Chapter 194: A Thousand Miles Without a Name
On the northern border between Iraq and Iran, there is a certain theater of operations where the deployment of surface-to-air missiles on both sides is relatively thin.
After surpassing the enemy's cruel words, the two countries unanimously chose to launch a roundabout air raid in this airspace. Perhaps, they all think that in areas where the enemy's surface-to-air missiles are relatively few, their strong air force can be better played.
This shows that they both feel that their air force is stronger than the other.
As the approach approached the enemy's approach, the front-line air commander on the side of the Iranian Air Force, issued an order.
"Iraqi aircraft groups have been found in the front, please pay attention to the attacking units - the command requires that the use of long-range missiles be saved, and after entering the maximum range of 200 kilometers, the first use of lock-on intimidation to fight. Live firing is only allowed after the two sides are 150 kilometers apart!"
In fact, the strategy that the Air Force Command would have developed the other day was not like this. At that time, they were told by the above that they could blackmail a steady stream of long-range air-to-air missiles in the future, and the first batch of goods would be open to use after they arrived, giving the Iraqis a disadvantage.
However, I don't know where the accident happened, and the ironclad evidence used for "subsequent repeated blackmail" seems to have sunk into the deepest part of the Arabian Sea, and the body is gone. The 100 immortal birds blackmailed this time have become an out-of-print one-shot deal.
Therefore, I can only be prepared to continue to live a hard life.
Fortunately, the Iranians know that the Iraqi side's longest-range air-to-air missile has a range of only 80 kilometers, and only the MiG-25 can be launched. Therefore, they continued to implement the frugal style of "scaring enemy planes first, and then launching missiles to shoot them down if they were really scared and refusing to parachute."
The algorithm is roughly as follows: If a missile is launched from a distance of 200 kilometers, even if the missile's carrier aircraft, the F-14, immediately slows down and cruises, then when the missile flies to a distance where it can be self-guided and completely launched, the planes of the two sides will still be more than 120 kilometers apart.
However, if it is compressed to 150 kilometers before launching, when the missile can enter the range of "launch and forget" after flying, the planes of the two sides will only be 90 kilometers apart. A little further on, it will be within the range of the R-40R counterattack of the Iraqis. It is precisely because of this deduction that even if the Iranians want to be scared first, they do not dare to play too much, and the enemy planes will not abandon the plane and parachute for 150 kilometers, and the Iranians will have to open fire.
In addition, perhaps some military officials who do not understand military affairs will think: since it is necessary to maintain a distance from the enemy in the "intimidation" phase, once the opponent is locked, is it okay for the F-14 to immediately turn around and play the "drag knife meter"?
The answer is no, because the radar of the fighter is mounted in the nose radome, and to keep the radar locked and guided, you have to point the nose at the enemy. So you can only slow down and cruise, but you can't turn back and "drag the knife". The American-made AG-9 fire control radar is already quite good, and the scanning angle is 120 degrees, so the F-14 can drag the Z-shaped route if it wants to delay time. The Soviet MiG-25's fire control radar is only 45 Β°, which is even more impossible to detour, and can only go straight to the enemy.
Theoretically, if an aircraft that provides guidance for long-range air-to-air missiles wants to play "dragging the knife," only by making the airborne radar the size of a large disc on the head of an early warning aircraft can it have such a huge transmission power and resolution of 360 degrees in all directions. As we all know, an aircraft that can fit such a large radar can at least be modified as a heavy transport aircraft or bomber, and the fighter cannot be stuffed at all.
At the same time, even if the bomber is changed in this way, there is a major problem, that is, the flight speed is too slow than that of the fighter, the evasion is poor, and it can only exile a large number of missiles in a wave outside the range, but its own survival is very weak. By the time you're done, the enemy's missiles can also enter the "fire-and-forget" phase, and that's when they're all gone.
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However, the theory was rigorously and perfectly, but the reality soon led the Iranians to discover a startling surprise.
"It's not good, we have found that we have been locked by the radar of an unknown signal source of the enemy plane! I request that the missile be launched in advance!" The Iranians at the outermost level of the large group immediately discovered an unprecedented new situation.
The air commander was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly confirmed the situation.
"No way! How could the Iraqis lock on to us from such a distance! Can you confirm the model of the enemy plane?" This reaction wasted more than ten seconds.
The pilot hurriedly identified the signal characteristics on the radar screen and replied: "It seems to be a large and medium-sized bomber, similar to the Soviet-made reflection feature, I am not sure whether it is a Tu-16 or a Tu-22." Ah, it should be the Tu-16, the Tu-22 can't fly that slow. β
The Iranian commander was shocked: "Tu-16? Could it be that the Iraqis want to escort the bomber, and the function of the early warning aircraft has been temporarily changed?"
