Chapter 627 Iraqi Shipyard
The Red Bird 3 missile is less than six meters long. After being loaded into the launcher, it is only about seven meters long. The chassis of the Mercedes-Benz series 8*8 off-road heavy truck can be placed just the missile loaded into the launcher, and a two-meter equipment warehouse can be left in front.
After Iraq introduced two heavy trucks, the Mercedes-Benz series heavy trucks had excellent performance, but the price was still a bit high. Therefore, they were only equipped in key projects in the Iraqi army. Steyr heavy trucks were strong and durable and affordable, and entered the Iraqi army in large quantities and undertake logistical tasks.
Based on the Mercedes-Benz chassis, Iraqi personnel modified it to complete the development of cruise missile launch vehicles, each vehicle can carry four missiles.
As the range of cruise missiles will become larger and larger in the future, the method of land-based launch is the most economical. In addition, all data can be installed before launch, and the selected launch site data will be input in advance to achieve the purpose of rapid launch.
Kusai secretly inspected Zubaier's Red Bird Missile Base and was very happy that the military production here is in close progress. This is the beginning of the great rejuvenation of Iraq!
However, when inspecting the F-20 production line, Kusai frowned a little. The production of the F-20 is now in full swing. However, some raw materials that need to be imported from the United States are still showing signs of shortage. However, for some reasons, the raw materials that should have been received, such as the titanium alloy used in the f404 engine and avionics equipment, are now in a hurry.
Kusai knew that the United States was making a warning to Iraq. Although the United States exported it to Iraq's production line, since these things still need to be imported, the United States can still jammed Iraq's neck at a critical moment.
Want to impose sanctions? Kusai sneered. There are two consequences of sanctions. One can make the country unable to recover from now on, and the other can make the country stronger!
Iraq's industrial system is still incomplete. For example, titanium alloy is a blank imported from abroad. If the United States does not provide it, then it can be obtained from Europe, such as France, and can also apply from the Soviet Union. It can even obtain titanium alloy smelting equipment. As for raw materials, Kusai believes that minerals are still very rich in the plateaus in eastern Iran.
Unlike later generations. This sanction is at most a sanction by the United States, and Western countries will not respond. Even if Western countries respond, there will be another superpower. The situation in later generations will not happen.
For example, now, superpowers are encouraging Iraq.
Now, the United States has not formally implemented sanctions. It is just doing tricks and tricks in secret.
As for electronic equipment, Kusai believes that the United States does not provide it, and can start from the West. You should know. Now, in addition to its domestic R&D team, he also has a powerful electronics company: Ousheng Electronics Company, which has grown into an international large company. No one will know that the president of this company is his confidant. Moreover, this company has now acquired a stake in British Aerospace, and British electronic technology, especially radar, is also relatively advanced.
After her own training, Sarah has grown into a successful woman! Kusai thought to herself.
If the United States does not provide it, then Iraq will find a way to overcome various difficulties in the production of F-20 and ultimately realize the domestic production of all components. This will be a great progress for Iraq. But I don’t know what kind of face Northrop and General Dynamics should look like. Kusai remembered the later Eastern powers. After assembling dozens of Su-27sks, it stopped importing. After a few years, the J-11 came out in large quantities.
In addition to inspecting his main military production base and checking the progress of these projects, another purpose of Kusai is to see how technical experts from the Eastern powers are doing their own shipyard location and design.
Kusai is well aware of his goal. If Iraq wants to be strong, what it ultimately develops is the power of the sea! Iraq started from scratch and gradually developed industry. Now, it has finally begun to develop its own shipbuilding industry.
After returning from the Eastern Power and putting aside those technicians, Kusai let them "fend themselves" and never cared about them. Now, before the exercise is about to be held, Kusai took time to inspect the port of Saddam.
Saddam Port, a port named after the great leader of Iraq, is southwest of an island in the Musabar Bay in the northwest of the Persian Gulf, about 80 kilometers west of the straight line of Abadan Port. The port area was originally on both sides of the railway terminal, with the east and west terminals, as well as the barge port pool, grain import terminal and fertilizer plant terminal east of the east terminal. The dock line is 3,374 meters and the water depth is 6.m. In the late 1970s, the Iranian government expanded the new port area on the Dorak River bank northwest of the old port, and completed a total of 28 deep-water berths, including 4 container berths, 2 grain berths and 1 robo ore berths each. The others are grocery berths. The dock line is 5,285 meters long and the water depth is 10.m, making more than 40 deep-water berths at the port. As a result, all of them are cheaper Iraq.
