Compared with the Patriot missile, which was almost completely defeated, the Hongqi-9, which was in the limelight, immediately attracted the general attention of the world's circles. Some Western media described the Hongqi-9 as an "insurmountable iron wall" and "the most reliable and loyal guard", and for a while, the Hongqi-9 became famous.

Although the US military is very particular about public relations and has made public the video data of the Patriot's interception of the Scud, when people heard that the success rate of China's missile interception was as high as more than 90 percent, and when they went back and asked what kind of interception success rate the US Patriot missile had, the US military immediately came up with a single one, two, three.

Some of the more radical media sources said, "The Patriot's poor performance is so disappointing that we can't help but wonder if the defense contractors are taking away a lot of research and development funding from Congress and ending up with something like this?" This is undoubtedly a waste of taxpayers' money, and it raises questions about whether there are major loopholes and malpractices in our defense procurement and research plans. ”

Some straightforward media even said: "According to unnamed informed sources, the success rate of Patriot missiles in Israel is less than 40%, and what is even more absurd is that when China's Hongqi-9 enters Israel, Patriots have become spectators from the sidelines, and often before the Patriots have completed preparations for launch, Chinese missiles have shot down Iraq's Scuds." In the words of this informed person, he believes that the Patriot does not yet have the full combat requirements and cannot meet the increasingly severe air defense needs. ”

So, naturally, there is a voice within the United States to purchase a part of the Chinese-made Hongqi-9 missiles for exploration and research, and then complete progress and surpass on this basis. Because the United States has already purchased a large batch of A-11 Defender attack aircraft from China, it should not be a fuss to order another batch of weapons from China.

This kind of voice was naturally resisted by some US defense contractors such as Raytheon, who used their political and business connections to start building momentum, saying that it was the US Department of Defense that wanted to reduce procurement costs that caused the Patriot's performance to be unsatisfactory, and if it could give them more funds, it would definitely be able to produce more Patriots.

Of course, the unknown side, including the commercial espionage and technical spies of different powers of the US officials and these defense contractors, are all aimed at obtaining the secrets of China's air defense system, and the Americans can be said to have spared no effort to obtain the secrets of the Hongqi-9.

It is unclear whether the United States will purchase a small batch of Chinese air defense missiles, but many other countries are optimistic about the performance of the Hongqi-9, hoping that the purchase of Hongqi-9 will greatly enhance their own air defense needs and increase the degree of national defense leanness.

Israel, which lives in the Middle East, surrounded by wolves, is full of its own enemies, and the missile threat from Iran, Iraq and other countries is very serious, and the level of defense has never been too high for Israel. However, there is no military cooperation between Israel and China, and China also maintains good relations with Arab countries, so Israel does not have a plan in mind whether this matter can be accomplished.

Saudi Arabia naturally also hopes to replace a better air defense system, and the performance of the Chinese-made Thorn-2 equipped by Saudi Arabia in this war is quite good, at least more satisfactory than the performance of the Patriot, but the performance of the Hongqi-9 equipped by the Chinese air defense missile force is too bright, just like the stars compared to the bright moon, and it cannot compete with it.

Saudi King Fahd made a special notice to relevant people and immediately began to contact China, hoping to obtain the Hongqi-9 long-range air defense system for China's own use.

For Qi Yiming, the sale of Hongqi-9 missiles is not a big deal, because now the main domestic air defense weapons have been upgraded to the Hongqi-19 and Hongqi-26 systems, Hongqi-9 has gradually entered the reserve force, and there are indeed a lot of very advanced things in technology, but after all, it is a third-generation air defense missile, and there has been a generation gap with China's own use. Moreover, if he wants to sell these things, he will definitely do some tricks, such as downgrading a little, or even leaving a backdoor or something, in short, it is impossible to make it so complete.

He planned to call in Red Alert engineers, and after the war ended, dispose of ten Hongqi-9 systems parked in Saudi Arabia on the spot, with 1 each. Sold to the Saudis for $2.5 billion, each set comes with 24 missiles, and if more ammunition is needed, it will have to be paid.

The third country with the idea of purchasing is Turkey, which had the idea of purchasing Hongqi-9 on another plane, but I don't know whether Lu Dao was sincere or deliberately did it to lower the price of the United States and NATO, but in the end this did not happen. But in this plane, some of the original obstacles are gone. First of all, China and NATO are nominal allies, some important military information and information are shared, and before the war, they are equipped with a unified identification system for friend or foe. Moreover, at this time, it seems that there is really no better anti-aircraft missile than the Chinese Hongqi-9 within the scope of the world, the S-300 is not in the scope of consideration, and the reputation of the Patriot is already stinking, so the Hongqi-9 that appears as the optimal option naturally increases its competitiveness.

