The Rhino I main battle tank became an obstacle, when the two MBT-1000s appeared, their guns bombarded, perhaps because the gunners were too sloppy and rough, and the shelling in a hurry did not follow the instructions of the fire control system, but completely relied on the previous method of driving the T-55/69, so neither gun hit the target. But one of the shots hit a MIFV multipurpose infantry vehicle in the vicinity, damaging the infantry vehicle.

Although the MIFV is relatively well defended among wheeled infantry vehicles, it is absolutely impossible to resist the tank guns of the MBT-1000, and it will be absolutely finished as long as it is hit, so the Saudi army is very nervous.

The Saudis, of course, were not completely unprepared, and one of their infantry vehicles had an anti-armor missile Red Arrow-9 attached to its weapon station, and immediately after locking on one of the tanks, a Red Arrow-9 missile was fired. This missile was shot and quickly hit one of the tanks, compared to the Red Arrow-73 missile, the Red Arrow-9 is larger, has stronger armor-piercing ability, although the MBT-1000 has good defense, but it is not enough to withstand the power of a bomb.

Although an Iraqi tank was destroyed in one blow, the Saudi side was still an infantry tank after all, and did not dare to stay within the enemy's 125mm range. The MIFV can reach a top speed of more than 100 km/h on the road and 65 km/h off-road, which is much faster than a normal main battle tank.

The Rhino I tank that shelled them just now would let them go and withdraw safely, and immediately raised its muzzle, ready to shoot at them again, this time the gunner was more cautious, using the more advanced fire control system of the MBT-1000 tank, ready to hit them.

The multipurpose infantry vehicles were fast, but they were not as fast as the shells, and all the Saudi soldiers were praying that the Iraqi tanks would not hit them, and that as long as they could break through this distance and enter 2,000 meters away, the danger would drop sharply.

At this moment, suddenly something fell from the sky, and then only a loud bang was heard, and the MBT-1000 tank that was about to attack was blown up on the top of the vehicle, and the Iraqis who were around it with small arms resisting the Saudi infantry tank did not understand what was going on, and saw their main battle tank being blown up.

In fact, even some Saudis did not understand what saved him, but the commander of the Saudi National Guard operation who participated in the rescue saw the aircraft that had just launched the missile.

"Is it a Chinese drone?"

Prior to this, many people had heard that China had developed some large drones for use in warfare, and some people had speculated that these drones had attack capabilities, but the Chinese side did not verify similar claims. After the start of the Gulf War, the Chinese Air Force deployed a certain number of drones in Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi military was aware of it, but it did not take it seriously.

But today, it seems that China's drones are far from being as simple as people think. The drone just came out of nowhere, and then threw an AR-1 drone with air-to-surface missiles at the Rhino tank with incredible precision, accurately piercing the tank through the weakest roof of the tank.

This is a Pterodactyl UAV, whose main role in the Air Force is now to conduct reconnaissance behind enemy lines and target positioning and guidance, because its radar reflection cross-section is quite small, and it can fly at relatively low altitudes, so it is difficult to be detected by the enemy. Similar to this kind of strike mission, the Pterodactyl UAV is not commonly used, because its payload is relatively small, and only a relatively lightweight missile such as the AR-1 can be hung on a pair of pylons. In terms of efficiency, it is difficult to compare with manned fighters such as J-9 and Qiang-7.

However, its strikes are extremely concealed and sudden, so some special tasks are easy to do.

After hearing about the Saudi surprise attack on Haifji to rescue the US Marines, the Chinese troops took the initiative to send two Pterodactyl drones to collect intelligence and cover the work, so that after the Saudi army received the enemy, the danger could be lifted immediately.

The drone that had just knocked out a tank did not stop there, but chose a new target, a small building guarded by more than a dozen Iraqi soldiers, and the Pterodactyl drone dropped an AR-1 missile again, leveling the small building, although all the Iraqi soldiers in it would not die, but completely removed this firepower point.

The appearance of the Pterodactyl gave the Iraqi army the illusion that a large-scale air raid by the multinational force air force was coming, and they no longer dared to send tanks and armored vehicles to pursue the infantry and combat vehicles of the Saudi army, but hurriedly asked the soldiers to find their own cover, hide the tanks, turn off the engines to dissipate heat, and feared that the subsequent strikes would destroy these tanks.

Another pterosaur also took advantage of this panic and threw all the two AR-1s on the pylon, causing casualties among more than 20 Iraqi soldiers and the destruction of a Type 63 armored personnel carrier.

The Pterodactyl, which had completed the task of attack cover, did not withdraw from here, but continued to patrol around the perimeter of Khafji, providing relevant information to the multinational forces.

Twenty minutes after the rescue team quickly evacuated Khafji, a large-scale air raid by the multinational force finally came.

