Chapter 682: The War Breaks Out in South Asia
With the exception of Kuwaiti Emir Jaber, who gritted his teeth and resolutely supported the actions of the United States imperialism against Iraq, almost all Arab countries were more sympathetic to Iraq as they were to hate Saddam Hussein, which had been invaded by the United States.
The strategic intentions of the United States are well known to all, and at such a cost, what do the Americans want? It's the Middle East in the air, control the oil resources here! After the overthrow of Saddam's regime, the United States will certainly station troops in Iraq and achieve a real military presence in the Gulf region.
The coalition attack on Iraq is no longer moral.
Their fighters dropped cruise missiles and laser bombs on the ground. There are also a large number of submunitions and cloud burst bombs, and Iraqi civilians who have lost their lives for this, tens of thousands!
People in various countries in the Middle East feel very uncomfortable when they watch the innocent and tragic deaths of Iraqi civilians on television every day.
In order to occupy Iraq more quickly in the ground battle, the US military once again mobilized 50,000 troops from the country and stationed them in Kuwait's Doha Barracks and Nuhafujian Barracks.
The small Kuwait has concentrated more than 120,000 US troops and other multinational troops, making a posture that can attack at any time, so that the Iraqi army on the opposite side does not dare to slacken.
In the second-line barracks of Oman in the back, there are hundreds of thousands of troops to move forward.
In the air bases of Kuwait and other countries, such as Al Salem and Ahmad Gader, fighter planes are working around the clock. Continue to launch a frenzied bombing campaign against Iraq.
The Iraqi side is not unprepared.
As early as a few months ago, Saddam Hussein followed Shaw's suggestion to use full-band jammers on a wide scale throughout the country
This is a really powerful guy, and it emits radio waves that block all communication lines, including Iraq and the coalition forces. After the first Gulf War. Saddam Hussein learned to be obedient and knew that his communications were in danger of being interfered with by the superior electronic warfare of the coalition forces. Therefore, the Iraqi army has built an underground communication center and used optical fiber lines to keep in touch with the front-line troops.
As soon as the full-band jammer was put into use. The coalition forces were immediately in great pain.
Anyway, the Iraqi army has no confidence that it can guarantee smooth communication, so it will carry out high-power interference in all frequency bands, and no one should want to be comfortable. Deliver information.
As soon as the Tomahawk cruise missiles entered Iraqi territory, they were subjected to strong signal jamming, and there was still no intermittent interference.
Even if digital transmission technology is used, you must always have a ground gap between the transmission and reception of compressed data!
But unfortunately not, Iraq is a side of the same mind, and everyone is smeared with two eyes. Forcibly drag the coalition forces back to the traditional mode of warfare to fight. At the very least, the Iraqi army can maintain basic operational command through the wired communications network, and it does not necessarily suffer much more than the coalition forces.
Cruise missiles can only fly according to the established procedural route. Look for terrain matching data.
At Xiao's suggestion, Saddam Hussein also made a ruthless effort to move residents near the border into the interior. Burned most of the villages that could be used as terrain matches, leaving only a few. As a passage port for cruise missiles to enter.
Iraq's anti-aircraft artillery is hidden in the route through which cruise missiles must go. Wait for the rabbit and intercept it in layers.
The vast majority of cruise missiles, on the way, were destroyed and shot down by the Iraqi side with primitive anti-aircraft guns. Tactical missions were not accomplished.
Without accurate cruise missile attacks, the US military has no choice but to use laser-guided bombs or high-altitude covered bombing to destroy ground targets.
But at this time, the MiG-29 that the Iraqi army had been hiding for a long time. There is also the appearance of the newly introduced Su-27S.
The US warplanes that penetrated deep into the Iraqi border were jammed by full-band jamming with higher power and could not obtain radar data support from the AWACS aircraft.
is also blind, F16 was swept all over the sky by Su-27, and he was abused as a dog, only F15 at the same level can be worthy of the arrogance of Su-27 in a low grade.
In the chaotic air battle, even the MiG-29, which was previously considered a chicken rib, performed remarkably.
The air battle over Babylon returned to the level of the end of World War II, which relied on airborne radar and visual target detection. With the support of Iraq's anti-aircraft firepower on the ground, the two sides were engaged in fierce fighting, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser for a while.
The coalition forces were caught in a dilemma.
Without a comprehensive clearance of the ground threat, it will be difficult to gain air supremacy. Without air supremacy, casualties on ground advance are bound to be heavy. However, without launching a ground offensive, it seems that in the short term, it will be difficult to destroy all military targets in Iraq.
It's like a chicken lays an egg, and an egg lays a chicken.