After delaying the air decision-making time for more than half a minute, the radar of the Iranian forward plane finally saw a bunch of light points symbolizing missiles, and began to approach them at a rapid speed - the enemy radar on the F-14 Panda can be found at a distance of 200 kilometers for an enemy target as large as an aircraft. However, the reflective cross-sectional area of a missile is much smaller than that of an airplane, so an air-to-air missile can only be detected if it flies within 100 kilometers.
"The enemy has been found to have fired a long-range missile!"
Only then did the Iranian air commander realize what a mistake he had made, and he was still thinking about "intimidating and scaring away a wave of enemy planes" at this time, wasting a range of 50 kilometers and a time difference.
In other words, by the time the Iranians pressed down and opened fire, the enemy's missiles had actually already preempted 100 kilometers first.
The existing technological superiority and the preemptive advantage brought about by the intelligence asymmetry were superimposed, causing an avalanche.
However, the AIM-54 does not have the ability to "launch and forget" throughout the whole process, and the low-power radar on the missile itself can only guide the missile body to automatically track enemy aircraft at the end stage. At a distance of 200 km to 50 km, it is necessary to launch the ultra-high-power AG-9 radar on the fighter to guide.
This means that if the AIM-54 launched by the Iranians is destroyed itself before it reaches its final autonomous tracking, then everything is over.
On the Iraqi side, there don't seem to be many launch platforms, but the bomb load is very impressive, and there are more than 30 missiles flying in the air at one time.
The Iranians panicked.
Life and death have been decided.
On the Iraqi side, it lost three temporarily modified "Arsenal" H-6s and four entangled and delayed MiG-23s. However, the H-6 was originally meant to be delivered, so after ensuring that all the missiles were guided, the crew members parachuted in advance to let the empty plane complete the final suicide flight.
On the Iraqi side, two groups of four planes, eight F-14s, were shot down, and 11 other combat planes were killed, and the entire attack muscle group was almost completely wiped out.
More importantly, the Iraqi side took the opportunity to attack Iran's air bases deployed in the front line and were not disguised because of their determination, and blew up several armories -- the Iranians have always felt that F-14s in these places ensure air supremacy and will never be attacked by air strikes, so they want to save trouble.
It didn't take long for most of the sensitive evidence obtained from the transaction with Li Gen PY to be reimbursed.
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"Whew, it looks like the evidence of the PY deal has been destroyed well, and so many sensitive equipment are dead and gone. β
After hearing the results, Gu Biao breathed a heavy sigh of relief. He and the family members who had one-line contact with him were finally safe.
Then he prepared to bid farewell to President Hussein.
President Hussein claimed it on January 31, and today is February 2.
Gu Biao has been away from the United States for too long, and if he doesn't go back, his classmates will be suspicious: Where did Professor Kissinger send Gu Biao for "academic exchanges"?
"Your Excellency, I think it's time for me to leave, and that's good for everyone. At the family banquet in the evening, Gu Biao said goodbye to Hussein.
General Hussein actually drank, obviously the victory at the front made him very happy, and it was precisely because of this that he deliberately stayed to eat. (Theoretically, it can't be drunk, but in practice, as long as you don't drink it at the state banquet that is publicly on the news, Hussein's eldest son Uday is famous for his alcoholism)
"Of course, you will always be an old friend of the Iraqi people, come at any time in the future, I will give you a more secret contact information, next time don't go through that little guy in Qusay, come to me directly anytime and anywhere! By the way, I will send you a souvenir, it is worthless, don't go to your heart." β
As he spoke, the guards behind him handed over two trays covered with red flannel, and the president tore them open and took out a large sword of pure gold inlaid with hundreds of diamonds and ruby sapphire emeralds.
Gu Biao's eyes lit up, this gift is still quite famous, and there are many hawkish image photos of General Hussein holding this big sword in history.
After Iraq was destroyed in 2003, this big sword was also taken away by the US military and auctioned in New York, the starting price was not high, it seems to be tens of thousands of dollars, after all, it is a modern product, but because of its commemorative value, it was sold for hundreds of thousands in the end.
Gu Biao knew that hundreds of thousands of dollars were nothing, so he accepted it without pretension.
The Rockefeller Foundation gave him $2 million in cash for his errands, and a big gold sword studded with gems was nothing. What's more, the price of gold in 1981 was much lower than it was in the 2010s, and now it can't be sold for $100,000.
