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In order to hit the strongest targets, these Red Bird III missiles do not use the blasting warheads equipped with ordinary cruise missiles, but semi-armor-piercing warheads!

The missiles that swooped down had enormous kinetic energy. The two missiles at the front flew towards the building with the round roof, which was the key point of Dimona, where the nuclear reactor was located.

If it is blown up here, Israel will lose the factory that produces the raw materials for nuclear weapons. Then, if Israel wants to restore its nuclear capabilities, it will take at least several years or even ten years of hard work.

The semi-armor-piercing warhead has a hard shell made of blunt high-hardness steel at the front end. It uses a time-delayed fuze. After the missile hits the target, the blunt steel in front of the warhead can tear the target, drill in, and wait for the missile. After the warhead is completely inside the target, the delayed fuze detonates.This kind of warhead has an ideal killing effect on the inside of the target, and the huge air pressure generated by the explosion will cause serious damage to the target structure.

Now, at a huge speed, the pointed tip of the semi-armor-piercing warhead pierced into the top of the dome. This is a head-to-head contest!

All possibilities have been taken into account when the nuclear reactor is built, so the protective layer outside the reactor is very thick, more than one meter thick!Moreover, a layer of [-] cm thick steel plate is lined in the middle!

The first missile, after penetrating through the thick cement layer, once again encountered something more difficult to deal with than cement. It worked hard to drill in, but finally got bored.

At this time, the delay fuze has been triggered. With the last reluctance, the missile detonated the 240 kg of explosives in the front, connected to the remaining fuel that has not been burned in the back, and formed a beautiful on the circular roof of the nuclear reactor. flame.

Starting with this, the Red Bird III missiles one after another began the most magnificent moment in their lives: blooming above the target, using their own lives to burn everything on the target!

Chapter 637 The Destruction of the Dimona Base ([-])

The nuclear reactor was the first focus of the attack. Here, it was attacked by about [-] cruise missiles!

Among them, except for the three missiles with large errors, they exploded in the open space next to them, and two of them rubbed against the side of the building, and exploded on the foundation of the circular reactor building. Although they did not attack the top, they caused even more damage. Great destructive power, because of the big explosion here, the bottom of the reactor building was damaged, and the foundation began to be unstable.

The rest of the dozen or so missiles all hit the circular roof. Although they still didn't penetrate in the end, they exploded inside, causing the building to crumble.

The focus of the second attack is the place where Vanunu used to work, Machon2, where the plutonium extraction process is mainly carried out. If it is blown up here, even if the nuclear reactors listed in color can still work, they will lose A factory that produces plutonium.

The two-story building on the ground is just a cover, the focus is on the underground part!

Fifteen missiles were attacked here, but two were shot down in the air, and only thirteen of them reached here, two of which missed their targets, and the remaining eleven all hit this place tens of meters away. The long two-story upstairs.

This small building is not as difficult to deal with as Machon 1, which is the shell of the nuclear reactor. This powerful semi-armor-piercing warhead in Iraq passed through the two-story small building with huge speed, and then passed through The one-meter-thick ordinary cement structure cover exploded underground.

Since the inside has been hidden, there is no one inside now, but the 240 kg warhead detonated by the delayed fuze turned the inside into a sea of ​​flames.

The rest of the missiles also penetrated the two-storey building and blasted into the ground.

However, they only penetrated the first basement, or the second basement. This six-storey building is still intact in the lower floors.

At this time, the other two Red Bird III missiles were extremely lucky.

The guidance part of the Red Bird III missile is still inherited from the Red Bird II. The hit accuracy is between 20 meters and two meters. This is only theoretical. The size of the target is more than 40 meters. However, in Among the missiles launched, a small number still missed the target, and for various reasons, they did not reach the predetermined precision.

However, there are also a few pieces whose precision has reached the highest design value, or even higher than the highest value!

According to the information provided by Vanunu and compared with the satellite map provided by the Soviet Union, the Iraqi attack assigned tasks to each missile. One of the targets was to drill in from the vent of Machon2 and follow the vent. , directly fell into the fourth underground floor, and detonated there!

This requires quite a high level of precision. You must know that the air vent only has an area of ​​one meter square. In order to hit the target, two missiles are allocated here. It is just a try. Even if it is a laser-guided bomb, it is not easy to put it in. of.

However, these two missiles miraculously got in!

The first missile, after diving down from the sky, corrected a flight error for the last time. The pointed warhead rushed straight down, and then it hit something, which was a huge fan. It was almost effortless. It penetrated the fan, and then, the short wings and tail fins on both sides had been hooked by the air vents and stayed outside. A wave of air came, and the missile drilled down in the air duct inconceivably.The spider in the air duct was weaving a web, and was crushed by the missile in an instant.

It went straight into the second floor of the basement. Here, the air duct began to turn. It continued downward. After penetrating the air duct on the second floor, the delayed fuze was triggered. The Red Bird III missile landed at the core of the Israeli nuclear base location, there was a big explosion.

The plutonium-uranium automatic separation and extraction workshop on the first four floors, all the equipment installed by Israel after great efforts, were fatally damaged, while the plutonium production and recovery workshop on the fifth floor and the use of lithium deuteride and The beryllium-made ammunition workshop also suffered considerable damage.

