The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 222 Special Day
Time has entered June.

November 6, Beijing.

Liu Tao, who was accompanying his wife and children in Shichahai, seemed to remember something.

"June 6th, I almost forgot this special day!" Liu Tao murmured to himself.

On this day, Israel, seeing that Iraq's nuclear reactor was progressing smoothly, sent its air force on a long-distance raid, despite the world's opposition, and destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor.

This was a classic battle, a surgical air strike that demonstrated the power of the Israeli Air Force. It was talked about with relish, reported continuously, and even studied as a classic example in many military academies.

Speaking of Iraq's nuclear reactors, it's actually not a secret.

As early as 1959, Iraq planned to build a nuclear reactor. Iraq signed an agreement with the Soviet Union to build a small, simple nuclear reactor, but there was no progress for a long time.

In the 70s, especially after the outbreak of the first oil crisis, oil prices rose sharply. Relying on oil revenues, Iraq's economy developed rapidly. In order to speed up the pace of construction, Iraq sought advanced nuclear technology from Western European countries to develop its own nuclear industry.

At that time, Iraq signed nuclear cooperation agreements and contracts with France, Italy and Brazil, and participated in the signing of the International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which means that the Usirak nuclear reactor was under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the International Atomic Energy Agency inspected Iraq's reactor.

In order to maintain its nuclear superiority in the Middle East, the United States has always regarded Iraq's nuclear facilities as a thorn in its side, trying every possible means to sabotage them and is determined to destroy them as soon as possible.

Last year, the United States delivered F16 fighter jets to Israel, which put the Usirak nuclear reactor within the bombing range of the Israeli Air Force.

The Israeli Air Force had already been conducting training and exercises for more than half a year, but Iraq was completely unaware.

Liu Tao's lips curled up slightly. Since he had thought of it, he would naturally not let her succeed.

It is just right for the Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and the "Vanguard" air defense missile to show off their power.

Soon, Liu Tao quietly let Al know this information through special channels. Al was shocked and did not care who passed the news. He immediately contacted Iraq.

In Iraq, Saddam received the information sent back by Al. Although he did not believe it very much, the Usirak nuclear reactor was of great importance and must not be lost. It is better to believe it than not to believe it.

He sent Rashid with armored forces to provide support and strengthen the defense.

Rashid led his troops out of the barracks and headed straight for the Usirak nuclear reactor, 32 kilometers southeast of Baghdad.

Finally, it was 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

A huge sixty-foot-tall domed concrete building gradually appeared before our eyes, with horseshoe-shaped earth embankments on three sides and countless other buildings around it.

Rashid knew that this was the destination of this trip, the Usiraq nuclear reactor. The conspicuous building just now was the Tammuz-1 nuclear reactor.

After arriving here, Rashid joined the garrison here.

In fact, as an extremely important top-secret place, the Usilak nuclear reactor is surrounded by very tight defenses, with hundreds of anti-aircraft guns and more than a dozen triple-mounted SAM-6 low-altitude missile launchers.

The SAM-6 missile is very famous. During the Fourth Middle East War, the SAM-6 air defense missile shot down many Israeli aircraft.

Of course, the SAM-6 missile is very complicated to operate. It requires a radar vehicle, a launch vehicle, and a logistics support vehicle. It requires at least a team of about twenty people to accurately operate this air defense missile.

Rashid dispersed the Type 80 tanks and Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and made camouflage nets on the surface. Looking from the air, it was definitely a desert and the tanks and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns could not be seen at all.

At the same time, other soldiers were also setting up air defense positions. The Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and "Vanguard" air defense missiles would form a tight air defense firepower network. After returning to Iraq, Rashid was responsible for forming an armored brigade, the core equipment of which was the first batch of Type 80 tanks and Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.

Finally, it was dusk in the afternoon of June 6th.

A fighter jet formation consisting of 6 F15s and 8 F16s of the Air Force entered Iraqi airspace.

The F15 fighter is a heavy air superiority fighter developed by McDonnell Douglas and finalized in 1972. It is one of the main air superiority fighters of the US Air Force. It has all-weather combat capabilities and can search for Iraq's "Scud" missile launchers. It is equipped with a night low-altitude navigation and infrared targeting system pod and an AGP-70 radar with high-resolution detection energy.

The F16 fighter is a single-engine, single-seat light fighter developed by General Dynamics of the United States. It did not enter service until January 1979, but Israel obtained the F1 fighter in 1980.

The reason for developing this fighter is that the F15 fighter is relatively expensive. Even the United States can hardly afford the cost of purchasing a large number of F15 fighters. In order to resolve the contradiction between funds and the required number of fighters, the principle of "high-low matching" was proposed, so the F-16 fighter, a "low-end aircraft", was created!
The battle formation was flying at a low altitude and very fast, almost close to the ground.

It was only thirty meters above the ground, but flying at a speed of 0.8 Mach, which was simply a dance with death.

This shows that these pilots are experienced, skilled, and have done a lot of training and exercises to carry out this mission.

For this mission, everything was calculated very closely, and it was chosen to be carried out at dusk, which is exactly the time for dinner and the most relaxing time.

After the bombing is completed, they can return home under the cover of night.

Along the way, it did not attract the attention of the Iraqi air defense network at all.

Just as the flight formation was about to reach its destination and began to climb.

At this time, the radar system of the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun had already discovered it.

"Report to the brigade commander, there is a plane!" The soldier reported to Rashid immediately through the vehicle communication system.

Rashid was shocked.

"Order, turn on all radar systems!" Rashid gave the order.

Suddenly, the onboard radar systems of other self-propelled anti-aircraft guns started up and began to rotate.

At the same time, Rashid also contacted the reactor's defense forces and reported to Saddam.

"Destroy these invaders for me, our planes will be here to help soon!" Saddam's voice was full of coldness and anger!

Since the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, although Abadan has not been captured and the strategic goal has not been achieved, Saddam has become famous in the Arab world, even almost on par with Nasser, and has become a hero of the Arab world.

But now, the Israeli army is actually launching a long-distance attack to blow up the Usirak reactor.

This was simply to anger Saddam.

What made Saddam even more angry was that he didn't find the Israeli Air Force along the way. Doesn't this mean that the other side could also drop bombs directly on his head?

Saddam called the Air Force Headquarters, gave a rant, and then ordered the Air Force to take off immediately and annihilate this group of Israeli troops.

(End of this chapter)