The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

The US and Soviet armies are on different paths.

The US military emphasizes the performance of weapons and believes that the performance of weapons can determine the outcome of the battlefield. There are reasons for this. One of the reasons is that the United States has reaped the dividends of World War I and World War II and absorbed the most scientists in Europe, which has allowed the United States to develop very quickly, but it is also accompanied by rising labor costs in the United States.

If the US military does not rely on the performance of weapons, but only on the number of weapons, it will eventually be inferior to the Soviet army.

The Soviet army has a unique system, which can be a chess game across the country. Through the planned economy, the loss and internal consumption are reduced to the minimum, and the labor cost is much lower. The Soviet Union can transfer all enterprises to the wartime system at the first time, and produce weapons with all its strength, and everything serves the war.

This is something that the United States cannot match.

The Soviet army is different. The Soviet army has an excellent system of concentrating forces to do big things, and can mobilize all the people. The Soviet Union has come to a conclusion through all the wars, that is, unless there is a huge generation gap in weapons, it will definitely be drowned in a large number of weapons.

In World War II, German tanks were advanced enough.

As a result, they were eventually worn out by the Soviet army. The Soviet army's several or even ten tanks exchanged for one German tank, and almost wore out the German army.

Similarly, after World War II, this concept also affected all aspects of the Soviet Union.

Many people think that the Soviet Union chose the wrong technology tree and it was wrong not to take the high-precision road.

That is to think that the Soviet Union is the same as the United States. In fact, there are huge differences between the two.

The Soviet Union is based on playing the S3 season. In such a war environment, the service life of weapons is very short, and it is useless to design weapons with a longer service life.

What's more, the Soviet army emphasizes that the army has a relatively strong combat effectiveness in a nuclear war environment.

If it is in that environment, many European and American aircraft will actually lose their combat effectiveness.

Like the Gulf War, it is impossible for the Soviet Union to allow the coalition forces to be fully prepared.

Besides, in terms of weapons, the weapons of the United States do not form an absolute generational advantage over the weapons of the Soviet Union.

In the absence of a generational gap, the Soviet Union has a quantitative advantage, so it naturally has an advantage.

At this time, the Air Force received an order, and the Air Force Commander issued a combat mission.

The US military aircraft began to prepare for takeoff.

Not only the US military aircraft, but also the aircraft of other coalition forces are preparing to take off.

This time, the US military will mobilize all air forces to launch a large-scale air strike on all targets in Iraq.

Especially the missile launch sites exposed this time, and the airports where Iraqi aircraft took off.

According to Schwarzkopf, since the Iraqis dared to sneak attack their aircraft carrier fleet, they must bear a more serious blow.

The whole world knows that the aircraft carrier fleet is the most important strategic force of the United States!

Every time there is a conflict, the US president will ask the first question: "Where are our aircraft carriers?"

If Iraq is not taught a good lesson this time, other countries will follow suit, and what deterrence will the US aircraft carriers have!

More importantly, this dispatch will give the Soviets an inspiration!

When the Soviets learn this style of play, and even further improve such combat plans, then the US aircraft carrier fleet, including the entire US Navy, will lose its deterrence against the Soviet Union.

In terms of US military power, the only absolute advantage over the Soviet Union is the navy.

Once the navy loses its advantage over the Soviet Union and loses its deterrence against the Soviet Union, God knows whether the Soviet Union will set off the S3 season.

By that time, NATO would definitely not be able to stop the Soviet army. In a week at most, the Soviet army would push across Europe, and the Soviet steel torrent would appear on the Atlantic coast.

This was the conclusion drawn from the military exercise in 1981 after countless military exercises.

Even with the use of nuclear weapons, it still only took a week to push across Europe.

More than two thousand fighters took off from various Saudi air bases, carrying a large amount of ground attack ammunition, and began to rush towards Iraq's airspace.

And this is only the first batch, and the second batch will take off soon.

Although not all of them are aircraft for ground attack missions, but also include air combat aircraft, the number is absolutely terrifying.

These escort fighters are equipped with anti-radiation missiles and air-to-air missiles.

Baghdad, Royal Palace.

Saddam is holding a banquet to celebrate this hard-won victory.

Saddam swept away the decline of the previous few days, and the whole person became high-spirited and enthusiastic.

At this time, Saddam was very regretful. He should have bought more "Aegis" anti-aircraft missiles, anti-aircraft shells, anti-aircraft machine gun bullets and "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles before the war.

These weapons are really useful!

Although this wave of attacks made him very excited, he also knew that it was almost impossible for Iraq to do it again.

Although Iraq bought a lot of "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles, these "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles were divided into land-launched/ship-launched and air-launched types.

In addition, in the "ship attack war" with the Persians, a lot of "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles were used. Now Iraq's "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles are mainly land-launched/ship-launched, and there are only more than 30 air-launched "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles.

Moreover, it is almost difficult for Iraq to succeed if it wants to adopt a similar strategy.

"When the war is over, I must purchase another batch of weapons and equipment from Panshan Group!" Saddam said secretly.

Weapons, only after using them, can you know whether they are good or not.

Sadm has experience in this regard.

Iraq bought a lot of weapons and equipment that were promoted as miraculous by Europe and the United States, but when they arrived, they found that they were far less effective than the promotion.

Only the weapons of Panshan Group had better performance than expected.

During this period, Sadm couldn't sleep well because the Americans bombed too frequently.

It was almost non-stop bombing.

Either missile attacks or aircraft attacks.

Even if Baghdad's air defense force was strong, he needed to constantly move to the underground command center.

"Damn Americans, it's better to withdraw from the Middle East!" Sadm cursed the Americans fiercely in his heart.

Although the war had only been going on for a few days, Iraq had already suffered great losses.

The losses caused by the American air strikes to Iraq had exceeded the losses caused by the Persian air strikes on Iraq during the ten years of the Iran-Iraq War.

Government buildings in many places were destroyed by the Americans.

Many air defense positions and radar positions were also destroyed by the Americans.

The power supply systems of many cities were also destroyed.

This has led to the current domestic social instability, and some voices against Saddam have reappeared.

In order to prevent his subordinates from opposing him and mutinying, Saddam specifically asked the intelligence department to keep an eye on his military generals.

As a superior, Saddam is also a suspicious person. He will never allow anyone under him to challenge him or rebel against him.

Saddam's hatred for the Americans is getting stronger and stronger.

He is thinking that after repelling the Americans and unifying the Arab world, he will definitely make the Americans pay a heavy price.

And the Soviets are not trustworthy at all. One of the world's hegemons dare not confront their mortal enemy head-on.