PS: Gorgeous careless, the opening sentence of the first two chapters - someone said that the laser will be reflected? Without the word mirror, it should be - some people say that the laser will be reflected by the mirror?

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The five V-1DD medium- and short-range ballistic missiles launched from Somalia did not encounter any interception, flew to an altitude of more than 500 kilometers smoothly beyond imagination, and then began to adjust their attitudes, relying on their own weight, gravity, and the last stage propulsion system, and dived back towards the ground several hundred kilometers below.

When several V-1DD medium- and short-range ballistic missiles flew back from outer space and plunged headlong into the atmosphere, the US military bases were already in trouble. The cruise missiles that have just struck from the direction have begun to cause tremendous damage in the base.

The terminal interception of ballistic missiles, without adequate preparation, is basically impossible. The best means of defense against ballistic missiles is at the stage of missile launch. However, neither the land-based bases of the US military nor the vicinity of Somalia have such means of interception.

In order to avoid being threatened by the Somali Air Force and missiles, the US fleet withdrew more than 2,000 kilometers away, and at such a distance, they had to rely on satellites to discover even missile news.

When it came to the convoys of various countries in the Gulf of Aden, they immediately learned about the ballistic missiles. It's just that it's not about you, and no one cares about these five ballistic missiles. This also includes a British 45-class destroyer.

Britain did not agree to the Americans joining the coalition forces, and it was the Iraq War that caused a huge wave of anti-war throughout the country, although the benefits offered by the United States were very tempting. But Britain has no intention of following the United States.

The British fleet, naturally, ignored this.

And when returning from the atmosphere to the ground. A ballistic missile, flying at a speed of Mach 11, only takes more than a dozen seconds to reach the ground. Calculated in Patriot air defense. Calculations are calculated from the discovery of the target by the radar to the completion of the preheating of the anti-aircraft missile and then lift-off. No matter how fast this is, it will take at least thirteen seconds.

In other words, when the US military's Patriot-3 air defense missile system has not yet made an interception, those V-1DD medium- and short-range ballistic missiles have already hit the target. What has caused the US military a disaster is that now they do not even have the means to intercept it.

The radar crews at the Saudi Arabian Air Force Prince Sultan Air Base, Kenya's Manda Bay Naval Base in Kenya, the US Fifth Fleet Command in Bahrain, and the US Air Force UAV Base in Ethiopia on the outskirts of Albamenzi watched the radar fly fast and approach their ballistic missiles, and the only thing they could do was to open their mouths wide and wait for the missiles to crash down.

In the sky above these bases, the air raid sirens were already screaming as hard as they could, and people ran out of the room in desperation. Don't think they came out of the room to intercept missiles. They did this simply because when the missile fell, it might be safer to take it outdoors than to stay indoors — at least outdoors, so that the house would not collapse due to the explosion and cause secondary damage.

Over the base, three ballistic missiles fell vertically at an angle of nearly 90 degrees, which reduced the surface of the missiles and greatly increased the difficulty of interception. However, it is clear that these ballistic missiles are redundant, because the Americans did not come up with the slightest means of interception until the last day. Only a few Phalanx 30mm rapid-fire cannons were desperately intercepting, although they were desperately splashing projectiles into the sky. But these interceptor weapons are clearly too weak compared to the five missiles that fell at Mach 10.

The intense friction with the air has caused the heat-resistant shell of the ballistic missile to rise with billowing smoke, and the original exquisite paint has been lost in the high-temperature combustion. In its place was a black, piping iron shell that had been smoked. But these are already very secondary, because in just a few seconds, a beautiful mushroom cloud will replace everything that came before.

"Boom, boom, boom, ......". Accompanied by the dense firing sound of rapid-fire machine guns and the crackling sound of small-caliber shell explosions, five ballistic guides fell one after another. And the time of hitting the ground seems to be in no particular order.

Two V-1DD ballistic missiles equipped with penetrating warheads were smashed from take-off shells from Prince Sultan Air Base, and the hard, sharp warheads carried terrifying kinetic energy enough to smash through the entire aircraft carrier. It easily punctured the 3-meter concrete cushion and drilled directly to a depth of more than 10 meters below the surface.

