About fifteen minutes after Wang Dong's phone call, Crown Prince Mohammed sent a message that the Kuwaiti royal family had promised to assist Saudi Arabia in taking action.

Subsequently, Wang Dong gave an order to the Royal Saudi Air Force.

It was 3:50 a.m.

Ten minutes later, at four o'clock in the morning, four EF2000s each carrying two Taurus cruise missiles took off from King Khalid Military City.

In a hurry, four EF2000s did not turn off the afterburner after liftoff.

It soon climbed to an altitude of 9,000 meters and flew at a speed of Mach 1.4.

This is the fastest speed that the EF2000 can achieve after the cruise missile is attached.

Although the Taurus had a maximum range of hundreds of kilometers, four EF2000s flew over the sea and launched missiles more than 100 kilometers east of Kuwait.

Subsequently, the four EF2000s were diverted to Kuwait City Air Base.

It is a waste to use eight Taurus cruise missiles with a purchase price of up to 2 million euros against a drilling platform!

Of course, such an attack can be said to be without suspense.

At 4:40 a.m., eight "Taurus" hit the drilling platform one after another.

Fifteen minutes later, that is, when it was almost 5 o'clock in the morning, the "Pterodactyl" 2 unmanned reconnaissance plane, which had been urgently dispatched, took pictures of the scene.

The rig has collapsed, and the part that floats on the surface of the sea is still burning.

Fortunately, there is no oil leakage on the sea.

It is clear that there are no oil fields beneath the sea where the rig is located.

It is not known how many casualties there were because the rig was not known, but there must have been a lot of casualties, and perhaps all the people on the rig were killed.

Just before dawn, two Kuwaiti Navy missile boats arrived.

It was only at this time that the Iranian authorities came to their senses.

However, by the time the Iranian Navy ships left the port, the Kuwaiti Navy ships had already controlled the sea area and were precisely positioned.

The rig did cross the line of Kuwait's claimed territorial waters and was within Kuwait's territorial waters.

Because it is less than 10 nautical miles from the coastline of Kuwait and more than 20 nautical miles from the coast of Iran, it is generally recognized by the international community that the sea belongs to Kuwait.

At half past seven in the morning, the Kuwaiti Minister of Defence personally held a press conference.

For Kuwaiti officials who are not accustomed to waking up early and have no culture of working overtime, it is obviously not common for a press conference to be held at half past seven.

After reaffirming sovereignty over the disputed waters, Kuwait's defense minister unveiled last night's strike, as well as ongoing operations.

The key, of course, is to come up with unequivocal evidence.

It's just that the situation is also out of control at this time.

At a press conference by the Kuwaiti Minister of Defence, Iranian missile boats were urgently dispatched to attack Kuwaiti speedboats patrolling the area.

Although the Kuwaiti speedboat managed to evade most of the anti-ship missiles with the use of electronic jamming equipment, one missile still hit the target accurately.

The Kuwaiti speedboat hit by the missile sank five minutes later, killing dozens of Kuwaiti officers and soldiers.

After completing the attack, the Iranian speedboat quickly retreated, and did not pursue the Kuwaiti speedboat, which was also retreating.

Quite simply, the fighters of the Kuwaiti Air Force have already taken off urgently, the Saudis have also dispatched them, and the Iranian Air Force is clearly not able to provide cover for the speedboats.

No matter how powerful Iran's missile boats are, they are certainly no match for advanced fighters.

What's more, Iran's missile boats can only be used against air targets with individual anti-aircraft missiles, not even rapid-fire guns for anti-missile applications.

It's just that it doesn't end there.

During the attack on the Kuwaiti speedboat, the Iranian speedboat fired 12 anti-ship missiles, and all of them were C-802s with a range of up to 120 kilometers, or "Victory" anti-ship missiles to be precise.

More than 20 years ago, when this missile was first introduced from Huaxia, it was still advanced.

It's just that by now, it has obviously failed to keep up with the times.

Otherwise, none of the 11 missiles would have missed the target due to electronic interference.

The problem is that these missiles, which missed the target, did not immediately crash into the sea.

Ten "Victory" missiles crashed into the sea and self-destructed after flying for several minutes because they ran out of fuel.

However, one of them did not fly a few minutes later.

After missing the target, the missile first flew more than 10 kilometers to the southwest, and then restarted its search for the target in accordance with the fire control procedure.

After missing the target, the search for the target again and the relaunch of the attack are the functions of most anti-ship missiles.

The problem is that the re-search may not be the same as the target that was previously locked.

What's more, it was a speedboat with an extremely weak target signal that was locked onto before.

Normally, in the research state, the missile will give priority to the target with the largest signature, that is, the target with the strongest radar reflection signal.

Obviously, the radar reflection signal of the speedboat is not at all obvious.

It is also in this direction that there is a target with an extremely obvious radar reflection signal.

A ULCC that has just sailed out of the harbor and sailed south along the coastline of Kuwait, that is, a 400,000-ton supertanker!

The tanker, which flies the Panamanian flag, belongs to a Chinese shipping company and carries crude oil imported from Kuwait by a Chinese company.

A full 400,000 tons of crude oil!

At that time, the tanker was about twenty kilometers in front of the missile.

The missile-borne radar of anti-ship missiles can detect large warships at a distance of up to forty kilometers.

What's more, the radar reflection signal of that ULCC is even more obvious than that of the aircraft carrier.

Well, of course, there is no need to say more.

The missile immediately locked onto the tanker and pounced on it at Mach 0.95.

A little more than a minute later, the missile hit the tanker.

It's just that the tanker was too large and had a double-hull, and the missile failed to sink the tanker directly, but only blew up a huge hole about five meters above the waterline of the hull.

In addition, the tanker was more than 30 kilometers away from the sea area at war.

That is, at that time no one noticed the tanker at all, and no one even thought that an anti-ship missile would fly more than thirty kilometers away and hit the tanker.

After another ten minutes, there was a large explosion in the tanker.

From the analysis of the site of the explosion, it was the leakage of mixed oil and gas that caused the explosion, and it was the anti-ship missile that caused the leakage.

It was only by this time that the captain of the tanker sent a distress signal and reported that it had been attacked by an anti-ship missile.

By this time, the naval battle had ended, and both Iranian and Kuwaiti speedboats had withdrawn from the battlefield.

After receiving the distress signal from the oil tanker, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia took immediate action, each dispatching several rescue helicopters.

After all, the sea where the tanker was attacked was only a few nautical miles from Saudi territorial waters.