The first one is luck, and the second one can't be explained by luck. It can only show that the nuclear program listed in color is not welcomed by the Middle East. The second one actually entered the vent and happened again. exploded.

Two explosions, coupled with other missile attacks, the first round of attacks, this place was almost turned into ruins.

At the same time, other workshops were also attacked by cruise missiles.

It was a successful attack!The first round of blows destroyed Machon 2 and blew up Machon 1, the nuclear reactor, to its crumbling state.

At this time, the senior leaders of the Israeli ranks were already shocked. They did not expect that Dimona would still be hit despite the fact that their air force had tried their best and dispatched anti-aircraft missiles and other forces to protect them.

Only now did they know that the exercises in the south and the Soviet warships in the western Mediterranean, including the two extremely threatening Tu-22Ms, were all cover and feints, and it was the missiles that really hit them!

They didn't expect that the Arabs would complete such a precise attack with missiles!Even if they are listed in color, they probably don't have such ability!

If it weren't for those exercises, our own early warning aircraft would not have been adjusted to those directions, then these missiles would definitely be discovered by our own side and effectively intercepted!Although Defense Minister Rabin thought so, it was too late to regret.

"Organize rescue immediately. We must rescue our equipment as much as possible, send more anti-aircraft missiles to the past, and let our fighter planes and early warning planes cruise to the east of Dimona." Perez said, although his heart was heavy, However, it is still necessary to prepare now to minimize the losses suffered.

Erst lived not far from the base. After seeing the flames on the base, he was the first to drive to the site, because, as the person in charge of Israel's nuclear program, everything here is almost It is his life's painstaking effort.

Now, he suffered a loss here, which made him very anxious. Looking at those flames, he felt extremely sad.

Although Israel has already transported the manufactured raw materials away, this base is still the most important. If it is destroyed, Israel will not be able to recover for a long time!

When he came to the scene, the surviving Israeli soldiers had already started rescue.

The situation at the scene made Erst want to vomit blood. It can be seen that the above-ground part of the Machon2 workshop has been completely turned into ruins. I don't know what will happen to the underground part, and the circular building of the nuclear reactor is also crumbling.

Erst then thought of a worse possibility. Although the products in the Machon 2 workshop have been transported away, after several years of operation, there must be radioactive elements left in the equipment. The dose is not very large, and the impact on the human body Not fatal, but enough to radiate into the sky and be discovered by the outside world!

In that case, even if Israel denies it again, the truth will be revealed to the world!

"Attention, give up the surveillance mission and return immediately." The pilot of the F-22 fighter who was still flying with the Tu-15M suddenly received this order from the pre-warning plane.

Hearing the order, the pilots were a little puzzled, but they still faithfully carried out the order.

Looking at the Soviet plane still flying at ultra-low altitude for the last time, the Israeli pilot raised his middle finger. As long as the order is given from above, they will shoot down the Soviet plane immediately!

The E-2 Hawkeye early-warning aircraft, after receiving the order from the headquarters, also returned quickly. They needed to use their own radar to monitor whether there were ultra-low-altitude penetrating missiles on the Israeli territory.

This time, they were lucky, because when the Eagle Eye warning plane returned, it was the time when the second batch of detoured missiles were flying over the Mediterranean Sea. However, because the altitude of the Red Bird III missile was too low, It was only ten meters away from the sea surface, and the radar reflection area was small. The Hawkeye early warning plane found these light spots at a distance of [-] kilometers on the sea surface without the influence of the ground echo. At this time, those missiles had already passed by. Tel Aviv is about to fly forward tens of kilometers, enter the territory of Israel in the Ashkelon area, and attack its own target.

"Attention, 1-3-0 direction, a distance of [-], if you find an unknown target, please intercept it immediately." The air situation commander of the early warning plane said.

The Hawkeye early warning plane monitoring the Arabian exercise in the south has also started to return. The most important thing for them now is to detect the possible missile attack again. Although they have already gone through a round of strikes, they do not want to be attacked The second attack, since they already know the opponent's means, then they have to find out and stop it!

This time, they finally had a harvest. Sure enough, there were still some uninvited guests on the western Mediterranean Sea!

The Israeli Air Force, the most outstanding Eagle of David, they must protect their own sky!For these targets, they are no longer timid and must be intercepted!

The pilot of the F-15 lowered his fighter plane and flew towards the target indicated by the early warning plane.

It's just that this time, the pilot felt that his radar seemed to be out of order, and he couldn't always find the target, but the early warning plane showed that it was there.

The mid-range sparrow missile cannot be used, so fly forward!They flew all the way to the line of sight, until after repeated visual inspections, they found the targets flying at low altitudes. They were some missiles, and there were dozens of them!

The pilots knew that they were in big trouble this time. Those missiles were unmanned, but they were more difficult to deal with than manned ones, because until now, they couldn't use the Sidewinder missiles to lock on to those nasty low-flying missiles!

The infrared signature of those missiles is too weak, and the altitude is too low!During the accompanying flight with the Tu-22M, the F-15 flew to a low altitude of 80 meters, but now, the flying altitude of those missiles is only a dozen meters, as if they were attached to the sea.

Chapter 638 Destruction of the Dimona Base ([-])