Chapter 650: Arms Dealers
Pakistan's air force is almost in turn, F-14 and F-16 alternately sorted, although there is no F-14 long-range interception capability, but with Pakistan's own active sky flash missiles, F-16 fighters also have good air combat capabilities.
The United States also has a squadron of F-15 fighters patrolling in the air, and at this time it called Pakistani planes to intercept them, apparently because the United States was very annoyed by the Pakistan Air Force's failure to work for many days, so it mobilized these two F-16s to intercept six MiG-29s, as if to make a fool of the Pakistan Air Force.
It is a pity that the Pakistan Air Force, which has been tempered by the war in Afghanistan, is already a powerful force. Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Mhammad, Pakistan's equipment level has also been greatly improved.
Two "Sky Flash" medium-range missiles flew over silently, and two MiG-29s, unprepared, were hit by missiles and disintegrated directly in the air.
The two sides quickly came close and entered close combat.
The Warsaw Pact pilots relied on the MiG-29's helmet-mounted aiming system and quickly locked on to the "Fighting Falcon", but the cumbersome operating procedures of the MiGs made them suffer a big loss. In order to launch an R73 missile, the pilots had to toggle eleven buttons, and by the time they had completed the program, the F16 had shaken off the ground and was attacking first.
Launching the AIM-9M Super Sidewinder missile only required the F16 to gently press a button and turn two MiG-29s into airballs of fireball.
F16 is far ahead with a record of 4-0. And in the remnants of the air power comparison. Maintained an absolute advantage of 4 to 2.
The remaining two MiG-29s had lost confidence in victory and fled in a hurry.
One MiG-29 was chased and intercepted by two F16s, desperately making various escape maneuvers. You can't get rid of your opponent either. The backward hydraulic system of the MiG-29 almost exhausted the pilot's physical strength, and as a result, in a hurry, the pilot made an operational error, and the fighter plunged headlong into the ground and exploded.
Such a terrible and comical scene made the Pakistani pilots stunned. This was followed by a briefing from the E3 AWACS aircraft, in the air channel. The pilots of the multinational force burst into bursts of laughter, laughing at the cowardice and incompetence of the Iraqi pilots.
The last MiG-29 rushed to the ground. Kankan saved a small life.
This aerial confrontation quickly spread around the world through television media and a joint press conference by the military of the multinational force. The disparity between the two sides has made F16 famous at the same time. Also let the MiG-29 "gold and jade. Lost in it".
In Mhammad's view, such a result was originally expected, because the F16 and the MiG-29 fell in love and killed each other in the skies over Afghanistan, and the weakness of the MiG-29 had already been exposed, and the Soviet MiG-29 pilots who received ground guidance and radar support over Afghanistan had not yet defeated the Pakistani F16 pilots, and how could the hired pilots of other countries with significantly inferior training and technical level be the opponents of Pakistani pilots!
The Gulf War will occupy a very important position in the history of human warfare, because it was a war in which high-tech weapons were the protagonists. The wars of the past, which were based on the number of people and the number of weapons, will be a thing of the past. Judging by the experience gained from the wars in which he participated, Mhammad was in a head-on confrontation. The gap between the comprehensive strength of Iraq and the US-led multinational forces is too great, and if Saddam Hussein had been in the heart of a broken pot from the very beginning, and had launched an all-out offensive before the US military had completed its deployment and was still in an absolutely weak position in terms of numbers, he would have become entangled with the US military, so that the opponent's high-tech weapons would not be able to give full play to their effects, and there would still be a glimmer of chance of victory. Even if it finally fails in the face of the superior technology of the US military, it will not be as miserable as it is now!
Although Pakistan has provided the port of Gwadar for the logistics support of the US military and the multinational force, and sent an elite army and air force of 30,000 people, including two fighter wings, armored divisions and several logistics support units, to join the multinational force to directly participate in the war, the US imperialists have also reciprocated the favor by forgiving Pakistan's military purchase debts in the Afghan war, and adding an additional military aid amounting to $5 billion. As for Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf countries, they have used a huge amount of green paper (the total amount is as high as 30 billion US dollars!). He expressed his gratitude to the Pakistani brothers for sending troops to fight the evil Saddam Hussein regime and its army.
