Due to the poor effectiveness of the first interception, it caused some confusion in the Patriot air defense positions.

In the face of the remaining two menacing missiles, the controllers did not dare to be careless.

This time, five interceptor missiles took off into the air.

It's just that the frequency of their lift-off, fast and slow, was in the order of succession, towards the two incoming missiles, and they met them.

One of the two missiles that was about to fall, one of which was apparently Hussein, and its warhead and body began to separate in the air.

However, the quality of this Patriot missile interception is also unusually high.

The two interceptor missiles that took off first hit the warhead and the body of the missile that had just been separated, followed by a huge boom and a huge firelight, which reflected the ground into daylight.

The warhead was detonated in the air!

“good！

”

Lieutenant Lyster shouted excitedly, but soon, he regretted it.

The Hussein missile that was detonated, the powerful air wave generated by the explosion, spread rapidly in the air, and the other missile was pushed violently, causing its landing point to be changed.

Three Patriot missiles, and it passed by.

Coincidentally, the last missile turned out to be a genuine Scud, and the place where it landed was a 12-story US pilot's dormitory building.

Lieutenant Lyster's mouth was wide open, his face frightened and distorted.

It watched as the missile pierced through a window on the seventh floor and plunged headlong into the building.

The next scene, like the slow motion in a Hollywood movie, made him unforgettable for life, and in countless nights after retiring, he woke up stunned and lingered.

All the windows in the building were shattered into slag and splashed out in all directions.

Above the base, under the light of the exploding Patriot missiles, these shattered glasses were like brilliant gems, reflecting different colors, either brilliant or blood-red.

In an instant, the whole building, as if it came to life, jumped vigorously.

Lieutenant Lyster was in the air, looking down, and clearly saw that the concrete façade of the building was instantly expanding outward, as if it were a wooden barrel full of water that could not withstand the pressure and burst.

Countless black spots, smoke and dust flew out from windows, balconies, corridors and other exits.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen red flames erupted from various holes in the building, revealing their hideous faces.

Rumble!

！

The reinforced concrete structure of the building, which did not hold up for even three seconds, collapsed with a loud bang.

Lieutenant Lyster's eyes widened, and his throat was almost out of breath.

That pilot's dormitory, he is very familiar with, it is the pilot's dormitory of the 205th Fighter Squadron!

Today is the day for them to rest.

There was a squadron of thirty-eight pilots, as well as other American troops such as maintenance divisions, logistics support, and all the members of a fighter squad of the British Army!

God, the punishment has finally been sent down on them!

How many Yinraks they killed!

And now, they themselves have to endure the backlash of the monster of war!

There are a considerable number of people who will be buried here forever.

Not even a body bag....

The aftermath of the loss statistics is far more than people estimated!

In this dormitory, except for a dozen pilots who lingered in bars, screening rooms, and other leisure places, they escaped by luck, and all the others died on the spot.

This includes the British and American coalition forces, 52 pilots, and 346 other personnel, a total of 398 people.

However, that's not all.

The fighter plane that crashed on that runway, and a pilot.

In addition, 12 people were killed, more than 100 people were injured of varying degrees of severity and 4 people were killed.

There were two buildings that were hit and damaged by the missile, one of which was a bungalow and was almost razed to the ground.

The flames formed by the missile fuel that fell from the sky caused more than a dozen houses to ignite.

Although the fire was extinguished by later firefighters at the base, the value of the damage caused to property and equipment was hundreds of millions of dollars.

In particular, the huge cost of training dozens of pilots, and the related talent value, cannot be calculated.

The command center of the US military in Riyadh, after receiving this news, fell into a deathly silence on the spot.

Since their involvement in the war in the Middle East, when have they suffered such huge losses?

In this attack alone, their casualties were close to the total number of US troops killed during the Gulf War!

They quickly issued instructions calling for immediate press restrictions and not allowing any reports of the incident to be disseminated.

At least, not yet.

When they captured Saddam Hussein alive, after the war was over, the media could say whatever they wanted.

However, it was too late for them to make this decision.

At the Dhahran base, when countless people were busy putting out the fire, a French newspaper reporter had already faxed the photos he had taken, including the press release he had written urgently, to a newspaper office in Paris, France.

In the report, he vividly described the entire process of the missile landing and hitting the building, and assessed the damage caused by the missile from the perspective of a semi-professional.

At the same time, he also attached several photos of the building before and after it was reduced to ruins.

to make a comparison.

In addition, in a press release, he expressed doubts about the Patriot missile defense system.

In the report, he wrote in a more euphemistic tone:

"As far as I can see, the Patriot interceptor missile does not seem to be as reliable as the Pentagon claims, and the damage caused by the wreckage of those missiles may be much greater than the damage caused by the missile landing."

This shocking news was disclosed by the French media on January 8, and quickly spread all over the world through the fast route of the Internet.

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For a time, all public opinion was in an uproar.

Many people couldn't sit still, and the people of the United States boasted the Patriot missiles to the brilliant, but this time they launched eight interceptor missiles in a row, but none of them completely stopped Saddam's three missiles.

The results were so disastrous.

The Anglo-American coalition lost nearly 400 killed and wounded more than 100!

Including a crashed F-16, all the damage caused amounted to more than 300 million dollars!

"Patriot interceptor missile, what exactly do you want to intercept?!" A New York newspaper used such a bold and eye-catching headline to express the anger in their hearts.

Countless Americans, including those who were enjoying breakfast and reading newspapers in the morning, felt that their intelligence had been fooled.

Why was such a clumsy and unreliable missile system entrusted with such a heavy task, so much so that the US military purchased as many as 3,000 from Raytheon!

Is there some ulterior secret in this?

The Pentagon, as soon as it received the news, held a press conference.

They began by denying the number of casualties.

Because according to the statistical standards of the US military casualties.

As long as a soldier does not die on the spot, even if he still has a breath after being discovered, or dies in the process of emergency treatment, it is considered a death and is not counted in the death list.

They said that when medical rescuers dug through the rubble of the bombed-out building, dozens of wounded people with signs of life were rescued.

Therefore, the number of casualties in this attack, which is not that large at all, is exaggerated by some "irresponsible news media" abroad.

Moreover, the Pentagon also explained that this unfortunate incident was a complete coincidence.

The missile that hit the US military dormitory building was pushed away by another blast wave of the missile just as the Patriot missile was intercepting.

Then, only to deviate from the interception trajectory, "fluke", hit the quarters of the American army.

So, on the whole, this incident was an accident.

And not, as the foreign press says, the Patriot missile defense system, there are any flaws.

It can be trusted.

However, at a time when the Pentagon, tired of dealing with reporters, was busy explaining.

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a physics professor named Kirill Baines, his findings were released to the press.