Dominate South Asia

Xiao opened and closed his lips and asked for another 2 billion US dollars. However, given the current sanctions on Iraq, the price of this batch of weapons was considered a conscience price for Saddam.

"Okay, I will send someone to collect these equipment, and I will transfer the money into your designated account. Mr. Xiao, you have come from afar, please rest first." Saddam's face looked rosy, and he asked the guards to take him. They rest.

As soon as the Soviets left, Saddam and his staff immediately started discussing.

"These advanced equipment are definitely not obtained by arms smuggling. Mr. Xiao must have been instructed by the top Soviet officials. We have investigated Mr. Xiao's background. He once served as a soldier in the GRU. His A lot of the arms relations are with the GRU," said Saadi Touma Abbas, Iraq's defense minister.

Apart from anything else, the Soviet Union protected those S-300s as if they were treasures. They could be delivered to Iraq only with the approval of the top management.

"Yes, the Soviet Union will not abandon us, but we need to know how strong the Soviet Union's support for us will be?" said Rashid, commander-in-chief of the Republican Guard.

"I think they will definitely not publicly express their support for us. Exporting these weapons to us is already the greatest support." As the foreign minister, Aziz still knows a lot.

"The key S-300, none of our planes dare to take off now. If the Americans continue to bomb without restraint, they will either destroy it or fly the plane to Iran and ask for their asylum!" the Air Force Commander said impatiently. said.

Saddam looked gloomy: "Let our people contact the Soviet Union secretly to see what their attitude is! If they are still the same, there is probably no hope."

"Not necessarily. Maybe they will give us an unexpected surprise." Ibrahim said thoughtfully: "If the weapons and equipment Mr. Xiao just promised us are advanced equipment currently in service by the Soviet army, our army will be on par with the US military. At a fair starting line. And those improved Scud guidance devices can increase the accuracy of missiles to a range of one hundred meters, then we can launch a large-scale missile war against the US military. We still have hundreds of missiles. ”

Saddam nodded: "I hope the Soviets did not deceive us this time!" He stood up, held his armed belt, and said with a stern face, "If the arms they provide are genuine, we will buy them in large quantities! I Spend money, let alone US$12 billion I'm willing to pay even 20 billion or 50 billion! I'll use my money to sell them more arms! And drag the Soviets in bit by bit! The stakes are high, you will be responsible for transporting these weapons personally this time!”

A huge transport convoy quietly set out from Baghdad under the cover of darkness and headed for the border with Syria. Although the reconnaissance satellites of the US military and its allies keep a close eye on the entire Gulf region, some private satellite companies in North America and Europe particularly like to provide certain paid special services to some anonymous and generous customers. For example, these satellites always have some spacing errors in their orbits!

After avoiding the reconnaissance satellites at the designated time, the convoy reached a valley in the border area without any danger, which was only 50 meters away from the Syrian border guard post. But the post was quiet, as if the sentries had already rested. The long and narrow valley was already filled with arms and supplies. As the commander of the convoy, Ibrahim cleaned and loaded them one by one according to the list provided by Mr. Xiao, and then sent an accurate coded signal to Saddam, so a total amount of A huge sum of US$12 billion was remitted in batches to several secret accounts in Swiss banks.

When the convoy started to leave the valley and return the same way, the Syrian border post was as silent as before, as if nothing had happened and it was history. Already starting to rewrite again.

At 3:26 p.m. on March 25, 1993, the 36th day of Operation Desert Storm, Multinational Force Base Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

The night sky in the desert is always so clear, with countless stars shining. Even some stars that are hard to see clearly can show their moving light.

Suddenly, a rapid siren sounded throughout the base.

The starry sky is so clear that both ground personnel and pilots on night missions rely only on their naked eyes. I spotted a faint firelight from high in the sky. In the dark night sky, it looks like a match lit in the distance, falling straight from above. This is the missile that plunges down!

Five missiles. Two in front and three behind, they rushed towards the Dhahran base with huge tail flames.

"Firefox 1. Firefox 1, pull it up, pull it up again immediately! Repeat it, pull it up again immediately, five missiles will arrive at the base in twenty seconds!" Captain Lanos, as an F15E fighter pilot of the US Air Force, is at this moment He was facing the biggest challenge in his life. He had just completed a mission to strike deep targets in Iraq and was already very tired. But now, for the sake of his own life, he was forced to start his fighter plane again.

