Chapter 578: Encircler
Although Saudi Arabia maintains good relations with the United States and is willing to buy weapons from the United States with real money, it is still no match for Israel's status in the hearts of the United States, no matter how much the Saudis stick to the Americans' butts.
After all, Britain and the United States are just a conjugated father-son relationship, while Israel is the standard American grandfather, this is not just a casual talk, Israel can beat the Arab foot in the Middle East, relying on a vote of Jewish veterans from the Soviet Union and American equipment, especially during the Yom Kippur War, Israel has the risk of total defeat, and the United States has launched a five-cent rescue operation in order to help Israel.
This action did not mean that the United States gave Israel five cents, but that Nixon ordered the United States to send all the planes that could take off to the Middle East to replenish Israel's losses.
In order to ensure air superiority, Israel also purchased fighter jets in active service, and those F4 fighters were even just remarked, and then piloted by American pilots to participate in air battles, so to speak, the US arsenal is completely open to Israel, as long as Israel needs it, then any ammunition will be sent to Tel Aviv as soon as possible.
Saudi Arabia, which is a little frightened by Israel's violent expansion in the Middle East, has been eager to purchase advanced missile systems to improve its defense force, but the United States has always refused to allow Saudi Arabia to buy its own missiles, and as for the worsening relations between the Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia, it is impossible to buy them.
Therefore, Prince Sultan, who served as the commander of the National Air Defense Force, was not less depressed, but now, he feels that Saudi Arabia can consider buying third-party missiles!
But Prince Sultan is only thinking about it at present, because ballistic missiles are important weapons of the country, and there are only a handful of countries that have the ability to develop them, and they are generally not easily sold to the outside world, and it is impossible for the Saudi government to come directly to the door and ask the other party, whether you can sell ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads, so this matter has to be considered in the long run, at least, the relationship between the two sides must be further developed!.
At the same time, there were also people who were worried about the kind of large fireworks that could be launched from the ground and then fall from the sky, but his status was somewhat special, and he belonged to the State Security Council of the Soviet Union.
"Those inexplicable rockets caused a lot of losses to our soldiers, Major General Beryukov, do you have any clue?"
Looking at the top boss in front of him, who was dressed in a straight uniform, Major General Beryukov, who was in charge of summarizing the enemy situation in Afghanistan, could only stand up obediently, and then replied loudly.
"Report to Comrade General, we already have relevant information, the rockets came from China, were purchased by the Afghan militia, and were transferred to Afghanistan through ****!"
"And then?"
At this moment, the outdoor temperature in Kabul has reached 36 degrees, but the major general in the room only feels a chill spreading along his back.
"We have begun to mobilize elite forces to cut off this transportation line, and I will personally lead the command!"
The major general knows that he has made a big mistake, if he does not want to be graduated in the KGB, then he can only make up for it with all his strength, otherwise, the end will be very miserable, the KGB can tolerate mistakes and failures, but it will not tolerate incompetent waste, that is a crime against the great motherland, and it is the most intolerable in front of him, he does not want to rot in the cold wind of Siberia!
"Well, then, I'll wish you the best of luck!"
Afghan guerrillas were not without heavy weapons in the past, they had towing guns, mortars, etc., which were also used to attack Soviet garrisons.
But the previous attacks could only be regarded as piecemeal, and the Soviet army could easily deal with them, but this time, it was different, from the northernmost Khost province to the southernmost Kandahar province, there were guerrilla rocket attacks in four provinces, which were not independent events, but chained, although the casualties suffered by the Soviet army were about double digits, and most of them were recoverable, and they could be cured by rubbing medicine for a few days in the hospital.
But the significance of a stand-alone attack is quite different from a chain attack, and the latter indicates that the scattered Afghan militia is slowly starting to move from stragglers to group combat, which means that the Soviets will face more trouble.
And most importantly, the KGB for the militia
The appearance of a large number of rockets, weapons, and ammunition in its hands without being aware of it in advance is an absolute shame for the KGB, which has always regarded intelligence as its own special skill.
In order to wash away this shame, the Soviet army and the KGB in Afghanistan have dispatched a lot of forces.
They mobilized the 264th Independent Special Regiment, specializing in radio and radio technical intelligence, originally stationed in Kabul, the 15th Brigade of Special Forces, the 22nd Brigade of Special Forces, the 345th Regiment of the Guards Independent Air Assault, and the 56th Brigade of the Guards Independent Air Assault, adding up to nearly 10,000 elite forces, began to encircle and suppress the border areas, especially the four provinces bordering Afghanistan and ****.
These troops had made a great contribution to the invasion of Afghanistan in the first place, and after years of fighting in Afghanistan, they were quite skilled in how to deal with their opponents.
With the Mi-8 Hippopotamus helicopter, the Mi-24 Hind transport gunship, as well as the fighters, attack planes and ground armor of the Aerospace Forces, these elite Soviet units did not take much effort to contain many guerrillas between the mountains.
Elite Soviet special forces would appear directly above the heads of the hiding partisans in Hind helicopters, let the Hind helicopters fire first, and then land to open the crew compartment, put the special forces on board, and launch a ground raid.
And the tactics of the Soviet special forces are not limited to this, they will also take advantage of the dark operations that the Afghan guerrillas see as cover, and the Soviet special forces, equipped with night vision devices and PBS rifle silencers, will touch the guerrillas sentry posts extremely quietly, and then launch a surprise attack.
And the partisans who were assaulted were knocked to the ground one by one in the dark before they even had time to react, and the Soviet special forces did not intend to leave alive, even if they were knocked down by bullets, they would be re-shot.
It can be said that under the careful encirclement and suppression of the Soviets, the great cause of resisting the Soviet Union, which had just improved a little because of the aid to arms, was once again crumbling.
And this also made the man, whose name could not be mentioned, realize that it was simply wishful thinking to force the Soviet Union to withdraw by relying on the so-called partisans to fight head-on, and the guerrillas should honestly continue to go to the mountains to hide and seek!