"Let the Navy bypass Nahab is not my personal opinion, but the decision of the commander of the coalition forces, Admiral Schwarzkopf!"

was rudely interrupted twice in a row, and Colonel Crist was also furious, knowing that no one in the entire coalition army had done anything to talk to him like this, even his immediate boss, Admiral Schwarzkop, treated him politely like a good friend, but he didn't expect to be drunk like a grandson by the rusty-minded old-fashioned old man on the phone today, which greatly annoyed a high-minded Crist;

However, he still tried his best to restrain his imminent outburst, after all, now is not the time to be rash, because he knows very well how terrible the Iraqi surface-to-air missile forces attacking the "Normandy" helicopter contingent are.

However, after analyzing the signal data and intelligence collected by various parties, he suddenly discovered that the combat effectiveness of the Iraqi surface-to-air missile unit, which caused serious casualties to the US military, was so strong, and it was not a Soviet-style surface-to-air missile unit in the usual sense, but a new-type unit with extraordinary mobility and strike capability.

Their numbers were not as large as previously judged, and there was only one missile battalion at full capacity, but their tactics were very secretive, switching two positions in a very short time, each time from radar activation, missile launch, and finally hitting the target, the whole process did not exceed 30 seconds, because it was so fast that in the initial period of time, the senior staff officers of the Air Force in charge of the investigation mistakenly believed that it was the result of a simultaneous attack by several Iraqi surface-to-air missile units;

If it weren't for a careful staff officer who had just returned from the signal memory of several EC-130H "compass call" electronic warfare planes that had just returned to the sea, he would have read out the spectral data of several sets of spectral data with the same waveform and the same signal when the "Normandy" contingent was attacked, and it is estimated that everyone would have been kept in the dark.........

However, it is precisely because of this that the coalition command has a deep fear of this mysterious Iraqi surface-to-air missile unit, not to mention its treacherous tactics and extremely fast adaptability, and the fact that it can survive from the impenetrable US military surveillance and reconnaissance network until now without being discovered, can already show how terrifying the combat effectiveness of this ground-to-air missile unit has reached.

Moreover, judging from their resolute and resolute performance in actual combat, the officers and men of this ground-to-air missile unit can definitely be called well-trained, and they are simply incomparable with other so-called elite Iraqi air defense units; their advanced performance, their officers and men are sophisticated, and their tactical style is treacherous and changeable, so that there is even an illusion within the coalition forces that it is not the Iraqi missile force at all, but the top air defense combat unit in the hands of the superpowers. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

So much so that many US military staff officers assert that this mysterious Iraqi surface-to-air missile unit is the elite anti-aircraft missile unit of the Soviet Union to support Iraq against the US military, and this cannot be blamed on the US military staff officers for thinking so, in the decades of Cold War history, similar situations have been staged more than once;

From the Cuban Missile Crisis, which almost triggered World War III, to the Vietnam battlefield, where the US military was mired in a quagmire, from the Middle East War, which was comparable in tragedy to World War II, to the war in Somalia, which was filled with gunpowder, the Soviet Union used all means at its disposal to launch an all-round military confrontation with the United States, and even did not hesitate to personally send troops to help countries and regions hostile to the United States, thus seizing hegemony that is proud of the world.

It is precisely with such a profound history of confrontation that it is not impossible for the Soviet Union to maintain neutrality on the surface, but secretly send troops in the form of advisers to help Iraq fight against the United States, not to mention that Iraq has always been a staunch ally of the Soviet Union for many years, and 95% of the army's weapons and equipment are all from the Soviet Union.

What's more, this judgment also has a certain basis in reality, just before the war, the CIA and the US military intelligence department also obtained information from different channels that Soviet military personnel secretly infiltrated Iraq, but the intelligence at that time showed that the Soviet Union retired pilots were the majority, so the direction of the US military's response was also placed on air combat confrontation.

Now it seems that this is very likely to be a plan by the Soviet Union to repair the plank road in the dark, in order to cover the illusion created by the ground-to-air missile unit entering Iraq, so as to give the US military lethal damage at the most critical time, and finally drag the US military into a quagmire comparable to the Vietnam War.........

