Babylonian Empire

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The other planes in the formation also completed preparations to launch missiles.

Eight anti-ship missiles flew towards the port of Chah Bahar. Except for them, only the American early warning plane discovered this situation.

When he saw eight smaller light spots suddenly separated from those four light spots, the combat intelligence officer's pupils suddenly shrank: these four fighters fired eight missiles at a time, needless to say , It must be an anti-ship missile!

Where do they want to attack?He looked again, and there was only one possible location, the Chah Bahar Port in the southeast corner of Iran!

However, this distance has exceeded 80 kilometers. The most advanced anti-ship missile in Iraq is the Exocet missile imported from France. However, the Exocet missile definitely does not have such a long range.

Is it just a drill for them?

impossible!

The beautiful Chah Bahar, also known as Chabahar, means that the seasons are like chūn. This port is Iran's largest seaport at the exit of the Persian Gulf, and it is also an important military base of Iran. In later generations, it was imported from Russia Iran's most important Kilo-class submarine is deployed here.

Ever since knowing that Iraq had Exocet missiles, and having personally tasted the loss, and being sunk by the shameful Iraqi Air Force with Exocet missiles, a Babur-class destroyer, Iran has consciously transferred all of its main naval vessels here.

It is very far away from Iraq, and Iraqi aircraft will never threaten it, so it has never entered a state of combat readiness.

In the Persian Gulf, due to its relatively small size, this kind of large warship will not have much effect except for its relatively large target. On the contrary, high-speed speedboats with a class of several hundred tons have a greater use. Although the Babur class has anti-aircraft missiles, it will definitely not be able to withstand the attack of the Iraqi Air Force.

What they didn't expect was that they had already retreated here, and the Iraqis still wouldn't let them go!

Although it is known that the Arab countries have united and conducted a maritime military exercise, Iran does not want to join in the fun, because this exercise is a joint sea-air exercise, and they have a large number of anti-ship missiles. If the Iranian navy ships are dispatched, then it will definitely become theirs. The target, especially the Iraqi Air Force among them, the Iranians very much believe that the Iraqi Air Force will definitely do that.

Forbearance, must hold back!Rafsanjani gave this order to Chah Bahar's navy.

Therefore, the personnel of the navy guard the most powerful warships of the Iranian navy and watch the Arab countries showing off their might in the Gulf of Oman, which makes them angry.

On a Babur-class warship, the captain stood on the deck, looking at the sea in the distance, feeling the hot sea breeze blowing on his face, but feeling a little depressed in his heart.

Due to the defeat of the war, Iran's national strength is getting weaker and weaker, and the hugely expensive navy has not been able to get much funding. Many equipment on his warships should be repaired and replaced. The loss of some officers caused the navy, a technical arm, to start to fail. In short, the combat effectiveness of the navy declined rapidly.

It's time for me to go to Tehran and apply for some funds from my superiors. At least I should prepare the personnel for myself, right?

In the history of later generations, throughout the Iran-Iraq War, the Iranian Navy did not have any outstanding performance. This is one of the reasons why it was jokingly called a low-tech war with high-tech weapons.

However, the captain didn't know that the great Iraqi Lord Qusay had already found a solution for him: instead of leaving these warships here to rust, it would be better to give up completely and finish the job.

After launching the anti-ship missiles, Phoebe's formation began to return, and the confirmation of the results will be carried out by the follow-up MiG-25 reconnaissance aircraft with a long range.

The eight anti-ship missiles are still flying according to the program. Because the sea conditions are very low, they automatically descend to a sea-skimming flight altitude of 20 meters, flying at a speed of Mach 0.9, and attacking a target 5 kilometers away. Fly for about [-] minutes.

Their performances have always been monitored by the early warning plane. According to their flight trajectories, the combat intelligence officer on the early warning plane confirmed that they were indeed flying towards the Iranian port of Chah Bahar. If this is the case, this kind of Anti-ship missiles have far exceeded the range of Exocet missiles. Is it the Chinese C801?Or a new anti-ship missile developed by Iraq itself?

You must know that at present, the U.S. Navy's anti-ship missiles, the Harpoon series, have just been equipped with troops and have not yet been tested in actual combat, and the range of the air launcher is just over [-] kilometers. Ship missiles have caught up with the advanced level of the United States.

What's even more frightening is that if this missile really exists, it would be dangerous for Iraqi fighters to approach the US Navy's ships within a distance of [-] kilometers.

It was a fighter plane that was hit by mistake last time, what if it was a warship that was hit by mistake next time?Thinking of the tragedy of the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Shelfield in the Falklands War, the combat intelligence officer began to feel a little worried.

The missile was still flying, and soon entered the final attack stage. The terminal guidance radar on the missile was turned on, and immediately found the previously set target. At this time, the distance was only five kilometers away.

According to the procedure, the anti-ship missile made its final move: snake-like maneuver.

