What is the most deterrent in this era? Ballistic missiles, of course! Especially ICBMs!

When the missile dragged the tongue of fire and rose from the ground, it meant death, it meant world war, and it meant that the earth was facing destruction.

Such is the power of ballistic missiles.

And now, at the height of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union had the ability to destroy each other several times, and the reason why so many deployments were made was for insurance.

Under the first wave of the enemy's blows, their remaining ballistic missiles can still destroy the opponent, in this case, then the opponent has to stay awake and want to throw nuclear bombs to play? Come, destroy together!

In this way, the theory of so-called nuclear deterrence is formed, and if the balance is maintained under deterrence, both sides can destroy the other, then neither side will dare to act first.

The key to nuclear deterrence is the kind of mobile platforms, such as those nuclear submarines in the depths of the ocean, carrying huge nuclear warheads, such as those missile trains that travel around the vast Soviet land along the railroad, such as the wheeled mobile launchers that are all-wheel drive and can travel in the field at any time.

However, the main body of nuclear deterrence is still the stationary silos. The number of nuclear bombs in the silo is the largest.

Ballistic missiles and rockets are almost the same, and the launch of rockets is on the ground, but if the ballistic missiles are directly deployed on the ground, they will face various problems such as wind and sun, so digging a pit in the ground and storing the missiles underground is the main way to use nuclear bombs.

In wartime, it provides the task of launching missiles, and in peacetime, after the missiles leave the factory, they are actually already placed here, and there will be as many silos as there are missiles, because there is no chance of secondary reloading.

At the same time, filling it does not mean that it will be launched immediately, so to speak, it will not be launched during its entire life cycle, then, this silo is usually the storage place of missiles, and it is necessary to provide good conditions for storage, side inspection, and maintenance of missiles, in order to increase survivability, the current missile silos must be able to withstand the nuclear explosion effect after the atomic bomb explosion, and when it suffers a nuclear attack by the other side, the missiles in the underground shaft are safe and sound.

For example, the launch cover of a missile silo, which weighs several hundred tons, can survive a blow from the opponent and then begin a counterattack.

And a large number of silos, deployed in a no-man's land, this is the launch position of ICBMs, in the Soviets there are many such positions, and on Sakhalin, there is one.

Compared with those mobile launch platforms, the biggest advantage of fixed silos is, of course, the short preparation time.

The time for refueling is the same, but before the ballistic missile is launched, the trajectory must be calculated, the launch procedure must be entered, when the upper stage is ignited, when to re-enter the atmosphere, and the trajectory must be accurately calculated.

These calculations require the cooperation of multiple data, the most important of which is, of course, the coordinates of the launch position and the coordinates of the target, only by determining the two coordinates, can we calculate the trajectory with various atmospheric conditions, latitude and longitude, etc.

If it is a mobile launch, it is not easy to determine one's own position, and in the era when there is no global positioning system, it is difficult and time-consuming to obtain one's own high-precision position.

Fixed silos, their own coordinates are determined, just measure it, at the same time, its target is also determined, this is the silo in the design of the consideration, that is, most of the ballistic missiles, from the day they enter the silos, the trajectory is calculated, when needed, add fuel to fly.

In this way, the reaction speed of the stationary silo is fast.

At the same time, such a position is also very important, and the main task of the territorial air defense force on Sakhalin Island is to guard the ballistic missile launch positions here, and it is only recently that the main task has been changed to compete for air supremacy with the air forces of the United States in Hokkaido, which is opposite, and to cover their own cross-sea landing force.

And now, an American plane is actually heading towards its own ICBM position, how can this be?

Osipovich and his wingman, regardless of fuel consumption, turned on the afterburner extravagantly, wanting to rush to the vicinity of their own ballistic missile positions as soon as possible, and strive to shoot down the opponent before they can fly!

The Soviet air defense system was strictly divided, and the airspace of the territorial air defense forces was separated from the defensive areas of the ground air defense missile units, so that the problem of identifying friend and foe was avoided.

The principle of the ground-based ballistic missile forces is that as long as they come into my range, they will be killed!

Hit your own people? Let yourself not be long-sighted and fly to the no-fly zone?

There is a launch site for SAM-6 missiles in the vicinity of our own ballistic missile position, and it is dangerous to be within 30 kilometers of it.

If you let that Tomcat fighter fly to the ballistic missile position, it will be a slap in the face of the Territorial Defense Force!

So many warplanes, but they didn't stop people and let them reach the sky over their own ballistic missile positions? If such an aircraft were to carry a nuclear bomb in wartime, it would have blown up its own positions.

The two planes were flying at high speed, trying to fly over as quickly as possible to intercept the hateful American warplane, but at this time, Nathan did not know that he was flying towards the ICBM launch site.

In the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union used satellites to reconnoiter each other's ballistic missile launch positions, and these solid silos were the targets of the intercontinental missiles of both sides.

This is also an idea of nuclear deterrence, but relying only on satellites is not enough at all, and many times, as long as you put on some posture and send a sapper to work in the wilderness for a few days, it will be marked as a ballistic missile silo.

And the real silos may have been built underground all along, and nothing can be seen on the surface.

As it is now.

"We can't just go back." In the warplane, Nathan said to Gus: "Now that we have been discovered, the Soviets will definitely set up an ambush on our way back, and we must avoid needless fighting." ”

This time, it was a reconnaissance flight, carrying reconnaissance equipment, although there were also a few missiles hung, all of which were used for self-defense, and Nathan did not want to fight the enemy unless it was absolutely necessary.

Bring back the important information you have detected!

So, Nathan made a bold plan to cross the central part of Sakhalin and fly back from its western strait at an ultra-low altitude!