Although Colonel Crist was skeptical of the Soviet Union's continued challenge to the United States in spite of the grim situation at home, he could not find a reason to refute it, after all, he only had some radar and telecommunications signals collected on the battlefield and the wreckage of anti-aircraft missiles that had not yet been transported back to the base, so the exact information that could confirm the identity of this mysterious Iraqi missile would not be available until tomorrow evening;

However, Colonel Crist did not dare to take it lightly, after all, the Soviet Union's covert support for Iraq was very large, and if this was the case, then the danger of this surface-to-air missile force to the US army was simply self-evident, and because of this, Colonel Crist quickly put away his previous contempt and began to take seriously this threat, which was regarded by the coalition command as the most critical.

At the same time, he ordered the E-3A "watchtower" early warning planes, which were cruising in western Iraq, to immediately rush to the southwest airspace to coordinate with the two EF-111 "Raven" and one EC-130H "Compass Call" electronic warfare planes that had arrived in advance to form a joint electronic positioning and suppression group, and to wait for only the two "wild weasels" When the group of electronic warfare attack planes arrived, they spread a wide net in the air and completely hunted down this mysterious Iraqi surface-to-air missile unit..........

However, it is easy to mobilize such a powerful air combat force, but it is extremely complicated to do, and it is very cumbersome to do all kinds of things, not to mention anything else, just reformulating the offensive route is a very difficult work, you must know that all the US troops participating in the war are advancing in an orderly manner according to the pre-war plan, but now because of the emergence of temporary dangers, the US fighters who are preparing to pass through the area have to change their routes.

However, at this time, Iraq's air course was like a well-run urban sewer pipe, barely supporting the round-trip attacks of thousands of warplanes, but once this balance was broken, even if only the inconspicuous branch canal was blocked, it would cause serious consequences that affected the whole body;

What's more, the current situation is not at all as simple as blocking the branches, according to the latest image intelligence of the "long-game hockey" synthetic aperture radar surveillance satellite, Iraq's mysterious surface-to-air missile units have been deployed in Nahab, and there is the most important route for US fighters, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an artery, and now Iraq's surface-to-air missile units are holding here, and even fools can figure out what they want to do.

Therefore, if you want to destroy this Iraqi force, you need to empty the area of unnecessary combat aircraft, and to clear the aircraft on this main air road will inevitably resemble the actions of other combat units, which is like the sewers in the city, when the most important main road is blocked by blockages, the dirty water will inevitably stir up other waterways into a miasma, and even break through the manhole cover and rush to the ground........

The same is true of today's US fighters, Nahab's main route is blocked, and before the threat is cleared, the combat plans of the participating units can only be adjusted, and even some combat units that strike at peripheral targets have to cancel their combat missions for this purpose, that is, to ensure the aviation safety of US fighters, but all this is complicated for the US Air Force, but it is not difficult to do, and it is no problem to spend an hour or two to adjust it and then use early warning aircraft and radar networks to strengthen guidance and control;

However, the air forces involved in the military operation against Iraq are not only the US Air Force, but also the more than 600 US Navy carrier-based air forces cruising the oceans and nearly 100 US Marine Corps ground support fighters.

Especially before the war, due to the endless tossing and turning of the navy, and part of the command power given, this delay was doubled, although on the whole, the US military's joint command system is still the world's best performance, the most efficient joint combat system, but in the initial stage of joint operations just formed, it has not yet reached the degree of seamless integration, especially in the rapidly changing battlefield, this delay is often fatal!

It is precisely aware of this that Colonel Crist, after getting the exact information, notified the Navy to change course as soon as possible, but just connected to the Navy's data connection system, it was found that due to the huge and complex battlefield information, the exchange of information between the two sides was seriously blocked.

In this way, another seven or eight minutes passed, and Crist really couldn't stand it, knowing that in such a fast-paced battlefield, every second is extremely precious, not to mention that it also involves precious American lives, so Crist will put aside his prejudices and use the satellite confidential phone to dial the number of Admiral Larsson, who is sitting in the Persian Gulf......... (To be continued.) )