Compared with the nearly complete failure of the Patriot missile, the popular Red Flag immediately attracted widespread attention from the world. Some Western media described the Red Flag as an "insurmountable iron wall" and "the most trustworthy loyal defender." For a while,

Red Flag became famous.

Although the US military is very particular about public relations and released the image data of the Patriot interception of the Scud, when people heard that the interception success rate of Chinese missiles was as high as more than 90%, they turned around and asked how the US Patriot missiles are.

The interception success rate was high, and the US military immediately hesitated to explain.

Some more radical media sources said, "The poor performance of the Patriots is very disappointing. We can't help but wonder if the defense contractors took away the large amount of R&D funds allocated by Congress, and finally came up with something like this? This is not at all

There is no doubt that it is a squandering and waste of taxpayers' money, and it is even more doubtful that there are major loopholes and malpractices in our defense procurement and research plans."

Some straightforward media even said: "According to unnamed insiders, the interception success rate of Patriot missiles in Israel is less than 40%. What's even more ridiculous is that when China's red flag enters Israel, the Patriot missile

Often, the Chinese missiles have shot down the Iraqi Scud before the Patriots have completed their launch preparations. In the words of this person familiar with the matter, he believes that the Patriots do not yet have full combat requirements and cannot

It can meet the increasingly severe air defense needs.

So, naturally, a voice emerged within the United States to purchase some Chinese-made Red Flag missiles for exploration and research, and then complete progress and transcendence on this basis. Because the United States has purchased a large number of All Defender Attack missiles from China.

aircraft, so ordering another batch of weapons from China should not be a big surprise.

This voice was naturally resisted by some U.S. defense contractors such as Raytheon. They used their political and business connections to start building momentum, claiming that the U.S. Department of Defense wanted to reduce procurement costs and that the Patriots' performance was unsatisfactory.

If they can be given more funding, they will surely be able to produce more patriots.

Of course, the unknown side includes commercial espionage and technical espionage from different forces of the U.S. officialdom and these defense contractors, all aiming to obtain the secrets of China’s air defense system. In order to obtain the secrets of Red Flag, which is almost perfect, the Americans have spared no effort.

It is unclear whether the United States will purchase a small batch of Chinese air defense missiles, but many other countries are optimistic about Hongqi's performance and hope that purchasing Hongqi will greatly enhance their country's air defense needs and increase the sophistication of their national defense.

Among them, Israel is the most enthusiastic about this. Living in the Middle East surrounded by wolves, its enemies are everywhere, and missile threats from Iran, Iraq and other countries are very serious. For Israel, its defense level has never been too high.

He said. However, there is no military cooperation between Israel and China, and China also maintains good relations with Arab countries, so Israel has no idea whether this matter can be accomplished.

Naturally, Saudi Arabia also hopes to replace the air defense system with a better one. In this war, the performance of the Chinese-made Thorn 2 equipped by Saudi Arabia was quite good, at least more satisfactory than that of the Patriot. However, the performance of the Hongqi equipped by the Chinese air defense missile force was really good.

It is too bright, just like the stars compared to the bright moon, which cannot compete with it.

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia specifically notified relevant people and immediately began to contact China, hoping to obtain China's own Red Flag long-range air defense system.

For Qi Yiming, selling Hongqi missiles is not a big deal, because the main anti-aircraft weapons used in China have been upgraded to the Hongqi-19 and Hongqi-26 systems. Hongqi has gradually entered the reserve force. There are indeed many technical problems.

Very advanced

Things, but after all, they are third-generation air defense missiles, and there is a generation gap with the ones used by China. Moreover, if he wants to sell these things, he will definitely do some tricks, such as downgrading them a little, or even leaving a backdoor or something.

, in short it is impossible to make it so complete.

He planned to call in Red Alert engineers. After the war, he disposed of ten Red Flag systems parked in Saudi Arabia on the spot and sold them to Saudi Arabia for US$200 million each. Each set came with a missile. If needed, more missiles would be provided.

The more ammunition you have, the more money you will have to pay.

The third country that had the idea of ​​​​purchasing was Turkey. This country once had the idea of ​​​​purchasing Red Flags in another dimension, but I don’t know if it was sincere or if it was done deliberately to lower the price of the United States and NATO. However, in the end, this matter did not happen.

