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Chapter 2503 Comrade, Times Have Changed (Third Update, Please Subscribe)
No one will stand there and passively take a beating!
As a country preparing for a major war, the Soviet Union would not passively accept being attacked.

Therefore, after the Iraq War, the Soviet Union continuously improved its electronic warfare technology, especially its air defense capabilities under electronic jamming.

After all, the Soviet Union did not want all its radars to become useless once war broke out, and then Western nuclear missiles would land directly on its home.

For the Soviet Union, Hanoi was a test back then, and Syria is a test now as well.

Lieutenant Colonel Mahmoud, standing to the side, nodded and said:
"We will definitely shoot them down then. We have reduced the launch time to one second, just one second..."

In order to counter electronic jamming, the Soviet military comprehensively optimized its air defense system. First, its missile search and guidance radars were not turned on. Instead, other radars were used for long-range tracking, and various signals were obtained through fiber optic communication. Then, the corresponding data was obtained in advance, and the guidance radar was turned on and missiles were launched quickly when the enemy aircraft approached. In this way, even if the enemy's electronic jamming aircraft detected the signal, it would be too late.

Two seconds—Lieutenant Colonel Mahmoud's air defense missile battalion can launch nine missiles in two seconds and guide them to attack multiple targets. He was confident at this moment because they had already successfully shot down a Tomahawk missile.

Confidence comes from victory, but sometimes, there are unexpected events.

Almost simultaneously, the signal suddenly cut off, and Khalid immediately shouted:

"Sir, the command center signal has been lost..."

The sudden report stunned everyone in the command vehicle.

In response to the SEA's formidable electronic capabilities, the Soviet Union upgraded its electronic systems and developed corresponding plans, from long-range early warning systems to medium-range systems and then to missile launch battalions, to ensure survivability in electronic warfare environments to the greatest extent possible.

The underground fiber optic network can deliver real-time information and intelligence. The light-speed transmission of the fiber optic signal ensures that there is no delay in the transmission of this information and avoids exposing itself in an electronic warfare environment. In theory, this is a network that cannot be interfered with.

However, even the most perfect tactics have their weaknesses—and all of this is transmitted through the command center.

The command center is located underground, with a reinforced concrete top floor several meters thick, plus multiple upper floors, which, in theory, can withstand any aerial bombardment.

But sometimes, that's precisely the most fatal flaw!
Finally, we've reached the target area!

Sun Changyong gripped the control stick. Outside the canopy of the "Night Shadow," the night sky over Damascus was pitch black. A conspicuous green glow reflected on his goggles, and the multi-function display showed the ground image displayed by the infrared electro-optical system—this place had just been bombarded by Tomahawk missiles two hours earlier, yet it was eerily quiet.

The entire city is under curfew and blackout.

At this moment, he was at an altitude of 7000 meters and a speed of Mach 0.8.

They remained silent on the radio throughout.

He wasn't worried about being exposed because no radar capable of detecting "Night Shadow" had yet been built in the world.

He pulled the control stick, and the fighter jet flew silently toward its target. The Nightshade had been born with the silence of death and had never been shot down in air combat. Of course, it had only been used in actual combat once, in the bombing of the Indian nuclear reactor.

There might be a few more secret bombings, who knows?
But no one has ever discovered it; it is a true aerial ghost!

No matter how many air defense radars are hidden in the darkness of Damascus, no matter how many soldiers are staring intently at their screens.

They will not notice Nightshade.

The target recognition system quickly detected the target using its infrared photoelectric system.

The world displayed on the multifunction screen was the unit's gray color. The outlines of the houses were densely packed like a honeycomb, mostly low bungalows, except for a cluster of buildings in the center that stood out conspicuously—the roofs were covered with camouflage netting, but it couldn't block the heat emanating from the internal equipment, like a wound exposed in the night.

That is the Syrian air defense command center.

Intelligence indicates that this is the heart of the entire Damascus air defense network, where signals from all radar stations converge via fiber optic cables and are then transmitted to various positions via underground fiber optic cables.

To avoid being bombed, the Syrians deliberately built it in the middle of a residential area, which itself served as a barrier.

The first wave of Tomahawk missiles deliberately bypassed it because cruise missiles can only destroy equipment on its surface and cannot pose a threat to the command center located more than ten meters underground.

This task can only be completed by "Nightshade"!

Sun Changyong's fingers flicked the control stick. The fighter jet entered the attack path, but instead of dropping to 6000 meters, it maintained an altitude of 7000 meters.

