The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Panshan Group Headquarters.

In a single-family villa.

Although it was late, Liu Tao and others were watching the live broadcast in front of the crowd.

In the sky, the missile that dragged flames like a meteor was so conspicuous.

The live broadcast guest was introducing the types of missiles.

Many experts had previously analyzed that Saddam would abandon Kuwait and withdraw his troops at the last minute, and the war would not break out.

As a result, he was slapped in the face.

Liu Tao was in a good mood because the United States released a large amount of strategic oil reserves, and the International Energy Agency also released a large amount of strategic oil reserves, which greatly reduced the price of oil. It has now broken through $50/barrel, and there is no situation of breaking through $60/barrel.

As long as the war goes smoothly, or the United States and the International Energy Agency increase the amount of oil released to the market, the price of oil will inevitably drop further.

At this time, returning to Panshan Group, I was naturally interested in watching the live broadcast of the war.

At this time, the F117 "Nighthawk" wing had taken off and they flew directly to Baghdad, Iraq.

The F117 Nighthawk wing does not have many fighters, but they act as door-kickers and use the advanced performance of the F117 fighter to take the lead in launching air strikes.

As for how many targets the first two waves of Tomahawk cruise missiles can destroy, to be honest, no one knows.

At this time, no American pilots who are performing the mission are not worried.

Even if they are the best pilots in the US military, they know how dangerous the mission is.

Baghdad, as the capital of Iraq, is also the largest city in Iraq. It is the political center, economic center, and cultural center of Iraq and has the most intensive air defense firepower in the whole of Iraq.

Not only are there various air defense radars, but also a large number of air defense missiles.

According to the intelligence collected by the United States alone, there are dozens of SAM-2 and SAM-3 medium- and long-range air defense missiles.

Although these missiles are backward, no matter how excellent the performance of the fighter is, it is still very dangerous to face a large number of air defense missiles.

The F117 fighter is a stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed Martin of the United States. The design of this fighter began in the late 1970s. On June 15, 1981, the pre-production aircraft successfully flew under absolute secrecy, and the first aircraft was delivered to the US Air Force on August 23, 1982.

The F117 fighter has been kept secret since its service until November 10, 1988, when the Air Force first released photos of the aircraft. In April 1989, the aircraft was publicly unveiled at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

The biggest highlight of this aircraft is its good stealth performance!

Currently, there are only 59 aircraft equipped in the entire United States!

In 1983, the US military purchased the F117 fighter at a price of US$42.6 million per aircraft, making it the most expensive aircraft in the world. By 1990, 59 F117s had been delivered, with an average price of US$72 million, and the latest price has exceeded US$100 million.

It can be said that the F117 fighter is the fighter with the best stealth performance and the most expensive unit price in the world.

In order to ensure accurate bombing, they had to lower the flight altitude to below 1,000 meters.

At a flight altitude of 1,000 meters, Baghdad's anti-aircraft machine guns could shoot them down.

Of course, no matter how nervous the pilots were, the mission had to be carried out.

At this time, in order to ensure safety and not be discovered by Iraq's radar, all F117 fighters turned off their radars and maintained radio silence.

But they didn't know that when they just took off, relevant intelligence had arrived in Baghdad.

About 100 kilometers away from Baghdad, there is a temporary radar position.

The radar is running at full power, and the observer stares at the screen closely.

Finally, more than 20 small dots appeared on the screen.

The observer reported it immediately, and this discovery immediately attracted attention.

In Baghdad, all radars were turned on, and air defense missiles were in place. Although the radar of the SAM air defense missile was a little behind, the radar system of the 'Aegis' air defense missile was not behind at all.

When entering the reconnaissance range, the radar had captured these aircraft.

"Boom boom~~" Missiles were launched one after another, flying towards the F117 fighters.

There were 'Aegis' air defense missiles, as well as SAM-2, SAM-3 and other SAM series missiles.

"Damn, we've been discovered!" Colonel Smith, who was in charge of this combat mission, shouted in horror: "Get high, speed up!"

"Release jammers!"

One F117 fighter quickly climbed and accelerated, and released jammers at the same time.

Many air defense missiles were interfered by jammers and did not attack the fighters.

But there were still missiles hitting the fighters, and the fighters turned directly into a ball of sparks.

Not only that, they were facing more missile attacks.

The situation was reported back immediately, including radar position targets and air defense missile position targets.

At this time, over the Mediterranean Sea, a formation of 4 bombers, escorted by several F14s, was slowly flying forward.

"Attention all units, we have arrived at the designated area, launch cruise missiles!"

"Boom~~"

The bomber's magazine opened, and several huge missiles fell out.

As soon as these missiles fell a few meters, the tail engines began to ignite, and soon these missiles were heading towards Baghdad with the tail engines working.

At the same time, in the Persian Gulf, several warships cruising in the darkness suddenly raised several missiles with long tail flames. The target of these missiles was also Baghdad.

The information sent back by the F117 fighter has allowed the US military to understand the current situation in Baghdad.

The previous two waves of missile attacks did not achieve the expected results.

But photos of burning flames were still taken.

This time, after the fighter revised the coordinates, the third wave of missile attacks was launched.

At other air bases, planes took off one after another and flew towards Kuwait and Iraq. They will mainly use missiles as the main attack method to destroy the target.

The two sides fought in the early morning, which was a great test of the Iraqi air defense capabilities.

In Baghdad, anti-aircraft machine guns kept firing a series of bullets, and anti-aircraft guns could be seen roaring and firing shells into the air.

There are also Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that are constantly moving on the road and in the wilderness, constantly firing anti-aircraft shells towards aerial targets.

If someone sees it in person, it will be very spectacular.

It is a series of flames.

When a target is successfully intercepted, a ball of fire will appear in the sky.

Each ball of fire represents that a plane has been hit or a missile has been intercepted.

Air defense alarms rang throughout Baghdad.

People hid in air-raid shelters for fear of being attacked and losing their lives.

Even Saddam, at 0:00 in the morning, also turned from the ground command center to the underground command center.

At this time, Saddam was constantly understanding the situation. He did not expect that the Americans would launch an attack at the first time, and the way of attack was so incredible.

They actually used missiles to attack important targets in Iraq.

This made Saddam extremely angry. The Americans actually burned the war to Iraq and Baghdad at the first time. This was simply a slap in his face.