It's more just the meaning value as a token, maybe the next time Gu Biao wears this sword to visit Iraq, others will know that he is the president's top guest when they see the sword.
As for the clichΓ© money, President Hussein did not mention it, but only hinted at it: He knew that Gu Biao himself was still a businessman, and in the future, all Gu Biao's business, no matter what kind of consumer goods he operated, would definitely get the best business environment and promotion even if he brought it to Iraq.
Gu Biao felt that this was not bad, and it could be a long stream. When the time comes, whether he is making a personal music player or a home game console, or coming here to sell his own Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters, there will definitely be people cheering.
Iraq's population of 20 million is still relatively high-net-worth consumers for the time being, and it is difficult to say if the Iran-Iraq war continues.
At the end, Gu Biao added a reminder: "Your Excellency, I hope you will pay attention to one thing, everything I have done during this period of time is on behalf of myself and the advice of my mentor, and has nothing to do with the position of my motherland. I think you should be able to tell the difference. β
"Of course, the Chinese are also old friends of Iraq, but it has nothing to do with all this, come, cheers. β
Cheers to parting.
Then Gu Biao was sent to Basra by a short-range small plane, secretly crossed the border to Kuwait by land, and then took off from Kuwait back to the United States.
Before that, he said goodbye to Mina at Baghdad airport, and the two finally hugged and kissed.
After a week of mesmerizing days, Mina was about to fly back home from Baghdad β a flight that would stop in a provincial capital in the northwest, of course, so that Mina would not have to bother to take several days to take the train from the capital back to her hometown.
It's the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, and the school has a winter vacation, and the students are going home for the New Year.
"Brother, you must take care. Mina was obsessed and couldn't bear it, and tears came down her eyes.
"Don't worry, I'll finish this semester in May and officially return to China - it's early February, isn't there only 3 months left? Kissinger doesn't have any dirty work for me to do, and he won't control me too strictly. He also wished that I would use the excuse of domestic troubles, so that other classmates would not spy too much on my recent situation. β
"Well, I'm waiting for you. Mina smiled at the thought of being able to be with her brother for another three months.
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Another 20 hours, and then Gu Biao quietly reappeared in Watsonton. It seems that he really just spent more than a week going to other places for academic exchanges.
Back at the villa in the Potomac River, there was an "employee of the cable TV company" who came to visit him with a very good service attitude and helped Gu Biao dismantle all the surveillance at home.
Of course, Gu Biao is not stupid, he will check it himself again afterwards, and then change all the doors, windows and locks.
Anyway, after he bought this house, he moved in directly with his bag. He didn't like the original decoration very much, and wanted to build a lot of construction.
"Well, just wait for me to leave in May, I won't stay, call a decoration team from the embassy to decorate it, give the key to Sister Ye, and ask her to help me watch the decoration process. Gu Biao thought.
The decoration team of the embassy must be professional and absolutely awesome for counter-reconnaissance.
Not long after he sat down at home, and before he could slow down, Kissinger actually called Gu Biao late at night and asked him to go to the house.
Gu Biao hurried over, and didn't forget to stop in advance and walk a long way.
Kissinger was actually very meticulous, and when Gu Biao went abroad, he prepared some "academic stage achievements" for him, and then asked Gu Biao to take away this thin document, and after he ate it thoroughly, he ate it a little thoroughly the next morning, and went to school in the afternoon to report to his classmates in class.
The level of rigor is outrageous.
Gu Biao understands a little why he buys a three-legged cat like Can You Cold, and if he does something secret, he will end up wearing a goof, but Brzezinski doesn't dare to do it, and Kissinger seems to have been doing it all the time.
The difference in the degree of foxes.
"Thank you, professor, I'll do my best. Gu Biao took the document and walked away cleanly.
I went home and slept a little in the middle of the night, got up early in the morning to wash my face and wake up, and then frantically studied the results given by the professor, and after lunch, I went to report to school.
A debriefing class, a review presentation, and another experience with classmates.
"It's a good fortune, I was arranged by my supervisor to go out for a communication, I don't know what adventures there are, this paper is almost as good as the professor. Senior Patrick and Senior Sarah, who have a relatively high academic level, sighed.
Of course, it's almost as good as the professor, because the professor himself caught the knife.
At the end of class, Kissinger announced in public: "Gu, I'll give you a day off tomorrow." β
"Oh? thank you. β
"Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve for you Chinese, right? There is no such holiday in the United States, but I think it's better to respect your national traditions β as far as I know, your embassy will have a celebration and you can go and make dumplings with them. β
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