It was a day in 1991, when it was time for meals for U.S. troops in Riyadh.
Suddenly, a harsh and urgent siren sounded, and a Scud missile from Iraq was about to explode on their heads.
All the members immediately returned to their combat positions, ready to be launched! At the command of the commander, the "Patriot" missile opened his battlefield "debut".
Listening only to the sound of "bang", the "patriot" collided with the rapidly speeding "Scud" and successfully saved the US army.
This picture is exactly the footage of the Gulf War that year, and some data show that the "Patriots" have achieved particularly bright results in the Gulf War, and the interception rate is as high as 85%, which makes the surface-to-air missiles successfully attract everyone's attention.
In the 30 years of the 1990s, from the "Bomark" in the United States to the later "Patriots", from the SA-1 to the SA-10 in the Soviet Union, the phenomenon of "inward rolling" in the industry has been quietly carried out in the military circles of the last century.
From its birth to the present, the development of surface-to-air missiles has never stopped, which has also added a lot of gold content to the title of its fighter nemesis.
Speaking of the history of the development of surface-to-air missiles, it goes back to the period of World War II, when it was the world of "anti-aircraft guns".
But the battlefield is like this, as soon as the "new product" appears, the weapons that are in line with it will immediately keep up, so with the advent of jet aircraft, the status of anti-aircraft guns is also weakening.
As a result, a new type of anti-aircraft weapon, the surface-to-air missile, was "born."
Compared with other weapons and equipment, surface-to-air missiles are a "new person".
It was born in the 1950s, and its mission is simple and straightforward, that is, to focus on air targets.
Just now we also said ah, the battlefield of "one thing down one thing", that is, the evolution is quite rapid, from the first generation of large and bulky body, into a small and exquisite slim body, it only took ten years.
It seems that the "inner volume" in this decade is quite serious.
Under the "healthy competition" of catching up with you and catching up with me, the famous "Patriot" came out, and the research and development of the American "Patriot" opened a new chapter in the third generation of surface-to-air missiles.
This missile is 5.31 meters long, 410 mm in diameter and weighs 1 ton, compared with the first generation of surface-to-air missiles of that year, it is obvious that it has "slimmed down" successfully.
In addition to the characteristics of medium- and long-range, medium- and high-altitude shooting, it can also monitor 100 targets "all-weather" standby, and can also track 5-8 targets at the same time, with strong anti-jamming ability and high system reliability, which can make it in the Gulf War of that year.
But the ground-to-air missiles of the 70s are not the only one in the United States, and Russia's SA-10 can compete with the "Patriots".
This surface-to-air missile clearly belongs to the "all-round" superior, it can not only deal with high-performance aircraft, but also intercept cruise missiles and other air targets.
With a total of 12 launchers and 48 spare bombs, the system can guide 12 missiles and attack 6 of them at the same time.
That is to say, on the battlefield of that year, as long as it was targeted, it could not run if it wanted to.
However, the Soviet Union at that time was not satisfied with the status quo, and in less than a decade, the SA-10's advanced version of the SA-12 began its combat service.
As soon as this surface-to-air missile was introduced, it immediately aroused heated discussion in the military field, because it was the world's first surface-to-air missile with anti-tactical ballistic missiles as its main target.
On the basis of retaining the previously existing capabilities, the SA-12 can also take countermeasures against high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and early warning aircraft.
The entire missile system can deal with aircraft flying at an altitude of 30 kilometers and a distance of 100 kilometers, and can also intercept ballistic missiles that fly at an altitude of 25 kilometers and a distance of 40 kilometers.
Obviously, the back wave of the Yangtze River pushed the front wave, and the performance of the SA-12 has clearly surpassed that of the "Patriot" and its predecessor SA-10.
In order to further understand, let's take a look at the on-site launch of surface-to-air missiles.
In the later stages of the Vietnam War, due to the collapse of negotiations between the United States and Vietnam, in order to save the war situation and get by in order to face it, the US military launched the largest air campaign during the Vietnam War.
How spectacular was the scene at that time, 200 B-52 bombers, more than 1200 tactical aircraft, and the Uyang Wudi "covered" Vietnamese airspace.
The Vietnamese side did not show weakness, and the whole staff immediately entered a state of combat readiness, and the guided radar quickly captured the target.
Immediately after, search, identification, launch, huge thrust to push the missile out of the launcher, through the automatic search function, the missile constantly corrects the ballistic trajectory, just a signal from the guidance radar, the missile can immediately detonate the warhead.
This process is a bit cumbersome to say, but in fact, from the launch to the target is successfully destroyed, it takes no more than 1 minute at most.
The Vietnam War made people realize the power of surface-to-air missiles, and in the month of 1965 alone, more than 100 U.S. aircraft were shot down.
In December 1973, the United States spent 12 days carpet bombing Vietnam, and it was better not to bomb, in just a few days, the US military was shot down by Vietnam a total of 32 B-52 bombers, of which 29 were shot down by surface-to-air missiles.
The intuitive numbers made surface-to-air missiles domineering, not just the Vietnam War, in the 20-day Fourth Middle East War, Egypt shot down 114 Israeli warplanes, of which 78 "died" in the hands of surface-to-air missiles.
In the Anglo-Armagh War, the ground-to-air missiles of both sides shot down 18 of each other's aircraft, and in the Afghan war, portable surface-to-air missiles also began to be sought after, which is an intuitive record!
This overwhelming proportion! Can you imagine the importance of surface-to-air missiles on the battlefield?
Although the power of surface-to-air missiles has been second to none since the last century, there is still a lot of room for growth.
For example, the anti-jamming ability, the interference sources are complex and changeable, the combination of thousands of ways, the progress of anti-radar missiles is also a leap forward.
If you want accurate guidance, you must improve the ability to resist interference, which is bound to become an eternal research topic.
With the development of the times, the replacement of surface-to-air missiles will only be faster, but it is precisely because of this "you chase me" that some countries have crooked their minds.
In 2016, a decision by the United States caused opposition from many countries, they actually wanted to deploy the THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea, and their own whole thing was not enough, and now they have extended their hands to other countries.
As we all know, THAAD was a set of "theater high-altitude area defense system", which was the only anti-missile system in the world at that time that could intercept missiles outside the atmosphere.
Its detection distance can reach more than 1800 kilometers, and the detection range can be far beyond the North Korean region, and even neighboring countries can be "peeped" to.
That is to say, once the THAAD is deployed, the missile launch positions of neighboring countries are equivalent to being placed in front of the United States.
At that time, the practice of Lotte Group was even more abusive, and he transferred the golf course under his name to the South Korean government.
"Coincidentally", this piece of land is just in the northeast border area of our country, and since they are bent on going their own way, our country naturally wants to give him a color to see.
Under the spontaneous resistance of the people of our country, Lotte Industry soon disappeared in China.
As the saying goes, the wrong place of the baby is waste, such a powerful weapon as ground-to-air missiles should belong to the battlefield, and this move of the United States will only stink the "THAAD".