Chapter 1145 Retaliation
There is an Arab 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 huge hatred between Arabs and Jews.
Coupled with Israel's tough stance, it has never thought about getting along well with the surrounding Arab countries. Those who have thought about it have been shot, which has made Israel offend all the surrounding Arab countries.
And it is not a small offense, but an offense to death.
So far, including last year, Israel and Arab countries have fought six Middle East wars.
If it weren't for the Americans backing Israel, Israel would have been destroyed at least three times!
Why do Arabs hate Americans? A big reason is that Americans support Israel!
Before the United States launched the Iraq War this time, Israel has been jumping very happily so far.
This time, Saddam decided to use Scud missiles to attack Israel.
Iraq launched a large number of Scud missiles in the Iran-Iraq War; in the Gulf War, it also launched a large number of Scuds, 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 entering Syria.
The four-axle 9P117 Scud launcher was moving in the desert and arrived at a predetermined launch site before dawn.
Soldiers jumped off the thirty launchers, dressed neatly, and covered their heads with gas masks, which looked a bit scary.
These liquid missiles must be refueled before they are launched.
Dragging the thick pipes, the soldiers quickly ran to the refueling port and operated skillfully. With the roar of the motor, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine and red smoke nitric acid were added to the missiles.
It took more than ten minutes to refuel, and then the missile began to slowly stand up. Inside the launcher, Iraqi soldiers were still nervously preparing various launch data for the missile.
The target was Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel.
Tel Aviv is the largest city in Israel, with a population of over 400,000, mainly Jewish. The surrounding urban agglomeration has a population of 3.04 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in Israel, the most densely populated area in Israel, and the economic hub of Israel.
Attacking Tel Aviv, as long as the error is not too outrageous, a deviation of two or three kilometers can also cause considerable damage.
A few minutes later, everything was ready.
The dark night seemed very quiet.
It was a bit cold in the desert.
"Launch!" The commander gave an order, and thirty slender missiles, the tail engine emitted a puff of white smoke, followed by a flash of red light.
Dragging a tongue of fire, the missile began to fly upwards, and the white smoke enveloped the entire launch site.
"Move position!" In the tongues of fire, the Scud missile completed a wave of launches. Just after the missiles were launched, the commander immediately ordered a move.
Those missiles dragging tongues of fire rushed into the sky one by one, and Iraq's revenge began!
Not long after the Scud was launched, it was discovered by the reconnaissance satellite in space and the 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 through the rapid ground station technology, quickly sent the flight trajectory and impact point of the Scud missile to Israel.
In Israel, in the early morning, Tel Aviv sounded the air defense alarm, and the sharp air defense alarm sounded throughout Tel Aviv.
Since the end of the Sixth Middle East War, Tel Aviv has not sounded the air defense alarm. At this time, the air defense alarm sounded, which frightened the sleeping Jews.
Israel's Arrow-2 missile defense system and Patriot missile defense system air defense positions were busy.
The Patriot missile defense system, this is naturally from the United States!
The Arrow-2 missile defense system was jointly developed by Israel and the United States in 1986. It has just been put into use and belongs to the 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 3 million US dollars, which is about 30 times that of a Scud missile.
Israel is also equipped with the Patriot missile defense system, and the cost of an interceptor missile is also 2 to 3 million US dollars.
Before the outbreak of the Iraq War, Israel deployed 9 missile companies across the country to deal with Iraq's retaliatory attacks when it was hit by the US military. These 9 companies are composed of 7 Patriot missile companies and 2 Arrow-2 missile brigades. Among them, 3 Patriot missile companies are deployed in the Tel Aviv area, and an Arrow-2 missile company is also deployed in southern Tel Aviv.
It has to be said that Israel is self-aware and knows that it will be retaliated by Iraq.
30 whistling Scud missiles fell in less than 5 minutes.
Because Iraq chose to launch the missiles in the early morning, even if the Israeli soldiers reacted quickly and hurriedly, they would not be able to make it in time.
"Boom boom boom ~~~"
30 Scud missiles landed at different locations, with a difference of one to three kilometers.
Large errors can also cause headaches.
Especially for attacks on densely populated areas.
Shocking explosions sounded, and thick smoke billowed.
Terrified screams and desperate screams continued to sound.
The sudden arrival of the war terrified the Jews who had not yet reached the air-raid shelter.
Israel had no time to intercept the first wave of attacks.
The Patriot missile defense system had already detected the second wave of attacks.
A Patriot air defense missile company consists of 1 operations center, 1 radar group, 6 to 8 missile launch units, and supporting antennas, power generation and missile transportation equipment.
The Patriot air defense missile force is working intensively.
The an/mpq-53 phased array radar is fully powered and scans the airspace in the direction of Iraq. Whether it can be successfully intercepted depends first on whether the phased array radar can detect the target.
Finally, under the unblinking gaze of the radar operator, an echo finally appeared on the screen.
30 Scud missiles!
"Automatic mode, prepare to intercept!" The commander of the Israeli missile force issued an order.
3 Patriot defense missile launch companies, 24 missile launch units. 1 Arrow-2 defense missile launch company, 8 missile launch units.
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. It provides command, control, communication and fire control. Thanks to the advanced electronic technology of the United States, human-computer interaction is adopted here. Target identification and priority sorting can be assisted by computers, or the engagement control station and computer can completely control the entire engagement autonomously.
At this time, manual operation may not achieve high accuracy, and letting the weapon control itself is the best choice! (End of this chapter)
