389 Feel the power of a cloudburst bomb for yourself
"Thanks, you don't have to worry. Now it has entered the Basra area, an area that is very heavily defended. Whether it's in the air or on the ground...... "When the cockpit made contact with the air base, Ibrahim was clearly relieved.
avant-garde anti-aircraft missiles, which terrified him greatly.
even scolded Xie Kai in his heart, if it weren't for the two of them, where would they need to be so reminded?
Unlike other missiles, avant-garde anti-aircraft missiles are advanced in performance and easy to carry.
Even the advanced F-14 fighter cannot dodge it, let alone the Mi-8 transport helicopter, which is much slower than the fighter and has heavy movements, and even the Mi-24, it is difficult to get rid of.
"Is it really that powerful?" Xie Kai didn't think.
Restless, even worse.
"You see, where there are lights over there, it's our air base, and the Persians don't know how many times they tried to bomb it, but in the end it didn't do anything except drop the wreckage of a few warplanes. Here, we have dozens of Sam-2 and Sam-3 planes waiting for the Persians to bomb them......," Ibrahim said proudly.
He was still very convinced of anti-aircraft missiles from the USSR.
"The performance of these missiles is already lagging behind!" Xie Kai said.
It's not that he doesn't believe in Iraq's air defense capabilities, but that the anti-aircraft missiles sold by the Soviet Union really don't perform well.
"Around, even on the front line, our troops are armed with a lot of portable anti-aircraft missiles, for example, SA-7, SA-14 and SA-16......"
"What about our avant-garde anti-aircraft missiles?" Xie Kai couldn't help but wonder.
Iraq procured a large number of missiles, and even because the Persians also procured them, the delivery time was much delayed compared to the original, and Iraq received more than 500 missiles.
Didn't they equip on the Southern Front?
Behind Ahvaz, the missile, pointed diagonally into the night sky, was ready for launch.
The commander was waiting.
Wait for the commander to give the order to launch.
The Ahvaz command, General Al Tedar, looked grim, all preparations had been completed, and the fighters for air strikes on the Basra air defense positions and ground artillery positions, the area where the armored units were located, were about to arrive.
And the artillery positions on the front line are also ready for shelling.
"Commander, there is still 1 minute to reach the scheduled time for attack. The staff officer reminded the general.
"Order, missile launch!" Al Tedel whispered.
"Yes!" the staff officer immediately went to deliver the order.
"Launch, ready, ready!" received the order, thirty seconds before the launch time.
The commander at the missile launch position has been silently counting down.
As the second hand pointed to the last ten seconds, he began to count down the ten launchers with twenty missiles arranged around him via a radio communication device.
"Ten, nine...... Three, two, one, launch!"
"Boom~"
Twenty ground-red flag missiles, the moment the ignition button on the launch console was pressed, the engine ignited, and a huge roar sounded.
Almost simultaneously, twenty missiles dragged a fireball and flew towards the southwestern sky, increasing in speed......
The artillery positions of the Persian army on the east side of the Shatt al-Arab River, the artillery commander also began to raise the command flag in his hand.
As soon as the order is given, the shells already loaded in the chamber will be delivered to the enemy positions on the other side of the river in no less than a second.
"Here, no. The entire southern front was equipped with only 100 of them, and these were used for air defense in important places. "Ibrahim doesn't hide it either. "No need to be avant-garde, this place is already impregnable! No fighter plane can drop bombs on the air base......
"There are no fighters, what if there are missiles?" Xie Kai suddenly asked.
When I asked this, I suddenly wanted to give myself a mouthful!
He finally knew where his uneasiness came from - Iraq got 11 prototypes of 359 tanks from 404, and the Persians didn't show much enthusiasm at first. But they got 20 Hongqi-20 Hongqi-2 anti-aircraft missiles modified from the 404 base.
It was loaded with a cloudburst bomb that was not favored by the military!
The Iraqis knew that the Persians could not use the air force to bomb their airfield, and that warplanes had been stationed in the airfield;
"Missiles, how is it possible! The Persians don't have ground-to-ground missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers!" Ibrahim was stunned.
They did not know that the Persians had obtained a batch of ground red flags with a range of more than 200 kilometers from base 404.
Xie Kai felt that even if the Iranians obtained it, it would not be possible to use the southern front, and that kind of missile would be more appropriate to protect the capital.
"I don't think it's going to be shit lucky, I don't have such good luck. Xie Kai comforted himself.
However, the more you are afraid of something, the more you come.
Perhaps, God thinks that Xie Kai has been reborn, and he should be given a little more test.
Because, when the helicopter descended to an altitude of less than two hundred meters from the ground, a terrible air defense siren sounded on the ground.
