Chapter 670: Ballistic Missile, Ready to Launch
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The night, the silence of the night, there was no movement heard on all sides, only a cold wind, which blew across the ground, blowing some of the withered weeds in the wind. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info≦≧
Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound in the distance, and this sound made the silent night sè even more eerie.
At the forefront were two BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, and this time the convoy was very important for Iraq, so there could be no losses.
A battalion of in-flight, protecting the advance of this convoy, in the front, on the flanks, in the back, and even in the area of a few hundred meters around, they are following up and doing a good job of protection.
After the infantry fighting vehicles in front passed, behind, huge transports, one after another, drove one after another.
In the dark, these vehicles are larger than the 8*8 Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks that Iraq is now equipped with the best off-road Xingxing, both in length and width, they are an order of magnitude larger, and the tires alone will be a lap larger.
The cars were all covered with camouflage nets, so that no one could see what was on them, and in each car, there were soldiers with automatic rifles, looking around with vigilance. ≦≧
It took ten minutes for the convoy to walk before the land was calm again, as if nothing had happened.
The camouflage net that covers the car has another use, to disguise its own infrared signature! This new type of camouflage net made the reconnaissance satellites in the sky not find any difference.
Inside one of the OTP-23 shè cars, Warich was in a somewhat agitated mood.
When I first came to Unit Three. Warich is still a little awkward, because. In the Sidewinder unit, he can have a difficult combat mission at any time. They are Cusay's sharpest daggers, striking at the opponent's most important parts.
And how useful will the missile forces, this newly formed unit, be? A missile, many people to cāo, can not see the smoke of gunpowder. It's not at all as close to hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
But, gradually, Warich took a liking to the troops, if the Rattlesnake troops were daggers. ≦≧Well, they are cannons! A dagger can only kill one person at a time, and a cannon can kill a large area in one blow.
And last time, their troops have already shown their first formidable ability, the missile force, is the sword of the country!
Last time, they used cruise missiles, and this time, they switched to ballistic missiles. Warich has learned about the use of the two missiles, and at the same time, he admires the command of Qusay even more.
President Qusay, who has not taken any courses on missiles, but is born with such a good understanding of the use of missiles, President Qusay, is a natural leader given by Allah to Iraq!
Last time. It hit the nuclear weapons base of the Sèry, and this time, it completely wiped out the air force of the Èrye.
As the day dawned, they finally sailed into the Syrian desert on time, where it was even more difficult for the satellites in the sky to detect their whereabouts, and from above, they had blended into the background of the desert.
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Southern Saudi, on the northern edge of the Rub al-Khali Desert. ≦≧
This was originally a barren land, in the bare desert, there was nothing, and it was not suitable for human habitation at all. The nearest small city is also more than 30 kilometers away from here, and it is nearly 600 kilometers away from Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, but it has been selected by experts from the eastern powers, and it is also the most suitable choice for Saudi Arabia, because it is outside the combat radius of the F-15 and F-16 fighters of the Sè Air Force, which is conducive to preserving its strength. Because here, there is one of the most important bases in Saudi Arabia: the Dongfeng-3 ballistic missile position.
The DF-3 missile is a mobile deployment missile that uses a trailer to send shè, theoretically this missile can run the whole world, but no country will let this missile run around, that is too ostentatious and too unsafe. They all set up a hidden place as a base for this missile, and then, near this base, they built several hair shè positions, and in order not to be discovered by the other side in wartime, they could also build the hair shè positions very far. Then, the missilemen will live in isolation, because they are the backbone of the entire country.
In order to quickly build a "national counterattack fortress" in this desert area, the wealthy Saudi Arabia has allocated a special budget to build huge depots and distant positions for missiles, and at the same time to build special highways for connection. ≦≧At the same time, in order to enrich the lives of the soldiers, with the people-oriented Jing God, the Saudi zhèngfu not only built a position and a base, but also specially built a small city for the officers and soldiers who were about to live in this place, with officers' villas, football fields, swimming pools and parking garages. This small city was named Sulaiil.
