To the north of Baghdad, there is a small village called Szeged.

The village was quiet, and the air raids that came over the past few days have made many people know how to defend their air, and when planes come, it is best to get into the dug dug air-raid shelters in the village.

At this time, in the grove outside the village, among the sparse trees, there were already some more vehicles covered with camouflage nets.

They are all four-axle large off-road heavy truck MA3-543M chassis, typical of Lao Maozi's rugged style, somewhat similar to the Scud missile launch vehicle, but the back of the body is not a cylindrical missile, but four thick tubes.

At this time, under the action of the hydraulic cylinder, four thick pipes were slowly turned to the back and erected, facing the sky, revealing hideous faces.

Another vehicle of the same chassis slowly erected a large slab-like object, and when it was erected, the slab began to rotate.

At this time, the people in these vehicles were preparing with a high degree of nervousness, many of them were not Middle Eastern faces, tall figures, high nose bridges, with typical Caucasian physical features.

"Attention, search for targets at once, prepare to launch missiles!" Even when they speak, they speak in Russian.

They were hired by Iraq at a high price to operate these advanced anti-aircraft missiles! And these missiles can only be operated by the Soviet Territorial Defense Forces, because this is an advanced field air defense system that the USSR has never exported, the S-300!

In 1968, the Territorial Air Defense Command of the USSR proposed to develop a new anti-aircraft multi-channel anti-aircraft missile system for the three services, called the S-500U, which was originally intended only for anti-aircraft. Later, at the insistence of the Army's Rocket Artillery Headquarters, the leadership of the Soviet State Military Industrial Complex made a compromise plan to develop an air defense missile system common to the three services on the premise of the principle of generalization. Designated S-300 system. The name used by the Territorial Defense Force is called the S-300P, the one used by the Army is called the S-300V, and the one used by the Navy is called the S-300F. However, it was not the same design bureau that was responsible for each other, so in the end, the purpose of generalization of the three services was not achieved, and only the search radar and other equipment of the accusation station reached about 50 percent universality

After more than ten years of development. The initial system was equipped with only a smaller-range 9M83 missile and other corresponding supporting equipment, and in 83 it was equipped with the army air defense force, and the main types of targets intercepted were aircraft, cruise missiles and short-range tactical ballistic missiles such as "Scud" and "Lance". And now, these missiles secretly smuggled into Iraq are precisely these original models, advanced models, and the Soviets must of course keep them for their own use.

However, even this original model was guided entirely by phased array radar. Including 36D6TinShield early warning radar, 64N6BigBird target designation radar and 5N63FlapLid-A target tracking and guidance phased array radar, advanced performance, using command guidance and semi-active radar homing, tracking 24 targets at the same time, guiding 4 missiles to attack 4 targets. The later version can simultaneously guide twelve missiles to attack six targets.

At this time, the 36D6 early warning radar has already scanned the target with only one rotation. Presented on the screen of the command vehicle, the 5N63 radar steering. Countless phase-changing radar waves filled the sky ahead.

"Lock on to the target, fire!" The commander's voice was very short, and at this time, the target was forty kilometers away from the air defense radar position.

Launch! The operator of the launch vehicle, after hearing the order. Immediately pressed the button in front of him.

"Bang." With the sound of high-pressure air, the 9M83 missile was forced to eject the launch canister by the high-pressure air emitted by the gas generator, and the wings of the tail were opened, and the huge missile was launched. has become a hideous killer.

When it ejected to a height of twenty meters, a blazing flame suddenly appeared in the tail, the main engine of the missile began to ignite, the heat flow rolled, and the missile accelerated violently.

Western missiles have always used hot launches, that is, they are ignited from the launch tube, which requires the design of complex wake guidance devices, while Soviet missiles use cold launch technology, and only after the missiles come out, they will start to ignite, such a disadvantage, that is, if the missile is not successfully ignited in the air, it will fall down and smash into its own launch position.

One after another, four missiles, one after another, flew out of the quadruple launch tubes, and the flames at the tail drew a graceful curve in the dark night.

"Didi, Didi." The four F-16 fighters in the air, almost at the same time, the sound of the radar warning receiver sounded in the headset, and as the sound turned to become urgent, they had been locked!

Damn, anti-aircraft missiles for the Iraqis! The pilots of the F-16 were immediately shocked, at this time they were carrying out a ground attack mission, not an air defense suppression mission, and they did not carry Hamm anti-radiation missiles.

