Xiao opened and closed his lips, and asked for another $2 billion. However, given the current sanctions in Iraq, the price of these weapons, Muhammad gave Saddam a conscience price.∈♀,

"Okay, I will send someone to collect these equipment, and I will deposit the money into your designated account. Mr. Xiao, come from afar, let's take a rest first." Saddam's face looked a little rosy, and he asked the guards to take them to rest.

When the Soviets left, Saddam and his aides immediately began to discuss.

"These advanced equipment is definitely not something that can be done by smuggling arms. Mr. Xiao must have been instructed by the senior Soviet leaders. We have investigated Mr. Xiao's background. He has served as a soldier in Gruu before, and many of his arms relations are from Gruu." Saadi Tuma Abbas, Iraq's Minister of Defense, said.

Not to mention anything else, the Soviet Union protected those S-300s as treasures, and could be delivered to Iraq, which must be agreed by the top leaders.

"Yes, the Soviet Union will not abandon us, but we need to know how strong the Soviet Union will support us?" said Rashid, commander-in-chief of the Republic Guard.

"I think they will definitely not publicly express their support for us. The export of these weapons to us is already the greatest support." As Foreign Minister, Aziz still knows it very well.

"The key S-300, now all our planes dare not take off. If the Americans are allowed to bomb this unscrupulously, they will either destroy or drive the plane to Iran and ask for their protection!" the Air Force Commander said impatiently.

Saddam looked gloomy: "Let our people contact the Soviet Union secretly and see what their attitude is! If they are still the same, there is probably no hope."

"Not necessarily. Maybe they will give us unexpected surprises." Ibrahim said thoughtfully: "If the weapons and equipment Mr. Xiao promised us were advanced equipment for active service in the Soviet army, our army would be on a fair starting line with the US army. And those improved Scud guidance devices can increase the accuracy of missiles to a range of 100 meters, then we can launch a large-scale missile war against the US army. Don't we still have hundreds of missiles?"

Saddam nodded: "I hope the Soviets did not deceive us this time!" He stood up, held the armed belt and said with a serious face. "If the arms they provided were real, we will buy them in large quantities! I spent money, not to mention 12 billion US dollars, or 20 billion US dollars, and 50 billion I am willing to pay! I used the money to smash them and sell us more arms! Drag the Soviets in little by little! In addition, Ibrahim. It is of great importance, and this time you will be responsible for transporting these weapons!"

A huge convoy of transport vehicles quietly set off from Baghdad under the cover of darkness to the border with Syria. Although the reconnaissance satellites of the US military and its allies stared the entire Gulf region tightly, some private satellite companies in North America and Europe particularly like to provide certain paid special services to certain anonymous and generous customers, such as these satellites always have some interval errors in their trajectory!

After avoiding the reconnaissance satellite at the designated time, the convoy came to a valley in the border area without any danger. It was only 50 meters away from the border post in Syria, but the post was quiet. It seemed that the sentries had already rested. The narrow valley was already full of arms. As the commander of the convoy, Ibrahim cleaned it up one by one according to the list provided by Mr. Xiao. After loading it, he sent an accurate and secret signal to Saddam, and a huge sum of US$12 billion was transferred into several secret accounts of the Swiss Bank in batches.

When the convoy started again and returned from the valley, the Syrian border outpost was as quiet as before, as if nothing had happened, and history had begun to be rewrited again.

March 25, 1993 at 3:26 on the night of March 25, 1993. On the 36th day of Operation Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia's Killing of the Hlandian Force Base

The night sky in the desert is always so clear, with countless stars shining. Even some stars that are not very visible can show their moving light.

Suddenly, a rapid alarm sounded throughout the base.

The starry sky was so clear that both the ground personnel and the pilots performing night missions found a faint light from the sky with their naked eyes alone. In the dark night sky, it looked like a match lit from a distance, falling straight down from above. This was the missile that pierced its head!

Five missiles, two in front and three in back, rushed straight to the base of Dahelan with huge tail flames.

"Firefox 1, Firefox 1, pull up, pull up immediately! Repeat it, pull up immediately, five missiles will arrive at the base within 20 seconds!" Captain Ranos, as a pilot of the US Air Force 15e fighter, is facing the biggest challenge in life at this moment. He has just finished the strike mission against Iraq's deep targets and is already very tired, but now for the sake of his own life, he is forced to pull up the fighter again.

