Many experts in later generations analyzed that this world war did not become a terrible nuclear war in the end, and this lieutenant colonel of the Soviet air defense forces played the most crucial role. It was he who stalled for time at a critical time.

After all, according to the normal process, when a missile is found to be launched at the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union must immediately start a counterattack, and once the Soviet Union counterattacks, then, after the United States discovers that the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb has been launched, the United States will definitely counterattack, and in this way, the whole world will enter a state of complete nuclear war.

Countless large cities will be destroyed, countless innocent lives will be lost, and the entire earth will become a hell on earth.

Now it was Petrov's composure that saved the world.

Of course, at this time, Petrov was still waiting anxiously like an ant on a hot pot, he could not ask others for help, he could only expect, hoping that this alarm signal would disappear.

The alarm did disappear after twenty minutes, because Moscow's long-range early warning radar did not detect a ballistic missile attack.

If you want to detect the enemy's ballistic missiles, the first thing is to observe the radiation from the ignition and burning of the missile, which is the earliest, after all, the flight time of the missile is very short.

This kind of missile early warning system will first rely on satellites in space to detect it, and only then will there be a long-range early warning radar to carry out warning. If the enemy launches an attack on the Soviet Union, it must first launch an attack on Moscow, hitting the snake and hitting seven inches, since it is about to break out a nuclear war, it must be the first time to hit the enemy's capital, and kill the head of the other side in one fell swoop, and the other side will have no leader, then you can successfully break through the opponent's defense line.

Moscow's early warning network, but nothing was observed.

It seems, as he had encountered before, it was a false alarm from a reconnaissance satellite, and he let out a long breath.

At this time, he did not know that the base of the Northern Fleet was about to usher in a terrible attack!

The Northern Fleet, whose full name is the Red Banner Northern Fleet.

The fleet was first established in the Soviet Union by the small Arctic Ocean Fleet during the Tsarist Russian period, and was later established in the Soviet Union, and the Arctic Ocean Fleet was expanded and renamed the Red Navy Northern Fleet, and gradually expanded into the largest naval fleet among the five major fleets of the Soviet Union during the Soviet period.

The range of activities of the Northern Fleet covers the entire Arctic Circle, the North Atlantic, as well as the waters around Canada.

Now, at the station of the Northern Fleet, a large number of warships are moored, for example, the pride of the Soviet Navy, and now the largest battleship of the USSR Navy, the Kiev-class heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers, is moored in the harbor.

The Soviet Navy is the same tragic as the British Navy, the British Navy is because of the weakening of the national strength and the shortage of military spending, so it wants to constantly reduce their own equipment and retire their aircraft carriers, and the British Navy is forced to borrow the corpse to resurrect the soul and make such nondescript goods as the Invincible class. Since the Khrushchev period, the Soviet Union has believed that aircraft carriers are live targets at sea, and even if they were abused by the American aircraft carrier formation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, they still did not change this view.

The Soviet Navy was also extremely aggrieved and was forced to come up with such a cargo as the Kiev class.

However, it is not wrong to call it a cruiser, from the front, it is a cruiser-style, including the huge anti-ship missile launcher in the bow, which is only on the port side, with a large number of carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing platforms.

It cannot take off and land conventional fighters, it can only be a vertical fighter for take-off and landing.

Britain came up with the Harrier fighter, and the Soviet Union also came up with the Yak-38 blacksmith, the same vertical take-off and landing, the same chicken ribs, and, because the nozzle of this aircraft is downward, the hot tail smoke ablates the deck during take-off and landing, which is almost insoluble, so after a period of testing, this kind of aircraft has not been deployed on the aircraft carrier, and has remained at the land airfield.

Now the aircraft carrier Kiev, quietly moored in the harbor, is already nightfall, and on this aircraft carrier, there are almost no personnel left, they prefer to stay in the base on the shore.

Suddenly, the radar of the base found some terrible targets, which were quite fast and coming down overhead, so the radar detection window was very small, almost fleeting.

"Maybe I'm dazzled?" The radar soldiers are very strange.

If you want to capture ballistic missiles, it is not easy, only the kind of long-range early warning radar with a huge volume can do, the Soviet Union does have a lot of them, but they are mainly guarding against the north, that is, nuclear bombs fired from the direction of the North Pole, and the base's own radar, the main role is air defense, and there is not much ability to capture ballistic missiles.

So, after re-entering the atmosphere, the nuclear warheads were divided into three and continued to come towards the base of the Northern Fleet!

Destroy the base here completely!

The friction between the warhead and the air brought a huge high temperature, and the surface began to ablate, and at the same time, the internal device also entered the final moment.

The main form of the nuclear bomb is still fission, although the fusion hydrogen bomb is more powerful, but the hydrogen bomb has a preservation period, and after a few years, even if it is not used, it will fail because of the problem of decay, so the hydrogen bomb is just a milestone, and there is no hydrogen bomb in the real warhead.

The principle of nuclear explosion is also very simple, the uranium block, or plutonium block, is within the critical volume, relying on the explosion from the outside, pushing this highly enriched nuclear material, so that it is combined together, instantly, a large number of chain reactions appear surgingly, and all the energy is released sharply, which is a nuclear explosion.

Don't look at the raw materials, but in the mass-energy conversion equation, the coefficient is very good, which is the square of the speed of light, so the energy generated is huge.

The first step is an ordinary explosion, which pushes the uranium or plutonium blocks together to compress together.

The explosion, now in the midst of the countdown, was following the program for the last few minutes of its life.

Suddenly, the base's alarm was loud, and the base's radar once again clearly captured the target, and countless high-speed flying targets appeared in the sky, falling in the direction of their own base!

Could it be a meteorite shower?

It's nightfall, and if you stand outside, you can even see the flames coming out of the friction between the missile shell and the atmosphere, which is like a meteorite rain!

So much meteorite rain, smashed down, is quite scary, after all, its speed is quite high!

Some Soviet sailors, with vodka bottles in their hands, stood in the open, looking at the space overhead, listening to the alarms inside the base, and at this time, they were at a loss.

Wish? The Soviets, again, were not romantic French.

They just stared blankly.

The countdown continues, and finally, when the nuclear warhead falls five thousand meters above the target, the moment of detonation has arrived!