Babylonian Empire

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This was also expected, the reason why they used two rockets to shoot at the same time was to make the opponent's tank hit by one rocket no matter it was accelerating or braking.

If it was the front armor that was hit, then, since the front armor of the 69 tank is relatively thick, it is not a problem to be hit by a rocket, but the rear will not work.

The rear armor is the thinnest, and the engine is covered underneath, and there are ammunition in front of the engine. As long as it hits, it will explode in a big fire.

The tank crew inside the vehicle heard a crisp crash, which was very violent, and they were all stunned for a moment. Perhaps, the next moment, they would feel a stream of metal heat coming in, igniting the shells around them. Even if there is a fire extinguishing system, it cannot withstand this kind of impact.

The rocket uses a concentrated energy warhead, and the high explosive is made into a concave shape. When the explosion is detonated, the energy of the explosion is gathered at one point due to the "energy-gathering effect", and the metal shell of the rocket is forged to form a temperature and pressure. The extremely high metal fluid breaks through the armor, kills the personnel in it, and destroys the equipment in it.

They were waiting for the last moment. Even the driver let off the accelerator and was hit. Why run?

The rocket hit the tank accurately and began its final blow. Its concentrated warhead was ready to drill through the opponent's armor.

However, it didn't exert any force, but found that it had completely penetrated the armor?Is the opponent's armor that thin?

If the rocket is intelligent, then it must regret that it didn't see the target clearly just now. It didn't hit the armor of the tank, but hit the additional fuel tank behind!

There was no fuel in the additional fuel tank for a long time, so it was absolutely a coincidence that it was hit by a rocket and was safe and sound. It is definitely that Almighty Allah is blessing the righteous Iraqi army!

The tanker in the car found that he was safe and unharmed, and immediately started to fight back. He rotated the turret, and the 7.62mm bullets of the machine gun kept spraying flames, sparking the place where the rocket was fired just now. Splash, several Iranian soldiers, all fell down.

Small-scale battles were constantly staged on several battlefields, Ahvaz, Port Khomeini, and Bakhtaran.

Abadan is very important because it is the main petrochemical base in Iraq, and Ahwaz is also very important. The oil fields near Ahwaz provide Abadan with a stable source of crude oil, and the Abadan refinery can operate at full speed. Start production, you can continue to create benefits.

Therefore, the garrison in Ahvaz has always been on the defensive and did not launch a counter-offensive. They kept countering the harassment of the Iranians, but it has not had much effect.

However, the situation finally began to change. As the battle progressed, as the [-]th Armored Division arrived in Abadan in time and completely annihilated the Iranian offensive forces, Iraq's full-line counterattack began slowly.

Baghdad has sent instructions: attack across the board and completely drive the Iranians out of the plains. The troops must occupy the eastern mountainous area and the defense line must move forward. The Iranians can no longer engage in such tricks of attacking from the mountainous area.

After being harassed for so many days, the No.60 Armored Division can finally feel elated. With the victory of the Fourth Armored Division, after the Fourth Armored Division advanced to the Ahvaz-Khomeini Port area, Khomeini Port and The defenders of Ahvaz can finally free up their hands to completely remove the Iranian army that harassed them.

What they are waiting for now is the arrival of the [-]th Armored Division. The Iranians who attacked them around them can only be arrogant for a few more days. Anyway, they can't jump around for a few more days.

Chapter 423 Scud missile, launch!

"The [-]th Armored Division is too crazy. Their armored troops actually drove in directly from the road, and there are so many tracks that are not glued, which messed up the road!" An Iraqi soldier drove a A large four-axle vehicle was driving on the already undulating road, and at the same time, he said impatiently.

Although his vehicle has off-road capabilities, in order to ensure that the big guys on the car will not be affected, he still reduces the speed.

Starting from the base, they traveled very fast and arrived here in a day, but then the speed slowed down all of a sudden. It was all a good job of the [-]th Armored Division!At this speed, I am afraid that we will not be able to arrive at the scheduled position until tomorrow.

This is a large car produced in the Northern Red Empire. The chassis model is MAz-543LTM. The car is 12 meters long, 2.9 meters wide, and 2 meters high. Although the camouflage net is tightly covered, the shape of something like a horn is still exposed at the rear.

Following this car, there were several other vehicles with the same chassis, all covered with camouflage nets, moving along the road at night.

Their cars are loaded with Iraq's most secret weapon: Scud missiles!

If there is anything that can make military fans feel excited in the later Gulf War, the first one is definitely the Scud missile. This kind of missile was in the hands of Saddam Hussein in the later war. trump card.

However, although Saddam attached great importance to these things, and he regarded these missiles as a weapon of the country, these things did not come into Kusai's eyes.

The shooting range of 300 kilometers can only be regarded as a tactical level, and the circumference error is only [-] meters. In terms of accuracy, it cannot be compared with the Red Bird No. [-] at all.

At this time in Zubayer's base, the Red Bird II has been mass-produced. Although limited by the body and engine, the range is only [-] kilometers, but the accuracy is a notch higher, and the range is as high as The development of Red Bird III, which is [-] kilometers away, has also begun.

