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The original Persian Gulf is like a huge inland sea, and there is only one passage to the ocean outside, which is the Strait of Hormuz!

Located between the Arabian Peninsula and southern Iran, the Strait of Hormuz resembles a herringbone shape, with a length of about 150 kilometers from east to west, a width of 97 kilometers, and a narrow point of only 389 kilometers. The width from north to south is 56~125 kilometers, and the average water depth is 7

Because it is a necessary transit point between the Gulf and the Indian Ocean, the Strait of Hormuz is known as the "throat of the Gulf" and has a very important strategic and shipping position. www.biquge.info≦≧The vast majority of the oil produced by the oil-producing countries along the Gulf coast is transported through this strait to Western Europe, Australia, the United States and other places, and together they are responsible for 60% of the supply of Western oil-consuming countries, and Western countries regard the Strait of Hormuz as a "lifeline".

Kuwait not only needs to transport oil resources abroad, because Kuwait is all desert, so all their daily necessities are also transported by ship.

However, this lifeline is very fragile, even if it is wide, it is 97 km, and it is completely within the shè range of the Sea Hawk 2 (601) missile!

At this time, on the Iranian side of the strait, dozens of miles on the Bandar Abbas side, a mysterious convoy was making preparations. ≦≧

This kind of shore-to-ship missile from China is not only huge in size, but also very large in equipment.

There are three ways to send this missile, which can be fired from a warship, an airplane, or a car on the shore. There are two types of export versions, shè from the H-6 bomber, or shè from the shore.

Iran buys shore-to-ship missiles, that is, the way of sending shè on the shore.

And in order to issue such a missile, the equipment for issuing shè is also very large.

The missile wants to hit the target. The first thing you have to do is to find the target, which requires the assistance of radar on the shore. Therefore, there are four indispensable vehicles that need to be tracked radar station antenna vehicle, tracking radar station display vehicle, mobile power station, and command instrument vehicle. The development of shè missiles also requires a shè front inspection vehicle, a shè frame vehicle, and a shè tractor vehicle. If the missiles are not ready. Then, before the shè, there is also a gas source car and a refueling car, the air source car is responsible for filling the missile with high-pressure air, and the refueling car is responsible for refueling, because this is a huge liquid missile.

This is also the reason why Qusay does not like this missile, the shè strike process is too cumbersome, and the Exocet missile or 801 is a solid missile, just ignite directly. ≦≧

Right now. The Iranians secretly unfolded the convoy on the seashore, and they were preparing for the departure.

In the process of introducing the missile, Iranian soldiers were also trained in cāo, and although it was only two months, they felt that they had fully mastered the essentials of cāo.

At this time, the sky is just dawning, and the morning sun is shining on the entire Persian Gulf, and the Gulf of Oman outside is also sparkling.

It's the busiest waterway in the world. The day began.

A tanker "um al-Qabashi", which loads crude oil from the port of Kuwait, is a 150,000-ton tanker, the whole ship looks like a pregnant woman with a big belly, but the head is small, only in the rear of the ship there is a three-story high cockpit, the rest of the deck is flat, using a steam turbine as power, in the rear chimney, smoke, it is coming out of the port and starting to accelerate.

To drive such a huge ship, even a large steam turbine can only accelerate the ship to fifteen knots, but the degree of automation of the ship is very high, and the whole ship needs more than 30 people to work. ≦≧

In order to avoid danger, in the lower tanker cabin, filled with a non-combustible gas, so as not to explode in the process of transportation, moreover, crude oil is relatively easy to solidify, using steam turbines as power, in the process of unloading, can also use steam pipes to heat crude oil.

Because the shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf are busy, all the crew members are now working seriously at their posts.

Cāo is not as easy as driving a sports car, or it takes at least half an hour to stop the ship completely.

The captain stood at his post, looking at the sea in the distance, and felt some emotion in his heart.

As a seafarer, I spend most of my time at sea, and there are many risks at sea, and the captain has experience in this, but while loading oil in the port of Kuwait, they learned that another evil country, Iran, has issued a statement that they will attack the various ships that carry oil for Iraq, and they will also attack other countries that support Iraq, such as Kuwait and Saudi oil tankers.

When they heard the news, everyone was completely indifferent, and if Iran really did that, it would be absolutely insane. ≦≧

However, when it really came time for him to go to sea, the captain of the ship began to worry, Iran, that is definitely the master who can do anything crazy, they dare to detain the personnel of the US Embassy in Iran, what else do they dare not do?

