Dominate South Asia

"Mr. President, will we be threatening us if we improve Iraq's ballistic missiles and increase their accuracy?" Mushaaf said to Muhammad after the Iraqi visitors left with satisfaction.

Ballistic missiles are offensive weapons. Iraq is warlike. If there is a conflict with Pakistan's interests, it may cause trouble for Pakistan.

Muhammad shook his head: "Of course not. Iraq's most advanced ballistic missiles have a range of only 600 kilometers. At most, they can hit Tehran, Iran, which is still far from us."

Iraq's military technology is developing slowly. They lack sufficient scientific researchers and a systematic research process. Like North Korea, it has invested almost all of its national strength in the development of ballistic missiles, and it has developed medium-range ballistic missiles, and the accuracy is still quite poor.

At most, Iraq grafted the Scud and turned it into a Hussein missile. Such a missile industry level can not threaten Pakistan at all.

"Moreover, we modified the guidance system for Iraq, and the electronic equipment on it can use civilian products." Muhammad said.

Civilian products can greatly reduce manufacturing costs, so Pakistan can make more profits. At the same time, during testing, it can also achieve the required accuracy to satisfy Iraq.

Only in actual combat, when complex electromagnetic interference occurs, Iraq's Hussein missiles will be shot away. However, it is impossible to carry out large-scale electromagnetic interference on the battlefield all the time. Electromagnetic interference will only occur during combat, mainly to deal with enemy communications and radar equipment.

Therefore, as long as Pakistan knows the weaknesses of Iraq's improved missiles, it can release electromagnetic interference once there is a threat to itself. Make the missile lose accuracy.

"By the way, how is our land-based long-range air defense system going?" Muhammad suddenly remembered this and asked Mushaaf.

Pakistan's air defense focus is on the sea. Through mapping Patriot missiles, it has developed a ship-borne Friendship Shield system. At the same time, it simplifies this system and uses a vehicle-mounted chassis. It becomes a land-based air defense system.

"The project is progressing smoothly, and two live-fire shootings have been carried out." Mushaaf said.

As president, Muhammad has many projects to focus on, and it is impossible to cover everything. He has never asked about this land-based air defense system.

"Okay, let's go and have a look tomorrow." Muhammad said.

Land-based air defense missile system! When Muhammad and his party came to the Quetta Institute under the Babel High-Tech Center, they had already seen the air defense missile system deployed in the field on the shooting range.

"President Muhammad, welcome to our Quetta Institute." The project leader. 40-year-old Rawal said.

This is the first time the president has come here to inspect the work! Rawal was very excited. He studied in the United States in his early years. After finishing college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. He joined Lockheed Corporation. Later, after the news of Pakistan's victory over India came out, he resolutely decided to return to his country and entered the scientific research field of Pakistan. Then he entered the Babel and took charge of this project two years ago.

In fact, this project is quite simple. With the maturity of the ship-borne air defense system, it is too easy to develop into a land-based system! Moreover, Pakistan's industry is developing rapidly, and there are suitable off-road wheeled chassis for him to choose.

"Our field area air defense system looks good." Muhammad said while looking at the vehicles not far away.

All of them are off-road heavy truck chassis of the same type of 8*8 chassis. These chassis are not the NG80 chassis made in Pakistan, although this chassis is also excellent. But compared with military use, they are still a bit small. These chassis are all made with the "tractor" chassis technology introduced from the Minsk Automobile Factory.

From the outside, it has a typical rugged look of the Russians. The cab in front is very similar to that of a ballistic missile launcher. And at the back, there are four thick cylinders, which are very similar to the appearance of the Russian S300 system.

"These are our air defense missile launchers. Generally speaking, a launch company has six launchers and 24 air defense missiles." Rawal said to Muhammad: "If it is for key air defense, we can form a launch battalion with four launch companies."

This type of air defense missile is mainly used for regional air defense to protect the safety of important targets.

"This is our guidance radar vehicle, which uses the same phased array radar as the Friendship Shield. Search, tracking, locking, and guidance can all be achieved with this radar." Lawal looked at Muhammad and then looked at another vehicle. On that vehicle, a large flat radar was deployed, all in field camouflage.

Guidance radar vehicle! There are also command vehicles and power supply vehicles over there. The entire air defense missile system is so huge and rugged.

