There are some storms on the Arabian Sea today.

The waves slammed the hull, and the hull of tens of thousands of tons swayed a little on the sea surface, and there was a shaking left and right on the deck above.

"Go forward at full speed, rudder three right, ready to take off against the wind." Inside the bridge, the captain of the Baghdad, Abdul, calmly ordered.

On the deck below, there were lights flashing, and this was a night flight training.

Take off and landing on an aircraft carrier is a very dangerous action, especially at night when landing on an aircraft carrier, which is even more dangerous. Therefore, even for the US Navy, all carrier-based aircraft pilots have the ability to take off at night, but only 60% of pilots have the ability to land at night, which leads to their attack actions being initiated after the early morning, and when the carrier-based aircraft group returns, it is already dawn.

If the aircraft carrier has real combat capabilities, it is not only possible to be able to move during the day, but also to have combat effectiveness at night. Therefore, after they have mastered the take-off and landing capabilities during the day, they began to challenge night flights.

On the oblique deck, a double propeller fixed-wing aircraft was parked in the takeoff position, and the deck operator used a glow stick to direct the release action.

On the plane, there was a small mushroom plate carrying it, which was Iraq's own carrier-based early warning aircraft.

This early warning aircraft was improved from the e-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft in the United States. At that time, Kusai ordered a batch of these early warning aircraft from the United States with a good relationship with the United States, and with the subsequent orders, the total number finally reached ten. In this way, one squadron and five aircraft are maintained on an aircraft carrier, which is enough to undertake uninterrupted early warning tasks.

However, when the United States exported this early warning aircraft, it had already been discounted, resulting in a big gap in early warning performance that was equipped with the US military itself. After Iraq's land-based use for a few years, its own phased array early warning aircraft was equipped with troops. At the same time, it began to use Ericsson's divine eye technology to gradually modify this early warning aircraft.

This is also to prevent the use of equipment produced by the United States during combat, and the technical performance of the United States is well known to the United States. At that time, it is very simple for the United States to find its loopholes. As long as the United States specifically interferes with its radar, the early warning aircraft will become a decoration.

Therefore, Iraq has made independent improvements. Only when the main equipment meets its own production can it not be controlled by others when fighting.

When I was buying it, what Kusai valued more was its body structure. It is very suitable for aircraft carriers. If it was developed by Iraq, it would definitely have a long cycle and very small number of equipment. So I took this shortcut. In order to avoid being controlled by others, Iraq imported a considerable number of accessories.

Several crew members in the early warning aircraft adjusted their seats and all moved forward, and tied them tightly to their seats. As long as they were aircrews, they had to face this huge overload during ejection. Every time they ejected, they would feel: it was great!

The wheel in front was fixed on the catapult, and all preparations were completed. As the deck personnel moved, the fluorescent stick pointed at the finger of the early warning machine driver immediately opened the accelerator and accelerated the propeller. At the same time, steam overflowed on the deck, and the early warning machine flew up from the top of the oblique deck.

Most of the enemy's attacks on aircraft carriers will be launched at night, so first of all, those with night flight capabilities must be carrier-based early warning aircraft.

With the takeoff of the early warning aircraft, Reyer was also ready in the takeoff area of ​​the jump deck.

Through several years of operation, the Iraqi Navy discovered that the best choice for them is the method of leapfrog and catapult takeoff. Catoff can allow the aircraft to take off at the maximum load capacity. In this way, all the abilities of the aircraft when it was originally designed will be perfectly reflected.

However, another problem faced by catapult takeoff is that the catapult is a product with not very high reliability. It takes at least two weeks to repair it. If used at high intensity, it will have to be repaired once a week. Even American catapults are no exception. Ultra-high temperature and high pressure steam will damage the piston and cylinder.

(This can be seen in the movie. The Americans wanted to take off the fighter plane quickly, but the captain got a report from the deck staff that the catapult failed and the subsequent plane could not take off.)

In this way, the ski jump takeoff can have the ability to face the attack quickly. Therefore, except for the slow e-2 that must take off from the catapult, the other fighter jets can use two takeoff methods: catapult takeoff and ski jump takeoff.

After seeing the gesture of the guide below through the cockpit, Reyer turned on the afterburner and the fighter began to soar along the white line from the head of the leap deck.

Outside the cockpit is the dark night sky. Reyer's Su-27k fighter jet conducted tonight's exercise subjects under the command of the early warning aircraft, and quickly and remotely intercepted!