As the fuse in the body of the projectile was triggered, two dull and violent explosions sounded, and two pillars of mud rose into the sky, carrying a large number of concrete blocks and black dirt into the sky, and more concrete blocks spread out layer by layer with the shock wave radiating to the surrounding area, like thousands of flying knives expanding outward with the momentum of a hurricane, and all objects that dared to stand in front of them were blown up like fallen leaves in a typhoon, and then fiercely touched to the ground. Those standing in the distance can even see a layer of translucent shock waves that can be seen, spreading around the center of the explosion. Like a pond of tranquility, thrown into a stone, it stirs up thousands of ripples.

As a large amount of rubble and clods of earth fell from the sky like hailstones, a cloud of orange-red mushrooms rose over the runway of the air base. A ballistic missile accurately hit the runway of the airport, blowing up two flying shells that could have taken off and landed large military transport planes beyond recognition. Although the V-1DD ballistic missile is positioned as a medium- and short-range tactical missile, its warhead is not at all medium- and short-range. The V-1DD medium- and short-range ballistic missile carries a larger warhead than the warhead of the Dongfeng-21 medium- and short-range ballistic missile of Western countries and China, with a total load weight of 800 kilograms.

Just imagine, what kind of damage will be caused by two ballistic missiles and 1,600 kilograms of high explosives falling?

When the smoke and fire cleared, the answer was revealed.

Two V-1DDs exploded on the runway of the Prince Sultan Air Base, and the high explosives carried by the warheads exploded at a depth of 17 meters below the surface of the shells, and the shock wave of the explosion immediately dug two large craters more than 20 meters deep and an area of several hundred square meters in the center of the shells at the airfield. And that's not all, the key is the deep earthquake from the explosion, which cracked not a single piece of concrete on the airport runway. Shells cracking inch by inch. Without rebuilding, it will no longer be possible to take off and land combat aircraft.

It is clear that the ballistic missiles of the Somalis are not designed to kill people. Otherwise, they wouldn't have chosen the impact point on the runway. But even so, the shrapnel that flew at great speed and the crushed clods of earth that were given great kinetic energy by the shock wave. A number of warehouses and barracks close to the explosion site were still destroyed, and accurate data on casualties were not available for the time being. Fortunately, many fighters have already taken off when the cruise missiles are coming, otherwise the consequences will be extremely tragic.

Of course, there are also tragic reminders, a large amount of explosives and aviation fuel were directly burned, and the United States, which has deep pockets, cannot afford such huge losses.

Well, even the United States still retains half of its air power at Prince Sultan Air Base. But after the airfield shells were destroyed, the planes could no longer fly. And those fighters that have taken to the air can only live temporarily at air bases in other places.

The most troublesome thing is that the attack is not over yet, and the huge power of the ballistic missile paralyzes the air defense network on the ground for up to twenty or thirty seconds, with the result that the supersonic cruise missile directly crosses the defensive circle and adds to the destruction.

The other three places didn't have a good time either, even though the three bases were only one each. But the result was much worse than the base of the Prince Sultan.

In particular, at the Amanda Bay Naval Base in Kenya, the US Navy has stored a large amount of naval fuel under the wharf of the military port, and the result is very tragic. The missile hit the oil depot just above it, and the underground oil depot was directly detonated. People use fire to borrow the wind, and the result is that the missile uses the power of fuel.

The entire naval base after the explosion. There is simply no piece of complete turning, three convex embankment-type docks. It was also blown up directly.

It was a catastrophe entirely, although the exact number of casualties was not yet known. But as soon as I looked at the entire base, which seemed to be about to be overturned, I understood the result of those people inside.

The other two places are also not having a good time, and the huge losses are certain, and the follow-up cruise missiles have also further deepened this damage.

The US coalition forces could not have imagined that after such a dense cruise missile strike, they would actually dispatch ballistic missiles, which was really very unexpected.

Of course, the most tragic thing for the US military is that after searching the United States and its three current allies, it has not found a conventional warhead ballistic missile that can fight back. (France and Italy, gorgeous has not been able to find information!) There is no such thing in Japan on the surface! ）

Many times, the deterrent is too strong, and that's the result.

