealing the orders to the crew, especially this bit.


 * Seaman Jones, he faces the dilemma of a Soviet sub with a revolutionary top secret stealth propulsion system and invents a way to detect and track the enemy in only a few hours.