Captain Ranos was so angry that he was crazy. Damn Saddam, can't he let the plane land smoothly, have a drink in the bar before launching a missile attack?

On the dark earth, several flames rose into the sky.

Captain Ranos understands that this is an interceptor missile launched by the Patriot missile position deployed around the base.

As a soldier, a soldier who has experienced battlefield fighting, Captain Ranos disdained and even scoffed at the Pentagon's brilliant record of Patriot intercepting missiles.

What kind of interception rate is more than 80%, it's a terrible thing!

Indeed, many times Patriots hit the target. A few years ago, the United States aided multiple Patriot missile systems to the Pakistani military and conducted tests to intercept the "Pershing i" tactical ground-to-ground missiles on the spot. The test results were very successful, deterring the Soviet Union from launching missile attacks on air bases in Pakistan.

However, the Pershing i missile that was tested and intercepted that year was deliberately arranged from launch to its final interception under ideal circumstances! Saddam's Hussein missile spliced ​​three Scuds into two. This ballistic missile will separate its ground bullet body and warhead when it re-enters the troposphere from the atmosphere and rushes toward the target.

But here’s the problem!

The original intention of the Patriot missile development site is to deal with high-altitude and high-speed ground supersonic fighter jets rather than intercepting ballistic missiles. When it recognizes the target, it will choose objects with a larger radar reflection surface, and letting go of a smaller warhead. If you let the warhead go and hit the bullet body is also called successful interception, Lanos will not know what it should be called failure.

The Patriot missile has another problem that makes pilots from multiple countries angry in all regions, which is that it cannot effectively identify the enemy and us!

In its radar display, there is only the intercepting target, and there is no difference between our army and the enemy.

This is a precedent. At the Udeid base in Qatar, Patriot missiles fired at a British cyclone fighter jet that was returning. Fortunately, the data provided by other radar stations were transmitted in time, indicating that it was its own fighter jet. The air defense quickly detonated the missile in the air, so that it did not cause accidental injuries.

Therefore, as soon as he saw the Patriot missile launch, Captain Ranos and his wingman immediately increased the accelerator and quickly evacuated from the airspace above the base as quickly as possible to prevent these "blind" patriots from killing themselves together.

Ranos also discovered the missiles that were about to fall through the airborne radar.

Ranos has seen such a scene many times.

However, he did not know that what he encountered today would become a nightmare that entangled him for the rest of his life.

On the radar screen, the missile that was about to be intercepted suddenly disintegrated from the air.

"Don't you!" Captain Ranos blurted out.

Immediately afterwards, something even more frightening happened. The missile disintegration was not just the warhead disintegration, but the real disintegration into three parts: warhead, bullet body, and tail.

Captain Ranos had no time to exclaim. Three Patriot missiles turned a corner in the air, two of which met the largest part of the radar reverse cross-section, and one rushed straight to the tail.

Three balls of fire lit up in the night sky.

The Patriots rely on the fragments that were actively exploded by the warhead to kill the missile. The incoming missile body and tail, the fuel that had not yet burned inside was ignited, and countless burning flames fell in all directions, just like fireworks burning on Christmas.

Among these tiny flames, two dark things were thrown away by the shock waves and plunged into the adjacent runway.

On the runway, there were two 16 fighter jets that had just landed. The ground crew had just moved closer to the plane and prepared to help the pilot leave the plane.

But the missiles came too fast. The pilots had no time to escape from the fighter plane, and the ground crews fled from the apron like crazy. All they could do was to let the plane run quickly to see if it was possible to fly into the sky. However, the warheads falling from the air plunged into the runway and then a huge explosion occurred.

Although the pilot tried hard to control the fighter jets, under the action of shock waves, the two fighter jets were thrown up and then fell heavily. The leaked aviation fuel attached to the fuselage under the stars of fire and began to burn.

The flames on the two fighter planes shone brightly on the entire base.

"My God!" Captain Ranos murmured with his fire chief.

"God of my earth!" The voice of the wingman came from the telephone, and he was also stunned by the scene in front of him.
Chapter completed!