In the face of such a ballistic missile that has taken off into the sky, how can a country's duty officer in charge of missile warning not gamble the lives of its own people on whether it is loaded with a nuclear warhead? The logic of most people is that most people would rather believe in what they have than what they don't.

From a technical point of view, as long as sufficient financial support is obtained, the Trident nuclear missile can be replaced with a conventional warhead in a relatively short period of time, and then form a conventional global strike capability. In fact, the U.S. Department of Defense called for the deployment of Trident conventional missiles within 2 years as early as 06, but the U.S. Congress refused to fund this weapon system until 08 years ago. The reason for this is simple: it is difficult for other countries to distinguish whether the Trident missile carries a conventional or nuclear warhead. This alone puts the use of conventional ballistic missiles at great risk for a global strike.

First of all, to an outside observer, the Trident missiles carried by the Ohio-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines, whether equipped with conventional or nuclear warheads. It seems to be exactly the same - the same size, the same speed, the same firing position. The same problem exists with ballistic missiles of other schemes. Therefore, Russia and China, for example, will completely misjudge the launch of conventional missiles and believe that they have been hit by a nuclear strike.

In this regard, Russia gave a warning at the beginning.

The Russian side is worried: "Because we don't know what warhead your strategic missile is carrying." ”

Putin also said: "The launch of such a missile could provoke a miscalculation by other nuclear-armed states, leading to a large-scale nuclear counterattack." ”

This has also led to the idea that the United States wants to modify these ICBMs into conventional warheads, which has become difficult to realize.

In the face of such a strike in Somalia, the Americans found that they did not have the corresponding means of counterattack. The ballistic missiles developed by the United States are all guys that can carry nuclear warheads, and as soon as these guys appear, if they really have a nuclear bomb on Somalia.

Then the United States will instantly become the public enemy of mankind, and when the time comes, there will really be no one to stand with him. It is also very likely that it will face sanctions from China, Russia and the United Nations, because it will not help the United States to speak at that time. France and Italy, as well as Japan, will also be far away from him.

However, the American side is not without any solutions, the sky has already brightened, and the missile strike has come to the fourteenth wave, at this time, Dempsey shouted to stop.

On the satellite pictures, the devastated Bagua City made him see that the effect of the blow had achieved its intended purpose. Those main attack targets were finally destroyed, and although some of the targets in Bagua City were still unharmed, the impact on the battle situation was not very great.

In the coalition's missile strike plan, the Somali government offices and the base where Li Lan lives are all key targets. At the moment, this purpose has not been accomplished. But Dempsey knows better that if he continues to fight, it will only be a waste of money.

In one night, fifteen waves of missile strikes have caused many different voices within the coalition forces, especially France and Italy, which have expressed protest against such a profligacy by the United States.

In order to take care of the unity of the coalition forces, and with many important targets already destroyed, Dempsey also gave the order to stop the strike.

However, the missile strike is over, but the war has just begun, and after mediating the next four destroyed bases, he also officially issued the next stage of the battle order:

"Once the war begins, the Somali Navy must be strangled in the Gulf of Aden as soon as possible, and it cannot be eliminated and resolutely cannot be moved. At the beginning of the war, it was hoped that all the units would be able to work together to complete the set combat missions. ”

In the combat conference room, against the backdrop of the four-star general's brief, Dempsey stood in front of everyone and conveyed the battle order sentence by sentence: "At the beginning of the battle, Djibouti will move towards the coalition forces and cooperate with the air force towards Berbera. The 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force set out from Yemen to coordinate the offensive of the coalition forces in the direction of Djibouti.

One of the Ethiopian coalition forces, with the cooperation of the Ethiopian Army, advanced out of Jijiga and attacked Hargeisa.

The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force landed in the coastal town of Itami, which is facing Galkayo, and must cooperate with the remaining Ethiopian coalition forces to complete the occupation of Galkayo within 12 hours, completely cutting Somalia into two sections, north and south.

The coalition forces in Kenya have only one goal, and that is Mogadishu, to occupy Mogadishu with the fastest Soviet Union.

......" (To be continued......)