"Woo~"
"How is that possible! Wouldn't the damned Persians give up?" Ibrahim was dumbfounded when he heard the siren, "Quick, land!"
In the event of an attack, the transport planes simply cannot outrun the missiles, and the higher they rise, the more dangerous they are, and even one of the enemy's air-to-air missiles, or even their own anti-aircraft fire on the ground, can take them down.
"Oh my God, what's that?" the plane shook as the pilot panicked and landed at a reduced speed.
The occupants of the cabin looked east through the portholes, and several bright fireballs in the sky were heading towards them.
"Pull high, don't land!" Xie Kai shouted in horror when he saw the fireball in the distant sky.
In just a split second, the fireball went from the tip of a needle to the size of a thumb, and it grew bigger and bigger.
"Land!" Ibrahim was also horrified.
Only on the ground are they safe.
Xie Kai scolded secretly, there was absolutely no life when he landed, those missiles were loaded with five hundred kilograms of cloud burst bombs!
Even if it doesn't fall next to them, the air will be sucked up in an instant, and the plane will lose power and even make them roasted to death by the heat.
He never thought that he would be killed by the cloudburst bomb developed by the base!
This is more fatal than worrying about being shot down by avant-garde anti-aircraft missiles along the way.
"Pull up! Fast, can't land. The cloud burst bombs loaded with those missiles will consume all the oxygen the moment they explode!" Xie Kai spoke very quickly.
In particular, I use Arabic that I am not particularly familiar with, but the meaning is clear.
The pilot didn't know who to listen to for a while.
"Damn! Ibrahim, seeing the pilot's questioning, quickly ordered them to fly upwards.
Xie Kai was so frightened, these missiles were absolutely inseparable from him.
The other people on the plane were all pale at this time, clutching the armrest next to the seat tightly, although Xie Jianguo pretended to be calm, his face was extremely ugly, and his head was in chaos.
Death, too close to them.
The fireball from the sky grew bigger and bigger, and the hulking Mi-8 flew towards the periphery of the base as it pulled upwards.
"Boom!Boom......"
A volley of fireballs quickly flew towards the sky, and ground-based anti-aircraft missiles were launched.
......The roar of the helicopter was drowned out by the rapid firing of anti-aircraft machine guns, and the high-speed flying bullets dragged a long tongue of fire in the night sky towards the rapidly amplified fireball in the sky.
"Knock, knock, knock......" The rapid anti-aircraft guns spewed out shells into the sky.
However, it was simply impossible to stop these missiles coming at high speed.
"Boom!"
A missile exploded in the air when it was still dozens of meters from the ground at a position of several kilometers away from Xie Kai and others, and the flames of the explosion illuminated the ground.
Below is a MiG-23 fighter that has begun to glide on the runway.
"Hit!" Ibrahim also saw this scene and waved his fist in joy.
Especially at the moment when the first volley exploded, several more missiles exploded in volley.
"Quick, speed up, get out of here!" Although the nearest cloudburst bomb was also thousands of kilometers away from here, Xie Kai's heart had already risen to his throat.
The power of the cloudburst bomb is unknown to others, but he knows it.
The power of this thing is not to kill with fragments, but to burn violently in a short period of time, not only draining the surrounding oxygen, but also producing a violent high temperature to spread around......
How far the range is, he doesn't know.
Because this thing has not been tested in China, and even, the 480-kilogram warhead composed of 12 submunitions can absorb the air in a large area and how much high temperature it produces, Xie Kai does not know.
"It's not already exploded...... Ibrahim saw the missiles explode in the air, thinking that the ground anti-aircraft fire had hit the target and knocked it down......
Before he could finish speaking, he saw the missiles outside that exploded in the air and shot more bombs around him.
"Boom~Boom~Boom~" These bombs didn't catapult far around, and they exploded one by one.
The flames of the explosion were like bright red lotus flowers blooming in the air.
Without waiting for Xie Kai to urge, the helicopter pilot pushed the throttle to the maximum, trying to quickly escape from this area.
"What the hell did you sell to the damned Persians?" snarled Ibrahim.
The flames that exploded spread silently and rapidly to the surroundings, and a light wave visible to the naked eye continued to spread around, and the color became brighter when it was attached to the aperture next to it.
Faster diffusion......
In the dark sky, the sky over the base became bright, but it was no longer possible to see the inside of the base, and the situation on the runway.
The MiG-23 fighter that was taxiing on the runway at the beginning had already left the runway the moment the bomb exploded, and the flames sprayed from the tail had begun to turn white.
However, not far from this fighter, a missile exploded in volley, and less than ten meters next to the fighter, a small bomb exploded.
The ferocious fire covered the fighter in an instant, and the flame of the tail engine of the fighter was extinguished in an instant......
The fighter plane, which had just lifted into the air, fell to the ground like this.