Around the Baghdad, several large warships were guarding the left and right. Among them, the warship with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons was vigilantly searching for the surrounding sea and air. It was Iraq's large cruiser, Mosul, which was the glorious class cruiser of the Soviet era. Iraq invested funds and completed the construction, it joined the Iraqi Navy. This warship had complete long, medium and short-range air defense capabilities and was the patron saint of the aircraft carrier.

In addition to the air defense missiles launched vertically, the even more daunting weapon of the Mosul is the cruise missiles on both sides.

After the huge granite anti-ship missile was dismantled, each anti-ship missile was located, and the location of each anti-ship missile was turned into a quad-mounted cruise missile launcher. Due to technological advances, especially the folded wing structure, the space occupied by cruise missiles has been greatly reduced. Therefore, the USS Mosul carries 64 ground-attack cruise missiles. When this improved version of the cruise ship appeared in front of the world, even the Americans were surprised. It was very dangerous to bring such warships to the waters around any country.

Next to the Mosul is a special air defense destroyer for fearless third-class, using four-sided phased array radar, which is enough to cope with complex environments.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union allowed Iraq's aircraft carrier formation to make breakthrough progress, and their shortcomings, Air Defense Wendi, were completely solved.

Going outward, there are two Fearless Class and two Modern Class. Underwater where no one pays attention, there is also an Oscar-class nuclear submarine.

Such a formation lineup will never be at a disadvantage even if it is a fight against the US aircraft carrier battle group. The Iraqi Navy has the ability to confront the US Navy head-on.

Of course, it is not just these. Iraq's second aircraft carrier, the Basra, has a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 80,000 tons, is undergoing the final sea trial. After the sea trial is completed, it will join the Iraqi Navy and form a second aircraft carrier battle group. At the same time, another Glorious Class will be built and joined the Iraqi Navy.

At this time, Russia, Ukraine and other countries will eliminate large quantities of warships due to insufficient funds. Iraq purchased a Hyundai class and two Fearless Classes at an extremely low price, and both will join the second aircraft carrier formation.

Iraq's self-produced frigates have completed all the sea trials and delivered to the Iraqi Navy. Iraq will build five of them in batches. This frigates have also been targeted by the Saudi Navy and are preparing to order several. At the same time, Iraq has also begun to build a new destroyer with a displacement of about 7,000 tons. This destroyer will use the four-sided phased array radar jointly developed by Iraq and Sweden. The main air defense missile is the vertically launched S'a-n-6 regional air defense missile. This missile has a range of 100 kilometers, which is enough to cope with the threat of long-range targets. This missile is also an regional air defense missile that Iraq has prepared to produce on its own under the technology obtained by Iraq from the Southern Machinery Manufacturing Plant.

The power of the ship-based one is the mature gas turbine of Ukraine, and the warships still exudes the shadow of the Soviet era everywhere.

After Iraq has achieved the introduction and independent production of naval equipment, it will truly become a military power. After ten to twenty years, digesting and absorbing current technology, and after Iraq's aircraft carriers are proficient in operation, Iraq will independently start construction of an aircraft carrier.

Even Ah San's navy was clamoring to maintain the scale of the three aircraft carriers. The Iraqi Navy wanted to protect its rights and interests. In the future, it would be a relatively suitable scale to have three aircraft carrier battle groups.

However, so far, nuclear submarines are still a shortcoming in the Iraqi Navy.

Surface ships can be introduced, digested, and absorbed, but underwater nuclear submarines will not be sold by any country. What a great man in the East said at the beginning, nuclear submarines will be created even in ten thousand years!

Therefore, Iraq also launched a nuclear submarine development project. However, because everything started from scratch, although it absorbed some nuclear submarine experts from the former Soviet Union, there was still a long way to go.

So, now, Iraq has only one Oscar-class nuclear submarine for the time being, which cannot satisfy underwater operations in any case.

Of course, these are all superficial. In fact, in addition to the Oscar-class, Iraq also owns an Acura-class nuclear submarine. This submarine was on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a K-263, which belonged to the Pacific Fleet. This was a submarine that only entered service in 1986. During an exercise, it lost contact with the Pacific Fleet. It was confirmed that the submarine was unfortunately killed, and there was no survivor on the officers and soldiers on it. However, at this time, the Soviet Union had no strength to deal with these matters. The intensification of internal struggle made them unable to even carry out salvage work, and in fact they could not salvage. The crashed place was more than 10,000 meters. If the submarine fell, the pressure resistant shell might have been crushed.

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