January 1, 1986.

The new year has finally arrived. When the sun shines on the blue Persian Gulf, it is still a peaceful scene.

It is the New Year of the Gregorian calendar now, and most areas are shrouded in a festive atmosphere. Except for the ships that are still sailing at sea, most docking ships will not choose to sail on this day.

Therefore, the two cargo ships departing from Port Khomeini chose to sail this morning, but they only made the people who got up and practiced in the morning a little curious, and did not alarm the others.

These two cargo ships are all container cargo ships. The deck is still relatively empty at this time, but there are some things built with rainproof tarpaulins. If someone looks closely, there seems to be something strange on both sides.

Kusai quickly approved the combat plan formulated by the Ministry of Defense. The plan was formulated carefully. The Air Force and the Navy cooperated in joint operations, and the two special forces of the Marine Corps and the Airborne Forces operated in concert to attack hundreds of defenders on the island that had already lost their fighting spirit, which was almost effortless. Therefore, Kusai only put forward a new requirement for them: zero casualties.

How can I take this battle beautifully and avoid losses? This is the highest level of war.

This battle is treated as a drill for more landing operations in the future.

At the same time, this battle also exposed some of Iraq's shortcomings. Effective warships that did not land on land actually rely on civilian ships to support them.

Therefore, Kusai has planned to buy some modern landing ships. In the impression of later generations, hovercraft is a good tool. It seems that the Soviet Union is already developing the Caspian monster?

On the deck of the ship, Hades was quietly looking at the scenery on both sides of the straits. His feeling was that he was still very dissatisfied with this action!

It is enough to use your own Marine Corps. Why do you have to use airborne troops? Now, they have sixty Desert Leopard 8*8 infantry fighting vehicles and twelve Mi24 helicopters. With these powers, it is enough to flatten those big and small Tongbu Islands and Gershm Islands. Air Force fighters don't need to be dispatched at all. If you have to use precisely guided bombs, how much does that calf cost? A laser-guided bomb is also very expensive! They went up and solved it in just a few shots.

When the Air Force is over, the navy's naval guns are also fired. When they go up, they will probably be in ruins. Even if they go up, what's the point?

Since the establishment of the Marine Corps, Hades has always been eager to have a tough battle that can satisfy them. However, things went against their wishes. At this time, the large-scale battle against the Persians was over. They had no hard bones to eat. They had a glory in Syria last time, but at that level, Hades was dismissive, and that was not a battle at all.

What's even more depressing this time is that due to the particularity of the airborne troops, if they land on the Big and Big Island, they might be blown into the sea by the wind, so their target is Gershm Island.

The Marine Corps needs to occupy the Big and Big Tongbu Island, which consumed forty desert leopards and six Mi24 helicopters. In other words, less than half of his troops were going to board Geshm Island, which was simply too bullying. He was even looking forward to the airborne transport plane, and he could not take off due to a failure, so that he could take down Geshm Island openly. Although he would not be satisfied with that island.

So, Hades was very angry in this operation. As for this equipment, he no longer complained about it. The president of the Marine Corps has attached great importance to it. When the desert leopard was successfully developed, the first batch of equipment was equipped with their troops, which has already satisfied him.

Tigers on land, dragons on water, this is their Marines!

In the rear, Iraq's air force was also making final preparations.

Since there is no need to face the air threat from the other side now, the main air-control fighter jet of the Iraqi Air Force, Miao Ying 4000, has only prepared two aircraft, carrying Iraq's own Sky Flash and R73 fighting missiles. The combat effectiveness has been greatly increased. Each fighter jet, four Sky Flash and two R73, can fully face the enemy even if it faces two squadrons of enemy aircraft.

The rest are the F20 fighters of four squadrons, and the fighters of two squadrons are equipped with laser-guided bombs. The fighters of two squadrons are equipped with Mavericks missiles to attack important targets, including shore fortifications, military camps, air defense positions and other places. Last night, the MiG 25r reconnaissance aircraft browned over the target for the last time, photographed all the attack targets again, and assigned attack targets to its own fighters.

After the Phantom 4000 took on Iraq's air defense mission, the pilots of the F20 fighter jets increasingly carried out ground attack tasks, and they had already been able to do this type of mission.

