The USSR did not plan a tank battle, never. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe United States covered the ground forces with air power, and the Soviet Union supported the iron curtain with ground forces, and the ultimate goal was to support air supremacy. It is not forty years ago that a simple tank battle would not have happened, and if the US Air Force had directly and decisively started a war when the Soviet Red Army entered the Middle East, or if this sandstorm had not appeared, this unexpected tank battle would not have happened.

Nature's petty willfulness allowed the US Seventh Army and the Soviet Red Banner Tank Sixth Army to engage in a ground confrontation in an era when tank battles were basically impossible. General Baglamiyan clearly understands that this is temporary, unless the sandstorm lasts forever, and once the sandstorm that prevents the intervention of air power stops, the air force will be the protagonist.

The most dangerous place is not the combat zone between the two armies, and if the first distance is too close, the air force will inevitably cause accidental injuries. The second combat zone is the range of sandstorms, but the main force of the Southern Theater led by General Baghrumyan himself, and the US Air Force is coming at it when it takes off from the major bases.

"Build a field air defense system and conduct mobile defense. The radar is turned on, the Doyle anti-terrorist missile is in a state of progress and operation, and the whole army is speeding up Basra, and this time we have to carry it hard. "General Baghramyan's order was conveyed to all units, and in the face of air raids by the US Air Force, the troops of the Southern Theater immediately went into full swing, defending themselves layer by layer with anti-aircraft missiles, low-altitude barrages, and helicopter gunships, while at the same time, the Soviet 24th Air Force, which had been deployed to the Middle East, was also urgently taking to the air to intercept the fighters of the US Air Force and Navy Air Force.

The Doyle air defense missile system is mainly equipped with the anti-aircraft missile regiments of the tank divisions and motorized infantry divisions of the Soviet Red Army, and every Soviet division-level unit is fully equipped, without exception, and the anti-aircraft missile regiments carried by General Bagramian add up to five or six hundred anti-aircraft missile launchers.

The major air bases of the United States and the Soviet Union throughout the Middle East are all busy scenes at this time, and the ground crew is sweating like rain. On the side of the US forces that attacked first, the group of planes that covered the sky and the sun directly attacked General Baghramyan's troops from all directions, and this ground force was so huge that it was terrifying at a glance, and it was absolutely impossible to allow them to converge with the Red Banner Tank Sixth Army, otherwise once it started, it would definitely sweep everything.

The launch of the Doyle anti-aircraft missiles, the roar of the Shilka anti-aircraft vehicles, and the roar of the Tunguska are venting all the achievements of the Soviet Union in the field of field air defense over the past few decades, and when the number reaches a certain scale, it is enough to cause a qualitative change.

Thousands of ground-to-air missiles, man-portable missiles, and anti-aircraft machine guns soared into the sky, telling the Iraqis what it means to truly dominate the air by land.

The situation of the US Air Force unilaterally attacking the Iraqi Army has not been repeated today, as missiles from outside the combat zone have exploded in volleys and the United States Air Force has been unilaterally attacked. The United States has 1,100 combat planes in its air bases throughout the Middle East, and even fewer planes with ground capability.

From time to time, aerial bombs explode on the ground, causing an earth-shattering bang, but for the Southern Theater of Operations, which has 400,000 soldiers, more than 7,000 tanks, such losses are not at all insignificant.

The 38 days of air raids weakened half of the strength of the Iraqi Air Force, which had 4,000 tanks and 2,000 armored vehicles, and several batches of air raids had to face a fully mechanized Soviet army with double the number of heavy weapons and a complete field air defense system.

In Baku, the first important town in the Caucasus of the Soviet Union, Shainin of the 24th Red Banner Air Force has learned that the US Air Force has been dispatched, and among the several air corps transferred to the Caucasus, the 24th Air Force of the Red Banner is very different, because this unit is one of the five air armies directly under the direct leadership of the Soviet Air Force, and its position in the Soviet Air Force is more important than that of the 14th Air Army and the Seventh Air Army.

"General Baglamyan has already arranged a field air defense system, but because of the disturbance of the US Air Force, the speed of advance has been affected!" An Air Force staff officer pointed out the current predicament encountered by the troops in the Southern Theater and in what direction General Shainin said, "At present, the casualties of the entire unit are unknown. ”

"It won't be too much, this kind of intensity can't be considered big in our previous exercises." Admiral Shainin comforted him realistically, and then said, "However, the army has the task of the army, and the US Air Force should hand it over to us to order the 14th Air Force in Syria to take off to intercept the US air base in the Mediterranean direction and the Turkish direction, the Iranian Seventh Air Force and the short-range missile unit of the Air Defense Force, and destroy the Saudi Air Force airfield." The task of our Air Force is to face the carrier-based aircraft group flying from the Persian Gulf, and that's it! ”

Admiral Shainin's confidence in the ability of ground forces to withstand an attack comes from his understanding of NATO's air power in Europe. The Northern and Western clusters of the USSR will face air strikes from NATO countries in the event of war. NATO's seven thousand or so combat aircraft were the great enemy of two clusters of eight hundred thousand Soviet ground assault forces.