So, the captain was cautious.

Since the day before yesterday, they have been watching the Persian Gulf, which is more than 900 kilometers long, and they seem to be terrified at every step, but because the water in the Persian Gulf is deep on the Iranian side and shallow on the Arabian Peninsula side, they still have to sail on a route closer to the Iranian side.

Now, it's finally time to get out of the Persian Gulf, and everyone wants it to go well.

On a trailer on the shore, the camouflage net was finally removed, and a chubby airplane-like missile revealed its appearance, with a thick and round body, two large swept triangle wings located in the middle of the missile body, three tail fins installed in the tail of the missile body, the angle between them was 120 degrees, and the trailing edge of each tail had a cāo rudder.

Because it is a shore-to-ship missile, it has an additional booster engine at the tail of the missile body than it does when it is fired from the air. ≦≧

Many people were busy around the body of the bomb, refueling it, filling it with high-pressure air, and testing it.

On the other side, the tracking radar antenna vehicle has been deployed, and the radar antenna is five meters above the hull of the vehicle, which can easily monitor the ship on the sea surface.

At this time, the power generation vehicle has also begun to run at full speed, and sufficient power is transmitted to each vehicle through the cable.

The radar antenna began to rotate, scanning the situation on the sea surface, and the radar showed that the cāo crew on the vehicle had begun to closely monitor the situation on the sea surface, and the data was reported to the command car, ready to input the Sea Hawk 2 missile at any time for the post-processing before the launch.

At this location, all ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz will be under their full surveillance.

The Iranian Air Force has been greatly weakened, and they do not have powerful fighters to search the sea, so they can only resort to this shore search.

Suddenly, very, a signal appeared on the radar showing the car, at a distance of one hundred and twenty kilometers, exactly from the direction of the Persian Gulf, ready to drive out!

After more than an hour of sailing, the "um Qabashi" slowly sailed to the Strait of Hormuz.

Here, so to speak, was a dangerous time for the whole voyage, and it was a vulnerable position if the Iranians wanted to attack, and the captain had served in the navy and knew the importance of this place.

It's a pity that for oil tankers like them, there are no means of protection, and even if they want to dodge, it is impossible, so all they can do is hope that the Iranians will not be so impulsive!

After this, they are safe.

Seeing the target displayed on the radar, the radar crew immediately began to report to the command vehicle.

Although this kind of radar can detect targets on the sea, and most of them know the size of the opponent through the strength of the anti-shè radar wave, it will never find out which country's ship the opponent is, unless it can see the flag of the other side.

Therefore, everything depends on their judgment, because they have received the voyage of those ships sailing in the Persian Gulf, and then they can determine.

Unfortunately, sometimes, it's not very accurate.

If they had taken off a helicopter and flown to the waterway to take a look, perhaps, they would not have made this wrong choice. Alternatively, set up a lookout post on Qeshm Island ahead and check it out to confirm the target.

For the first attack, they should also choose at least one Iraqi target.

Originally, what they were waiting for here was an Iraqi-nationality oil tanker from Iraq's Faw Peninsula, but the oil tanker broke down last night and did not arrive in the Strait of Hormuz on time, but it was the Kuwaiti oil tanker that hit the muzzle of the gun first.

The timing was just right, and the commander of this shore-to-shore attack detachment finally confirmed that this was the ship he was waiting for.

With the severity of the land war situation, especially the possibility that Iraq may occupy Khuzestan Province, the Iranian top brass has finally decided to take Iraq's oil tankers into action!

Didn't Iraq want to exploit the oil fields of the province of Khuzestan province? Then you can't get it out! It's Iranian, and you can't mine it at will!

Iran is very confident. Because it is in the southeast of Iran, it is also a kilometer away from the southern tip of Iraq, and even if Iraqi fighters fly here, they will not have a few minutes of fuel left, and Iran's vast land area is now evident.

Moreover, the Iraqi navy is almost negligible, although the Iranian warship was hit once in the port of Khomeini, but now, the strength of the Iranian navy is still far greater than that of Iraq, and it is impossible for the Iraqis to send a naval escort.

By making it impossible for Iraq to export oil, it is possible to deal a big blow to their war potential, and to make it impossible for them to export oil, that is to start by striking their tankers!

Rafsanjani finally gave the order to fire shè anti-ship missiles at Iraqi tankers. (To be continued.) To be continued