The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

There is an Arabic proverb: If you encounter a poisonous snake and a Jew in the desert at the same time, you must kill the Jew first!

This shows the great hatred between Arabs and Jews.

Coupled with Israel's tough stance, it has never thought about getting along well with the neighboring Arab countries. Those who have thought about it have been shot to death, which has caused Israel to offend all the surrounding Arab countries.

And it's not just a small offense, but a fatal offense.

So far, including last year, six Middle East wars have broken out between Israel and Arab countries.

If it weren't for the Americans supporting Israel, Israel would have been destroyed at least three times!
A big reason why Arabs hate Americans is because Americans support Israel!
Before the United States launched the Iraq War this time, Israel has been jumping for joy so far.

This time, Saddam decided to attack Israel with Scud missiles.

Iraq launched a large number of Scud missiles during the Iran-Iraq War and also launched a large number of Scud missiles during the Gulf War, causing huge casualties to the coalition forces. Now, Iraq's missile forces are once again demonstrating their military power.

The range of Iraq's Scud missiles is enough to hit Israel without even entering Syria.

The four-axle 9P117 Scud launcher was moving in the desert and arrived at a designated launch site before dawn.

Soldiers jumped out of each of the thirty launch vehicles, fully dressed with gas masks covering their heads, looking somewhat scary.

These liquid missiles must first be refueled before launch.

Dragging the thick pipe, the soldiers quickly ran to the filling port and operated it skillfully. Amid the roar of the motor, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine and red smoke nitric acid were filled into the missile.

It took more than ten minutes to refuel, and then the missile began to slowly stand upright. Inside the launch vehicle, Iraqi soldiers were still nervously preparing various launch data for the missile.

The target is Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel.

Tel Aviv is the largest city in Israel, with a population of over 40, mainly Jews. The surrounding urban agglomeration has a population of 304 million. It is Israel's largest metropolitan area, the most densely populated area in Israel, and Israel's economic hub.

When attacking Tel Aviv, as long as the error is not too outrageous, a deviation of two or three kilometers can cause considerable damage.

A few minutes later, everything was ready.

The dark night seems very quiet.

It's a bit cold in the desert.

"Fire!" The commander gave the order, and thirty slender missiles were launched. White smoke came out of the tail engine, followed by a flash of red light.

Trailing a tongue of fire, the missile began to fly upwards, and white smoke enveloped the entire launch site.

"Move position!" Amidst the flames, the Scud missiles completed a wave of launches. As soon as the missiles were launched, the commander immediately ordered a move.

Those missiles, trailing tongues of fire, rushed into the sky one by one, and Iraq's revenge had begun!

Shortly after the Scud was launched, it was discovered by reconnaissance satellites in space and early warning aircraft in the air.

Reconnaissance satellites and early warning aircraft in space tracked the flames of the Scud missiles and continuously transmitted the missile's flight trajectory, flight speed, direction, ballistic inclination and position to the ground station. The ground space command base received the missile-related data and quickly sent the Scud missile's flight trajectory and impact point to Israel through the rapid ground station technology.

In Israel, in the early morning, the air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv, and the sharp air raid sirens resounded throughout Tel Aviv.

Since the end of the Sixth Middle East War, Tel Aviv has not heard an air defense alarm. The sound of the air defense alarm at this time startled the sleeping Jews. Israel's Arrow-2 missile defense system and Patriot missile defense system air defense positions were busy.

Patriot missile defense system, this naturally comes from the United States!
The Arrow-2 missile defense system was jointly developed by Israel and the United States in 1986 and has just been put into use. It is a theater ballistic missile defense system. The maximum flight speed of the interceptor missile reaches 9 times the speed of sound. Of course, the price is also quite expensive. The cost of an interceptor missile is nearly 300 million US dollars, which is about times that of a Scud missile.

Israel is also equipped with the Patriot missile defense system, and the cost of an interceptor missile is two to three million US dollars.

在伊拉克战争爆发之前，以色列在全国境内部署了9个导弹连队以应对伊拉克在遭到美国军事打击时发动的报复性袭击。这9个连队由7个‘爱国者’导弹连和2个‘箭-2’导弹旅组成，其中特拉维夫地区部署了3个‘爱国者’导弹的连队，在特拉维夫南部还部署了一个‘箭-2’式导弹连。

It has to be said that Israel is self-aware and knows that it will be retaliated by Iraq.

Thirty whistling Scud missiles fell in less than five minutes.

Because Iraq chose to launch the missiles in the early morning, even if the Israeli soldiers reacted quickly and hurriedly, it would be too late.

"Boom boom boom~~~"

The 30 Scud missiles landed at different locations, ranging from one to three kilometers.

Large errors can also cause headaches.

This is especially true of attacks on densely populated areas.

There was a shocking explosion and thick smoke billowed.

Screams of terror and despair continued to ring out.

The sudden outbreak of war terrified the Jews who had not yet had time to reach the air-raid shelters.

Israel was unable to intercept the first wave of attacks.

By the time of the second wave of attacks, the Patriot missile defense system had already detected them.

A Patriot air defense missile battery consists of an operations center, a radar group, 1 to 1 missile launch units, and supporting antennas, power generation and missile transportation equipment.

The Patriot air defense missile forces are working intensively.

The AN/MPQ-53 phased array radar was running at full power, scanning the airspace in the direction of Iraq. Whether it could be successfully intercepted depended first on whether the phased array radar could detect the target.

Finally, under the radar operator's unblinking gaze, an echo finally appeared on the screen.

30 Scud missiles!

"Automatic mode, prepare to intercept!" Israel's missile force commander gave the order.

3个‘爱国者’防御导弹发射连，24个导弹发射单元。1个‘箭-2’防御导弹发射连，有8个导弹发射单元。

There are 32 missile launch units in total!
All operators are concentrated in the engagement control station, which is the combat central nervous system of the air defense missile, providing command, control, communication and fire control. Thanks to the advanced electronic technology of the United States, human-computer interaction is adopted here, and target identification and priority sorting can be assisted by computers, or the engagement control station and computer can fully control the entire engagement autonomously.

At this point, manual operation may not be able to achieve high accuracy, so letting the weapon control itself is the best choice! (End of this chapter)