Should we launch a ground offensive first and destroy the Iraqi army's ground jamming devices, or should we first gain air superiority and then launch a ground offensive?
It is difficult for the U.S. military to make a choice.
The war in the Middle East is spreading, and the eyes of the whole world are focused on it, and no one has noticed that the war in South Asia, which has been quiet for several years, has suddenly burned again.
June 15, one o'clock in the morning.
Darkness covered the land, the sky was full of stars, the moon had set, and there was darkness all around.
To the west of Sadekira, an area of plains as far as the eye can see.
There was a trembling sound from the ground, a violent tremor, as if it were an earthquake, and the rats, which had been sleeping in the ground, came out of their burrows uneasily, looking into the distance.
In the dark, one by one, behemoths seem to be coming, what is that?
The consciousness of danger is transmitted to the little head of the mouse, and at this time, it can only have one choice, escape!
The rat squeaked and ran forward with all its might, but it was so slow that it had not taken a few steps before the behemoths had already rumbled over.
The rat stood there, his legs trembling, watching the steel tracks move and look at the dirt stirred up behind him, and the night seemed like the end of the world.
Pakistan's 1st Armored Division, already dispatched!
At the forefront are the three armored brigades of the 1st Armored Division, all of which are main battle tanks, with black barrels, pointing high into the distance, inside the tanks, through night vision devices, the drivers clearly look around.
Ahead, the land of India, completely burying the old enemy, right now!
Here is the wide plain of the Ganges, with armored troops on a wide offensive front, and it is only necessary to advance, advance, and advance again, and be able to advance all the way to Calcutta!
At the rear of the division, there were the same tracked vehicles, but the huge turret from the middle of the hull to the tail, the huge gun in front, and the engine in the front, represented the main battle tank that was not used to charge, but the support force of the armored cluster!
By this time, the vehicles had stopped, and the barrels began to rise rapidly, followed by a tracked vehicle, which docked the rear of the vehicle.
PLZ-45, a 155-mm self-propelled howitzer of Huaxia production! Although it is in the back, it has a range of more than thirty kilometers and is an important support firepower for armored forces!
Rows of self-propelled howitzers, quickly ready for battle, the vehicles behind are ammunition delivery vehicles, in general, self-propelled howitzers are to fire ammunition from the ammunition truck, only when the situation is urgent, will they fire their own shells.
Calibrate the position of the launch vehicle, calculate the firing elements, and with the help of the fire control system, soon, everything is ready.
"Our unit will reach the border in three minutes and immediately carry out fire coverage!" The division commander, Erachi, was in a command car, calmly giving orders.
"Boom!" Deafening, landslides and ground cracks.
With this sound, the barrel of the 155 mm caliber trembled violently, and along with the entire launch vehicle, a large ball of flame appeared in the muzzle, which instantly lit up the sky.
In front of the flames, a shell flew out, which was almost the largest caliber howitzer in the army, and as soon as the cannon passed, the opponent's position, even if it was a solid reinforced concrete bunker, would be immediately lifted away!
The cannon roared from one door to another, and the battle officially began!
Just on one side of the self-propelled howitzer position, another support unit also opened fire in an instant!
The same tracked chassis, the same six pairs of load-bearing wheels, but the upper weapon station is different, the upper part of these armored chassis is a neatly arranged tube!
122mm MLRS!
In World War II, the attack of rocket artillery in the sky was a sea of death for the enemy, whether it was Germany or an island country, there was an indescribable fear of rocket artillery attack. As the promoter of artilleryism, Lao Maozi developed Katyusha to the extreme. And in the East, Huaxia, which also attached great importance to the army, also developed a series of rocket artillery.
At this time, the automatic control and aiming system in the chassis has automatically entered the initial parameters, automatically completed the tilt correction, and automatically completed the installation of the shooting elements.
When the order of the division commander came, the rocket artillery on this side also fired.
"Boom, boom." Rocket artillery is ignited by the power of its own rocket engine to fly, and there is no huge roar of artillery shells, but the spectacular scene of rockets igniting one by one and flying into the distance is far from being comparable to howitzers.
In 20 seconds, only the sound of swishing was heard, one rocket after another flew out, and the smoke was shrouded in smoke behind it, and forty rockets were launched, which were enough to cover the size of a village and form a death zone!
After the launch was completed, the box of the front cuboid began to rotate automatically, and the launch tube behind it was also flattened, and I saw that in the open box of the cuboid, the new forty rockets were transported from the box in turn and entered the launch tube behind, and in two minutes, all the forty rockets were loaded into the launch tube!
Another outstanding advantage of this rocket launcher is that it can be automatically reloaded! Another blow is about to begin! (To be continued.) )