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"Commander, the evaluation report is here." Apart from going to the toilet, Schwarzkopf and Powell have not left the command center of the headquarters.

I've always been here waiting for the result.

The time has come to ten o'clock in the evening local time. Whether to continue the night attack on Baghdad has reached the most urgent juncture.

At the same time, whether to send airborne troops and ground troops to support the two special operations troops in that area is also waiting for this result.Without the information superiority, without the eyes and command in the air, it is very difficult for the American military to fight.

As the commander-in-chief and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, it is impossible not to know.

Schwarzkopf, who was closing his eyes and rubbing his temples, heard this, and he immediately became energetic. With his eyes opened, he suddenly sat up and said to the staff, "What's the situation?"

Even Powell, who was drinking coffee to refresh himself, became energetic.

"According to the detection and analysis of our technical personnel in the logistics department, all of our fighter failures are caused by short circuits. These failures are not caused by software system failures, but by the destruction of hardware systems. It is difficult to eliminate in the air. ......" The technical staff put down the analysis report in his hand, and then solemnly reported to the commander and chief of staff.

"What caused it. You just need to tell us whether our fighters can continue to enter this area. If not, what is the solution!" Schwarzkuppf didn't want to listen to those details.

Powell remained silent.

The defeat in the first battle was a serious blow to the morale of the entire US military.

The Arab Coalition Command does not know the news. The news is only compressed in a small area, but these fighters have not returned to the airport and will soon be able to spread.

Once the problem cannot be solved prematurely, it will eventually make the entire US military show cowardly.

"Graphite dust!" The technical staff directly pointed out the culprit."Within our first wave of attacks reaching a range of tens of kilometers southwest of Baghdad, their anti-aircraft artillery units dropped a huge number of graphite bombs into the sky. These bombs were filled with graphite dust. Once it exploded, the entire Graphite dust will be dispersed in the air, and under the movement of the airflow, these dust will spread to the surroundings, forming a black-gray area..."

The words of the technical staff made the entire combatant headquarters take a breath.

Graphite bombs, they know a lot of people here, because today, the first day of the war, the U.S. army dropped graphite bombs on many cities in Iraq in order to paralyze their power systems and command and communication systems.

For the US military, this is a very familiar advanced conventional weaponry, not used to kill the enemy, but to disintegrate the enemy's combat effectiveness.

"Graphite bombs? Where did they come from? Graphite bombs are floating in the air!"

Schwarzkopf is almost going away.

This is the weaponry owned by the US military!

The entire technology, not even the Soviets.

Unless the intelligence department is not working, it is not very clear about the Soviet intelligence.

But where did Iraq get so many graphite bombs?

"According to our analysis of the graphite dust on the faulty line, the graphite dust is finer than the graphite we produce, and the processing technology is better than ours..." the technical staff said calmly."These graphite dusts are floating in the sky. Once our fighters enter these areas, the graphite dusts will flow through the fighter jets at high speed and generate air pressure. The air intake channels of the fighters and the tiny gaps used for cooling in other places will enter the fighters. , And quickly cover the electronic components, short-circuit the electronic components, and burn the electronic components, thus forming a short circuit..."

The analysis of the technical staff plunged the entire headquarters into contemplation.

Iraq slapped them severely this time.They think that only they have the technical equipment, how can they think that an ordinary enemy has it?

Serious mistakes in intelligence work!

The battle of the day only confirmed this.

"What about the solution?" Powell was much calmer than Schwarzkopf.

Once the reason is found, it will be much easier.

"Under the current conditions, if you want to solve this problem, you can only wait. Waiting for the graphite dust in the air to disperse, and the scarce quantity will also pose a threat to the fighters. Or, waiting for the rain, after the rain, these floating in the air The graphite dust will be carried to the ground under the gravity of rain."

The technical staff gave a solution.

The attitude is obvious, and all they can do now is wait.

Wait for the graphite dust in the air to be blown away, or wait for the graphite dust in the air to be rained on the ground.

"Does this graphite dust have any effect on the radio communication signal?" Thinking that their troops can't be connected, if there is no way to connect the communication signal in that area, it will be troublesome.

