Chapter 224: 【The Collapse of the Iraqi Air Defense System】(4k)

At this moment.

The armored brigade where Fang Ming was located had already begun to organize itself in an orderly fashion.

However, the communication link to the high command had been severed. This book is first published on Tian Tian Kan Xiao Shuo -> ⓣⓣⓚⓢ. ⓣⓦ, providing you with an error-free and non-disordered reading experience.

Currently, they were dispatching vehicles one by one to nearby friendly camps to see if they could establish contact with the high command.

Fang Ming had spent the entire morning cleaning up wreckage alongside the NPCs.

He only stopped when it was almost time for a meal. He found a corner to fan himself and spoke to the friends in the livestream about the current situation:

"It's over, brothers."

"We were crushed on the first day of the war. Damn it."

"I checked the forums and other livestreams this morning."

"Last night, the entire Iraqi Federation, including the Kuwait region, suffered airstrikes and precision missile strikes."

"Primary targets like communication networks and power grids were paralyzed instantly."

"Communications across more than half of Iraq are down."

"Just this morning, the armored brigade I'm with sent out a large number of people to contact nearby units."

"There's no other way; the current situation is that messages can't be sent out, and we can't receive orders from above."

"Looking at the status of other livestreams, who knows when this will be restored? It's too outrageous."

"Or is it that the Iraqi Federation's territory is too small?"

"So the American Federation managed to strike everywhere in a single night?"

Fang Ming was already questioning his existence.

The situation in the Iraqi Federation after just this one night was already more miserable than that of the various European countries during World War II.

After all, no matter what.

They were at least able to command large formations.

Although Poland was overrun quickly, they were at least clearly aware of what was happening.

But now, look at the Iraqi Federation.

From top to bottom, the entire country has become deaf, blind, and perhaps even mute—unable to receive any orders, unable to see any enemies, and unable to transmit any messages.

The netizens of Blue Star only now realized that when modern warfare breaks out, some aspects are truly fragile.

What if such a war were to break out on Blue Star?

Unaccountably.

Thinking about all communications and power being cut off.

Hiss—it's simply life-threatening.

Fortunately, with Blue Star's technology, even if a war broke out, it shouldn't be as miserable as the Iraqi Federation.

At this time.

In the livestream of the streamer Yu Jia next door.

Located on the border of the Iraqi Federation, as an armored unit stationed here, they did not suffer large-scale attacks last night.

On the contrary, they preserved their full unit strength.

However, because the American Federation attacked air defenses, communications, power plants, and other important locations last night.

It resulted in Yu Jia's unit also being unable to receive orders from above.

They could only make all preparations, ready to deal with the American Federation's great army raiding from the border at any time.

But what everyone didn't know was.

The American Federation had no intention of sending a great army over right now; the airstrikes were just the beginning—they had to completely destroy the Iraqi Federation's command system.

The armored unit where Yu Jia was located had long since entered a standby state.

It just hadn't taken any action.

And the radar equipment had also been completely paralyzed, making it impossible to detect the enemy.

Suddenly, a roar was heard in the sky, approaching rapidly. The entire unit went on alert, but they couldn't find any sign of the enemy.

Yu Jia also climbed out of the tank, standing on the turret and looking around—suddenly!

A row of small red dots suddenly appeared on the "real-time map," rapidly approaching from the southwest.

Yu Jia looked up.

Only to see something flash across the horizon, and then the sharp whistling sound arrived.

Yu Jia realized what it was, but it was already too late.

Boom, boom, boom, boom—!!!

Four Hellfire missiles accurately hit four tanks. Under the precision strike of the Hellfire missiles, these Soviet-style tanks were as fragile as paper.

The secondary explosions of the ammunition tore the tanks into fragments.

The spreading explosion blew Yu Jia, who was standing on top of the tank hatch, away, rolling for dozens of meters before stopping.

The next second.

Boom!

The tank Yu Jia had originally been on was precisely detonated by a Hellfire missile.

A single Hellfire missile could destroy a tank.

Yu Jia shook his head and struggled to look up, scanning the sky, but even now, he still hadn't discovered where the enemy was.

In the distance.

The self-propelled anti-aircraft gun that wanted to counterattack had just raised its muzzle when it was torn apart by two falling Hellfire missiles.

The Iraqi Federation NPCs and the Blue Star players who had just entered the game didn't know that the effective range of the American Federation's Hellfire missiles now reached 8 kilometers.

