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1991, March 5, 11:26, Saudi Arabia

Captain Rache completed his last battle patrol today in f16,.u|. He was about to return to the base and have a beautiful sleep.

The night sky in the desert area is always so clear. Countless stars shine, and even some stars that are not very visible can show their moving light.

"What a beautiful night sky, it would be great if there was no war." Captain Rache sighed softly, and under the command of the control tower, he aimed the nose of the aircraft at the runway and prepared to land.

He doesn't have to worry, Iraqi fighter jets will come to attack.

After nearly half a month of repeated bombings, Iraq is like a girl who has lost all her ability to resist, and can only lie on the ground and let them ravage.

At present, the US military only sends four fighter jets to carry out combat patrol missions over Iraq, which is enough to suppress any intention of Iraq to resist. Iraq's airspace is like their back garden, and it can enter and exit as soon as you want.

In his headphones, an emergency call from the control tower suddenly came: "Shuhu Yi, Shuhu Yi, pull up immediately! Repeat it, pull up immediately, and receive the radar alarm. There are three missiles. I want the base to fly and it will arrive within 20 seconds!"

Captain Rache was so angry that he was crazy. Can't these damn Iraqis let him land the plane smoothly and launch a missile attack after returning to the dormitory?

Saddam, a lunatic, was beaten to the ground and refused to admit defeat.

His air force became a car soldier and could only drive on land. His army turned into a groundhog and got underground. As a result, the old madman was still tirelessly launching his scud and Hussein to Saudi Arabia and Iraq to show his unyielding will.

Captain Rache understood that Saddam might be a madman, but he was definitely not a madman.

The reason why he kept firing missiles at Israel was to drag them into the Gulf War. Israel and Iraqi territory were not bordered. If he wanted to attack Iraq, he had to use the Arab countries. But Saddam kept fighting for Arabia, and with the blood feud between the Jews and Arabs, as long as Israel really took action, the coalition forces organized by the United States would collapse instantly.

Saddam is a complete madman!

In order to save Kuwait and maintain his status, he actually dared to provoke Israel to expand the scale of the war!

If the United States had not done its best to appease Israel and provided them with a large number of patriots to intercept missiles, this war would have been hard to say what would have become.

As for Saudi Arabia, except for the capital Riyadh, the key target of his attacks, the Dhahran Air Force Base, which is closest to the Shako border, is the most frequent target of attack.

Saddam's mobile missile launcher launches missiles from Kuwait. It only takes three minutes to reach the sky above the Dhahland!

As a field soldier, Captain Rache disdained the brilliant record of the US military spokesperson, the proclaimed Patriot intercepting missiles.

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

Indeed, Patriots hit the target many times. However, 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 to the target.

The problem is here!

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 missiles. When it recognizes the target, it will choose objects with larger radar reflection surfaces and let go of smaller warheads. If hitting the missile body is also called interception successfully, Rache doesn't know what failure is.

The Patriot missile has another problem that makes all pilots angry, that is, it cannot identify our enemies!

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 Turkish base, Patriot Missile fired at a fighter jet that it had returned. Fortunately, data provided by other radar stations showed that it was its own fighter jet. The US military quickly detonated the missile in the air, so that it did not cause any accidental injuries.

After hearing this case, Captain Rache and other Air Force pilots specifically asked the Patriot air defense positions whether it was true. Although they did not receive a response from the other party, from then on, when they returned to the base, they would always feel cold on their backs, fearing that they would be attacked by their own missiles.

Therefore, upon hearing that the Patriot missile was ready, Captain Rache and his wingman immediately increased the throttle and quickly evacuated from the airspace above the base as quickly as possible.

Through the airborne radar, Rache also discovered the missile that was about to fall.

Three missiles, one in front and two behind, followed by direct attacks at the Dahelan Air Force Base.

The starry sky was so clear that Captain Rache discovered a faint flame from the sky with his 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.

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

Although the Ministry of Defense bragged to the sky, they also knew that it was just to enhance everyone's patriotic enthusiasm and let the American people support the government in the end. They knew the true performance of the patriots best. Therefore, it is required that each incoming missile must be intercepted by two or three together to ensure the success rate.

Rache has seen such a scene many times.

However, he did not know that the scene he saw 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.

"Damn it!" Captain Rache blurted out.

The disintegration means that this interception will most likely fail, and I hope no brother will die innocently.

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 Rache had no time to exclaim. Three Patriot missiles turned a corner in the air, two of which met the largest part of the radar counter-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, a dark thing was thrown away by the shock wave and plunged into the adjacent runway.

On the runway, two fighter jets were taking off urgently, and they had already left the ground.