Therefore, when they were locked by ground-based air defense systems, they immediately felt a pang of nervousness in their hearts.

"Get rid of it now!" The pilot of the long plane shouted, his hand quickly pressed the button, and the cumbersome Maverick air-to-surface missiles mounted under the wings and the auxiliary fuel tank under the belly of the aircraft were instantly abandoned.

The Maverick missile has a range of only a dozen kilometers and cannot be launched outside the defense zone, and now, in the face of Iraq's surface-to-air missiles, they must carry out a large-scale maneuver to get rid of it.

There were only two Sidewinder missiles left, and the fighter suddenly became relaxed, turning on the afterburner of the F100 engine, the brain of the pilot of the long plane was spinning at high speed, what kind of missile was flying? If it is a ramjet SAM-6, it is difficult to dodge it when caught off guard, this missile is a ramjet engine, it is fast, it flies in a few seconds, if it is the old SAM-3, then there is still a few chances.

The sound in the headphones is even shorter, and the missiles are about to arrive! The pilot gritted his teeth, pulled the lever, pedaled the rudder, and made a maneuver with a large overload.

The 9M83 missile below is flying at high speed, this missile with a dead weight of one and a half tons, the warhead has reached a hundred kilograms, the maximum flight speed is Mach 5, the distance of forty kilometers is just more than twenty seconds, and the semi-active radar seeker in the front has already begun to work, firmly locking on to its own target with the help of the 64N6BigBird target designation radar.

"Boom!" When there were still a few meters away from the target, the warhead began to explode, and countless fragments filled the airspace with a radius of more than ten meters nearby, and the pilot of the F-16 was recovering from the black vision caused by the large overload at this time, and what his eyes saw was the countless flying fragments.

Damn, what kind of surface-to-air missile is this? The power of the warhead is too perverted, right?

Of the four F-16s, three were hit in the air and caught fire, and one was damaged.

It is a pity that the Soviets refused to export the most advanced missiles to Iraq, and if they had missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers, or even improved missiles with a range of 150 kilometers, this air defense weapon could be turned into an out-and-out offensive weapon.

The battle has just begun!

After taking out the four-plane formation here, the 36D6 radar found several suspicious targets again, and the 5N63 guidance radar turned and began to attack the next batch of targets.

The S-300 surface-to-air missile, the sudden attack, caused the US Air Force units to pay a certain number of casualties, and in Baghdad, Basra, and even in the desert area, there were Iraqi surface-to-air missile units fighting.

The Americans who dominate the sky, taste the counterattack of the angry Iraqis!

However, the strikes of the scattered missile battalions did not affect the attack of the huge army of hundreds of thousands, and after the order for the general attack was issued, the 101st Air Assault Division also began their battle.

As far as the US military is concerned, relying on its powerful air transport capability, it is the United States' specialty tactic to directly project troops to the enemy's rear, open up new battlefields, and constantly form the tactic of leapfrogging.

The 101st Air Assault Division, which was created under the guidance of this idea, is an air assault unit of the US Army. It was first established as an airborne force, and after that, it made outstanding achievements, for example, on the battlefield of World War II, participated in the Normandy landings, and then was reorganized into an airmobile division in the Vietnam War, and then established as an air assault division, using helicopters to carry out air assault and rapid advance, however, the 101st division is still called an airborne division in its name, of course, it is fundamentally different from an ordinary airborne division.

The main force of the 101st Division is helicopters!

At this time, the AH-64 Apache helicopter, the UH-60 transport plane, flew in the sky like a black crow.

The engines roared, the rotors stirred the air currents, made a whirring sound, did not turn on the navigation lights, and the whole formation, in the dark of night, flew completely on night vision devices.

The 101st Air Assault Division was equipped with 88 Apache helicopters and 128UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, at this time, the helicopter sortie rate exceeded 90 percent.

Their mission is to fly directly to Kuwait City, plant the American Stars and Stripes in the sky over Kuwait, and recover Kuwait City before dawn!

Look, this is the strength of the formidable American army, which recovered Kuwait City in just half of the night!

The American GI, Corporal Robert, sat in the open hatch of the Black Hawk, his feet drooping, his M16 rifle in his hand, and a little nervous in his heart as he began his first battle after a year of service. (To be continued.) )