There was no need to get close at all.

The American Federation's armed helicopter formation was always circling outside the Iraqi Federation's firing circle.

Yu Jia struggled to get up as Hellfire missiles fell one after another.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The entire armored unit fell into chaos. Yu Jia wanted to find a safe place to hide first.

Suddenly.

Several shadows streaked across the sky.

Yu Jia looked up, his pupils involuntarily shrinking:

"Hiss—"

Densely packed, more than thirty Hellfire missiles were diving toward the distant tank battalion.

The next second.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—more than 20 tanks were detonated almost simultaneously in an instant.

The massive explosion made the world go silent for a moment.

However.

Even so.

The American Federation's bombing hadn't ended. The American Federation's armed helicopters could carry 12 Hellfire missiles; a single formation of armed helicopters was enough to blow this place apart.

Yu Jia simply found a crater and curled up inside.

Praying that he wouldn't be blown to death, while simultaneously opening his eyes to livestream this battle, which could be called a dimensionality-reduction strike, to the Blue Star netizens in the livestream.

At this time.

The Blue Star netizens in Yu Jia's livestream were also completely confused.

They could clearly see the American Federation's missiles falling from the sky, but following the direction, they just couldn't find where the enemy was.

Judging by the size of the missiles, they didn't look like the kind that could cross hundreds of kilometers; they should be nearby, right?

But they really couldn't find them.

Some even used photon supercomputers to analyze the video, but the final result calculated was that the enemy was at least several kilometers away in the sky.

Precision strikes from so far away?

They didn't know how many rounds the American Federation had struck, but when Yu Jia saw that no more missiles were falling and crawled out of the crater.

Everywhere he looked.

There was nothing but burning wreckage of armor.

The armored unit he was in had over 100 tanks and over 70 armored vehicles, but at this moment... they had all become wreckage burning.

Basically, all of them had been destroyed.

Whether any armor or tanks had escaped, Yu Jia didn't know, but just looking with the naked eye, it was almost a total annihilation.

And at this moment inside the base.

Gunshots were constant.

Some Iraqi Federation soldiers had already suffered mental breakdowns, firing wildly at the sky.

The enemy on the other side hadn't shown their faces.

But this kind of lethal strike caused many Iraqi Federation soldiers to have mental breakdowns.

For a time.

The Blue Star players were all studying how to deal with the American Federation's strikes under such circumstances.

And the various countries within 【Earth】 were also shocked.

The dimensionality-reduction strike capability displayed by the American Federation shocked everyone; it turned out that war could be fought like this—tanks were no longer the kings of war.

On the other side.

The military high command of the Daxia Federation.

Watching the livestream in the latest game from Polar Star Company, "Modern Warfare: World Hegemon," and seeing the Iraqi Federation become deaf and blind almost overnight, they couldn't help but feel their hearts tremble.

No other reason.

As one of the top three powers among the six major federations.

The Daxia Federation naturally had also envisioned some tactics, among which was one similar to this one of the American Federation.

But what shocked them wasn't the American Federation's tactics.

It was the consequences caused by the precision strikes after just one night of airstrikes.

It directly paralyzed the Iraqi Federation.

They struck air defense stations, command posts, and the air force, etc., but it paralyzed the million-strong ground army within the Iraqi Federation.

It could be said that those million troops were now of no use at all.

Without communications, even if the American Federation attacked a certain city, the friendly forces next door were afraid they wouldn't even know.

Watching the chaotic scenes in various regions in the Iraqi Federation's livestream.

The military high command of the Daxia Federation suddenly felt that what they had envisioned before might have been too idealistic.

Because when they previously assumed and simulated this situation.

Even if all communications between cities and the Daxia Federation capital were cut off, they could still rely on local resources to resist until the communication network was restored, etc.

But looking at it now...

There were quite a few civilians in the Iraqi Federation in the livestream who dared to rob in front of the army.

The cities were in chaos.

It seemed they still had to start from the worst-case scenario and remake prevention and drill plans.

And the scenes in "Modern Warfare: World Hegemon" didn't just give the Daxia Federation inspiration; many other federations also began to dig out old tactics and optimize them.

On the other side.

In the livestream of Lei Cheng, a streamer for the American Federation.

Unlike the streamers who were randomly assigned the Iraqi Federation identity and were beaten all night, and even continued to be beaten during the day.

