On the northern border between Iraq and Iran, a war zone where surface-to-air missile deployments between both sides are relatively thin.

After the two countries made harsh words beyond the enemy, they chose to launch a roundabout air strike in this airspace. Perhaps, they both felt that in areas where the enemy had fewer surface-to-air missiles, their strong air force would be better able to perform.

This shows that they all feel that their air force is stronger than the other side.

As the distance approached the enemy, the front-line air commander of the Iranian air force issued an order.

"Attacking the Iraqi aircraft group, please pay attention to the attacking units. The headquarters requires that the use of long-range missiles be saved. After entering the maximum range of 200 kilometers, the battle will be done by locking and intimidation. Only after the two sides are apart are 150 kilometers apart, live ammunition will be allowed!"

In fact, the strategy formulated by the Air Force Command a few days ago was not like this. At that time, they were told by the superiors that they could blackmail the continuous long-range air-to-air missiles in the future. After the first batch of goods arrived, they could be used openly to give the Iraqis a warning.

However, some accident happened. The ironclad evidence used for "repeated blackmail" seems to have sunk into the deepest part of the Arabian Sea and no corpse will be seen. The 100 mortal birds that were blackmailed this time have become an out of print and one-time deal.

Therefore, we can only make plans to continue living a hard life.

Fortunately, the Iranians knew that the longest range of the Iraqi air-to-air missile is only 80 kilometers long, and only the MiG-25 can be launched. So they continued to implement the frugal approach of "if you can scare the enemy plane, you will be scared first, if you are really scared, you will not parachuting and then you will really launch the missile to shoot down."

The algorithm here is roughly as follows: if the missile is launched 200 kilometers away, even if the missile's carrier, the F-14, is immediately slowed down and cruised, then when the missile can fly to its own guidance, no matter how far it is after it is completely launched, the aircraft of both sides are still more than 120 kilometers apart.

But if it is compressed to 150 kilometers before launching, and when the missile is completed, it can enter the range of "no matter after launch", the planes of both sides are only 90 kilometers apart. A little further forward, it will enter the Iraqi r-40r counterattack range. It is precisely because of this deduction that even if the Iranians want to be scared first, they dare not play too hard. If the enemy planes of 150 kilometers are not abandoned, the Iranians must open fire.

In addition, some viewers who don’t know much about military affairs may think: Since you need to maintain a distance from the enemy during the “intimidation” stage, once you lock in the opponent, will the F-14 immediately turn around and play the “drag trick”?

The answer is no, because the radar of fighter jets is installed in the nose radar cover. To maintain the radar lock and guidance state, you must face the nose against the enemy. So you can only slow down and cruise, but you cannot turn around and "drag the knife". The American-made awg-9 fire control radar is already good, with a scan-seeking angle of 120°, so the f-14 can at least drag the time to the z-shaped route. The Soviet MiG-25's fire control radar is only 45°, which is even more impossible to detour. You can only go straight toward the enemy.

Theoretically, if an aircraft that provides guidance for long-range air-to-air missiles wants to play a "tork knife", only by making the onboard radar and the large disc on the top of the early warning aircraft's head can it have such a huge launch power and resolution of 360° in the omnidirectional direction. As we all know, aircraft that can hold such a large radar can at least be modified by heavy transport aircraft or bombers, and fighters cannot be plugged in at all.

At the same time, even if the bomber is changed like this, there is another major problem, that is, the flight speed is much slower than that of fighter jets, and the poor avoidance is that they can only exile a large number of missiles outside the range, but their own survival is very weak. When you finish guiding, the enemy's missiles can also enter the "no matter after launch" stage, and this is the end of the same death.

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However, the theory is very strict and perfect, but the reality quickly discovered an amazing accident among Iranian people.

"Oh no, I found that we were locked by the radar of unknown signal source of the enemy plane! I requested to launch missiles in advance!" Several Iranians on the outermost side of the large aircraft group immediately discovered unprecedented new situations.

The air commander was stunned and rushed to confirm the situation.

"Impossible! How could the Iraqis lock us at such a long distance? Can the enemy aircraft model be confirmed?" This reaction took more than ten seconds.

The preamble quickly identified the signal characteristics on the radar screen and replied: "It seems to be a large and medium-sized bomber, similar to the Soviet-made reflective characteristics. I am not sure whether it is a picture-16 or a picture-22. Ah, it should be a picture-16, and the picture-22 cannot fly so slowly."

The Iranian commander was shocked: "Tu-16? Could it be the bomber that the Iraqis wanted to escort, and the functions of early warning aircraft were temporarily added?"