But in this plane, some of the original obstacles no longer exist. First of all, China and NATO are nominal

Allies, some important military information and information are shared, and before the war, they were equipped with a unified identification of friend or foe system; moreover, at this time, it seems that there is really no better air defense missile than the Chinese Red Flag in the world, and 30 is not considered

Internally, the reputation of the Patriots is already bad, so the red flags that appear as the best option naturally increase their competitiveness.

Turkey itself also has a lot of defense pressure. This country does not have good relations with several Arab countries in its east and south. Although Turks and Arabs are both Muslims, they have different races. Persians and Arabs are not welcome to come.

, so the status of the Turks is not much better. In addition, the relationship between Turkey and its other European neighbor Greece is not necessarily very good. The two countries are engaged in an arms race to defend each other.

Hongqi's export sales are in good shape, and Qi Yiming is also gearing up. He specially dispatched Zhao Jinsong, the marketing manager of Shenghua Company, to negotiate with countries interested in purchasing Hongqi. Before leaving, Zhao Jinsong said that if he signed a contract with less than 300 million,

, all the bonuses for this year will be waived.

"This is a responsible and motivated salesperson," Qi Yiming couldn't help but sigh.

Hiding in a command post dozens of meters below Baghdad, Saddam was in a very bad mood. Although the multinational forces suffered some losses at the beginning, they soon showed the Iraqis their military capabilities.

How tenacious is the force? During the bombing that lasted for more than ten days, many countries

The army's aviation has completely destroyed various military and civilian facilities in Iraq. Now the power generation in Iraq is less than 0% before the war. Most of the chemical factories that manufacture chemical weapons have been razed to the ground. Some important transportation lines have been razed to the ground.

Basically, there are fighter planes attacking important roads every now and then.

The air defense strategy formulated by Saddam was passive. He tried to preserve his strength and moved many fighter planes, so that the Iraqi army did not have enough fighter jets to take off for interception missions. Saddam's passive defense strategy was extremely dangerous.

It may be that he himself never wanted to win the war at all, but wanted to end the war quickly, and retaining his own strength would allow him to continue to rule in Iraq and maintain advantages or deterrence over surrounding countries.

But the more passive they are, the greater the losses caused by the multinational forces to the Iraqi army. Especially the cunning Chinese, whose attack planes and fighter jets often come over to bomb Iraqi airports. The original runway of the airport is not suitable for the war-torn Iraqi engineering troops.

It is not difficult to repair, but the Chinese shamelessly used a large number of submunitions, and these submunitions are also unique. When dropped, they can easily blow out the airport runway.

Some large holes were difficult to repair, and the warheads they used were very unstable. Some of the warheads did not explode after falling, but they did explode when the engineering troops were repairing the runway, which brought huge difficulties to the repair work.

Later, when the Iraqi engineering soldiers refused to carry out emergency repairs, Saddam was furious and executed those engineering soldiers who refused to carry out the order, forcing other engineering soldiers to risk their lives to carry out emergency repairs.

"Your Excellency, some of our country's important defense facilities have been destroyed. The mobilization of multinational forces in the past two days has been extremely intensive. We judge that they may be about to launch a large-scale land attack, and the target is most likely to be us.

Haf al-Batin has been captured for many days." General Ahmed reported to Saddam worriedly.

Saddam frowned, the war situation was not optimistic, which made him very anxious, but he did not have many means to reverse the situation of the war. Although the Iraqi army still occupied Haf al-Abatin, this city was already a dead city.

, a large number of residents have been captured by multinational forces

Withdrew, the Iraqi armored forces stationed here were also attacked by multinational forces and suffered heavy losses. The supplies from the rear were also delayed in arriving. This place has become an isolated city, like a mouse under a cat's paws.

, it’s only a matter of time before you throw it away.

"General Ahmed, do you have any ideas?"

Ahmed smiled bitterly and said: "Although we are larger than the multinational force, the gap in equipment level and tactics is still very obvious, so we don't have many cards. At this time, we can only delay the multinational force as much as possible."

, until they can no longer afford to continue the war

We will withdraw from the war only if we lose, and we will win. Therefore, our best defense now should be to attack, constantly open up battlefields, attack the morale and morale of multinational forces on various battlefields, and make them exhausted, and use our scale advantage

, to win with blood and sacrifice.”

Saddam's eyes lit up. If he could win with dead people, he would be willing to do so. He asked: "Then where should our next target be?"
Chapter completed!