Babylonian Empire

The missile flies in the air at a speed of Mach 0.9. When it encounters a sand dune, it will raise its altitude again, and then descend again. After flying for tens of seconds, it compares it with the electronic map on board, corrects its course, and then flies.

Finally, it flew into the simulated city, selected the largest tent, and rushed over.

At the moment of the final explosion, something popped out of the missile body, which recorded all the useful data of the missile's flight.

"Report, the missile hit the target accurately." The person in charge of visual observation, watching the missile hit the middle tent and ignited a fire, reported excitedly.

Several other people have already aimed at the device that bounced off just now, and are going to take it back and hand it over to the technicians for research.

At the same time, the real-time video was also sent back to the firing position, and immediately there were cheers.

Especially those technicians who are in charge of electronic equipment, they have worked the most to succeed this time.

Joseph was very happy. This time, it was his first self-developed project led by the team. It was more meaningful than installing C801 on the Phantom fighter last time!

"Mr. Joseph, congratulations." Elder Liang said.

When he saw the picture sent back from the video, Mr. Liang was also shocked. The data set at the beginning was to hit the tent in the middle, but now he hit it so accurately, with an error of no more than two meters!

What is this concept?In war, you can hit enemy buildings two meters apart without hurting civilians in nearby buildings!This kind of precision is frighteningly high.

Joseph knew that it was only because of the short flight distance. This test shot had a range of only [-] kilometers. At this distance, the inertial navigation system of the laser gyro would hardly have any big errors, only hundreds of kilometers. , Even at a distance of five or six hundred kilometers, this kind of navigation system will have a large error. Coupled with terrain matching, it is very accurate.

In other words, using this system on the C801 missile is somewhat overkill.

"Mr. Liang, the success of this experiment is also thanks to your C801 missile." As soon as Joseph finished speaking, he felt something was wrong: "Thanks to your production line, the missile produced in our factory, but this missile The shooting range is not enough."

Elder Liang also nodded: "Yes, the range of [-] kilometers is a little short."

"Then, let's enlarge the missile body, adopt a new engine, and increase the range!" Joseph said.

"Yes, that's what Your Excellency Qusay meant." Elder Liang said, "Nowadays, in our country, there is a range-extending type using a turbojet engine. The range is expected to reach 120 kilometers."

The superior had already agreed to joint research and development, so Mr. Liang did not hide anything from the Iraqi chief engineer who will continue to cooperate closely in the future.

Unexpectedly, Joseph did not agree: "No, 120 kilometers is too little. The turbojet engine developed by your country must be more fuel-intensive. It is better to introduce a small turbojet engine from Europe, and then increase the speed. The projectile must have a range of at least [-] kilometers before we can use it."

Three hundred kilometers?Old Liang looked at the person in front of him, he really had a big appetite!

Chapter 3 and five support Iraq?

Since Iran directly rejected the resolution proposed by the United Nations to carry out chemical weapons inspections in Iran, this country, which in the eyes of the Western world, is a country with corruption and no human rights, has once again been pushed to the cusp of public opinion.

Israel dare not listen to the resolutions of the United Nations because of the support of the United States. Every time the United Nations proposes any resolution that is unfavorable to Israel, the United States will use its veto power to protect Israel.

However, Iran is different. None of the permanent members of the United Nations is willing to be Iran's backstage. Except for China, other countries are hostile to Iran.

The strongest reaction is the United States.

President Reagan's think tank started a debate on this incident again. Should they take a tough stance and put pressure on Iran?

"Everyone, everyone is very clear about the current situation, and everyone is very clear about Khomeini, right?" Vice President Bush said, "Now that the UN resolution has been passed, what kind of measures should we take? If the Security Council authorizes, Can we put pressure on Iran?"

Speaking of Khomeini, everyone here knows very well that that person is the most troublesome person for the United States, even surpassing the Soviet Union!Because, this magic stick can't be speculated by ordinary people's thinking at all.

The economic blockade, the freezing of property, people are not afraid of anything, and they are still staying there.The people still enthusiastically support it.

"If the United Nations passes a resolution to conduct mandatory inspections, our military is fully capable of completing the task." Defense Secretary Weinberg said.

Can the military get the job done?Thinking of the disgrace last time in the Arabian Sea, Secretary of State George felt very uncomfortable.

