Chapter 54 System Confrontation
With the same configuration, the same equipment, without a supporting command and control system, you will not be able to form a system role and will not be able to effectively exert the power of the model.————"High-tech Local War Characteristics".
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At Amara Air Force Base near Basra, a Challenger aircraft landed on the runway. Liu Ming came here from Najaf to inspect. He was accompanied by his staff and the new deputy commander of the 6th Navy Team.
The leaders of the Southern Military Region and Basra Province came to greet them, but Liu Ming just exchanged a few simple greetings with them, and immediately took a bus to the Holy City Command Base in the nearby mountainous area.
The Iraqi military spent a total of US$2.6 billion to establish the Quds Southern Command Center. It is one of the core of the entire Iraqi national strategic unity.
The underground command center is the heart of here. It penetrates deep into the mountain. There is a layer of soil two meters thick on the ground. More than one meter of reinforced concrete is poured below. Below this surface, there are hard rocks with a mountain thickness of magnitude. Below the rocks, there is a command center tunnel made of reinforced concrete and steel plates. In order to prevent nuclear strikes, huge rubber gaskets were also set up to prevent the tunnel from violently deforming under nuclear explosions.
Deep in the underground meters, there is the lobby of the command center. It is equipped with a level computer and 3 large screens of high meter, which can display the configuration, combat status, rear troop station, invading forces and other information in real time. This level computer was obtained by Liu Ming for a long time. It is a level computer from the Japanese department. This computer has a computing degree of up to 1.3 billion floating-point operations per second. It was one of the fastest computers in the world at that time and the fastest computer in Iraq.
Currently, Iraq has 6 computers in total, and there are two in the National Holy City Command Center in the north. One is also produced by the company and the calculation rate reaches 800 million times per second. There is also a Galaxy i-type giant computer produced in China to cooperate with it.
At the Urzhan Nuclear Base, there is a Chinese-made Galaxy i-type giant computer for control work, and in Ganying Oil City, there is a US-made computer that operates 400 million times per second. This was barely exported to the Iraqis after many deliberations and confirmed that it had no military uses. Liu Ming was very dissatisfied with this, but he had no choice but to control the export of grade computers by the Americans.
In addition, there is also a cm-level computer opened by the French National Information Center and Vi Company, with a computing degree of 240 million times per second. This computer was placed at the National Meteorological Observatory in Iraq for meteorological forecasts, and at the same time cooperated with the Ministry of Civil Affairs to conduct census statistics.
The Southern Holy City Command Base has a dedicated line connection with the National Holy City Command Center, the main government departments, the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, the staff of the three armies and the Freedom Palace, Liu Ming’s headquarters. It is currently connecting with the Iraqi Air Force’s air defense early warning command system, the Iraqi Navy’s naval command support system, and the 6th Army’s theater dynamic command system. The entire command system of the command base has been automated.
Liu Ming knew very well that with the advancement of Gorbachev's reform, conflicts in the Soviet Union would gradually explode. This was a building that was about to fall. He could only delay the time of its collapse, but could not stop its collapse. Before that, Iraq must take advantage of all opportunities and time to establish a powerful army as soon as possible to prevent interference from major powers.
In the Gulf War in history, the equipment of the Iraqi army was not useless. But why did the Iraqi army, which had strong combat power, be beaten to the point of defeat and had almost no power to fight back? This is because of the system gap.
Modern warfare is already a confrontation between systems, a confrontation between national will and comprehensive strength. The environment and national conditions of each country are very different, which directly determines the differences in the policy directions of their arms exhibitions and weapons procurement. Through the construction of modern informatization, the Americans have established a comprehensive system, and any weapons and equipment are carried out based on system support.
Therefore, the US military's equipment of the same level can exert 200% power under the entire system system, while Iraq's weapons do not have a systematic support and can only exert effectiveness. It would be strange if the two are undefeated. The US military emphasizes the absolute advantage caused by the "generation difference". Only when Iraq creates a complete set of equipment systems according to its own needs can it have the capital to fight against the American power.
By that time, the US military will no longer have the advantage of "generation difference". They only have some equipment advantages in the local area, and these local advantages can be compensated by flexible tactics and quantity.
"Unified Confrontation" is a huge project that is simple to say and full of huge challenges if it needs to be done. Phantom, lightning, Flying Leopard, and even the future fearless-class warship bombs are just part of this system, just a node. Iraq's defense industry and electronics industry are not yet sufficient, and building this system made Liu Ming feel that he was unable to do it.
Fortunately, the existence of Vi and Iraq's overseas acquisitions brought a lot of advanced technology, and there is obviously still some time to deal with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the US's rebellion against Iraq. Liu Ming inspected the entire underground command center and asked about the relevant situation. The command center officials told him that so far, they have completed the connection with the main command system in the north, and troops in the entire southern military region have been included in the command scope of the base, and the rest are being found.
Liu Ming nodded. The various node projects that are supported by this country's integrated information command system have been launched. Iraq is transforming its air force and the 6th Army troops. The Phantom Thunderfighter and the new Flying Leopard fighter bomber will be equipped with the "Houkema" i-type data link driven by Vi. The main combat platform of the 6th Army will also be partially equipped with this equipment, which greatly improves the information command capabilities of the Iraqi army.
Focusing on the national integrated information command system, Liu Mingzheng tried his best to transform the Iraqi army, making it systematic, and the weapons of various military branches are standardized and serialized, and combined and equipped. He is now making great efforts to poach talents from all over the world, introduce technology, and promote the development of key technologies. For example, key electronic, optoelectronic components and intelligent sensor device technologies; weapon tracking, stability technology; navigation and positioning technology; tactical command and control automation technology; computer hardware and software technology, etc.
At the same time, as a large number of young Iraqi officers returned from studying abroad, with the renewal of the ideas of a large number of soldiers and more high-knowledge and high-technicians entering the army, this army is undergoing earth-shaking changes. Liu Ming was able to see the future of this army. With the current development, looking at the world, I am afraid that only the US military is doing the same work as himself.
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