This port has become an important port in Iraq. Among them, in the east port, there are Iraq's newly built naval bases and Iraq's secret submarine bases, which are also among them.
After some investigation, Cheng Yu was very satisfied with the place. Sabal Bay is an excellent deep-water bay with wide water surface, suitable geographical location, good climatic conditions, and direct railways to facilitate future material transportation. It is the most suitable to break ground and build a shipyard along the coast of the bay.
These days, Cheng Yu and several of his colleagues have been surveying the terrain to determine the construction plan of the shipyard, the location of the ship platform, the location of the gantry crane, the factory building of prefabricated parts, and how to store various materials to make the dispatch reasonable. This is also a big deal.
These days, I have been running outside every day. Cheng Yu's white skin has become darkened by the sun in the Middle East. She already knows why the custom here is to wear a scarf and cover it all over her body. Fortunately, there are no sandstorms here.
If you arrive in the desert area, you will be unable to move without those equipment.
Carrying the equipment, when the day of work was completed, Cheng Yu and his colleagues began to return. They raised their heads and saw a helicopter flying by in the sky.
"The Middle East is very disturbing this time. Do you think Iraq will launch a strike against Israel like Operation Babylon? The code name of their exercise is called Babylonian Rage." A male colleague looked at the sign on the helicopter in the sky and knew it belonged to the Iraqi military, and he said speculatively.
"I have never been to Iraq before. I thought it had become very dilapidated after the war. I didn't expect that it was so orderly and there was no way to see that I had experienced the war. It seems that these oil countries are rich!" Another young man said that the subsidies given by Iraq every month were enough to work in China for half a year, which gave them a new impression of this country.
"We are here to work. Remember your tasks and don't comment on everything here." Cheng Yu said.
They were engineers, and before they came here, they had been warned that they would never participate in various political and military activities here. They were just helping Iraq build shipyards.
When he returned to the station, a small building in the downtown area of Saddam Port, Cheng Yu had just put down the instrument and was told by Iraqi personnel that His Excellency Kusai asked their heads to go to the port office.
Kusai is here? Unexpectedly, when the situation in the Middle East is so tense, he still has the leisure to come here? He is so calm!
The demeanor of a general, as a superior, is a kind of calmness that must be, Cheng Yu thought in his heart.
"Cheng Yu, here is all the information." said a person.
"Why give it to me?"
"Because you have to report!"
"Why am I going?"
"Because you are the most familiar with Your Excellency Kusai, so it's easy to talk to."
Kusai first listened to reports from some port leaders. Since the war ended, Saddam Port has restored its original function and turned into a very important port to engage in international trade. The military port on one side has also been completed. In addition to a secret submarine base, which can accommodate more than a dozen conventional submarines, a dock that can moor warships less than 10,000 tons has also been built. This will be an important military port in Iraq.
Although the Iraqi Navy is still an offshore navy, the Iraqi Navy's takeoff will lay a solid foundation from now on!
Kusai has sent personnel to Italy to urge the other party to build two Attic Lier-class frigates for its own side. This was originally ordered by his father President Saddam. Until now, it should be built, right?
If Iraq wants to develop its navy, it is not enough to buy it alone. Therefore, when Kusai came to inspect the place, he was more concerned about his own shipbuilding industry and his own shipyard, and needed to develop rapidly.
"Report, the representatives of the shipyard are here." The secretary reported.
"Please come in," Kusai said.
When the other party came in, Kusai looked up and saw Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu at this time was different from what he saw on the plane last time. In addition to his skin being a little darkened by the sun in the Middle East, more importantly, his temperament has been sublimated and he has become more mature.
"His Excellency Kusai, after this period of investigation, our Chinese personnel have completed the general design of the shipyard's early stage. Now, I will give you a report." Cheng Yu said calmly. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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