Reborn arms giant

Chapter 596 Air Attack

When the heat of the day is blown away by the cold sea breeze from the Mediterranean at night, the Arab world slowly calms down.

Halim is 22 years old and looks very young, but he is a 'veteran' with five years of military service. Five years of military career made the former student who gave up writing because of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict become a soldier with a certain level of education and war training.

After five years of struggle, Halim is now a second lieutenant officer of the 2nd surface-to-air missile regiment of the Syrian Air Defense Force, responsible for a Sam 5 missile launch vehicle in the missile regiment.

The 2nd surface-to-air missile corps is one of the two most elite surface-to-air missile forces of the Syrian air defense forces. Like the first regiment, each surface-to-air missile regiment is equipped with 48 Sam 5 high-altitude long-range surface-to-air missile launchers and 60 Sam 8 on-board low-altitude short-range missile launchers. It is the ace force of the Syrian ground air defense force that defends enemy aircraft and missiles outside the country.

In the surface-to-air missile regiment, each missile launcher is a combat unit, especially the Sam 5 missile launcher, which is mainly used to attack high-altitude high-speed enemy aircraft and missiles. It is rare to gather together on a large scale to fight. Basically, it is secretly deployed in a certain area, which may be scattered on dozens or even hundreds of square kilometers of land.

The 2nd Missile Regiment, where Halim is located, is now deployed in the Golan Heights, the front line on the border between Syria and Israel. It is used to prevent Israeli high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and fighter jets from violating Syrian airspace.

At night, the temperature in the Golan Heights is very low. The 16 members of the X022 Sam 5 missile launcher combat team, except for 6 people waiting around the missile launcher, are ready to launch missiles at any time according to the orders of their superiors to attack enemy aircraft in the airspace of the motherland. The remaining 12 people rested in the temporarily excavated cave.

As a member of the surface-to-air missile regiment, everyone has long been used to changing the coordinates of the launcher every few days to prevent the missile coordinates from being known by the enemy to prevent the enemy's missile forces and even air strikes.

"S sir, do you think it will rain tomorrow?" Krim, a recruit from the X022 group who just joined this year, looked up at the dark night sky and suddenly asked.

"There will be clouds tonight. It is said that such weather indicates that it may rain tomorrow." Kerim turned his head and looked at Officer Halim and said expectantly, "If it rains, my mother won't have to walk more than ten kilometers to carry water tomorrow."

In southern Syria, it has a tropical desert climate with an annual rainfall of less than 25mm. The difficulty of eating water can be said to be the biggest crisis for people living here.

"Yes!" Halim dealt with it casually, but he was thinking about another thing in his mind. There are clouds at night, which is very unfavorable to air defense forces like him. As an old soldier, he has experienced many border conflicts with Israel. Although he is a Syrian soldier who is hostile to Israel, he cannot deny the strength of the Israeli air force, which is much stronger than the motherland's air force. Of course, Halim admits that Israel has the most advanced fighter in the world, not that Israeli pilots are more powerful than native pilots.

In order to prevent raids by Israeli missile forces and air forces, the radar of the Syrian border forces is rarely turned on. Generally, the air-to-air radar will be turned on when it is confirmed that Israel's air strike on Syria is used to specify the coordinates of enemy aircraft for the air defense forces.

The clouds at night make the experience of the Syrian air defense forces in dealing with the Israeli air force useless. Originally, because the radar was rarely turned on, Israeli reconnaissance aircraft were found many times deep into Syria. If you add the cover of clouds, if... if the Israeli air force raids Syria, it may only be discovered by Syria after the air strike begins.

As a natural barrier between Syria and I-Israel, the Golan Heights has always been the focus of the Syrian-Israeli conflict. The Golan Heights is known as the 'water tower' in the Middle East, and 40% of Israel's water comes from the Golan Heights. Since the Fourth Middle East War, Israel has carried out a gradual strategy against the Golan Heights. With Israel's superior military strength, it has gradually controlled most parts of the Golan Heights. This is a completely unacceptable result for Syria. Because the use of the Golan Heights for Syria is not only as simple as water, but also completely equivalent to Zang Bian's role in China. Once this condescending strategic place is controlled by the enemy, it is equivalent to half of the door being opened. The enemy can easily come in at any time and then leave calmly.

This stalemate did not gradually change until the 1990s. Under pressure from the outside world, Israel agreed to the withdrawal plan to the Golan Heights, but in order to ensure Israel's security, the Israeli army still controls 20% of the area adjacent to Israel.

In this way, the Syrian-Israeli sides began a more than ten-year armed confrontation in the Golan Heights, and conflicts were even more frequent.