However, for Mhammad, Pakistan's interests in the Gulf War are only that, and with Mhammad's own plan, after helping the Kuwaiti royal family recover its homeland and expel Iraqi troops from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan's troops will defend Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on the spot, and refuse to continue to obey the command of the US military and participate in any plan to invade Iraq on the grounds that they have joint defense agreements with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
If the war drags on in the Middle East for a long time, the less time there will be to take into account Mhammad's layout in the South Asian subcontinent and other places, he is more than happy to create a little more trouble for the Americans.
Shostakovich personally escorted the "Apple" and arrived safely in Syria.
"Apple" is a code name, a code name given to confuse the eyes of the CIA, and its real name is arms! Lots of advanced military equipment!
When Shostakovich led Osama and other mercenaries to rendezvous in Syria, many of the advanced equipment of the Soviet army in active service obtained through informal channels was sold on a large scale in the name of exchange for foreign exchange with the tacit consent of Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev and Defense Minister Marshal Olgakov. But that's nothing to Mhammad.
Some time ago, Iraq had ordered large quantities of advanced arms from Pakistan, but unfortunately the delivery of these arms was slow, and after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the Pakistani Government had even more odious swallowed up all the deposits, while the arms were smuggled under the pretext of sanctions. Saddam Hussein was so angry that his beard stood on end, and he had no other choice.
Thankfully, there are still arms dealers! With the help of that shrewd Mr. Xiao, Iraq was the first to obtain a certain number of MiG-29 fighters, and by the way, they hired pilots from the Warsaw Pact to fly them, but when they took to the air once and found that Iraq's combat system was simply unable to resist the air offensive of the coalition forces, these Warsaw Pact pilots were very resistant to taking to the skies to fight.
Lifting off at such a time is an absolute act of looking for death! Mercenaries fight for money, but they will not fight to the death, so the MiG-29 fighters, on which Saddam Hussein had high hopes, did not continue to play a role.
At this time, Saddam Hussein is even more looking forward to Mr. Xiao's follow-up arms!
According to the agreement reached with Xiao at the beginning, the batch of arms that was finally ready to be delivered to Saddam Hussein included 10 sets of S300 surface-to-air missile systems, 120 T80UM main battle tanks, 200 SAM-18 pin air defense missiles, 300 Scud missiles, 500 sets of "improved Scud missile guidance systems" and thousands of sets of GPS positioning jammers! The total value is more than $10 billion.
As early as the late 80s and early 90s, when Mahmad vigorously strengthened domestic scientific and technological innovation and construction, Pakistan's "Babel" comprehensive science and technology laboratory had just taken shape, recruiting nearly 100 Western European and Soviet scientists, employing more than 40 Chinese scientific researchers, plus more than 20 scientific and technological workers in his own country. Flexible GPS jammers; The other is to upgrade the Scud missile, and without making major changes to the aerodynamic shape, the guidance system will be upgraded and improved to improve its combat performance.
The order also emphatically stressed: As far as possible, Soviet scientists should be the mainstay, supplemented by scientists from China and Pakistan, so that the improvement of GPS jammers and Scud missiles is more in line with the characteristics of Soviet-made weapons.
Shostakovich knew very well that this was a trick played by Mhammad in an attempt to confuse the public, so that the United States could not find a real country to improve the development of the country, and the Soviet Union would directly bear the blame.
Regarding the first topic, the various parameters and advantages and disadvantages of the emerging GPS positioning and navigation system were collected by the Pakistani Service Intelligence Bureau, so that these scientists could easily find the means and methods of confrontation, so on the basis of the core electronic components of the Soviet Union, some electronic components from Western Europe and Japan were assembled in large quantities, and became something that looked like a TV projector on the outside!
However, in the face of the second topic, they all felt a bit of a headache.
The Scud missile, in fact, is an enlarged version of the V series surface-to-surface missile that the Soviet Union obtained from the Nazis at the end of World War II, and uses the old-fashioned inertial guidance and positioning method. That is, during the flight phase, the missile is based on the spatial positioning indication of the positioning platform, gyroscope, in a mechanically driven way, changing the missile's attitude in the air in order to hit the target.
The hit rate of this mechanical inertial positioning method is very low, and the Soviet army claims that the hit rate of the Scud missile can reach a circumference of 600 meters. However, in practical use (such as the brutal siege warfare during the Iran-Iraq war), the error is usually within a circumference of 1 km to 1.5 km. And this time, because it was launched in the gap between the air strikes of the US military, the error was even greater, even reaching five kilometers! (To be continued.) )