Chapter 1151 Attack on the Missile Factory

In the Iraq War, the air strikes of the joint forces are still continuing.

The missile launches have been greatly reduced.

The missiles prepared before have been basically exhausted.

The Tomahawk cruise missile had already fired its last round yesterday.

The Tomahawk cruise missile is a deep strike weapon developed by the United States that can be launched from outside the enemy's defensive firepower circle. It can be launched from land, ships, air and underwater to attack ships or land targets. It is mainly used to carry out precision attacks on targets in heavily fortified areas. It is one of the most important cruise missiles and long-range strike forces in active service in the United States.

The missile began to be developed in 1972, first tested in 1976, and equipped to the troops in 1983. The missile has a high flight speed. During navigation, it uses inertial guidance plus terrain matching or satellite global positioning correction guidance. It can automatically adjust the altitude and speed for high-speed attacks. The surface of the missile has a coating that absorbs radar waves and has stealth flight performance. It is the most powerful "launched outside the air defense zone" missile in the US arsenal, with the characteristics of low-altitude flight and high hit rate.

As early as the Gulf War, the United States used Tomahawk cruise missiles on a large scale.

At that time, many Tomahawk cruise missiles were intercepted by Iraq, exposing many shortcomings, and the United States modified the Tomahawk cruise missiles.

In this Iraq War, the United States launched several times more Tomahawk cruise missiles than during the Gulf War.

A Tomahawk cruise missile costs between 1.5 and 2 million US dollars. The United States launched a total of 3,990 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and this part of the Tomahawk cruise missiles alone cost 5.985 billion to 7.98 billion US dollars.

In addition to other ballistic missiles, air-to-ground missiles, and air-to-air missiles, the United States used more than 10,000 missiles of various types in this Iraq War.

This is the first time that missiles have been used as the main attack weapon on such a large scale since humans developed missiles.

Throughout Iraq, many places were attacked by air strikes and suffered heavy losses.

Faced with a large number of cruise missiles and other missiles and bombs, even Iraq's air defense network could hardly intercept them.

As a battlefield, Iraq suffered much greater losses than the Americans.

After all, Iraq can only spread the war to Iraq and Turkey at most. There is no other way. Not to mention attacking the US mainland, even European countries cannot launch missiles to attack.

Iraq has launched more than 2,800 Scud missiles at Israel and Turkey, and more than 300 Scud missiles were destroyed by the joint forces when they were launched or not launched.

In addition to air defense missiles, air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, and anti-ship missiles, Iraq has also used thousands of missiles.

At this time, the war has continued to this day, and Iraq has exhausted its missile inventory.

The Americans are strengthening patrols on the Iraqi border and attacking convoys transported to Iraq, thereby attacking Iraq's ability to obtain weapons and ammunition from the outside.

Iraq feels uncomfortable, and the Americans feel uncomfortable too.

The current war has not yet started a ground war, and is in the stage of throwing missiles and air strikes.

But the Americans are also shocked by the consumption of missiles and bombs.

The consumption of so many missiles and bombs should be enough to destroy Iraq two or three times, but Iraq is still fine now, and the Supreme Command of the Joint Forces feels that the time is not ripe to launch a ground war.

A factory in Iraq.

This is where Iraq produces Hussein missiles, Abbas missiles and various Scud missiles.

As early as the 1980s, Iraq had the ability to produce Scud missiles.

During the Gulf War, the missile production plant was destroyed by the Allied air strikes.

After the Gulf War, Saddam tried every means to restore the missile production plant and restored the production capacity of the missile production plant in 1998.

But now, Iraq's production speed of Scud is far behind consumption.

After all, Iraq's industrial capacity is not strong, and now during the war, it is facing air strikes from the joint forces at any time.

It is more difficult to obtain missile capabilities from the outside because the joint forces air force has strengthened space reconnaissance and aerial reconnaissance.

There are three main channels for Iraq to obtain weapons, equipment and materials from the outside. One is the support of Arab countries, one is to purchase from Russia, and Russia delivers by land and air transportation, and the other is to purchase from international arms dealers.

"Boom~~"

F117 relied on its stealth capability to break through the defense line, and five F117 fighters launched an air strike on the missile factory.

'Maverick' air-to-ground missiles were launched and attacked the missile factory.

In addition to missiles, there are also laser-guided bombs!

The United States has decided not to produce F117 fighters anymore, and even plans to retire F117 fighters in 2008, and the mission will be replaced by F-22 'Raptor' fighters.

In the Gulf War and the Kosovo War, some F117 fighters were shot down, which made the stealth of F117 fighters questionable.

It's really that the cost of F117 fighters is too high, with a single machine costing as much as 133 million US dollars, and it has not fully demonstrated its value!

This missile factory has been discovered for some time. During this period, the Joint Force Air Force has been formulating combat plans and finally decided to let the F117 fighter squadron carry out air strikes.

This time, the F117 squadron lived up to expectations, avoided the Iraqi radar system, and successfully raided this area.

11 F117 fighters are enough to cause a fatal blow to this military factory!

"Boom~~"

A laser-guided bomb attacked a warehouse and exploded.

After dropping bombs and missiles, the 11 F117 fighters returned, leaving several military factories in flames.

The 11 F117 fighters did not want to fight at all, and flew towards Turkey, because the early warning aircraft had been launched and the Iraqi Air Force had taken off.

At the same time, in Turkey, at the joint forces' air base, F15 fighters and F16 fighters were taking off.

This air base is outside the range of Iraqi missiles.

These F15 fighters and F16 fighters that took off were to meet the F117 fighter squadron.

After the losses in previous wars, the number of F117 fighters in the United States is not much.

The Iraqi Air Force was about to intercept the F117 fighter, but the American F15 and F16 fighters had already arrived, so they had to retreat.

At present, the number of aircraft of the Iraqi Air Force is obviously far behind that of the Joint Forces Air Force. Now the Iraqi Air Force has less than 500 fixed-wing aircraft.

The brutality of the Iraq War is not only because both sides used a large number of missiles, but also because the scale of the air battle between the two sides was the largest since World War II. The loss of aircraft alone has reached a shocking level.

Up to now, Iraq has lost more than 2,500 fixed-wing aircraft!

It is conceivable how brutal the air battle is.

Now, almost all the pilots who fly fighters are from Arab countries. Their identity is volunteers, and they come to Iraq to participate in the war against hegemony. (End of this chapter)