Chapter 466 A New Means to Block the Strait of Hormuz

To deal with anti-ship missiles, a very violent way is to use short-range multi-barreled quick-fire cannons, such as the Phalanx and 730 guns of later generations, and anti-ship missiles can also be avoided by a method, which is to use snake-shaped guns at the end Maneuver, by changing the trajectory, so that the opponent's intensive firepower cannot keep up with your own changes.

It's a pity that it can only be a show now, because the Iranian warships are not prepared at all.

Only one person saw it, and that was the captain of the Babur class standing on the deck. When an anti-ship missile flew from the west, the captain's sight had already spotted the flying missile, and looked at the white The trail of the smoke, the captain's mind was full of doubts: Where did it come from?

Until the captain reacted and shouted: "Dodge!"

As soon as the words fell, the two missiles had already climbed up, and then carried out a rapid dive attack. The sound of piercing the air brought by the dive of the missiles stimulated the captain's eardrums.

Then, at a very high speed, the missile hit the upper waterline on the port side of the Babur class.

The semi-armor-piercing blasting warhead, after drilling into the steel plate on the port side of Babur, exploded violently inside.

Then, the second missile came again and hit the steel plate on the rear side of the port side.

Sea water began to pour into the cabin of the Babur class, and the hull began to gradually tilt.

The captain began to direct the crew to carry out emergency rescue. At the same time, he also saw a scene that made him unforgettable. The rest of the large warships were also shot one after another and began to sink.

Instead of being bombed here tragically, it would be better to go out and compete with those Iraqis once!

Although he didn't know who attacked him, the captain was very sure that it was definitely an Iraqi!

The eagle-eyed early warning plane in the sky, after watching this scene, saw that the light hits on the radar screen hit the Iranian warships in Chah Bahar Port. The Iraqis really had a range of [-] kilometers anti-ship missiles!

After several hours of rescue, several warships still sank. The pride of the Iranian Navy, two destroyers with a displacement of [-] tons, and a light frigate with a displacement of [-] tons were hit by two anti-ship missiles each. They all sank into the water, only a supply ship next to it was still struggling. It was only hit by one missile, and the other missile was sent flying.

This sudden blow wiped out the large Iranian ships, and the news spread to Tehran,

Rafsanjani was taken aback when he received the news.

Today, in the ground battles, the Iranians have been retreating. In the south, almost the entire Khuzestan province has been occupied by the Iraqi army, and in the north, the Iraqis are also attacking violently.In order to combat the fierce offensive of the Iraqis, under the instructions of the Supreme Leader, they launched a ship attack war in the Strait of Hormuz, hoping to attack the economies of Iraq and other countries in the Middle East that support Iraq by attacking passing ships. However, looking at it now, the effect is not very good.

Their sharp weapon is the silkworm missile imported from China. However, after the first batch of this missile was used, China temporarily stopped selling it under the pressure of world public opinion.

In this case, Iran's top-secret weapons will be gone, and then, an air strike by the Iraqi Air Force will destroy all of Iran's few launch devices.

Therefore, Iran can only think of other ways, because they still have other sellers, for example, they can get this missile from North Korea!

Iran is currently trying its best to regain this weapon. At the same time, it is also studying new tactics, for example, using small boats and adopting attack tactics similar to pirates. During the first attack, it achieved good results. The effect is somewhat similar to the German wolf pack tactics in World War II. The siege of slow-moving ships without weapons and equipment has a high success rate.

However, now those Arab countries have united to escort those ships, and Iraq has even deployed several armed men on each cargo ship, and they will use various weapons to attack the speeding boats. , The results of the speedboat attack began to decrease.

The Arabs swaggered and carried out exercises in the Gulf of Oman, and they also held back, and let their own fleet stay obediently, and did not provoke each other.

However, these Arabs were so shameless that they took the initiative to bomb their own port base!

Although up to now, there is no complete evidence that it was the exercise of the escort formation, but apart from them, there is absolutely no other object to be found.

The Phantom F1 was launched at a distance of [-] kilometers, and it was flying at an ultra-low altitude. Therefore, until now, the port has been attacked, and they have no definite evidence. The evidence is the US Navy's early warning aircraft, but it is a pity. It is not for them to provide.

Whether there is evidence is not important, as long as there is a motive.

Except for Iraq, no other country has confronted Iran head-on until now, so it must be the Iraqis who did it!

The port base was attacked and all the large warships were destroyed. This blow was really too great. Can the supreme spiritual leader bear it?

Rafsanjani came to Qom to meet the Supreme Spiritual Leader.

Jane's Defense Weekly once published a comment, praising the Iraqi air strike on Qom, and said that the supreme spiritual leader also died in the air strike, but afterwards, it was found that it was just a misjudgment. The supreme leader's house was hit by a bomb, but the highest The leader was unscathed.