Lei Cheng was so excited he didn't sleep all night, just watching the radar in the game.

After a night of attacks.

The several air defense command centers that originally covered the Iraqi Federation had all been destroyed.

That air defense system the Iraqi Federation was proud of had become scrap metal that couldn't be launched; more than 10,000 air defense missiles couldn't even be activated.

And after a night of destruction, at this moment, the sky over the Iraqi Federation was being continuously bombed by the aircraft of the 34-nation coalition.

On Lei Cheng's radar map, those aircraft representing their own side.

Were flying unscrupulously over the Iraqi Federation.

From east to west, from south to north, not even the capital of the Iraqi Federation was spared.

Not only that.

The fleets in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea also launched missiles across hundreds of kilometers to strike vital buildings and command posts within the Iraqi Federation.

Seeing that the daytime in the game was about to pass, Lei Cheng, having organized the information, said to the Blue Star friends in the livestream:

"The air force and air defense system of the Iraqi Federation are completely finished."

"When the strikes were carried out last night, the primary targets were the Iraqi Federation's air defense command posts and air force airports, etc."

"In the early morning, multiple countries simultaneously conducted electronic interference against Iraq."

"Following that were the stealth fighters that took off from the air base in Saudi Arabia, raiding the air defense command posts in the center of the Iraqi Federation."

"After arriving within the Iraqi Federation, these American Federation stealth fighters split up."

"Then, within an hour, they successively resolved the air defense command centers covering the entire Iraqi Federation."

"Without these air defense command centers, the Iraqi Federation's air defense missiles became decorations, and the fighter units with air combat capabilities were also key targets."

"Only a few fighters escaped from the Iraqi Federation side."

"The rest were basically blown up, or the airports were destroyed and they couldn't take off."

"And this was just the first wave of attacks."

"The American Federation's second wave of attacks was armed helicopters; these armed helicopters were loaded with Hellfire missiles, each capable of carrying 16"

"Hellfire missiles."

"And a single Hellfire missile could destroy a tank."

"Theoretically, one of the American Federation's armed helicopters could destroy 16 tanks."

"However, this was just theory."

"The actual effect... the American Federation has already begun to organize the battle reports from last night."

"Because it was also the first time using the tactics, a detailed battle report had to be made."

"One of them is."

"When the American Federation's armed helicopter formation carried out the raid, they fired 32 Hellfire missiles at a tank battalion within 90 seconds, destroying 28 armored tanks."

"It's simply outrageous."

"It's almost a 1:1 ratio."

"I suspect it might be that the tank battalion didn't have that many armored tanks, otherwise it really could have done 32 missiles taking out 32 tanks."

"Next is the third wave of attacks."

"Cruise missiles launched from cruisers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea directions aimed at vital departments and command centers in the capital, Baghdad."

"Then the fourth wave of bombing targeting Iraqi power plants, communications, and other facilities."

"And after crushing the Iraqi Federation, the American Federation dispatched a large number of electronic interference aircraft, making the Iraqi Federation's radar completely paralyzed."

"I have to say."

"The American Federation's battle plan is truly too tight."

"One link after another."

"Multi-location coordinated integrated operations, first the stealth fighters taking off from Saudi Arabia, then the cruisers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, the bombers flying from the American Federation's mainland, and the electronic interference aircraft that had been prepared for a long time and entered at the end."

"And the aircraft that entered at the end were also carrying anti-radiation missiles."

"As long as the Iraqi Federation's radar turned on, once they detected the Iraqi Federation's radar electromagnetic spectrum, they would immediately lock on, fly over, and destroy the target."

"So now, the Iraqi Federation doesn't even dare to turn on its radar."

"This is also why you just saw that on the Iraqi Federation's map, it was all American Federation aircraft markings."

"The Iraqi Federation's air defense system has completely collapsed; now there are American Federation aircraft everywhere."

"Who could have thought that on the first day of this game's launch."

"We could know the outcome of the war."

"The American Federation's equipment is too good; now that the Iraqi Federation's air defense system has been destroyed, those 5,000-plus tanks on the ground are purely live targets."

"One armed helicopter can theoretically blow up 16 tanks."

"What's the point of fighting this?"

"The key is that it's impossible to use tanks to fight armed helicopters; not to mention whether you can aim accurately, armed helicopters can fire Hellfire missiles from several kilometers away."

"What can tanks use to fight this?" ===== CHAPTER 225 =====