Captain Lanos was so angry that he couldn't let Saddam land the plane smoothly and have a drink in the bar before launching a missile attack?

On the dark ground, several rays of fire shot into the sky.

Captain Lanos understood that this was an interceptor missile launched from the Patriot missile sites deployed around the base.

As a soldier who has experienced battlefield fighting, Captain Lanos disdains and even sneers at the brilliant record of Patriot interceptor missiles claimed by the Pentagon.

What interception rate is more than 80%, nonsense!

Indeed, many times Patriots have hit the target. A few years ago, the United States provided Pakistan with multiple Patriot missile systems and conducted on-site tests to intercept the "Pershing I" tactical surface-to-surface missile. The test results were very successful, deterring the Soviet Union from launching missile attacks on air bases in Pakistan.

However, the Pershing I missile intercepted in the test that year was the result of deliberate arrangements under ideal conditions from launch to final interception! And Saddam's Hussein missile is a combination of three Scuds spliced ​​into two. This kind of ballistic missile, when it re-enters the atmosphere from the troposphere and rushes towards the target, its missile body and warhead will separate.

But there is the problem!

The original intention of the development of the Patriot missile was to deal with high-altitude and high-speed supersonic fighters, not to intercept ballistic missiles. When it identifies the target, it will choose an object with a larger radar reflection surface and let go of a smaller warhead. If letting go of the warhead and hitting the missile body is also called a successful interception, Lanos does not know what failure is.

The Patriot missile has another drawback that makes all multinational pilots angry, which is that it cannot effectively identify the enemy!

In its radar display, there is only the interception target, and there is no difference between our army and the enemy.

There is a precedent. At the Al Udeid base in Qatar, a Patriot missile fired at a returning British Tornado fighter. Fortunately, the data provided by other radar stations was transmitted in time, indicating that it was a fighter plane of their own. The air defense soldiers quickly detonated the missile in the air to avoid accidental injuries.

Therefore, as soon as they saw the Patriot missile launched, Captain Lanos and his wingman immediately stepped on the throttle and evacuated quickly from the airspace above the base at the fastest speed to prevent these "blind" Patriots from killing themselves.

Lanos also discovered the missile that was about to fall through the airborne radar.

Lanos had seen such scenes many times.

However, he didn't know that what he encountered today would become a nightmare that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

On the radar screen, the missile that was about to be intercepted suddenly disintegrated from the air.

"Ugh, damn it!" Captain Lanos cursed.

Then, something even more frightening happened. The missile disintegrated, not just the warhead detached, but actually disintegrated into three parts: warhead, body, and tail.

Captain Lanos didn't have time to exclaim. Three Patriot missiles turned a corner in the air, two of them met the body part with the largest radar anti-cross-section, and one rushed straight to the tail.

Three balls of fire lit up in the night sky.

The Patriot relied on the fragments of the warhead to kill the missile. The body and tail of the incoming missile, the fuel that had not yet been burned out, were suddenly ignited in the night sky. Countless burning flames fell in all directions, like Christmas fireworks.

Among these tiny flames, two black objects were thrown far away by the shock wave and plunged into the nearby runway.

On the runway, there were two F16C fighters that had just landed. The ground crew had just approached the planes and were ready to help the pilots leave the planes.

But the missiles came too fast. The pilots had no time to get out of the fighters, and the ground crews fled from the apron like crazy. All they could do was to let the plane run quickly to see if it was possible to fly into the sky. However, the warheads that fell from the air plunged into the runway and then made a huge explosion.

Although the pilots tried hard to control the fighters, the shock wave caused the two fighters to be thrown up and then fell heavily. The leaked aviation fuel attached to the fuselage under the star-like firelight and began to burn.

The firelight from the two fighters illuminated the entire base.

"My God!" Captain Lanos and his fire control officer muttered.

"My God!" The voice of the wingman came from the intercom, and he was also stunned by the scene in front of him.

"Ah..." Waves of shrill screams echoed in the fighter communicator of Lanos and others. (To be continued ~^~)