Saudi Arabia purchased the DF-3 ballistic missile
Recently, netizens began to worry about Saudi Arabia, because the Dongfeng 3 ballistic missile purchased by Saudi Arabia is not far from expiring, and some netizens shouted to Saudi Arabia, saying that Saudi Arabia should consider buying China's missile ballistics. The Dongfeng-3 ballistic missile created a new history, and also gave China a huge income at that time, when China made more money than foreign exchange reserves, and it was rumored that China made 13 billion yuan at that time. The Dongfeng 3 ballistic missile has changed the external living environment of Saudi Arabia, but the United States has been furious afterwards, and the secret trade between China and Saudi Arabia has been destroyed by the United States?
The DF-3 ballistic missile has been defending Saudi Arabia for more than 30 years
In fact, before purchasing the Dongfeng 3 ballistic missile, Saudi Arabia turned to the United States, hoping to buy the United States short-range ballistic missile, which has a range of only 120 kilometers, and the United States is worried that Saudi Arabia will modify itself to increase the range and attack power, and is afraid of Israel's opposition. The Refusal of the United States to supply saudi arabia with such short-range ballistic missiles has made Saudi Arabia very unhappy, and Saudi Arabia is well aware of the importance of Israel to the United States, and Israel is a nail nailed by the United States in the Middle East. At that time, during the Iran-Iraq War, shortly after the end of the fifth Middle East war, Israel's bombers in the Bekaa Valley area and the overwhelming offensive against Syria, and the occupation of the Golan Heights, which made Saudi Arabia very nervous, it can be said that Saudi Arabia's surrounding areas are very unsafe.
Saudi Arabia is rich in oil, gas and mineral resources, and the Saudi royal family believes that these external forces are eyeing Saudi Arabia and that Saudi Arabia must have heavyweight equipment to defend itself. Therefore, Saudi Arabia is looking for advanced weapons all over the world, and it is rumored that this advanced weapon purchased by Saudi Arabia is to hit the enemy capital with one blow when counterattacking. Saudi Arabia turned around and found China, Saudi Arabia hopes to buy China's ballistic missiles, and this also brings opportunities for Saudi Arabia to establish diplomatic relations with China, and the Dongfeng 3 ballistic missiles purchased by Saudi Arabia from China have also brought more than 30 years of peace to the country.
One day in 1987, a heavily guarded convoy drove low-key into a Chinese missile base, and the mysterious guest, with a thick moustache, learned that the guest was from Saudi Arabia. For this very important arms trade order, China received high-standard reception and invited important foreign figures to visit China's active missile ballistic base for the first time, because for China at that time, this transaction was very important. The DF-3 ballistic missile system was finally chosen, and there were very interesting rumors at the time, when China's economy was very poor, not to mention the military. In order to reflect the sincerity of the Chinese side, not only the most advanced material technology and guidance technology at that time were used, but also the Saudi Arabia was guaranteed, and the Chinese side would ensure the operation and training of dongfeng 3 and provide free maintenance services for a long time.
Although China's secret transaction with Saudi Arabia has done sufficient confidentiality measures, on the way to Saudi Arabia, it is suspected by the Americans, in order to ensure that there will be no accidents and will not be caught by the United States. Explosive devices were installed on ships carrying DF-3 ballistic missiles, and if the United States dared to board the ship for inspection, it would immediately sink the ship, after which all the people on board were safely evacuated. On the way to Saudi Arabia, although very low-key, the Pakistan Air Force exercises nearby still attracted the attention of the Americans, who felt unusual, and sent planes and warships to follow them in the back, preparing to carry out boarding inspections at the right time, but failed.
DF-21B ballistic missile
A year later, the US "Washington Post" disclosed that Saudi Arabia has obtained China's Dongfeng 3 ballistic missiles, the content of the article is very direct and clear, saudi arabia purchased DF3 ballistic missiles will directly threaten Israel's security, requiring the United States to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia and China, in order to put pressure on Saudi Arabia, then US President Reagan once recalled the ambassador to Saudi Arabia Hume Holland. The landing of the DF-3 ballistic missile in Saudi Arabia has become a fact, the Americans can not change, which makes the Americans very angry, the Reagan administration clamored to send inspectors to Saudi Arabia to inspect the batch of DF-3 ballistic missiles, but Saudi Arabia clearly refused. Israel has clamored for a pre-emptive strike, sending warplanes to destroy Saudi missile bases, but the United States has suppressed them. However, the Attitude of the United States soon changed bizarrely, and the United States tacitly accepted the Saudi-China ballistic missile deal in exchange for China's compliance with the Us Missile Technology Control Regime, and China promised not to directly export ballistic missiles with a range of more than 300 kilometers and a payload of 500 kilograms to other countries.
Saudi Arabia bought a total of 35 ballistic missiles, and the Chinese side also donated an additional one, each Dongfeng 3 ballistic missile unit price of 100 million US dollars, a total price of 3.5 billion US dollars, which is much more than China's foreign exchange reserves at that time, when China's foreign exchange reserves were only more than 2 billion US dollars. According to reports at the time, the Chinese side had dismantled all the nuclear warhead loading functions of these DF3, which could only be equipped with conventional warheads, but there were also rumors that 4 of them had the ability to load nuclear warheads, the purpose of which was to counter the Israeli nuclear threat, and the money to buy DF3 ballistic missiles was the then Saudi Air Force Commander Prince Sultan.