The projectile bodies of Red Bird No. 801 and No. [-] are both C[-] projectiles, no matter how they are improved, innate factors doom it to be unable to increase the range very far.Therefore, technicians have started the research of Red Bird III.

Although the Chinese personnel have been evacuated, in the process of jointly researching two types of ground attack cruise missiles with China, a group of Iraqi technicians have come to the fore, and they have begun research on this longer-range cruise missile.

The most complicated guidance problem has been satisfactorily solved. What needs to be done now is to manufacture a larger projectile body and add more fuel. At the same time, the shape is also changed to the same structure as the later Tomahawk. The missile wings can provide greater lift during flight, and the tail still has four cross-shaped tail fins, but limited by the engine, the missile body is much larger than the Tomahawk of later generations, but the range is not as far as that of the opponent. .

Everything needs to be solved by introducing a new small turbofan engine.

Even so, Iraq has come to the forefront of the world in terms of cruise missiles. Although Iraq's cruise missiles have been developed, it does not mean that Qusay does not pay attention to ballistic missiles. Both sides have their own advantages.

Cruise missiles fly at a low altitude, which is good for concealment. However, their speed is slow and their course is fixed. After they are discovered on the ground, even anti-aircraft guns can be shot down.

It’s just that what Qusay pays attention to is not the tactical ballistic missile with a range of only [-] kilometers, but at least a medium-range ballistic missile with a range of about [-] kilometers. The range must be able to cover the entire Middle East. In the long run , is a strategic-level missile with a range of more than [-] kilometers, carrying nuclear weapons developed by Iraq itself, and will no longer be afraid of being bullied by various hooligans.

Therefore, this kind of Scud missile was pulled out and used by Qusay without hesitation in this battle.

Their goal was an air base in the south of Isfahan, near the edge of Ahmadi province.

The reason why the Iranian Air Force was able to fly to Abadan so quickly for bombing was to use this air force base less than [-] kilometers away from Abadan. After they took off from this base, they flew over Ahmadi at ultra-low altitude, Along the way, they will not be discovered by the Iraqi air defense network, and then bombed suddenly.

If it flies from Tehran, among other things, if the J-3 wants to return, I am afraid that it can only maintain fuel for [-] minutes in the theater.

If the Scud missile is launched from the west side of Khomeini Port, it can just cover there. Therefore, the first battle since the Scud missile entered the Iraqi army has finally begun.

The missile force took part of the route of the [-]th Armored Division. Apart from scolding the [-]th Armored Division's lunatics who didn't care about national property, they also had to open their eyes wide and choose a relatively flat road. .

However, this off-road vehicle chassis produced in the Soviet Union has shown good passability, even when encountering larger roadblocks on the road, it can easily pass through.

Crossing the Shatt al-Arab River, they did not approach the combat zone, but chose a safer area of ​​their own control, the Susan Gild area, and continued to advance.

The place is sparsely populated, and apart from the fact that the Iranians wanted to launch a sneak attack from here, and their conspiracy was smashed by His Excellency Qusay, there is nothing too dazzling here.

The huge wheels of the missile launch vehicle crushed on the ground of Susangilde. It is not yet the rainy season, and the ground here is relatively solid and has not become a swamp.

Finally, before dawn, they arrived at the scheduled launching position, a piece of flat land on the edge of the Susangilde swamp, where the straight-line distance from the target to be attacked was 290-[-] kilometers.

Each vehicle arrived at the launching position at one time, and they were arranged in order.

The Scud missile is a liquid missile. This kind of missile has no internal fuel in normal times and must be refueled before launching. The launching process is lengthy.

If the fuel is filled before departure, then during the maneuvering process, the liquid fuel will keep shaking inside the missile, which will cause impact to the missile body, and there is a greater risk of fire and explosion due to friction. Moreover, the fuel is corrosive Yes, after a long time, it will corrode the fuel tank of the rocket.

This is also the reason why later generations eliminated liquid fuel rockets and switched to solid rocket motors.

A complete launch team, including a series of vehicles such as ground measurement vehicle, command vehicle, power supply vehicle, propellant filling vehicle, test vehicle, fire truck, etc., the launch process is far from being as simple as seen on TV in later generations.

After the Iraqi missile force entered the launch position, everyone started to get busy.

The ground measurement vehicle began to calculate the position at this time, and calculated various data needed to launch the rocket.

Ballistic missiles use the earth as a reference to launch from one location on the earth to another. If they want to hit the target, they must know their current location to determine the flight parameters.

If it is a fixed launch position, these parameters such as latitude, longitude and altitude are known in advance, then the speed can be accelerated, and for this kind of random launch, it is necessary to accurately determine the various data of the launch position.

The command vehicle is also busy, unfolding the antenna, and coordinating the work of various personnel.

The power supply car starts to generate electricity to provide power to each vehicle.

The camouflage net of the missile launching vehicle has been uncovered. Next to it, the propellant filling vehicle drove to the side. The soldier wearing a gas mask picked up the fuel pipe, opened the filling port of the missile, and began to fill the missile with fuel.

This kind of fuel is not only corrosive, but also poisonous, so you must pay special attention when filling it.