Chapter 1152 Ants Moving
Baghdad, underground command room!
This place is built with high-standard reinforced concrete, and even if the Americans use ground-penetrating missiles, it will not work.
Saddam was furious when news of the bombing of military factories came.
This almost means that Iraq has lost the ability to manufacture missiles such as Scud.
Without Scud and other missiles, it is difficult for him to attack Israel and Turkey again!
Since the war in Iraq was reignited, Turkey has also announced that it has joined the joint forces, which has increased the joint forces' ground forces to 600,000 people!
At the beginning, Turkey rented military bases to the Americans, just thinking about making a high rent, and a large number of joint forces eating, drinking, defecating and urinating in Turkey every day can bring huge economic benefits to Turkey, but it didn't expect to be hit by missiles and bombs!
Saddam, that madman, has made Turkey suffer more than 2,550 missiles so far!
Although some of them were intercepted and some were hit in sparsely populated areas, there are still a large number of missiles that hit Turkish cities or population centers, causing heavy casualties and economic losses to Turkey.
Many rich people in Turkey have already gone to Europe with their families to avoid the war.
The Turks who were hit by missiles and bombs were very angry and dissatisfied with the government. Even if Turkey announced that it would join the coalition forces and declare war on Iraq, it could not change this anger.
The Americans were very happy, because although there were many countries in the coalition forces, most of them were slacking off and did not work hard. Only the US military was really fighting hard!
Now that Turkey has added a new force, it will be a great help to the Americans.
In terms of ground forces, the coalition forces now have a total of 600,000 ground forces, in addition to 50,000 Kurdish armed forces. The Americans promised that once Iraq was conquered, they would support the Kurds to establish their own country.
The Americans provided money, effort, weapons and equipment for the 50,000 Kurdish armed forces to fully arm them.
The Kurds dreamed of establishing a Kurdish country so that they could be the masters of their own house.
"Damn Americans!" Saddam gritted his teeth angrily, his eyes red.
Saddam hated Americans before, but now this hatred has been further enhanced because of the Iraq War launched by Americans.
Of all countries, Saddam hated the United States the most!
The second is the Jews!
The third is the Turks!
The rise of Iraq was interrupted and suffered heavy losses because of the war launched by Americans against Iraq.
In the Gulf War, if it were not for the Americans, Iraq would have dominated the Persian Gulf and become the hegemon of the Persian Gulf.
In this Iraq War, most areas of Iraq were on the right track, but because the Americans launched the war, the development was destroyed. Now, Iraq has suffered great losses.
But Saddam did not think of surrendering, because he knew that this time was different from the Gulf War. The Americans did not intend to occupy Iraq in the Gulf War. But this time, the Americans were determined to occupy Iraq, and this was destined that Saddam could not surrender, because even if he surrendered, the Americans would not let him go, he would definitely die, and his family would definitely be destroyed.
Neither he nor the entire Iraqi ruling class could surrender to the Americans.
And the entire Iraq, because of its long-term hatred of the United States, could not accept surrendering to the United States.
The only thing that made Saddam feel at ease was that the northern and southern theaters were still stable, which meant that the Americans could not invade Iraqi land in a short time.
The border between Iran and Iraq.
It was a dark night, with little moonlight and few stars in the sky.
At this time, another batch of weapons was being handed over.
300 "Aegis-0" missiles, 500 "Aegis-1" missiles, 10 million anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, 1 million anti-aircraft artillery shells, 1,000 SAM series air defense missiles, 500 "Vanguard" missile launchers, 3,000 "Vanguard" missiles, 10,000 anti-aircraft machine guns, 500 anti-aircraft guns, with a total order value of US$2.3 billion, equivalent to RMB 9.2 billion!
In order to avoid being targeted by the Americans, this delivery was carried out in the form of ant moving, and it was chosen at night.
Xiao Jian was handing over to the person in charge of the Iraqi side, and the handover list was written clearly.
The border between Iran and Iraq is the busiest international arms exchange, where daytime trading is no longer safe.
It is only safe to trade at night.
Even at night, it is necessary to adopt the form of ant moving to disperse and share the risk.
This delivery is a timely rain for Iraq.
Iraq is now too short of anti-aircraft weapons and ammunition.
After the delivery was completed, Liu Tao, who was far away in Kunming, also got the news.
Liu Tao is happy to continue bleeding the Americans, and even bleeding the allies of the United States.
For example, the SAM series of air defense missiles, Panshan Group also helped to improve them and use better chips to improve interception efficiency.
So far, the Americans have spent as much as 300 billion US dollars in the Iraq War.
The US Congress has passed four consecutive budget increase bills.
600,000 ground troops, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating every day, are all astronomical figures.
Turkey can only earn part of it because of its involvement in the war, and it is hard to say whether it can offset the losses.
Add to that the aircraft carrier fleets and allied warships in the Mediterranean, Arabian Sea, and Persian Gulf, and the consumption is also very large.
The loss of two thousand fighters is extremely expensive.
It's just that the military-industrial complex in the United States is booming.
It stands to reason that by now, Americans should produce more second-generation and a half fighters, but Americans are all purchasing F15 fighters and F16 fighters, especially F16 fighters. From the beginning of the war to now, the US Department of Defense has placed an order for 1,000 F16 fighters with General Dynamics of the United States, with a total order value of US$40 billion; then placed an order for 350 F15 fighters with Boeing of the United States, with a total order value of US$24 billion; and placed an order for 300 F/A-18 fighters with Boeing, with a total value of US$13.2 billion.
And these three aircraft cannot be delivered all at once.
Because the production capacity of fighters is not so easy to increase, it involves all aspects, the production capacity of each supporting factory, and workers, and it takes time to increase production capacity!
But that's how the United States is. Every war is not just for strategic considerations, it's also a business!
The Iraq War was extremely costly for the United States. It has actually cost too much so far, and the US deficit has risen sharply, but for the military-industrial complex, it can make a lot of money.
From small guns and ammunition to large warships, aircraft, and missiles.
Hundreds of billions of dollars in orders have poured into various US military factories, making US military companies earn a lot of money.
This can be seen from the fact that the military sector has performed best in the US stock market. (End of this chapter)