Turkey itself also has a lot of defense pressure, this country does not have good relations with several Arab countries in the east and south of itself, although the Turks and Arabs are Muslims, but the race is different, the Persians and Arabs are not waiting to see, so the status of the Turks is not much better. In addition, Turkey's relations with its other European neighbor, Greece, are not always good, and both countries are engaged in a major arms race to defend each other.

Hongqi-9 export form is very good, Qi Yiming is also gearing up, he specially sent Shenghua company's marketing manager Zhao Jinsong to these interested in buying Hongqi-9 countries for negotiation, before leaving Zhao Jinsong said that if he signed less than 3 billion, this year's bonus is not all wanted.

"This is the person in charge and the self-motivated salesperson!" Qi Yiming couldn't help but sigh.

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Hiding in a command post dozens of meters below Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's mood can be described as very bad now. The multinational force suffered some losses at first, but it quickly showed the Iraqis just how tenacious they really are. During the bombing, which lasted more than 10 days, the aviation units of the multinational force completely destroyed all kinds of military and civilian installations in Iraq. At present, Iraq's electricity generation capacity is less than 2 percent of its pre-war level, most of the chemical factories that make chemical weapons have been razed to the ground, and warplanes are attacking some important transportation arteries almost every once in a while.

Saddam's air defense strategy was passive, and he tried to preserve his strength and transferred a lot of fighters, so that the Iraqi army simply did not have enough fighters to take to the air for interception missions. It is very likely that Saddam Hussein's passive defensive strategy is that he himself did not want to win the war at all, but wanted to end the war as soon as possible, and to retain his own strength, so that he could continue to rule in Iraq and maintain superiority or deterrence over neighboring countries.

However, the more negative it is, the greater the losses inflicted by the multinational forces on the Iraqi army. Especially the cunning Chinese, their attack planes and fighters often run over to bomb Iraqi airports, the original airport runway is not difficult to repair for the Iraqi engineers who have experienced the war, but the Chinese shamelessly used a large number of submunitions, and this submunitions are also unique, when they are thrown down, it is easy to blast the airport runway out of some big holes that are difficult to repair, not to mention, the warheads they use are very unstable, actually some warheads did not explode after falling, However, when the engineering troops were rushing to repair the runway, it exploded, which brought great difficulty to the repair work. Later, when Iraq's engineers refused to carry out the emergency repair mission, Saddam Hussein was furious and executed those engineers who refused to carry out the order, forcing other engineers to risk their lives to carry out emergency repairs.

"Your Excellency, some of our country's important defense facilities have been destroyed, and the multinational forces have been mobilized extremely intensively in the past two days, and we judge that they may be about to launch a large-scale land attack, and the target is very likely to be Haf'Abatin, whom we have captured for many days." General Ahmed reported to Saddam Hussein with concern.

Saddam Hussein's brows were tightened, and the situation was not optimistic, which made him very anxious, but he did not have too many means to turn the tide of the war, although the Iraqi army still occupied Haf'Abatein, but this city was already a dead city, a large number of residents had been withdrawn by the multinational forces, and the Iraqi armored troops stationed here were also attacked by the multinational forces, with heavy losses, and the supplies in the rear had not been able to arrive, and it had become a lonely city, like a mouse under a cat's paws, and it was only a matter of time before it was lost.

"General Ahmet, do you have any good ideas?"

Ahmed smiled bitterly and said: "Compared with the multinational force, although we are larger, the gap in equipment level and tactics is still obvious, so we don't have many cards, at this time we can only delay the multinational force as much as possible, until they can no longer bear the losses of continuing the war, will withdraw from the war, and we will win." Therefore, the best defense for us now should be to attack, constantly open up the battlefield, blow the morale and morale of the multinational forces on all battlefields, exhaust them, and take advantage of our advantage in size to return victory with blood and sacrifice. ”

Saddam's eyes lit up, and if he could win with the dead, he was 10,000 willing, and he asked: "Then where should we be next?" ”

Ahmed tapped his finger on a military map of the Gulf region, right on the eastern border between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and said in a deep voice: "Khafji! ”