The information flashed through Halim's mind, and he became more and more irritable. He always felt that something seemed to happen tonight. But this clueless hint made him feel extremely depressed.

"Sar, do you think Israel will launch a sneak attack tonight?" Kerim felt the perfunctory of the officer around him, and immediately became a little bored. For a long time, he couldn't help saying again.

Halim frowned when he heard the words and said hesitantly, "Isn't it possible? Is Israel ready to go to war with our country?

Krim grabbed his scalp and smiled. He just said casually that in the past few months he had joined the army, except for several cross-border reconnaissance by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft, he had not seen any Israeli air strikes.

"Well, if only our country also had atomic bombs. Like Iran, if we develop atomic bombs regardless of pressure, we will not be afraid of Israel at that time." Kerim suddenly sighed again. In their spare time, these people will also listen to the radio. Although the listening time every day is very short, less than half an hour, it is enough for them to understand what is happening in the outside world.

Halim smiled and didn't say anything. Deep eyes seem to be able to look through the clouds and look at the distant space.

"No. 1... No. 1... Everything is normal, no radar signal was found..." Through the dense clouds, the sky suddenly opened up, and a plane carrying a huge disk was flying smoothly at a speed of 600 kilometers per hour at a height of 9,000 meters. In the sky on both sides of the plane, four more fighters are on cruise alert.

This is an E-2C early warning aircraft of the Israeli Air Force, which is now flying high above the Israeli side in the Golan Heights. In the spacious cabin, signal lights of various colors are ticking. A staff member is communicating with the fighter formation participating in tonight's operation through the communicator.

10 F-15C fighters belonging to the F-15 fighter squadron of the Israeli Air Force from the southern port city of Haifa? David Air Force Base took off and entered the destination of tonight's secret mission at a height of 16,000 meters over Israel.

This time, there is no code name for the super plan. In Israel, only three people know about it. The Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and the Foreign Minister, and even the fighter commanders on this mission have only known the target of today's mission in the air.

Under the command of the early warning aircraft, 12 F-15 fighters turned west over the Golan Heights, reached the Mediterranean Sea, and then quickly flew north along the Syrian coastal border.

"Ringling..." Li Mo just fell asleep with the fox's plump body in his heart, and the phone in the room rang.

The two alert people opened their eyes at the same time. As soon as the fox remembered, a warm feeling came from his forehead. But Li Mo lowered his head and kissed her on the forehead, sat up in his pajamas, took the phone and put it in his ear.

"Hey..." Although he was woken up in the middle of the night, Li Mo also knew that his men called at this time, and there must be something important.

"Boss, I'm Wang Ning." A rapid voice came from the phone, "Just now, the Iranian intelligence department forwarded a message. Just an hour ago, the Israeli Air Force raided Albach in northern Syria."

Li Mo was stunned when he heard the words and asked strangely, "Where is Albaic?"

Although the Middle East now initially has the appearance of a 'gowder barrel', Israel's air strike on Syria seems to have nothing to do with itself. What does it mean that the Iranians not only turn the news around so quickly, but also let Wang Ning report the news to himself in the middle of the night? It is understandable for Israel to do so if it is an airstrike on Iran.

Wang Ning paused on the other side of the phone, and then replied in a low voice, "Albach is in the desert area of northern Syria. It is said that it is a nuclear facility base secretly prepared by Syria."

Li Mo's face changed slightly, nuclear facilities? What does it mean that Israel chose to raid Syria's nuclear facilities at this time? Is it just to show Israel's super-hard attitude towards the goal of nuclear facilities in the Middle East?

If this can be explained, why didn't Israel attack Iran?

Syria's international 'famous' is obviously not as good as Iran's. But in fact, in the Middle East, Syria is also a hidden crocodile. In the five Middle East wars, Syria was a participating country. And as a country bordering Israel, Syria's air defense force is much stronger than Iran's. From the Syrian army sequence, the juxtaposed of air defense forces and the army, navy and air force, we can see that Syria attaches great importance to air defense.

"Are all the air defense forces in Syria blind?" Li Mo asked angrily. He saw that Israel's choice of air strikes on Syria at this time was obviously not planned for a long time, and its hidden purpose must have something to do with Iran's nuclear test. Although Li Mo did not look at the deep purpose of Israel's move for a while, it could not hinder Li Mo's dissatisfaction with Syria's 'no resistance' ability.

"Boss, the specific situation is unknown now. According to some reliable information, many countries now know about this matter, and the intelligence departments of various countries have been mobilized to investigate the inside story of this matter."

(to be continued)