Chapter 603 Chemical Warhead

The missile, trailing flames, flew out of Iraqi territory and headed towards Jordan.

Jordan is basically a landlocked country with no oil resources. Its main industry relies on tourism. For such a country, the current economy is not developed. However, precisely because there is no oil, Jordan has not experienced the turmoil of later generations. In later generations, when many countries were politically turbulent, only Jordan was relatively stable.

Now, Jordan's backward economy has also made their military technology underdeveloped. Several long-range radars captured the missiles launched by Iraq, but they could do nothing but watch the missiles fly through their airspace.

On the other hand, Israel is highly nervous!

A patrolling E-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft discovered the missile over Jordan and urgently notified the Israeli air defense forces. The whole of Israel was on high alert!

Iraq has issued a statement before that if the United States attacks Iraq with nuclear bombs, Iraq will retaliate against Israel!

At that time, Israel did not react much. How would Iraq fight back? Would it use fighter jets to bomb Israel? Israel was not afraid! Because although Israel was a small country, it had the most advanced air force in the entire Middle East!

As a small country, Israel has no strategic depth, so they advocate offensive air defense! The best defense is over the enemy's capital! Among Israel's three armed forces, the priority is the air force! The Israeli Air Force has hundreds of advanced fighters. Although it is only 81 years old, Israel has first-hand F-15 and F-16. As long as the United States has it, Israel can have it!

The Israeli Air Force has rich combat experience, and defeating the enemy with fewer troops is their basic quality. They are fully confident that they can win any war!

But now, the situation is different! What is flying from Iraq is not a fighter plane, but a ballistic missile!

Now, even the United States does not have a mature anti-ballistic missile system! Not to mention Israel! Facing this ballistic missile, Israel can only track it with radar and sound the air raid alarm, but has no countermeasures at all! In the 1990s, the Patriot missile was just mature, and now it is still in the research and development stage!

The cities along the missile's route were all thrown into panic. The E-2 early warning aircraft finally calculated the trajectory. The missile would fly over their sky and splash into the Mediterranean Sea to the west!

What are the Iraqis doing? Does this ballistic missile have a large error margin? Or are they just scaring themselves like the United States?

Under the high alert of Israel's air defense forces, the missile flew across Israel's airspace and fell into the sea 50 kilometers west of Israel.

Faced with the fall of this missile, Israel would never allow it to happen. After the E-2 early warning aircraft determined the crash site in the sea, a Black Hawk helicopter quickly took off from the base and headed towards the sea. They wanted to salvage the warhead of the missile launched by the Iraqis, even if it was just a few fragments or wreckage!

Pilot Shafir held the joystick in his hands and stared at the sea ahead.

The window of the helicopter was open, and the moist sea breeze blew on his face. His eyes were sharp.

"Hawkeye 2 is about to approach the designated sea surface, about to approach the designated sea surface." Shafril shouted on the radio, and at the same time, he felt a little dizzy.

What happened? Shafir looked at the co-pilot next to him. His face was red, and in the cabin behind him, the two search and rescue personnel seemed to be out of breath.

Then, Shafiril also felt his body heavy and his eyelids drooping. He wanted to say something, but found that he could no longer speak! So, Shafiril could only use all his strength to return home.

There is a problem in this sea area!

Unfortunately, his fingers were stiff and he had no strength in his body, but the helicopter was still flying forward.

"No. 426, No. 426, maintain altitude." The sound of the early warning aircraft came through the headset. The Black Hawk helicopter had already started to fly downward!

The personnel in the early warning aircraft called out anxiously, but unfortunately, there was no response.

Shafril's body had already fallen on the joystick in front of him. His body was pressing on the joystick, and the entire Black Hawk helicopter dived downward, and soon, it collided with the sea!

"Boom!" The entire Black Hawk helicopter kissed the sea surface and turned into a pile of scrap metal in the explosion.

The entire sea surface was sparkling, and sea fish were floating up with their bodies turned over.

A helicopter crashed! The Israeli Navy received the news and urgently dispatched a speedboat. In the dark night, the search task would be very difficult. The people on the speedboat did not know what kind of danger they would face.

The stern of the speedboat created waves. The speedboat was moving forward quickly, and the searchlight on the top illuminated the sea surface from time to time.

"Look, dead fish!" said an Israeli navy soldier in front. It was very rare to see dead fish on the sea. What was going on? As he spoke, he already felt a little short of breath.

Looking around, he remembered the chemical defense operations he had learned in his usual training. He quickly took out the gas mask from the speedboat and put it on his face. Breathing the air coming out of the filter tank, he felt the tightness in his chest eased.

"Be careful, there is harmful poisonous gas! The sea breeze is blowing eastward and will blow to our land!" It was very difficult to speak while wearing a gas mask, but he still notified the rear of the situation.

The cause of the helicopter crash is also obvious. It was not a mechanical failure, but the spreading poison gas!

Where do these poisonous gases come from?

Cities along the coast of Israel were suddenly facing a great enemy. Citizens were asked to stay at home and not open windows. Chemical defense soldiers were quickly monitoring the various components in the air along the coast. Once the indicators exceeded the standard, citizens would be evacuated immediately!

This news was also urgently reported to the cabinet and the US Middle East Command.

Iraq has ballistic missiles with a range of more than 500 kilometers. Iraq's warheads are likely to carry chemical weapons! This is simply unbelievable!

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The night is getting darker and darker. This is the time for most people to rest, but at the Khamis Mushaei Air Base in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the official work has just begun.

In the constant temperature and humidity hangar, a row of black sci-fi fighter jets have completed maintenance. At this time, the pilots are handing over the aircraft to the technicians.

"Colonel Whitley, the fighter jet has completed maintenance and is ready to take off at any time. Here are two GBU-10 laser-guided bombs. Good luck to you." The ground crew technician said to Whitley.