"We have a high ability to handle targets. We can deal with up to 24 targets at the same time, as long as they are all within our radar scanning area. We use a highly maneuverable field chassis. If necessary, we can also replace it with a tracked chassis, which has better maneuverability." Lawal said to Muhammad.

Muhammad nodded. Born out of the ship-borne air defense system, the prototype is the excellent Patriot missile. Now the performance of this air defense missile can fully meet the indicators set at the beginning, but...

"Can our air defense missile system be used against missiles?" Muhammad asked, "Anti-ballistic missiles?"

Anti-ballistic missiles! When Pakistan had just fooled the United States and equipped itself with Patriot missiles, it conducted an anti-ballistic missile experiment. As a result, the Soviets gave up the idea of ​​using ballistic missiles to attack Pakistan. Unfortunately, the experiment at that time was completely cheated. They knew the various orbits of ballistic missiles in advance and designed a close contact with them.

Anti-ballistic missiles are very difficult. They fly at a high speed, in a short time, and almost fall from the top of their heads, resulting in a very small launch window.

"Mr. President, are you talking about the American Star Wars?" Rawal asked.

In order to counter the Soviet ballistic missiles, the United States carried out the Star Wars plan. The project lasted for more than ten years and was very well publicized, but everyone knew that the actual effect was a fantasy.

The United States tried to build a solid shield to block the Soviet ballistic missiles. Unfortunately, it was theoretically possible, but the actual technical problems faced were far beyond the current United States. Even in the 21st century, the United States' anti-missile system is still unstable.

However, what the Americans wanted to intercept was the intercontinental ballistic missiles launched by the Soviet Union. When this type of missile reenters the atmosphere, its speed is as high as Mach 20. What Muhammad needed was to be able to intercept tactical ballistic missiles with a range of several hundred kilometers.

"It's not Star Wars, as long as it can intercept tactical missiles." Muhammad said that tactical missiles, such as Scud missiles, have a maximum speed of only about Mach 5 in the terminal stage, so the difficulty of interception is naturally much lower.

In this era, there are actually many missiles that can do this. For example, the American Patriot began to shine in the Gulf War in 1991 and intercepted Scud missiles. The United States once boasted that the interception probability was as high as 90%. The Soviet S-300 missile was required to have the ability to intercept ballistic missiles at the beginning of its development. The S-300V1 equipped with the army in 1983 was only equipped with the 9M83 missile with a smaller range and other corresponding supporting equipment. The types of targets to be intercepted included aircraft, cruise missiles and short-range tactical ballistic missiles such as "Scud" and "Lance". In 1988, Pakistan was equipped with the 9M82 missile with a longer range and its supporting equipment. It adopted a new system with two types of missiles and two types of launch units, which could deal with the "Pershing" medium-range tactical ballistic missile, air-to-ground missiles, and jamming aircraft patrolling at a distance of 100 kilometers.

Now it is 1992, and Pakistan has close ties with the West and can obtain advanced Western electronic equipment. Intercepting Scud missiles should be put on the agenda.

"Tactical missiles?" Rawal thought for a while and said, "In theory, it is possible. As long as our radar detects the target and the signal processing capability is fast enough, we can calculate the interception trajectory and intercept the opponent's missile. However, we must first be able to detect the target. It is best for us to have an early warning satellite."

Early warning satellite! The interception process of the US Scud missile is also to first detect the trajectory of the missile when it takes off through the satellite, and then report to the rear to buy time for the Patriot missile system to intercept.

This is a standard procedure. However, Pakistan now has no ability to launch early warning satellites. The road to space is still far away. The only country that may export to Pakistan is China. At this time, its early warning satellite technology is probably not as good as Pakistan's.

Early warning satellites, don't count on it.

"If there is no early warning satellite, we'd better have a long-range early warning radar." Lawal continued.

Long-range early warning radar is also an important system for detecting ballistic missiles. For example, the US Pave Paws long-range early warning radar can detect thousands of kilometers away and strive for a longer warning time.

This kind of long-range early warning radar is a phased array system, and Pakistan has mastered the core of phased array radar. It should not be difficult to develop this kind of long-range early warning radar.

Through long-range early warning radar, using early warning aircraft and other equipment, it can also achieve the role of early detection and early warning.

"In the next stage, we will immediately start research on anti-ballistic missiles, and we will definitely not disappoint President Muhammad's expectations." Lawal assured Muhammad. (To be continued ~^~)