The missiles came too fast. They didn't have time to escape from the plane and escape from the apron. They could only make the plane fly up quickly. However, the stars of fire falling from the air were attached to the fuselage and continued to burn.

The warhead plunged into the runway and then a huge explosion occurred.

The fighter jet in front of his head swayed its wings, and the pilot tried hard to control his flight attitude. He was pushed by the shock wave and flew straight into the sky at a faster speed.

But the one behind only shook for a moment. The nose of the aircraft pierced and crashed on the runway.

The leaked aviation fuel formed a one-tube-long vehicle on the runway.

The snake reflects this track clearly.

"My God!" Captain Rache murmured.

"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.

They were also lamenting the death of their colleagues here. In the night sky, two other missiles also descended from the sky and rushed towards the Dhahran Air Force Base.

I don’t know if it was because of the first interception that the chaos caused to the Patriot air defense positions had not been eliminated. This time, there were only five missiles in total. Moreover, the frequency of their lift-off ground seemed to be inconsistent, with both fast and slow, and they attacked the next two missiles one after another and met them.

One of these two missiles was obviously Hussein, and its warhead and body separated in the air.

However, the quality of the missile interception this time is also extremely high.

The first batch of two missiles hit the separate ground warhead and body respectively. After the flames formed by the Patriot missiles, another huge roar was heard to the ground, followed by a huge fire ball, reflected in the night sky.

The warhead was detonated in the air!

"Thank God..." Before he could say this sentence from Captain Rache, he regretted it.

The huge shock wave formed by the detonated Hussein missile spread out and pushed it suddenly on the last missile. The missile quickly changed its landing point and passed by the last three Patriot interceptor missiles.

By chance, the last missile was a real Scud. Where it exploded was a ten-story American pilot dormitory building.

Captain Rache opened his mouth and couldn't make any sound.

He watched helplessly as the missile penetrated the sixth floor of the building, and a window of a room plunged into the inside of the building.

The rest of the scene is like slow motion in the movie, which will be unforgettable for him.

First, all the glass in the building was broken and splashed out in all directions. Above the base, under the Exploding Patriot Missile Fire, these broken glasses were like bright gems, refracting either brilliant or fiery red colors.

The next moment, the building seemed to have come alive and jumped suddenly.

Captain Rache clearly saw that the cement exterior wall of the building instantly expanded outward, like a blown balloon. Then, countless black dots flew out from the disappearing windows, balconies, doors, etc.

These are the shock waves formed by the explosion of the Scud missiles and the debris splashed out of the room.

Following these black dots are balls of flames rolling forward, expanding along the corridors and rooms, rushing out from the various holes in the building, revealing its hideous face.

Captain Rache's throat was tight and he couldn't breathe.

He was very familiar with the pilot dormitory. It was the pilot dormitory of the 314th Fighter Squadron! Today is their rest day, and there are 32 pilots in the squadron living in it! There are also other American troops such as maintenance technicians, logistics support, etc., as well as all members of a British fighter squad!

This is God's punishment!

How many Iraqis they killed, now they themselves have to bear the backlash of the monster of war!

The post-event loss statistics are much more than people expected.

In the US military dormitory, there were only more than ten people lingered in bars and other people, escaped, and all the others died. Among them, there were 42 American and British pilots. The remaining personnel were 279, with a total of 321 deaths.

This is not all.

There was also a pilot in the fighter plane that crashed on the runway.

In addition, the splashing Hussein missile and the wreckage of Patriot missiles killed seven people and more than one hundred people suffered damage of different severity, two of whom were in danger.

There are two buildings damaged by these missile wreckage, and there is a bungalow that has been razed to the ground.

The flames formed by the combustion of fuel caused more than a dozen houses to be ignited. Although the fire was extinguished by the base fire brigade, the property and equipment losses caused were worth millions of dollars.

The Riyadh Command Center of the US military fell into a dead silence when it received this news.

They quickly gave instructions and asked for news control immediately. No reports on this incident were allowed to be spread. At least not for now. As for the post-war period, the media could say anything.

However, they made this decision too late.

While the commander of the base was still organizing the extinguishment of the fire, a German newspaper reporter had already sent the photos he took and urgently wrote on-site reports to the German newspaper via fax.

In the report, he used vivid style to explain in detail the entire process of the missile attack. He also evaluated the ground losses caused by the missile.

Among them, it was particularly emphasized that he saw the entire US military dormitory being destroyed by missiles with his own eyes.

At the same time, he expressed doubts about the specific performance of the Patriot missile. In the report, he wrote in a more polite tone: "As far as I see, the Patriot missiles do not seem to be as reliable as the US military claims. The huge losses caused by the wreckage of those missiles may be greater than the losses caused by the missile landing."
To be continued...