Israel at that time already had a range of 1,000 kilometers of Jericho 1 ballistic missile, and is the only country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia is naturally very panicked, after all, the end of the Middle East war, is not saudi Arabia's intention, but the united States mediated the result, several Middle East wars have been defeated miserably, Saudi Arabia led by the Middle East countries are very unconvinced, no one dares to guarantee that Israel will not destroy the Saudi royal family. Not to mention that there are Also Iranian and Iraqi Saddam Hussein around, Saudi Arabia needs a "big killer" to defend itself, and saddam Hussein's action in Iraq in 1990 once again proved that Saudi Arabia's choice is very correct.
Oil pipelines burning in the Gulf War
On August 2, 1990, just a few months after the official operation of the Saudi Arabian Missile Base in Sulayil, Iraq's Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and in just ten hours, Saddam's army took full control of Kuwait. Soon Iraq's 100,000 troops were assembled in the border area between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and 100,000 troops were directly approaching the eastern part of Saudi Arabia, and soon Saudi TELEVISION reported that the Sulayil missile base had entered a state of combat readiness and was ready to respond to possible emergencies, and the program also broadcast, and a number of military cards carrying Dongfeng 3 ballistic missiles into the base were ready to fulfill the mission of defending Saudi Arabia. Prince Sultan later recalled that because of the existence of the Dongfeng 3 ballistic missile, then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not dare to make a mistake against Saudi Arabia.
Dongfeng 3 belongs to the medium-range ballistic missile, the missile can be mobile launch, but the preparation time is longer, not as short as the current ballistic missile launch preparation time, the range is 2700 km to 2800 km, while the Dongfeng 3A can reach 4000 km, the power unit is a single-stage liquid fuel engine, using liquid fuel, and the guidance method is inertial gyro integrator. The Dongfeng 3 ballistic missile has been defending Saudi Arabia for nearly 32 years, so some netizens believe that Saudi Arabia should not consider continuing to buy Chinese ballistic missiles, such as China's Dongfeng 15A or Dongfeng 21A ballistic missiles, or even consider importing rockets with a range of more than 300 kilometers, which will form a high and low combination with ballistic missiles to jointly protect Saudi Arabia's security.
Israeli Jericho series of ballistic missiles
In fact, this speculation is not empty, in early 2014, the US "Newsweek" reported that China exported 2007 DF-21 ballistic missiles to Saudi Arabia, and on June 16 of the same year, ethan Mek, a security and foreign policy analyst at the US Economic and Security Review Board, published a report on the committee's website titled "China's Sale of Ballistic Missiles to Saudi Arabia: Background and Potential Implications". The report details reports of Chinese ballistic missile sales to Saudi Arabia, analyzing the reasons why Saudi Arabia is buying important weapons and equipment from China and the impact of these purchases on the regional military balance.
In early January 2018, Saudi newspapers reported that Anwar Ahmed, an adviser to the Saudi Joint Military Commission, reported that saudi Arabian joint military commissions had announced that they would like to report that they were in a position to do so. Majid. Eschery disclosed that Saudi Arabia has obtained the DF-21 ballistic missile from China to protect saudi arabia's two holy sites (Mecca and Medina) and gulf allies. Majid. Aischi particularly stressed that Saudi Arabia's purchase of the Chinese-made "Dongfeng 21" ballistic missile does not mean that Saudi Arabia will attack other countries or organizations, but the "Dongfeng 21" ballistic missile will greatly enhance Saudi Arabia's national defense capabilities, which is a powerful umbrella for Saudi Arabia and its allies. And the "Dongfeng 21" purchased by Saudi Arabia is most likely the "Dongfeng 21A" model, compared to the Dongfeng 3 ballistic missile, the "Dongfeng 21A" strike accuracy is higher, and the mobile launch capability is much stronger than the Dongfeng 3, for the desert plains of Saudi Arabia, the "Dongfeng 21A" is a very good choice, can do field launch, but the longest range of the "Dongfeng 21A" ballistic missile is 1700 kilometers, can only carry a single warhead. It is rumored that the United States has long known, but the United States turned a blind eye and did not embarrass Saudi Arabia, "Dongfeng 21A" has also become Saudi Arabia's new and strongest "town and country weapon", and Saudi Arabia's "Dongfeng 21A" ballistic missile may have the positioning support of "Beidou Satellite".
DF-21A ballistic missile
All in all, Saudi Arabia's possession of ballistic missiles has become a fact, and with the mediation of the United States and Saudi assurances, Israel may acquiesce to Saudi Arabia's possession of ballistic missiles. The future change in the strategic pattern of the Middle East is inseparable from Saudi Arabia, and China's ability to carry out such a heavyweight arms deal with Saudi Arabia is not only conducive to China's future development in the Middle East, but also conducive to Saudi Arabia. In addition, there are rumors that saudi arabia purchased the "Dongfeng 21A" ballistic missile, the price is not cheap, Saudi Arabia paid 60 billion US dollars, plus 23 years of oil pre-emptive rights.
Author: Floating Dreams