According to the calculations of the Soviet Union itself, as long as the Soviet Union takes the first action and withstands the wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the air forces of all NATO countries, it can also occupy the entire Federal Republic of Germany, and the second-line troops and the armies of the Warsaw Pact allies will still attack in a steady stream until victory.

Now that General Baglamyan is leading 600,000 Soviet troops, including the Sixth Tank Army of the Red Banner, facing less than one-sixth of the North Vietnamese air force and using a field air defense system that is not inferior to that of the Soviet troops in Europe, there will be absolutely no problem with the US Air Force, which has only such a little air power, as long as it does not make a mistake.

What's more, the Soviet Air Force still exists, and General Shainin doesn't know why the presence of the military branches served in political performance is so low, is it because the Soviet ground forces are too strong, and they have robbed the glory of the Air Force? The Soviet Air Force was definitely not weak, and it was even more powerful in conjunction with the ground forces!

"Kvashnin, bite the Seventh Army, as soon as the disengagement is disengaged, the US Air Force will carry out air strikes on you, the situation on my side is quite stable, and I will reach the combat zone in eight hours." During the call, General Baglamiyan suddenly looked up and saw a squadron of fighters flying overhead, the red five-pointed star on the tail was very conspicuous, and he added, "Maybe four hours!" "With the Soviet Air Force to ensure that the ground forces are not interfered with, the pace of the advance will be greatly accelerated.

After several rounds of air raids, the main forces of the Southern Theater also suffered losses, and more than 170 tanks were destroyed, which no country could afford to lose, but unlike the Soviet Union, such losses were less than one-thirtieth. To put it mildly, it just made General Bagramian's troops scratch a little skin.

Forty kilometers south of Basra, the battle area of the Red Banner Sixth Tank Army and the US Seventh Army, the raging sandstorm has gradually subsided, dozens of kilometers of combat area, smoke has been abandoned tanks everywhere, the tank battle in the simple sense has ended, with the end of the sandstorm, the way of fighting will become more three-dimensional, the commanders of both sides know this, but Lieutenant General Franks is in a heavier mood, the first attack of the US Seventh Army did not defeat the opponent, Although he knew as early as Europe and Europe that the Soviet Army was not just stacking tanks, it was as difficult as a hedgehog-like field air defense system, but it was another thing to really see it.

"Disengage and stop the pursuit with a group of gunships." Lieutenant General Franks sighed, in terms of exchange ratio, maybe the US military is a little cheaper. However, the opponent's tanks are too many, so many that the first attack is cheap, and the opponent does not feel damage.

Faced with this situation, Lieutenant General Franks had to order the troops of the Seventh Army to switch from offensive to defensive. He had already learned from General Schwarzkopf, commander of the US Middle East forces, that the air force that had taken off had been intercepted by the Soviet air force, and that the two sides could not tell the winner in a short period of time, and that the balance of forces and time on the entire battlefield were unfavorable to the United States.

"Commander, it seems that your mood is a little low." Lieutenant General Franx's operational staff officer asked with some concern.

"I've never missed the Fifth Army so much!" Lieutenant General Franks said with a wry smile that the Fifth Army's other U.S. heavy unit in the Federal Republic of Germany was a friendly force of the Seventh Army in the face of the Soviet Union's Western cluster raid.

The first battle between the Soviet Red Army and the American Army was full of unexpected factors, but the whole world did not pay attention to how the war started, but criticized the Soviet Union and the United States with the same voice, and the mutual accusations between East and West Europe were only a small part of this voice, and the voices of France and China calling on third world countries to jointly call for an armistice were the strongest among them.

"The use of nuclear weapons is not ruled out, said by the US spokesman? Replace the United States with the USSR and return the phrase. Tell them that the withdrawal of troops at the same time as the USSR and the withdrawal of troops alone is absolutely impossible. As for the joint initiative of France and China, it seems to be huge, but it will take time to brew public pressure. Another issue that concerns me," Serov said with an ugly face, "we have lost 4,000 dead in the capture of Sovietgrad, and in just a few hours of fighting today, the number of casualties today is close to 3,000 even after the air raids and the fighting of the Seventh Army on the ground and the Seventh Army, which is simply terrifying." ”

"After all, the opponent is the United States, although we have also shot down a lot of US fighter jets, compared with the casualties of our ground personnel, it is unrealistic to want to pull back this casualty." Marshal Akhromeyev replied, "Our superiority has not yet been brought into play, and the ground forces and the air force are compared to the combat radius, and the General Secretary should understand the difference." ”

"The United States will definitely threaten nuclear weapons if it is beaten, and they are not in pain yet." Serov turned to ask, "What about the situation with US nuclear submarines and domestic ICBMs?" ”