Chapter 326: Improving Scuds
"The Middle East. Hiss. You mean."
Lin Zeju's eyes shrank, and he suddenly thought of something.
"Over there in the optoelectronic laboratory, I have made some new gadgets, why don't you try them first?" Chen Weidong sat on his desk and asked.
"Okay, but is there a risk that it will expose us?" Lin Zeju nodded, and said with some worry.
He often interacts with the company's researchers, so he naturally knows what the optoelectronic laboratory has been doing lately.
According to the materials submitted by Yu Guangbin, the project leader, the prototypes have been developed to the second generation, but they have not yet been tested in extreme environments.
In particular, there is no data available for analysis on how effective it will be in the face of electronic interference.
Chen Weidong's brain was running rapidly, and he thought of the key point, and finally said: "Let them get ready, and by the way, let those chess pieces in Eastern Europe move, but don't use our people to contact each other, so as not to provoke fire."
"Don't worry, Professor Kruger has lived over there, and he happens to have a recommended candidate." Lin Zeju patted a document on the table with his hand, as if he had already made various plans.
2003, 25 December.
Christmas Day in the United States.
Saddam Hussein vowed on a television station in Baghdad to make the blood of the people of the United States bleed, but his backward army obviously could not bear this burden.
A few days after the start of the war, his ground forces did not suffer much losses.
However, his ground-based radar network, which was almost reimbursed by the United States, survived and did not dare to turn on the machine again, lest it be hit twice.
As for the Air Force, after a 0-8 air battle with the US military, it did not dare to take off again, and all of them hid in the air defense hangar.
Regarding this air battle, in fact, many countries have analyzed it.
Eight MiG-29 fighters lifted into the air, and four F-16 fighters are nine out of ten.
The MiG-29 fighter, as a front-line support fighter carefully developed by the Soviet Union, once had the reputation of "the king of dog fighting".
Because over the past 30 years, the Soviet Union has exported a large number of MiG series fighters to fight against the United States, so as soon as the MiG-29 was launched, it attracted the attention of the whole world.
In the confrontation exercises conducted by the US military in China, the F16 and the MiG-29 were used to confront each other, and in terms of firepower confrontation, the F16 had the upper hand, and the MiG-29 had a large advantage in air combat.
Saddam Hussein had absolute confidence in this fighter and believed that it could protect the security of Iraq's airspace by virtue of the MiG-29's excellent air combat capability.
However, on this occasion, during the air battle on the night of the third day of the war, the Iraqi pilots learned what over-the-horizon combat is.
Due to the paralysis of the ground radar network, the MiG-29 could only rely on the on-board radar to search for nearby enemy planes, however, the US military used the help of early warning aircraft in advance to discover the Iraqi fighters when they were still climbing.
When the MiG-29 was still looking for US fighters like headless flies, a few missiles flew over silently.
Two MiG-29s, unprepared, were hit by missiles and disintegrated directly in the air.
Followed by.
The two sides quickly closed the distance and entered close combat.
The Iraqi Air Force relied on the MiG-29's helmet-mounted sighting system and quickly locked on the US fighters, but the cumbersome operating procedures of the MiG-series fighters made them suffer a big loss.
In order to launch a missile, they had to toggle eleven buttons, and by the time they had completed the whole set of procedures, the F16 had already broken out of the lock and attacked first.
One button, the F16 only needs one button, and the MiG-29 turns into a fireball in the air.
In just six minutes, four more MiG-29s were shot down, and the US military was far ahead with a record of 0 to 6, and maintained an absolute superiority of 4 to 2 in the remaining air power ratio.
Seeing this, the remaining two MiG-29s had completely lost confidence and fled in a hurry.
A MiG-29 was chased and intercepted by two F16s, desperately making various tactical moves to get rid of it, and it was unable to get rid of the opponent.
Immediately after, a horrific scene occurred.
In a hurry, the pilot made a mistake in operation, and the fighter plane rushed straight into the ground, plunging headlong into the ground, and exploded with a bang.
Such a funny scene made the pilots of the F16 fighters also stunned, and then in the air channel, the US pilots broke out into bursts of laughter.
The last MiG-29 saved a small life.
This aerial confrontation quickly spread around the world through television media and Pentagon press conferences.
The disparity between the two sides made the F16 famous at the same time, but also made the MiG-29, which was once considered to be a golden jade, and was defeated in it.
In Chen Weidong's view, such a result was expected.
Based on his knowledge of history, if Saddam had not had the mentality of breaking the kettle at the very beginning, and had launched an all-out offensive and entangled with the US military before it was deployed and was still absolutely weak in numbers.
In the face of the high-tech superiority of the US military, his defeat is predestined, and it will be a fiasco!
Of course, even if he had launched an attack in the first place, this defeat would have been inevitable, but it would have allowed the American army to shed more blood and achieve greater results.
Chen Weidong quietly watched all this, he didn't want the US military to win so easily.
The longer the war dragged on in the Middle East, the more time there was to take into account his layout in the United States.
He is very happy to cause a little more trouble for the people of the United States.
A transnational trade group, mainly Europeans, came to Egypt with some "dragon fruit".
"Dragon Fruit" is a code name, and its real name is, "Improved Scud Guidance System".
As early as last year, when the Iraq War broke out, researchers at the electronics laboratory of Infinity received an order from Chen Weidong to improve the guidance system of the original Scud missile without making major changes.
The directive also emphasized one point: try to present the style used in the Soviet Union in the last century, so that the technology can be improved to be more in line with the characteristics of Soviet-made weapons.
The researchers in the electronics laboratory knew very well that this was a trick played by Mr. Chen, trying to confuse the public and make people unable to find an improved research and development party.
However, in the face of this directive, they all felt a bit of a headache.
The Scud missile is actually an old surface-to-surface missile that Iraq learned from the Soviet Union.
It uses inertial guidance for positioning.
That is, after launch, 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 attitude of the missile's flight in the air in order to hit the target.
This mechanical inertial positioning method has a very low hit rate.
Taking the Scud missile as an example, its claimed hit rate can reach a circumference of 600 meters, but in actual use, the error is usually within a circumference of 1 kilometer to 1.5 kilometers.
In the eighties of the last century, during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, Iraq and Iran both used this crude surface-to-surface missile to launch at each other's major cities.
I don't care about accuracy at all.
Just land in the city.
Iraq, on the other hand, relied on the technical support of the United States and the Soviet Union, and its missile technology was slightly more advanced, and the accuracy rate of the hundreds of scuds launched successively was much higher than that of Iran.
This also created favorable conditions for the subsequent peace talks between Iran and Iraq.
However, it is not easy to improve the guidance system of such an old missile.
Infinity, some researchers who had worked in the Fifth Research Institute, held the design drawings of this missile, and shook their heads again and again.