Chapter 680 Atomic Bombs Are Paper Tigers

"Launch!" Following the command, the operator pressed his hand on the red button. A puff of hot smoke spurted out from the tail of the milky white missile outside. The whole missile body was covered with white smoke, vibrating slightly, and then it began to take off!

This missile, which is only ten meters long, uses a two-stage solid rocket engine! Now, the lower engine ignites, driving the entire missile body to rise. The four stabilizing rudders on the outer periphery of the tail base control the flight trajectory of the missile. After burning for dozens of seconds, the first-stage rocket engine ignites and is discarded. Then, the second-stage engine ignites! The missile continues to fly upwards and disappears from everyone's sight.

Success! There was a cheer from the launch vehicle.

Generally speaking, this type of short-range missile is a one-stage rocket, but solid missiles have small thrust, so one stage cannot meet the requirements. Therefore, Israel's Jericho missile is a two-stage rocket. Whether the lower stage can separate normally after burning is completed and whether the upper stage can ignite normally is related to whether the launch can be successful.

If it fails, the missile will fall and hit our own territory!

Compared with the first stage which uses wing control, the second stage uses vector engine control technology. While the missile continues to fly, it begins to change its trajectory and flies towards the Bekaa Valley!

On top of the missile, a 20,000-ton nuclear warhead is ready to go!

Almost at the same time as the launch, the tail flame rising from the tail of the missile released a strong infrared signal, which was captured by artificial satellites in outer space.

During the Cold War, facing the era of mushroom bombs flying everywhere, both the United States and the Soviet Union spent a lot of energy to develop how to counter nuclear attacks, and the premise of this plan was how to detect the other side launching a nuclear bomb! Observing the flames of ballistic missiles when they are launched from space is the most effective means, so the Soviet Union began to actively develop in the 1960s. After more than ten years of hard work, the Soviet Union's ballistic missile early warning finally achieved the expected results. In 1977, the Soviet Union's missile early warning satellites deployed in space reached their heyday, and they could implement uninterrupted monitoring of the nine major missile bases in the northern hemisphere. At the end of 1978, the Soviet State Committee officially signed a document agreeing that the first generation of missile early warning satellites "Eyes" would be equipped to the troops. In 1982, the Soviet Minister of Defense issued an order to officially list the "Eyes" missile early warning satellite as a member of the missile attack early warning system and began to perform combat duty tasks.

The "Eye" series of missile early warning satellites have high technological content in both hardware and software, and their comprehensive performance has far exceeded that of similar products in the United States - the first-generation integrated missile early warning satellite IMEWS system.

And now, one of the Eye series of missile early warning satellites operating in an elliptical orbit in space has keenly captured the unique flame of a ballistic missile launch, and then the early warning signal has been transmitted to the Soviet ground receiving station.

Israel has launched a ballistic missile! The flight destination is being calculated!

It is no secret that Israel possesses the Jericho series of ballistic missiles. Therefore, after Syria launched the Scud missile attack, Israel will use Jericho ballistic missiles to retaliate. This is very likely. However, this type of missile has a limited range and cannot cause large-scale damage to Syria. In order to protect Damascus, Andre also mobilized a new S-300 missile battalion and deployed it around Damascus.

And now, after intense calculations, the target of this missile launched by Israel is not Damascus, but the Bekaa Valley!

"The Israelis have indeed launched a counterattack with ballistic missiles!" A general in Damascus said: "Look, what kind of warhead does the Israeli missile have?"

Andre gritted his teeth. What's the saying? When you assume that the situation won't be so bad, then it will definitely be so bad! And now? Even though Andre is experienced, he didn't expect Israel to be so crazy.

This must be a nuclear bomb, otherwise, a single warhead would not solve any problem at all, and the Israelis were targeting the Bekaa Valley, which was quite insidious! After all the calculations, they still missed this point.

Fortunately, we have deployed S-300 missiles in the Bekaa Valley!

"Immediately give orders to the troops in the Bekaa Valley to switch to a nuclear explosion defense state. Order the air defense missile units there to quickly find the target and try to shoot it down as soon as possible!"

Andre's words also startled the Syrian president: "Did the Israelis really use nuclear bombs?"

"Mr. President, don't be too anxious. A great man in the ancient East once said that atomic bombs are paper tigers. The United States has also launched nuclear bombs at Iraq, but what was the result? Did the Americans really use nuclear bombs to attack major Iraqi cities? They don't have the courage to do so. If Israel really uses nuclear bombs this time, they are seeking their own death!" said Andre.

At present, the whole world has reached a consensus that, except for the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, no other country can possess nuclear weapons. Now, if Israel reveals the fact that it possesses nuclear weapons, then the Soviet Union can dispatch air force to openly blow up Israel’s nuclear weapons bases!

All Soviet equipment was designed to survive a nuclear explosion. For example, the T-72 tank has a layer in the armor that is specifically used to absorb nuclear radiation. At the same time, the three-defense system of the entire tank is activated, and the interior is in an overpressure state, so the radioactive dust outside cannot directly enter. As long as it is not at the center of the explosion, it will have combat capability after the explosion. At the same time, the Soviet Union's electronic technology has always been lingering on electron tubes, because in their minds, only electron tubes can survive the impact of a nuclear explosion, and integrated circuits cannot resist electromagnetic pulses.

Now, the S-300 air defense missiles are deployed there. This missile was originally developed to intercept short-range tactical ballistic missiles! This system is no longer like the S200, which relies on nuclear warheads to detonate the opponent's warheads to achieve mutual destruction, but a real interception!

The longer the range of the missile, the higher the speed of re-entry into the atmosphere, and the more difficult it is to intercept. Short-range ballistic missiles are also the easiest to intercept!

After receiving the order, the S-300 air defense missiles in the Bekaa Valley entered the ballistic missile interception mode.