"Iran is guilty of public anger this time. If the United Nations passes the resolution, I think we can use the air force to bomb factories that may produce chemical weapons, and show Iran some color!" Poindexter said.

Hearing that these people were so inclined to use force, although President Reagan did not show it on his face, he was muttering in his heart, is force really a good way to solve the problem?

"Everyone, don't forget how President Carter stepped down!" George said suddenly.

His words shocked everyone immediately.

How did President Carter step down?Naturally, it was the Iranian hostage incident that all American top leaders could not forget!

This hostage incident happened after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, because the United States sheltered senior officials of the former dynasty Pavilli, which caused anger in Iran, the US embassy was occupied, and 66 American diplomats and civilians were taken hostage.This hostage crisis began on November 1979th, 11 and lasted until January 4th, 1981, a total of 1 days.

In the past one and a half years, the Americans have turned their backs. First, economic and diplomatic pressures have had no effect. Khomeini does not buy it!Negotiations followed, the Iranians offered too high a price to meet, and finally military operations, but they fell into the sand, and the Delta Special Forces failed.

Because of this incident, President Carter's prestige dropped to the lowest point, resulting in his loss to President Reagan in the election.

Mentioning this incident, everyone was shocked.

"George, you're saying that if we take action, Iran might do something like this again with civilians as hostages?" Vice President Bush asked.

"It's not possible, it's certain." George said: "If we take direct military action against Iran, then the Iranians will definitely do it!"

"We don't have our own people in Iran anymore, how do they take hostages?" Weinberg asked.

"There are no in Iran, but there are in Syria, and there are in Lebanon!" George said.

Reagan has already understood that yes, Syria is on the side of Iran, and several armed forces in Lebanon are funded by Syria. If Khomeini is willing, he may take American citizens as hostages at any time!

what to do?Reagan knew that he had to try to avoid the situation that the Carter government was facing.

Because, that question is simply unsolvable.

"Cathy, how many citizens do we have in these places?" Reagan asked.

"There are probably more than 500." Casey said, "Do you want to bring them all into the country? This is impossible. If we do that, the United States will not be laughed at by other countries? It seems that we are afraid of Khomeini. of."

"Then, there is only one way to solve the problem." George said, "The only thing that can fight Iran for us is Iraq."

Reagan's eyes lit up: "George, keep talking."

"Although Iraq has united with other Arab countries to raise oil prices, we have to look at the problem comprehensively. If Israel hadn't invaded Lebanon, this incident would not have happened. Therefore, if Iraq did this, we It can also be understood that now, if we want to completely solve Iran’s chemical weapons, we can only find a way from Iraq and provide Iraq with the information we have found on factories that may produce chemical weapons in Iran. I think Iraq must be willing to destroy these places. At the same time, in order to increase the chances of success, I think we should open up exports to Iraq. The F-20 production line is exported to Iraq along with the laser-guided bombs that Iraq wants to order.”

Due to the last oil crisis, the contract for the F-20 production line was temporarily frozen. Although the relationship between the two parties eased later, the deal was not resumed.

George's thinking is very straightforward: Since he can't send troops, let Iraq do it for him and blow up all the possible production sites of chemical weapons.

"No, this is absolutely not possible." Weinberg said: "Our strategy is to let Iraq and Iran consume each other's strength in mutual wars. We can only provide information, and those weapons cannot be exported for the time being."

"Iraq has been urged several times, and we have no other reason to procrastinate. Moreover, do you think that with the help of Iraqi Soviet fighters, it is possible to complete the mission of precise bombing and complete destruction? Everyone, Iran has this kind of chemical Weapon capabilities are very dangerous, if there are followers of Khomeini, go to a place where there are many people and detonate a chemical bomb, how much harm will it do to us!"

This sentence shocked everyone again. They thought carefully, this kind of weapon of mass destruction is really too dangerous in the hands of a lunatic like Khomeini!

"Well, we will do this. In order to eliminate Khomeini's hidden dangers, we need to temporarily support Iraq's power." Reagan said.

Until a few years later, when Iraq rose rapidly, George, who had always been Reagan's most valued think tank, became the target of everyone's blame. The rise of Iraq has a lot to do with George's remarks today. relation!Unfortunately, it is too late.

However, George himself swears in his heart that he really did not receive the benefit of one dollar from Iraq at the beginning. He did this entirely because he did not want the president to repeat the same mistakes.