At this moment, the system had locked onto the ground target, and the aiming reticle was firmly positioned over the building complex.

"Laser guidance activated, bunker buster ready."

An invisible beam of light shot out from the belly of the fighter jet and landed precisely on the top of the main building of the command center.

The bomb bay door slid open silently, revealing two laser-guided bunker-buster bombs, each weighing 2.3 tons, suspended inside. Unlike ordinary bombs, these bunker-buster bombs can easily penetrate 50 meters of soil or at least 5 meters of solid concrete. To ensure the strength of the projectile, the design incorporates barrels directly from 203mm artillery, which were derived from retired 203mm self-propelled howitzers.

In the past few years, in order to produce this bomb, the SEA has procured more than 500 decommissioned 203mm caliber artillery barrels from around the world.

Following India, this is its second time entering the battlefield.

The fighter jet pitched up slightly the moment the bomb detached from the rack.

Sun Changyong could see two bombs flying toward the target on the screen. Its power lies in its "kinetic energy penetration" principle: it does not rely on explosion, but on its huge weight, solid body and extremely high speed gained from falling from a high altitude, like a super nail, it "hammers" into the target before detonating.

A bomb dropped from a height of 7000 meters has a terminal velocity exceeding Mach 1.7 at the moment of impact with its target.

This speed is supersonic. Sun Changyong didn't know if people on the ground could hear the sonic boom, but from the time the bomb was dropped to the time it hit the target, it only took a short while.

The first bomb hit the roof of the main building but did not explode immediately. Instead, it whistled through multiple floors and eventually penetrated the 5-meter-thick reinforced concrete above the command center. The second bomb followed closely behind, burrowing into the ground along the same trajectory.

The silence lasted for three seconds.

Then, a cloud of smoke suddenly burst from the target location, followed by a muffled explosion, and faint flashes of light spewed out from the cracks in the building.

Although the main building of the command center appeared intact, the smoke from the explosion, billowing from its windows into reinforced concrete, and the subsequent plumes of dust, spoke volumes.

"The target has been destroyed."

Sun Changyong pulled the control stick, and as he quickly moved away from the explosion zone, the other two Nighthawks also dropped bunker buster bombs.

In the darkness of Damascus, there was only a wisp of smoke.

The "Night Shadows" disappeared into the night sky over Damascus. In the city behind them, civilians, awakened by the commotion, peeked out from their hiding places, looking at the smoke billowing from the air defense command center and the soldiers running around in a panic. Their faces were filled with confusion and fear.

This silent raid not only tore a fatal hole in Syria's air defense system, but also completely changed the course of the war.

Meanwhile, another 39 Nighthawk stealth fighters carried out airstrikes on Syrian radar stations.

By dawn, most of Syria's radars had been destroyed, its air defense missile bases were blinded, and its main command center was in ruins.

It will take another four days and four nights to complete this mission, but air superiority has already become apparent. Attacks will then extend to power plants, communications towers, telephone exchanges, relay stations, aircraft shelters, control towers, and all known production and storage facilities for weapons of mass destruction.

Meanwhile, drones launched from the Katsuragi and Beirut have begun attacking air defense missile launch sites in the Bekaa Valley. Although they have not exposed their radar signals, countless drones and reconnaissance satellites that have flown over the region in the past month have already thoroughly investigated Syria's air defense positions.

However, they did not strike immediately, but waited for an opportunity, or rather, for their prey to fall into the trap, and now is the time to close the net.

As Major Ivanov said, wars evolve. The SEA military was well aware that after two impressive electronic jamming and air raids, the Soviet Union would inevitably make corresponding improvements. Many of their tactics were designed to counter anti-radiation missile attacks and prevent them from attacking radar antennas. They used radar-related methods to prevent radar signal leakage.

But they clearly overlooked one thing—times have changed!
Drones with smaller radar cross-sections can attack air defense missile sites without needing radar signals; they only need coordinates. Meanwhile, for the use of fiber optic networks, the originally mobile air defense missiles have become fixed targets.

Therefore, compared to the past, this time SEA's electronic jamming was not very "amazing". Of course, this is also largely due to the Soviet Union's effective anti-jamming measures.

However, times have changed, and warfare evolves. The SEA made targeted adjustments to its tactics, refraining from overwhelming the enemy with a large force in the first wave of attacks. Instead, it advanced step by step, even devising a trap based on the enemy's tactical changes...

(End of this chapter)