After more than half a minute of air decision-making time, Iranian preamble finally saw a bunch of light spots symbolizing missiles on the radar of the Iranian preamble and began to approach them quickly - the enemy radar on the F-14 Panda can be discovered 200 kilometers for enemy targets such as the aircraft. However, the missile is much smaller than the aircraft's reflection cross-sectional area, so air-to-air missiles must fly within 100 kilometers before they can be discovered.

"I found out that the enemy fired long-range missiles!"

"Retaliate! Retaliate immediately!" The Iranian air commander then realized how big a mistake he had made. He was thinking about "scaring out a wave of enemy planes" at this time, wasting 50 kilometers of range and time difference.

In other words, when the Iranians pressed down and opened fire, the enemy's missiles had actually taken 100 kilometers first.

The already-existing technological advantages and the advantages of scrambling and leading to intelligence asymmetry have been superimposed, resulting in an avalanche.

The Aim-54 does not have the ability to "not care after launching" throughout the entire journey. The missile's own small-power radar can only guide the missile body to automatically track enemy aircraft at the end. Within the distance between 200 kilometers and 50 kilometers, the super-power awg-9 radar on the launching fighter is required to guide it.

This means that if the Iranian-launched Aim-54 before entering the last autonomous tracking, the fighter that launched it was destroyed, then everything would be done.

In Iraq, there seems to be no large launch platforms, but the load capacity is amazing. It is like a waste of money, and more than 30 missiles are flying in the air at one time.

The Iranians panicked.

Life and death have been judged.

Iraq lost three temporary modified "Arsenal" H-6s and four MiG-23s that were struggling and delayed. However, the H-6 was originally sent, so after ensuring that all of its missiles were guided, the crew members parachuted in advance to allow the airplane to complete the final suicide range.

In Iraq, two entire groups of four aircraft were formed, eight F-14s were shot down, and another 11 other combat aircraft were finished, and the entire attacking muscle group was almost wiped out.

More importantly, Iraq took the opportunity to air strikes Iran's deployment at the forefront. The air force base that was originally unconcealed and unconcealed because of its determination, blowing up several armories. The Iranians have always felt that these places have F-14 to ensure air supremacy and will never be air-raided, so they try to save trouble.

Most of the sensitive evidence obtained from trading with Li Gen py was reimbursed before it was used for a long time.

...

"Huh, it seems that the evidence of py transactions is well destroyed, and so many sensitive equipment will never be seen."

After hearing the result, Gu Ao breathed a sigh of relief. He and his superiors who were in contact with him were finally safe.

Then he was about to say goodbye to President Hussein.

President Hussein claimed it on January 31, and today it is February 2.

Gu Ao has been leaving the United States for too long. If he doesn't go back, his classmates will be suspicious: Where did Professor Kissinger send Gu Ao to "academic exchange"? He also had too much communication?

"His Excellency President, I think it's time for me to leave, it's good for everyone." At the evening family dinner, Gu Aoru and Hussein said goodbye.

General Hussein actually drank, obviously the victory on the front line made him very happy. It was precisely because of this that he deliberately kept Gu Ao for dinner. (In theory, it was not allowed to drink, but in fact, as long as the state banquet that was published on the news was not drunk, Hussein's eldest son Udai was famous for drinking)

"Of course, you will always be an old friend of the Iraqi people. Come anytime in the future. I will give you a more secret contact information. Next time, don't go through that little guy Kusai. Just look for me directly at any time! By the way, I'll give you a souvenir, which is worthless, don't take it to your heart."

As he said that, the guards behind him handed over two trays covered with red velvet cloth. The president pulled them apart and took out a big pure gold sword inlaid with hundreds of diamonds and red sapphire emeralds.

Gu Ao's eyes lit up. This gift is quite famous. There are many hawkish images in history where General Hussein holds this big sword.

After Iraq was destroyed by Xiao Buxian in 2003, the big sword was taken away by the US military and auctioned in New York. The starting price was not high, it seemed to be only tens of thousands of dollars. After all, it was a modern product, but because of its commemorative value, it was sold for hundreds of thousands in the end.

Gu Ao knew that hundreds of thousands of dollars were nothing, so he accepted it without any pretentiousness.

The Rockefeller Foundation gave him an errand fee of $2 million in cash. What's the big gold sword inlaid with gems? Moreover, the price of gold in 1981 was much lower than in the 2010s. Now this thing can't be sold for $100,000.

