Chapter 1157 Airstrike Base
From Christmas to New Year's Day, the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq seemed calm during the 11-day holiday.
There was no further exchange of fire between the two sides.
After the New Year's Day holiday, the United States launched another air strike on January 4.
But the Iraqi army has been tested by the ten-year war between Iran and Iraq, and has the experience of the Gulf War. In addition, it has been almost a year since the outbreak of the Iraq War. After enduring the initial difficulties and discomfort, it has gradually recovered and summed up a set of effective methods to deal with missile attacks by joint forces.
The basis of cruise missiles is inertial navigation. By determining the initial launch position and the state of motion, the inertial navigation device can accurately know its position. However, this navigation method will have the cumulative error of the inertial gyroscope. The longer the time, the greater the error, especially for air-launched cruise missiles. The gyroscope starts working before takeoff, and the error is higher, so other methods must be added, mainly terrain matching, that is, in the cruise phase, according to some major terrain reference objects, determine the flight route and finally attack the target.
However, most of the Middle East is desert, and there is no clear positioning target at all. Navigation terrain matching of cruise missiles is very difficult.
The U.S. military used the existing Iraqi villages as terrain matching references for missile guidance, which is what the U.S. military did in the Gulf War.
This time, the U.S. military used the U.S. GPS system! The military signal of this system can give the missile an attack accuracy of 0.1 meters! Even if the United States uses villages for navigation, it is not accurate. Only the GPS system can make cruise missiles hit wherever they point.
However, thousands of GPS jammers were shipped to Iraq as early as the United States launched the Iraq War.
The GPS jammer is small in size, powerful, light in weight, has a large coverage range, and is easy to carry. Its function is very simple. It effectively prevents being located and tracked by GPS satellites, effectively interferes with GPS satellite signals, and only interferes with GPS satellite signals without affecting the normal reception of mobile phones or other communication devices.
It is precisely because of these GPS jammers that the U.S. military's control over missiles is shielded, so that cruise missiles can only use fixed routes and cruise flight methods, which also creates opportunities for Iraq's air defense forces to shoot down a large number of cruise missiles.
This also led to the fact that although the joint forces launched a large number of cruise missiles, the results achieved were far less than expected.
After New Year's Day, the joint forces found that the loss of cruise missiles and aircraft had increased significantly again!
It is not surprising that Iraq must have received assistance during this period and restored its air defense firepower.
The joint forces were also helpless about this.
Unless the joint forces also attacked Persia and other Arab countries, such things could not be avoided at all.
The joint forces could cut off Iraq's access to weapons and supplies from the Persian Gulf, but they could not completely cut off Iraq's access to weapons and supplies from neighboring countries.
Even if the joint forces strengthened space satellite reconnaissance and aerial reconnaissance!
After all, the area is too large, and Iraq's air defense firepower is strong.
It is not Saddam's style to just take a beating without fighting back, unless there is no other way.
Saddam ordered the missile forces to launch a strike against Israel and Turkey.
In the desert, the Iraqi missile forces, 20 vehicles, missiles have been slowly erected after refueling. These missiles are Scud D missiles with a maximum range of 600 kilometers. The missile warheads have both high-explosive warheads and submunitions.
"Launch!" With the command, the button was pressed, the missile engine started, and then the missile began to take off and flew towards the target. The target of these 20 missiles was the Incerik Air Force Base in Turkey.
Incerik Air Force Base in Turkey is an important air force base of the Joint Forces Air Force. It is located about 12 kilometers east of Adana, the fourth largest city in southeastern Turkey. It has a 3,050-meter main runway and a 2,750-meter secondary artillery shell, 52 reinforced aircraft shelters, and more than 1,100 US Air Force personnel and 215 British Royal Air Force personnel are stationed, and more than 50 aircraft of various types are stationed.
Tonight's night sky is full of countless stars, and even some stars that are not very clear can show their moving light.
Suddenly, a burst of urgent alarms rang throughout the base.
The starry sky was so clear that both ground personnel and pilots performing night missions could detect a faint fire from high altitude with their naked eyes. In the dark night sky, it looked like a match lit in the distance, falling straight down from above. This was the missile that plunged down headfirst!
20 missiles, with huge tail flames, rushed straight to the Incelik Air Force Base.
There were F15 fighters and F16 fighters that had just completed their missions and were about to land. The pilots urgently pulled up their fighters.
On the dark ground, several flames shot up into the sky.
The base commander understood that these were interceptor missiles launched by the "Patriot" missile positions deployed around the base.
Here, the Americans deployed three Patriot missile companies.
24 Patriot missiles to intercept the 20 missiles.
But only 4 missiles were intercepted.
"Shit Patriot missiles!" The commander couldn't help cursing.
As a commander, John disdained and even sneered at the brilliant record of Patriot missile interception missiles promoted by the Pentagon.
What interception rate is above 80%, what interception rate reaches above 97%, that's nonsense!
And this Patriot missile is still "blind". In its radar display, there is only the interception target, but no effective enemy identification. Even though Raytheon has been constantly improving, it has not been able to solve this problem well, so it occasionally hits friendly aircraft by mistake.
"Da Da Da~~" The anti-aircraft machine guns began to shoot into the air.
"Swish swish swish~~~" The anti-aircraft guns also fired!
This is to make up for the shortcomings of the Patriot air defense missiles by the joint forces to strengthen the anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.
Some Scud missiles that were hit exploded.
Some Scuds, because of the long error, did not fall on the air force base, but fell in Adana.
Some Scud missiles suddenly disintegrated in the air, not just the warhead detached, but actually disintegrated into three parts: warhead, monomer, and tail.
In this Gulf War, a very important reason for the low success rate of the real interception of the Patriot missile is that the Scud missile will suddenly disintegrate, completely disintegrate, so that the Patriot missile will intercept the disintegrated part.
But four Scud missiles still hit the air base.
"Boom!" A Scud missile hit the runway, and the planes on the runway were either directly blown up or blown up by the aftermath of the explosion.
"Boom!" A Scud missile hit the secondary artillery shell.
Missiles hit the air base one by one, and a huge explosion broke out.
The aviation fuel leaked from the plane, under the star-like fire, attached to the fuselage and began to burn.
One, two, three.
One plane after another burned, and the fire illuminated the entire base. (End of this chapter)