Now they are using Gemway laser-guided bombs imported from the United States. However, Iraq is now cooperating with Sweden's military industry. After the research and development of this laser-guided bomb component will be produced in Iraq, and a large number of Iraq's non-guided bombs will be converted into guided bombs. Moreover, after investing funds in Iraq and supporting the Soviet global positioning system, it will also install such receivers on its own bombs, which is cheaper and has high accuracy, so there is no need to worry about the impact of clouds on lasers.

The flight captain Adnan, the on-site commander of the flight mission, communicated with the ground crew on the scene and stepped onto his own plane with great strides.

They are brave Iraqi pilots, they are eagles in the sky of the Middle East!

Just as the Basra Air Force Base was preparing for the takeoff, at the H3 Air Force Base in the north, twenty-one Il76 transport aircraft were also making final preparations before the takeoff. They would transport the fifty paratrooper combat vehicles and two paratrooper battalions of the airborne regiment, about 1,400 people, to the sky above Geshim Island. After they landed, they would immediately control the main military base on Geshim Island and jointly win the predetermined target with the Marines that arrived later.

Each of them was checking their umbrellas. For a paratrooper, falling from the sky is very spectacular and dangerous. Their biggest problem this time is to protect themselves and not have any casualties. You must know that even in normal training, it is difficult to keep an unlucky person hanging himself on a tree or something like that.

How large-scale battle will break out on the island? I'm afraid they can solve the battle with just a paratrooper sword.

President Kusai attaches great importance to strategic transportation forces, so the Iraqi transport aircraft group is expanding rapidly. They mainly equipped the Il 76 transport aircraft introduced from the Soviet Union. This transport aircraft has excellent performance and large carrying capacity. According to Kusai's idea, this transport aircraft will eventually be expanded to about 40.

In addition to the Air Force, on the sea, outside the Gulf of Oman, four Iraqi Heden-class frigates were also rushing from outside the Gulf of Oman to the Strait of Hormuz. They conducted an exercise at sea at the end of December last year. As a result, they also spent the first day in 1986.

Of course, all of this was planned in advance. If they collectively leave the port at this time, they will definitely be found to be abnormal and attracted attention from the outside world, and the return will be different. When they return now, they can only be considered to be in a hurry to return to the base. No one will know that at this time, their warships were already full of live ammunition.

Their main weapon this time is the 127mm naval gun at the bow of the ship. This is a single-barrel naval gun developed by the famous Italian Otto Melala Company. It is used as a Gaoping dual-purpose main gun for destroyers and frigates, to deal with aircraft, missiles, attack attack ships and bombard land targets.

During World War I, naval guns were the main weapons on warships. The power of all naval guns on battleships was amazed by countless people. However, during World War II, the rise of aircraft carriers sent battleships to the grave.

After that, the naval guns with a caliber of hundreds of millimeters were almost extinct, and the caliber of the naval gun became smaller and smaller. Then, the emergence of anti-ship missiles made the naval gun completely abdicated and had no effect.

However, although naval guns will not be useful in anti-ship combat, they are still useful in other aspects. For example, when facing pirates or small boats driven by terrorists, it is absolutely inappropriate to use anti-ship missiles. At this time, only one shell is needed to solve them.

Another use of naval guns has not changed yet, which is to shoot on the other side and attack targets on the shore.

The maximum range of this naval gun on the Heden-class frigate is 23,680 meters, which is enough to use saturated firepower to destroy targets along the coast. This is definitely a low-cost weapon.

For this landing operation, Iraq mobilized nearly 10,000 people from the navy, army and air force. This time, we must use a beautiful battle to make a good start for the new year!

There is no wind and waves on the sea, only the sun shines on the sea, sparkling, and the Iraqi flag is flying on the mast of the leading Heden.

In Baghdad, Kusai has arrived at the command center of the Ministry of Defense, and through the C3i system, the situation on the scene will be intuitively seen.

"The Gulf Peace Operation has officially begun," said Kusai.

The code name of this operation is called Gulf Peace, which is an operation to maintain peace in the entire Gulf.

With Kusai's orders, Iraq's powerful military operations began.

The first one to take off was the Iraqi Air Force F20 fighter jets. They took off from the Basra Air Force Base, formed formations over the Arab River, and then flew towards the target from the Persian Gulf at an ultra-low altitude.

At this time, the freighter and warship had sailed to about fifty nautical miles from the target.

All over the world, there is still a tranquility.
Chapter completed!