The first to drop two 250-kilogram bombs on the Iraqi army stationed in Haifji was the JH-7B Flying Cloud Leopard fighter-bomber of the Saudi Air Force, and on the other hand, the main force of Saudi Arabia's participation in the Gulf War was the Tornado fighter, but in this plane, Saudi Arabia has become a loyal user of Chinese military aircraft, so not only is there no Hurricane, but even the F-15 purchased earlier has been sold to Japan. This batch of JH-7Bs will actually return to China after the war to upgrade and improve, and become a complete version of the FC-9 Shadow Leopard fighter.

More than 20 Flying Cloud Leopard bomber planes, carrying eight or nine tons of ammunition, blew up any place in Haifji that looked like it was hiding enemy troops, tanks and armored vehicles, and thanks to the fact that China often gives away some weapons with its planes in deals, the Saudi side has a large number of LT/FT series of guided bombs in stockpile. In particular, in order to cope with the war, the Saudi side also urgently ordered 2,000 guided bombs of various types and air-launched ground-to-ground missiles from China.

Compared with the US Navy's carrier-based aircraft, which focuses on efficiency and cost, the Saudi Air Force does not pay attention to so much when throwing bombs, and sometimes they do not hesitate to drop tens of thousands of dollars of guided bombs when they see a figure, and they don't care whether they are worth it or not.

After the Saudi Air Force launched an air strike on the small city with the momentum of destroying Khafji, several Chinese warships also appeared off the coast of Khafji, namely two 052D destroyers and one 054B frigate. When these three ships came to the sea off Khafji, they also came at the request of the Saudi side to provide artillery support from the sea to the Arab coalition forces. The 052D is equipped with a 130mm naval gun, and the 054B is 100mm, although there are not many of them, but the naval gun fire control system is relatively good, and the effect of the strike is also very good.

The two Pterodactyl UAVs have been hovering at relatively low altitudes, looking for enemy traces through television imaging, and when it is determined that it is the enemy, the operator of the Pterodactyl UAV will send the attack coordinates to the naval warship.

The captain of the destroyer Kunming ordered: "Weapons officer, this is the bridge, one round of shooting, 10 yards of fire from the bow." ”

"Weapons officer understands, call surface combat systems."

"The surface of the water understands, the naval guns strike the orbit 81437. One high-explosive shell, firing 10 yards in a forward direction. ”

Naval artillery shells loaded with high-explosive warheads fell on the buildings, which immediately destroyed these Arab buildings into rubble, and two BTR armored vehicles hiding in the shadows were also injured by the explosion and hit by the collapsed rubble, losing the combat ability to react immediately.

Immediately, more intensive naval artillery strikes began, whether it was the main guns of destroyers or frigates, the firing rate was quite impressive, so it was actually the acquisition of the target position that limited them, but in this case, they often chose to fire several more guns at the same target to completely destroy the enemy.

Under the double blow of the sky and the sea, Khafji's already small city was almost destroyed, and although the Iraqi soldiers hiding here were not completely annihilated, they also suffered heavy losses, and in the entire air raid, they lost 70 percent of their tanks and armored vehicles, hundreds of people were killed and wounded, and it became almost impossible to defend this newly captured city.

In addition to the bombing of Khafji, China's air strikes were also relentless against several Iraqi ground forces in Kuwait. When these Iraqi troops were hiding in various pillboxes, fortifications and city buildings, it was difficult for them to be wiped out by air raids, but when they needed to move and had to pull them all out for assembly, it gave the air force an excellent opportunity to inflict heavy damage on them.

The Shadow Leopard Air Regiment was the first to arrive, followed by six Defender stealth attack planes that took off from the Shangri-La, and the last to be the Thor bomber force from Kashgar. In this airstrike, Chinese military aircraft used a large number of cluster bombs, submunitions, fragmentation bombs and other types of ammunition that can cause serious damage to personnel, and later statistics showed that the bombing killed at least 1,041 Iraqi soldiers and disabled three times as many Iraqi soldiers.

Due to the undisciplined nature of cluster bombs, after the multinational forces reoccupied the area, it became clear that all kinds of unexploded bombs had accidents, and finally the Chinese engineers took the initiative to completely eliminate this kind of crisis.

The performance of the huge H-8 Thor bomber in this air raid is also impressive, unlike the B-52 is now basically a carpet throwing iron bombs, the H-8 uses a large number of joint strike intelligent bombs, after being dropped at high altitude, these bombs are attacked according to the input attack coordinates, which has caused a great blow to the Iraqi armored forces. A single strike by four H-8 bombers destroyed 122 Iraqi tanks and armored vehicles.

This air raid almost destroyed the strength of one division of Iraq in Kuwait, and made all circles fully realize how terrible an air raid can be under the control of air supremacy in war in the new era.