168: Chapter 168 The "Thunder" Missile Defense System is Activated

After seeing the parked Tianlong Type II drones at Qatif Air Force Base, Major General Faye immediately ordered the operating officers to familiarize themselves with them as soon as possible and transfer these drones to various air force bases across Saudi Arabia.

As for the Tianlei Missile Defense System, Major General Faye directly arranged for officers to transport one set to the Dammam Port King Air Force Base.

Dammam Port King Air Force Base is one of the main military facilities in Saudi Arabia.

At Dammam Port King Air Force Base, the officers and soldiers began to unpack and install the equipment category by category, following the assembly manual of the Tianlei Missile Defense System.

Due to the large amount of equipment, the unpacking process took more than half a day.

Subsequently, they began to connect each piece of equipment one by one according to the assembly manual, ensuring that every device could operate independently.

After each device completed its self-check, they began connecting them to the other devices; this installation work continued for another half a day.

Once all the equipment was installed, the final startup of the Tianlei Missile Defense System took another two hours.

After all, this was the first time the Tianlei Missile Defense System was being activated, and there were quite a few programs that needed to be installed.

After patiently waiting for a day, Major General Faye finally saw the full picture of the Tianlei Missile Defense System.

The entire Tianlei Missile Defense System occupied the area of a large hall, with over 200 connected screens, and the height of the final large screen was almost the same as the height of the hall itself.

Major General Faye looked at the information displayed on the screen, which included Saudi Arabia's topographical map, various air force bases, and various anti-aircraft missile positions.

This required Saudi Arabia to perfect the relevant data, such as the distribution of fighter jets at air force bases and the deployment status of anti-aircraft missiles.

At the same time, there was another large screen providing real-time monitoring of military aircraft, civil aircraft, and large-to-medium-sized aerial vehicles flying over Saudi Arabia.

It allowed one to know the flight status of aircraft across the entire Saudi Arabian airspace at a glance.

The Tianlei Missile Defense System had many functions, and Major General Faye still needed to spend considerable time familiarizing himself with all aspects of it.

He immediately ordered the operating officers to input the available data for various air force bases and information regarding anti-aircraft missile positions.

While inputting information for the Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile, the Tianlei Missile Defense System directly prompted that it could self-check the anti-aircraft missiles already in operation and automatically input these missiles into the defense system.

This saved the operating officers a lot of trouble.

After the detailed data entry, the picture displayed by the Tianlei Missile Defense System became more three-dimensional and comprehensive; for any fighter jets or missiles invading from any direction, it could immediately call upon appropriately positioned anti-aircraft missiles for interception and display the interception success rate in real-time.

This allowed the commander in charge of the Tianlei Missile Defense System to respond in a timely manner; if they discovered that the allocation of anti-aircraft missiles was unreasonable, they could promptly mobilize nearby anti-aircraft missiles to provide support, establishing a more rigorous anti-aircraft missile defense network.

After reviewing this, Major General Faye asked the operating officers if it was possible to also input the anti-aircraft missiles that Saudi Arabia had previously purchased from the USA or other countries into the Tianlei Missile Defense System.

After some exploration, the operating officers quickly concluded that it was possible to input other types of anti-aircraft missiles into the Tianlei Missile Defense System, though the interception success rate for these missiles was significantly downgraded.

For example, the interception success rate of the "Patriot"-3 anti-aircraft missile was only 20%, far lower than the data advertised by the USA.

The interception success rate for some models of "Patriot" anti-aircraft missiles was even lower than 5%, not nearly as effective as the USA claimed.

Major General Faye knew that the weapons and equipment sold by the USA were unreliable and that many functions had been neutered, but he had not expected the discrepancy to be this large.

If Saudi Arabia continued to use the "Patriot" series of anti-aircraft missiles, it would be impossible to intercept enemy fighter jets or drones in time.

No wonder the Yemen Sada Armed Forces were able to easily break through Saudi Arabia's air defense system and attack its oil fields and refineries using only those outdated drones previously.

It turned out that the "Patriot" series of anti-aircraft missiles were fundamentally unreliable and incapable of effective interception.

Major General Faye was very angry to see this situation, but there was nothing to be done about it now.

The USA would not care about Saudi Arabia's attitude at all; it could use its military bases in the Persian Gulf region to issue threats at any time and have the intelligence investigation countries interfere in some of Saudi Arabia's affairs.

Fortunately, now that they had the Tianlei Missile Defense System and the Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile, Saudi Arabia could construct a rigorous air defense system for its airspace, ensuring effective interception of invading enemy targets.

Major General Faye ordered the operating officers to redeploy the Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile according to the information displayed by the Tianlei Missile Defense System, placing the anti-aircraft missiles in the most suitable locations to avoid situations where some areas had too many anti-aircraft missiles while others lacked them.

At the same time, they needed to keep enough Tianlei Series Anti-Aircraft Missile in each area to ensure at least five consecutive strikes, and in important military bases, they even needed to ensure ten consecutive strikes, thereby guaranteeing the safety of Saudi Arabia's military bases.

After all, there was no country that would still have enough fighter jets to withstand ten consecutive strikes after being subjected to the layered strikes of the Tianlei Missile Defense System.

Unless they mobilized hundreds of advanced fighter jets at once, it would be impossible to achieve.

But if hundreds of advanced fighter jets were deployed against Saudi Arabia, all of its anti-aircraft missiles would be activated, allowing it to construct an even more rigorous air defense system that could still effectively intercept those hundreds of advanced fighter jets.

Furthermore, very few countries could mobilize hundreds of advanced fighter jets at one time, unless the USA and its European lackey countries acted in concert.

But by that point, the USA would be facing more than just Saudi Arabia.

Major General Faye was very satisfied after reviewing the Tianlei Missile Defense System.

He immediately notified the officers and soldiers at Qatif Air Force Base to transport the remaining two sets of the Tianlei Missile Defense System to two military bases near the capital of Saudi Arabia.

One set of the Tianlei Missile Defense System was immediately installed at the military base to be kept as a backup.

The other set of the Tianlei Missile Defense System was sealed and stored away, to be activated only if one of the other Tianlei Missile Defense Systems was destroyed.

The Tianlong Type II drones parked at Qatif Air Force Base were dispersed and deployed to various air force bases after several consecutive days of transfer flights, giving the Saudi Arabian Air Force an impressive drone formation.