Chapter 539 S200 with Nuclear Warhead

The Soviet Union's good relations with China have already influenced neighboring countries, such as Vietnam and India.

For Vietnam, the Soviet Union did not have much support. It ignored or even watched China teach Vietnam a lesson out of respect for China's traditional influence in southern Asia and Southeast Asia. The bottom line was that China could only launch attacks north of 17 degrees north latitude, and the south must be retained. Through the last war, the Soviet Union had obtained Cam Ranh Bay, the best military port in Asia, and established a long-term garrison there.

As for another country, India, the Soviet Union has always been a chess piece used by the Soviet Union to balance China. Although the Soviet Union has established good relations with China and has always supported India, due to historical conflicts, it is impossible for China to have good relations with India. At the same time, India can also be used to contain Pakistan and prevent Pakistan from acting rashly.

The last time China exported weapons to Iran, the Soviet Union did so through appeasement and other forms of cooperation in an effort to get China to give up arms trade with Iran. However, this approach cannot continue forever!

When necessary, the Soviet Union can also show its diplomatic skills, just like now, exporting more advanced weapons to India! And it just so happens that there are ready-made S200 air defense missiles available at this time!

S-200 "Vega" air defense missile, codenamed SAM-5 in the West. (Brief introduction: "SAM" is the transliteration of the English abbreviation "SAM", which means "surface-to-air missile". Every time the Soviet Union developed a type of surface-to-air missile, it named and numbered it, but the West felt that it was inconvenient to use Russian, so they nicknamed the Soviet surface-to-air missiles one by one in English and numbered them accordingly. For example, this S200, codenamed SAM-5 in the West, was also given the code name "Gammon".)

This is a Soviet super-second-stage high-altitude long-range surface-to-air missile designed by the Soviet Almaz Central Design Bureau. It was developed from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s after World War II and successfully developed in 1967. It is equipped with the Soviet Air Defense Forces missile units. It is mainly used to deal with aircraft and cruise missiles with a speed of M3 per hour. It can also intercept strategic and tactical missiles.

One of the outstanding features of this missile is that it is large! This is the largest surface-to-air missile in the Soviet Union! A missile is more than ten meters long and requires a special launch vehicle to carry it! And its data is also quite impressive.

The first model of this missile, the V-860 missile, had a maximum range of 160 kilometers and a maximum altitude of 20 kilometers. The 5V25V or V-880M missile, which was finalized in 1976, had a maximum range of 400 kilometers and a maximum altitude of 40 kilometers! Even in later times, only the S400 can compare with it.

The export model uses V-880E/5V28E missiles with a maximum range of 250 kilometers and a maximum altitude of 29 kilometers. This batch of missiles was originally exported to North Korea at the request of the North Korean government to deal with the US SR71 reconnaissance aircraft. However, not long ago, because North Korea exported a large number of weapons to Iran, Moscow was extremely angry with Pyongyang, and this export was shelved.

These missiles are kept anyway, so why not export them to India? And India must be very satisfied with these missiles.

Why are they satisfied? Because although this is an anti-aircraft missile, if it is deployed in the Indian border area, it is enough to strike air targets within a range of 200 kilometers in China! This defensive weapon will become an out-and-out offensive weapon! From now on, Chinese fighter jets flying within 200 kilometers of the Sino-Indian border will be a dangerous suicide action!

The export of this weapon will make China feel deeply threatened, so China will definitely protest to Moscow! In this case, Moscow can make demands to China. It is also easy to shelve this batch of export plans. Then China just needs to stop exporting ballistic missiles to Saudi Arabia!

Interfering in China's internal affairs? China's export of weapons to Saudi Arabia has nothing to do with the Soviet Union? This is obvious. By the same token, the Soviet Union's export of weapons to India has nothing to do with China!

China is a reasonable country. As long as we are reasonable, everything will be easy.

Andrei's proposal was immediately approved by Ustinov. It was obvious that Andrei's proposal was better.

"At the same time, I have another suggestion. We can use the S200 missile to conduct a ballistic missile interception experiment. I remember that our S200 missile has the ability to intercept ballistic missiles. Why don't we conduct an interception experiment in public? What do you think?" Andre said.

Kill two birds with one stone. First of all, the S200 missiles have begun to be gradually phased out in the Soviet Air Defense Force's surface-to-air missile battalions and replaced by the newer S300 air defense missiles. These missiles will also be exported to other countries, such as India and Iraq.

This missile has the ability to intercept tactical surface-to-surface missiles! The first to be deterred is Saudi Arabia! Tell Saudi Arabia not to play any tricks. Is the ballistic missile advanced? We have the ability to intercept! If Saudi Arabia wants to obtain this missile, it will escalate the war. The Soviet Union will not hesitate to export this interceptor missile to Iraq! Make Saudi Arabia's trump card ineffective!

Secondly, it is done for China to see, so that China will give up the idea of ​​exporting ballistic missiles. If India gets this powerful weapon, China's trump card will be useless.

Third, this could be considered the prologue to Star Wars, right?

Hearing Andrei's words, Ustinov was stunned for a moment: "Andrei, maybe you don't know that we use nuclear warheads to intercept ballistic missiles."

Intercepting ballistic missiles! But it's not that simple. The Americans of later generations used so many advanced technologies to research ***, NMD and other defensive weapons, but they were extremely difficult and repeatedly criticized. And the Soviet Union, using the technology of the 1960s, was able to intercept strategic and tactical ballistic missiles? Although the seeker of this missile is active radar-guided, it is definitely not as advanced as the technology of later generations!

This missile can undoubtedly intercept ballistic missiles. The Soviets used a simple method to solve the problem, that is, the nuclear warhead! This huge missile has enough space to accommodate the nuclear warhead, so in addition to the 70 kg fragmentation warhead, this thing also has a nuclear warhead warhead!

Hearing this, Andre was also stunned, but immediately, a smile appeared on his face again: "Nuclear warhead, this is not bad, we should find a deserted place and shoot a target once."

Andrei's smile was extremely brilliant. The Soviet Union was a huge polar bear, and its will could not be violated!