Powell asked seriously.

"In theory, graphite dust will have a certain impact on communication signals. However, the main function is to attach to electronic components, forming a short circuit, thereby destroying communication equipment..." The technical staff shook his head, whether it would affect the graphite dust They are also uncertain about the communication system."However, too much graphite dust floating in the air will affect our laser guidance signal, resulting in a decrease in accuracy..."

"If we send ground troops, this dust will also affect our ground equipment?" Powell continued to ask.

I was also a little shocked that the Iraqis knew how to use graphite dust in this way.

They use graphite dust just to paralyze their electronic equipment and radar stations.

I never thought that the other party would actually use such a trick!

It is impossible for the other party to use this trick without any defense.

In this situation, I finally understood why the first wave arrived near Baghdad's airspace. The radar station in Baghdad clearly spotted them, but still did not send any fighters!

"As long as it is electronic equipment, it is impossible to enter this area. Even missiles can be affected!" The technical staff emphasized.

Schwarzkopf collapsed, and Powell waved to the technical staff to signal him to leave, and then said to the commander, "We had an intelligence error before the war, and now we must rework our combat plan. And Feed this news back to China. Find out how many graphite bombs Iraq has! If they have too many in their hands, for us..."

Needless to say, the consequences are very obvious.

Schwarzkopf took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and nodded."The air raid must stop. We need to rescue our special forces! The other side is a trap."

Under the current circumstances, who doesn't know that this is a trap?

The problem is, knowing that this is a trap, they can't help but jump into this trap.

The two special operations forces are the most elite of the US military.

When the situation is not clear, sending so many special forces into this area to perform missions, whether the wreckage of the fighter plane can be abolished, it is not clear, the Iraqis obviously set a trap at the beginning and waited for them to get in.

"Even if it is a trap, can we not drill inside?" Powell's face was also extremely serious.

After this incident, both Schwarzkopf and him will bear the responsibility.

Even if they take responsibility, they must first rescue the surviving pilots and special forces over there.Otherwise, this war will not go on.

Once the headquarters has made any undesirable actions, it will soon be clear to the entire army that it is impossible to block news.

After all, many people see these forces performing their tasks.

"The 82nd Airborne Division’s 325th Parachute Infantry Regiment was dispatched into this area. At the same time, the 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment was airborne. The rest of the troops were on standby. The 24th Airborne Infantry Division had arrived in the Ala area. After the airborne was carried out, the whole army made a surprise attack. Respond..." Powell quickly came up with a plan of action.

Obviously they knew it was a trap, they still had to go inside.

"We need to mobilize more ground troops to support..." Schwarzkopf now feels that these troops are not enough.

According to the previous combat plan, on the border between northern Saudi Arabia and Iraq, most of the Arab coalition forces and other coalition forces were deployed. According to the original combat plan, this area should be pulled from the Saudi-Iraq border by the 18th Airborne Army through the ground and airborne. Khaf raided to the edge of the Euphrates River, cut off Highway No. 8 in the south of Samawah, prevented the Iraqi army from strengthening reinforcements, and assisted the 7th Army that penetrated to Basra to wipe out Iraq’s active forces in the south.

Now things have changed from the beginning, making these arrangements invalid.

Moreover, from the beginning of the war, they had to carry out assaults on the most heavily defended areas in Iraq.

"We launched an attack on the Iraqi army in Kuwait, while the 7th Army moved as planned..." Since everything is messed up and cannot continue in accordance with the original combat plan, the attack can only be launched faster.

"We need to obtain domestic authorization to change our combat plan!" Schwarzkopf's sense of powerlessness is getting worse.

If China disagrees, this matter is definitely not an easy task.

Soon, this changed combat plan was passed back to the Pentagon, and then Cheney entered the White House with the changed combat plan.

"Why not use our air superiority to fight Iraq without fighting back and start a ground war? I don't want our Gulf War to become the Vietnam War again!" Bush looked upset when he saw the revised combat plan. The Secretary of Defense.