When the roar came, Wang Dong and the others were stunned.

Isn't it said that, threatened by the FD2000 air defense system, the Royal Saudi Air Force no longer sends fighter jets to provide air support to the defenders of Nasiriyah?

Immediately afterwards, Wang Dong realized that it was not a fighter jet from the Royal Saudi Air Force.

By the time they rushed out of the headquarters, the sound of explosions had already been heard, and a dense burst of gunfire could be heard from the west, and it was the defending officers and men who were firing with anti-aircraft machine guns.

That's right, that's not a fighter of the Royal Saudi Air Force.

It's two Su-25 attack aircraft painted by the Iraqi Air Force!

Apparently, it was a rebel plane.

These attack aircraft were imported from the USSR by Saddam Hussein several decades ago.

During the Gulf War, hundreds of Iraqi combat aircraft fled to Iran to avoid being blown up, including dozens of Su-25 attack aircraft.

After the end of the Iraq war, Iran returned dozens of fighter jets, including 20 Su-25s.

Since then, these fighters have been in service with the Iraqi Air Force.

Although it has been in service for decades, the Su-25 is known for its durability in leather tests, and there is no replacement fighter for the time being, so it has become the main attack aircraft of the Iraqi Air Force.

In Mosul and Taylor Afir, these attack aircraft, known as "flying tanks", have made great achievements.

To deal with the extremists, more than a dozen Su-25s were deployed at air bases in the north, which were controlled by rebels after the outbreak of the civil war.

During the assault on Semavo, the rebels used the Su-25 to carry out two less successful bombing operations.

Fearing interception by government fighters, both bombings were carried out at night and with iron-hulled bombs.

After dropping the bomb, the attack aircraft flew away in a hurry.

Obviously, the bombing effect was almost zero.

This is the first time since the outbreak of the Civil War that rebel combat aircraft have carried out a bombing mission during the day.

Presumably for fear of being detected by the AWACS aircraft of the coalition forces, both Su-25s flew at an altitude of only a few hundred meters, having previously dropped bombs and were turning.

It was too far away, and Wang Dong could only see two small black dots moving quickly.

However, judging by the flight path of the attack aircraft, it will definitely go around and bomb the positions of the defenders again, perhaps with rockets and aerial artillery.

It was at this time that two anti-aircraft missiles took to the air.

It is an individual anti-aircraft missile, and the launch site is located in the western suburbs.

The two missiles were locked onto the same attack aircraft, the one behind them.

Attacked by a missile, the attack plane immediately dropped an infrared jamming bomb while rapidly rolling over in an attempt to get rid of the approaching missile.

The first missile was deceived by a jamming missile, drew a circle in the air, and then rushed to the ground.

The other missile, after breaking out of the jamming zone, did not dive towards the ground, but plunged into the air and flew towards the sun.

Obviously, these are two individual anti-aircraft missiles like the SA-7 with extremely poor anti-jamming capabilities.

The Su-25 did not roll again, but during the violent maneuver, the flight altitude was reduced to less than two hundred meters, and the speed dropped a lot.

At this time, the third individual anti-aircraft missile appeared.

That's a Q-2PG!

It was not the defenders who fired the missile, but an operative brought by Wang Dong.

Quite simply, the missile was supplied by Saudi Arabia, but originally belonged to Pakistan.

More than a decade ago, Pakistan introduced the Q-1 individual anti-aircraft missile from China, which, after its own production, was named AnzaMK2, and in the ensuing Kargil conflict, the Pakistani army shot down two Indian Air Force fighters with this missile.

It's just that the Q-1 is a second-generation individual anti-aircraft missile, which is already technologically backward.

As a result, Pakistan once again found a military industrial enterprise in China to jointly develop the third generation of individual air defense missiles, which later became Q-2.

Of course, produced by Pakistan was named Q-2P, and the suffix "P" stands for Pakistan.

In later use, the Pakistani military proposed some improvements, such as increasing the effective shooting height from 3,500 meters to 5,000 meters, preferably to 6,000 meters.

The solution is simple: install a take-off rocket engine for acceleration.

Although the total weight of the missile has been increased to 18 kilograms, and the weight of the system has been increased to 27 kilograms, the ultimate launch height has also been increased to 6,000 meters.

This missile is the Q-2PG.

However, Saudi Arabia is not a user of Q-2PG.

A few years ago, Saudi Arabia bought a batch of replaced Q-1s from Pakistan and, after a brief process, gave aid to Syrian rebels.

It was during this period that the Saudis received a small amount of Q-2PG from Pakistan.

Not for assistance, but for testing, that the Saudis intend to purchase a batch of individual anti-aircraft missiles to replace the "Stingers", which have been used for decades.

However, in the end, the matter was settled.

It is not surprising that the Saudi army does not have an urgent need for air defense, and for the time being does not need to spend huge sums of money on the procurement of expensive individual anti-aircraft missiles for the troops.

You know, even the Q-2PG produced in Pakistan has a unit price of more than half a million dollars.

Because Saudi Arabia has not yet made a decision on whether to purchase individual anti-aircraft missiles, all the Q-2PGs sent for testing remain in Saudi Arabia.

There are not many left, only ten launchers with more than thirty missiles.

Before coming, Wang Dong asked for these Q-2PGs and sent them to Nasiriyah by Luo Qing.

Against the Su-25, the Q-2PG is definitely more than enough.

The Q-2 is a standard third-generation individual air defense missile with a dual-mode imaging seeker in the infrared and ultraviolet bands, which has extremely strong anti-jamming capabilities.

Thanks to the take-off rocket engine, the Q-2PG not only shoots higher, but also has an increased maximum speed of 750 meters per second.

When dealing with typical targets such as fighters, the Q-2PG has a head-on attack range of 7,500 meters, and the rear hemisphere also has a range of 3,000 meters.

If there is any flaw, it is that the warhead is too small and the ability to destroy is insufficient.

In fact, this is also a common problem of individual anti-aircraft missiles.

The pilots of the Su-25 saw the missiles and also released jamming shells in time, only because the altitude was too low and did not perform a tumbling maneuver.

After dropping jamming bombs, the attack aircraft began to climb.

Unfortunately, the heat source jamming bomb did nothing against the Q-2PG with an infrared imaging seeker.

In addition, the Su-25 is an attack aircraft with a much faster climb than a fighter that is not agile.

A few seconds later, the attack aircraft was overtaken by missiles.

The missile exploded in the left rear of the attack aircraft at a distance of no more than 5 meters, and immediately after that, black smoke came out of the left engine of the attack aircraft.

The flight altitude of the attack aircraft decreased sharply, but it did not crash and finally flew out of Wang Dong's field of vision.

The Su-25 is a special attack aircraft, extremely resistant to damage, and can fly to airbases as long as one engine is still working.

In Syria, Russian Su-25s often return home with wounds.

There was once a Su-25 that lost one engine and half a wing, flew hundreds of kilometers, and finally landed on it without any danger.

It is indeed a bit of a pity that the Su-25 that did not shoot down that rebel.

It's just that, with the lessons of this time, the rebels may no longer dare to send the Su-25 to bomb Nasiriyah.