It is more of a meaning and value as a token. Perhaps next time Gu Ao comes to Iraq with this sword, others will know that he is the president's top distinguished guest when he sees the sword.

As for clichéd money, President Hussein did not mention it, but just hinted that he said: He knew that Gu Ao was still a businessman. In the future, no matter what consumer goods he had in Gu Ao, he would definitely get the best business environment and promotion even if he was used in Iraq.

Gu Ao thinks this is not bad and can last forever. At that time, whether he is making a personal music player, a home game console, or coming here to sell the Hollywood science fiction blockbusters he has invested in and shot, there will definitely be people supporting him.

Iraq's population of 20 million is currently still a relatively high net worth consumers. If the Iraq War continues, it will be hard to say.

Finally, Gu Ao added a reminder: "His Excellency President, I hope you should pay attention to it. Everything I have during this period represents myself and the suggestions of my mentor, and have nothing to do with the position of my motherland. I think you should be clear."

"Of course, the Chinese are also old friends in Iraq, but they have nothing to do with all this. Come and cheer."

Cheers before parting.

Then Gu Ao was sent to Basra by a short-distance small plane, and secretly crossed the border to Kuwait by land, and then took off from Kuwait and returned to the United States.

Before this, he bid farewell to Minayi at Baghdad Airport, and the two finally hugged and kissed.

Mina spent a week of fascinating wonderful days, and then she had to fly directly from Baghdad to the country - of course, it was a flight that would stop in a provincial capital in the northwest so that Mina would not have to spend several days taking the train back to her hometown from the capital.

It is now the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the school is on winter vacation, and all the students are going home for the New Year.

"Brother, you must take care of yourself." Mina was obsessed with her and couldn't bear it. She burst into tears.

"Don't worry, I ended this semester in May and officially returned to China - now it's early February, and there's not only three months left? Then it's my 'sentence off'. Kissinger has no dirty work and will not take care of me too seriously. He wishes me to use the excuse of something in China to avoid other students from over-spying my current situation."

"Well, I'm waiting for you." Mina smiled when she thought of being able to get along with her brother again for another three months.

...

It was another 20 hours, and then Gu Ao quietly appeared in Watson again. It seemed that he had just spent more than a week to go to other places for academic exchanges.

When I returned to the villa in Potomac River, there were "employees from cable TV companies" who came to visit me very well and helped Gu Ao remove all the surveillance cameras at home.

Of course, Gu Ao is not stupid either. He will check it out again afterwards and then replace all the doors, windows and locks.

Anyway, after he bought this house, he moved in with his bag. He didn't like the original decoration very much, so he wanted to build a big project.

"Well, just wait until I leave in May, I can't stay anymore. I'll ask a decoration team that is cooperating with the embassy to decorate it, give the keys to Sister Ye, and ask her to help me watch the decoration process." Gu Ao thought so.

The embassy's decoration team is definitely professional and is absolutely awesome for anti-reconnaissance.

Not long after sitting down at home, Kissinger actually called Gu Ao late at night and asked him to go to the mansion.

Gu Ao hurried over, and did not forget to park the car early and walked a long way.

Kissinger was actually very meticulous. When Gu Ao went abroad, he prepared some "academic phased achievements" for him, and then asked Gu Ao to take away this thin document. After he learned it thoroughly, he learned it a little bit the next morning, went to school in the afternoon, and told the students in the report class. It seemed that the "academic exchange" of this week had not been wasted, and he really gained something.

This level of rigor is simply outrageous.

Gu Ao understood a little, why can you buy a three-legged cat like cold? If you make some secrets, you will get rid of it in the end. Brzezinski didn't dare to do it, and Kissinger seemed to have been doing it and never got rid of it.

The difference in the degree of foxes.

"Thank you, professor, I will work hard." Gu Ao took the document and left cleanly.

I went home and slept for a while in the middle of the night, got up early and washed my face in cold water, and then went to school to study the results given by the professor crazily.

A report class, a review and presentation, and experience students again.

"I'm so lucky. I was arranged for me to communicate by my supervisor. I don't know what adventures I have. This paper is almost as good as a professor." Senior Patrick and Senior Sarah, who have relatively high academic level, sighed.

Of course, it's almost as good as the professor, because the professor originally caught the knife himself.

At the end of get out of class, Kissinger announced in public: "Gu, let's give you a day off tomorrow."

"Oh? Thank you."

"Tomorrow is New Year's Eve for you Chinese, right? There is no such festival in the United States, but I think it's better to respect your national traditions - as far as I know, your embassy will have celebrations, and you can go and make dumplings with them."
Chapter completed!