The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

During the 11-day holiday from Christmas to New Year's Day, the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq seemed calm.

There was no further exchange of fire between the two sides.

After the New Year's Day holiday, the United States launched another air strike on January 1.

But the Iraqi army has been tested by the ten-year Iran-Iraq War and has experience in the Gulf War. In addition, it has been almost a year since the outbreak of the Iraq War. After enduring the initial difficulties and discomfort, the army has gradually recovered and summed up a set of effective methods to deal with missile attacks by joint forces.

The basis of cruise missiles is inertial navigation, which determines the initial launch position, the state of motion, and the accurate position of the inertial navigation device. However, this navigation method will have the cumulative error of the inertial gyroscope. The longer the time, the greater the error, especially for air-launched cruise missiles, the gyroscope starts working before takeoff, and the error is higher, so other methods must be added, mainly terrain matching, that is, in the cruise phase, according to some major terrain references, to determine the flight route and ultimately attack the target.

However, most of the Middle East is desert, and there is no clear positioning target at all, making it very difficult for cruise missiles to match the navigation terrain.

The US military used existing Iraqi villages as terrain matching references for missile guidance, which is what the US military did during the Gulf War.

This time, the U.S. military used the U.S. GPS system! The military signal of this system can give missiles an attack accuracy of 0.1 meters! Even if the United States uses villages for navigation, it is not accurate. Only the GPS system can make cruise missiles hit wherever they are pointed.

But before the United States launched the Iraq War, thousands of GPS jammers were shipped to Iraq.

The GPS jammer is small in size, high in power, light in weight, has a large coverage area, and is easy to carry. Its function is very simple. It can effectively prevent being located and tracked by GPS satellites and effectively interfere with GPS satellite signals. It only interferes with GPS satellite signals without affecting the normal calls of mobile phones or other communication devices.

It is precisely because of these GPS jammers that the US military's control over missiles is blocked, forcing cruise missiles to adopt fixed routes and cruise flight methods. This also creates opportunities for Iraq's air defense forces to shoot down a large number of cruise missiles.

This also led to the fact that although the joint forces launched a large number of cruise missiles, the results achieved were far less than expected.

After New Year’s Day, the joint forces discovered that the losses of cruise missiles and aircraft had increased significantly again!

It is no wonder that Iraq must have received assistance during this period and restored its air defense firepower.

The joint forces were also helpless about this.

Unless the combined forces also attack Persia and other Arab countries, things like this are simply unavoidable.

The coalition forces could cut off Iraq's access to weapons and supplies from the Persian Gulf, but they could not completely cut off Iraq's access to weapons and supplies from its neighbors.

Even if the joint forces strengthen space satellite reconnaissance and aerial reconnaissance!

After all, the area is too large, and Iraq's air defense firepower is strong.

It is not Saddam's style to just take a beating without fighting back, unless there is no other way.

Saddam ordered missile forces to launch attacks on Israel and Türkiye.

In the desert, the Iraqi missile force has 20 vehicles, and the missiles have been slowly erected after refueling. These missiles are Scud D missiles with a maximum range of 600 kilometers. The missile warheads include both high-explosive warheads and submunitions.

"Fire!" With the command and the push of a button, the missile engine started, and then the missile began to take off and fly towards the target. The target of these 20 missiles was the Incirlik Air Force Base in Turkey.

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Tonight, countless stars are shining in the night sky, and even some stars that are not very clear can show their moving light.

Suddenly, a burst of urgent alarms rang throughout the base. The starry sky was so clear that both the ground personnel and the pilots performing night missions could detect a faint fire from high in the sky with their naked eyes. In the dark night sky, it looked like a match lit in the distance, falling straight down from above. This was the missile that was heading down!
20 missiles, with huge tail flames, headed straight for Incirlik Air Force Base.

There were F15 and F16 fighter jets that had just completed a mission and were about to land, and the pilots pulled up the fighter planes urgently.

On the dark ground, several flames shot up into the sky.

The base commander understood that this was an interceptor missile launched from the Patriot missile batteries deployed around the base.

Here, the Americans deployed three Patriot missile batteries.

24 Patriot missiles to intercept those 20 missiles.

But only four missiles were intercepted.

"Damn Patriot missile!" the commander couldn't help but curse.

As a commander, John was dismissive and even sneered at the brilliant record of the Patriot missile interception missiles promoted by the Pentagon.

What interception rate is over 80% or over 97%, that’s bullshit!
Moreover, this damn "Patriot" missile is "blind". Its radar display only shows interception targets, but no effective friend or foe identification. Even though Raytheon has been making continuous improvements, it has not been able to solve this problem well, so that it accidentally hits friendly aircraft from time to time.

"Da da da~~" The anti-aircraft machine guns began shooting into the air.

"Swish, swish, swish~~~" The anti-aircraft guns also fired!

This is because the joint forces have specially strengthened their anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery in order to make up for the shortcomings of the "Patriot" air defense missiles.

A Scud missile was hit and exploded.

Some Scud planes, due to their large error margins, did not land at the air force base but in the city of Adana.

Some Scud missiles suddenly disintegrated in the air. It was not just the warhead that separated, but the missile actually disintegrated into three parts: the warhead, the single body, and the tail.

In this Gulf War, a very important reason why the actual interception success rate of the "Patriot" missile was low was that the Scud missile would suddenly disintegrate, completely disintegrate, so that the "Patriot" missile would intercept the disintegrated part.

But four Scud missiles still hit the air base.

"Boom!" A Scud missile hit the runway. The planes on the runway were either directly destroyed or blown away by the aftermath of the explosion.

"Boom!" A Scud missile hit the secondary gun shell.

Missiles hit the air force base one after another, causing huge explosions.

The aviation fuel leaking from the plane attached to the fuselage under the flickering fire and began to burn.

One, two, three.
Planes were burning one after another, and the flames illuminated the entire base. (End of this chapter)