Since March 24, NATO launched an air strike on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The officers and men of the info unit simply blew up, and after tea and dinner, everyone discussed this air raid, how long will it last? How big will the damage be inflicted on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia? If we are the army of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, how will we deal with air raids and what means of counterattack will we have?

In particular, how big can the threat posed by the US-led NATO's high-tech weapons be by using the inferior to defeat the superior by two or three tricks that we have studied? What kind of effect can our new "three strikes and three defenses" have?

In Wednesday's political education class, regiment commander Shen Lei gave a vivid education lesson to all the officers and men of the regiment.

"The topic of our class today is 'Correctly Understanding NATO's Air Raid on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.'

First of all, let's talk about the background of NATO's air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

As you know, Kosovo is an autonomous province of the Republic of Serbia in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, with an area of more than 10,000 square kilometres and a population of about 2 million, 90 per cent of whom are ethnic Albanians and less than 10 per cent of Serbs.

Historically, Kosovo was the birthplace of the Serbian nation, and in the Middle Ages, it was the cultural and political center of the Serbian nation. Later, the Turkish army defeated the Serbian army, and the Kosovo region was brought under Turkish rule.

In the First Balkan War, a coalition of Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria defeated Turkey, and Kosovo was once again surrounded by Serbia.

During World War II, the German and Italian fascists invaded Yugoslavia, and Kosovo was assigned to the Kingdom of Albania under Italian protection.

After the end of World War II, Kosovo was included in the territory of Tito's Yugoslavia.

During the Tito period, the Yugoslav government upgraded Kosovo to the status of an Albanian autonomous province, and later became a federal unit under the Republic of Serbia, gaining considerable autonomy.

After Tito's death, the ethnic contradictions in Yugoslavia became more and more acute, and Western trends of thought such as democracy and freedom and the multiparty system took advantage of the situation to enter Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia gradually embarked on the road of national splittism, and Albanian separatist activities in Kosovo became increasingly rampant.

At a time when the contradictions between the Serbian and Albanian communities in Kosovo were becoming increasingly acute and bloody clashes were occurring from time to time, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic began to implement a hardline policy against Albanian separatism in Kosovo, suppressed Albanian demonstrations, and revoked the right to autonomy.

After the end of the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact led by the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the US-led NATO became stronger and stronger, its sphere of influence continued to expand eastward, and Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria, the three former Warsaw Pact countries, were included as its members.

At the end of February and the beginning of March last year, two bloody clashes erupted in Kosovo, which heated up suddenly. This series of conflicts and bloodshed has given the Western powers an opportunity.

On the one hand, the United States and European countries recognize that Kosovo is a part of Yugoslavia and do not support the independence of the Albanian ethnic group, but on the other hand, they emphasize that the Kosovo issue is about to burst into a blaster, which may cause turmoil in the entire Balkan region, which is beyond the scope of Yugoslavia's internal affairs, and it is necessary for external forces to intervene in this matter and create international public opinion on the Kosovo issue.

NATO, while fighting a series of diplomatic struggles, wants to use force to force the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia into submission.

At the end of January, NATO demanded that the Republic of Serbia of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and representatives of the Kosovo Albanian forces must go to Zabuyie, a suburb of Paris, France, on 6 February to hold peace talks.

The core of the plan is that Kosovo will become a republic of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and a third republic on an equal footing with Serbia and Montenegro, and second, NATO troops will be stationed in Kosovo.

In this way, late at night local time on 23 March, NATO Secretary General Solana announced the news that people had long thought that it would only be a matter of time, and NATO had decided to launch an air strike against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ”

"The second question is how NATO launched air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

In order to coordinate with the air raid on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, NATO has used 15 to 20 military and civilian satellite systems, and it is estimated that there are more than 50 satellites.

There are four main types of these fifty satellites,

The first is a photographic reconnaissance satellite. These include synthetic aperture radar imaging satellites and optical imaging reconnaissance satellites. Synthetic aperture radar can emit microwave signals to the ground and can accept weak signals reflected from the ground, and can find military targets hidden in dry deserts through clouds.