Experts from the great powers of the East, together with Saudi professionals, began to plan and build everything here, and everything is developing as it happened in history, only a few years earlier, but, the difference is that among these people, there are still a small number of Iraqi personnel.
Directly export DF-3 to Iraq, then, in the international community, there will be great pressure, especially from the United States, but if the export is to Saudi Arabia, whose defense policy is still pro-American, then the situation will be much worse, although now this export project is still top secret, but sooner or later the world will know.
Iraq also needs such missiles, and the historical Saudi project of importing such missiles on its own has now become a cooperative import with Iraq. This is ≦≧ because some of these missiles will be operated at a missile base in Iraq in the future, and at the appropriate time, they will be equipped with a special warhead of great power developed by Iraq.
There is another reason, that is, the Arab Space Corporation, this company is engaged in high-tech space, but until now, this company is still empty, the company's first project, starting with the Dongfeng-3, to imitate the Arabs' own launch vehicle!
The person in charge of this project is a scientist sent by the Iraqi side, Dr. Saadi.
Educated in Germany and England in his early years, Saadi focused on space science, and he was elegant and fluent in English. Later, after returning to China, he was welcomed by Saddam Hussein and became his scientific and technological adviser, and began to participate in the formulation of Iraq's weapons development plan since the 80s. Such a talent has naturally been valued by Qusay and has taken on this important responsibility.
During the Iran-Iraq War, Saadi, together with missile experts, produced an improved Scud-B surface-to-surface missile, which could reach Tehran, the capital of Iran. And in the famous "playing card" wanted notice issued by the US military, it is also among the best, and is one of the 55 wanted important Iraqi personnel in "Square 7".
The Arab Space Corporation will have a long way to go if it wants to finally develop an excellent launch vehicle, and now, it will start by copying the DF-3.
The difference between the two is that one payload is a satellite and does not return to the atmosphere, and the other payload is a warhead and returns to the atmosphere.
Baghdad, Ministry of Defense, Command Hall.
The atmosphere at the scene was a little inexplicably tense, because the people who could stay in this hall were all people who knew the inside story, and a few hours later, what they were about to carry out was a blow that had never been done before.
If it was just a missile strike, it didn't seem to have anything to do with them, and they wouldn't have fired the shè missile directly. However, the use of a large number of missiles to attack the column is only the beginning, and what happens after that, there may be all kinds of unexpected situations.
All Iraq's air defense radars, including the long-range pre-JING radars deployed on the Jordanian border and integrated into the C3I system, have been activated to scan the surrounding sky, Iraqi pre-JING planes are also ready to take off at any time, and Iraqi fighters deployed in front, the Mirage 4000 in air superiority and the F-20 in ground attack are also ready to take off at any time.
As usual, Qusay is calm, and he knows that he needs to be calm even more now, because he needs to be responsible not only for Iraq, but also for other Arab countries, as well as for the creation of a war pattern in the Middle East in the next few years.
Mercedes-Benz's 8*8 off-road chassis xing can be excellent, after all, it is still a civilian vehicle, to the Soviet Union's military vehicles, it is a cut off, and now the missile is sent to the shè car, driving on the Syrian desert, such as walking on the ground, special large tires, stepping on some soft sand, but there is no difference between it and in the dirt, compared to the tracked vehicle, xing can not be much different.
The USSR focused on the military industry, and such vehicles, which were specially manufactured by heavy machinery factories and tailored to the dimensions of ballistic missiles, had a kind of roughness in their bones.
Soon, the Scud missile engine came to its own position, and the OTP-23 missile had to go further south, because the target of their attack was farther south.
Although the Scud missile has already begun to enter the preparation before the launch, and the OTP-23 missile is still maneuvering, the preparation time of the Scud missile is long, because it is a liquid missile and has to be refueled.
The Scud-missile cart stopped, the camouflage net was removed, and the missile inside waited quietly, waiting for the final glorious moment to come.
The fuel truck behind drove up, and the officers and men wearing gas masks began to do the first work before the departure, filling up the poisonous liquid fuel. (To be continued) RQ