The second type is meteorological satellites.

The third type is the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, whose main role is to locate and navigate equipment and personnel and to guide weapons, and play a key role in precision strikes.

The fourth type is communication satellites. These satellites have effectively provided early warning, guidance, and reconnaissance for NATO's high-tech weapons, and have effectively supported the command and coordination, mission fulfillment, and effectiveness evaluation of air raid operations.

In this way, the entire Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and even the Balkans are under the close surveillance of NATO's various satellites, and the entire battlefield is always clear and unambiguous to NATO, regardless of whether it is dark or day, cloudy or sunny.

The primary target of NATO air strikes was the air defense system of the army of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It mainly includes air force fighters, surface-to-air missile regiments, anti-aircraft artillery brigades, and army air defense weapons.

In the early days of the US air raid operation, more than 400 planes were dispatched, including 12 F-117s and 2 B2 strategic bombers.

The B2 strategic bomber is a high-altitude penetration stealth strategic bomber, which has both high and low penetration capabilities, and can perform both nuclear and conventional bombing missions.

It has a wingless shape with a flankless wing. It can effectively evade the detection of radar and achieve a good stealth effect.

The B2 bomber has three combat missions, one is to go deep into the enemy's hinterland without being detected, and drop bombs or launch missiles with high precision, so that the weapon system has the highest efficiency; the second is to detect, detect and destroy moving targets; The third is to build a deterrent force. The US Air Force has threatened that B-2 bombers can take off from the US mainland to attack targets in any part of the world within hours of receiving orders.

In order to enhance the bombing effect and reduce war losses, NATO attaches special importance to the use of electronic warfare planes, and every air raid is always accompanied by electronic warfare planes; in particular, in the early days of air raids, electronic warfare planes are always used to carry out electronic jamming, suppression, and paralysis for the C3I system, fire control radar, and alert radar system of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

In each raid, always the E-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft is outside the range of the opponent's anti-aircraft fire, and concurrently serves as the three roles of command, communication, and coordination, and the electronic warfare aircraft carry out powerful electromagnetic suppression, cover the air defense of the attack aircraft group, and use anti-radiation missiles when necessary to attack the radiation source, and the EC-130 specializes in dealing with the opponent's communication and command system, so that it is strongly interfered with and loses its function.

NATO's air raid on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a typical information war, in which information plays a leading role. In order to enhance the ability of the NATO Air Force to obtain, process, transmit, and utilize information, NATO has dispatched a large number of reconnaissance and early warning planes in addition to its huge space forces.

NATO's reconnaissance planes mainly include U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, electronic reconnaissance aircraft, RC-135 electronic reconnaissance aircraft, carnivorous unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and hunter unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, with various optical cameras, video cameras, infrared cameras, synthetic aperture radar, and so on.

NATO's early warning command planes include the E-2, E-3b/c, and so on, with a detection range of 269 to 463 kilometers, and the on-board radar can display 2,000 targets at the same time, and can command 100 groups of air interceptions at the same time. That is, these aircraft can grasp the information of the entire airspace in real time.

In this huge air raid army, there are all kinds of advanced fighters from the 13 NATO member countries, including 5717 combat aircraft, 81 electronic warfare aircraft, 25 reconnaissance and early warning aircraft, 137 tanker aircraft, 82 helicopters, and 39 stealth aircraft: 24 F-117s, 10 B2s, and 5 B-1Bs.

Ninety-eight percent of the ammunition invested by these aircraft is precision-guided weapons, mainly including ground-attack missiles outside the defense zone, infrared laser-guided bombs, anti-radar missiles, graphite bombs, Tomahawk C-type, air-launched cruise missiles, joint direct attack missiles, and joint standoff weapons. ”

In the auditorium, there was silence, even a needle could be heard on the ground, and the officers and men were listening attentively to the regiment commander's lecture.