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"I forgot to tell you one thing." Qusay said: "Prince Sultan is currently in Baghdad. Before coming back to see you, he has visited our newly commissioned Mirage 4000 fighter in the south and is very interested in this fighter. , put forward the purchase intention, we will introduce a Mirage 4000 production line this year, and by then, we will mass-produce this latest European heavy fighter.”

What did Qusay propose this for?After thinking about it for a while, Brightman understood that this was telling the United States: Don't use the old means to engage in an arms embargo!

The United States has now exported an F-20 production line to Iraq. This is also one of the bargaining chips of the Americans. If Iraq does something too extreme, it can impose sanctions on the raw materials that need to be imported on the production line at any time, and ban the sale. In this way, That line was abandoned.

And Qusay said this now, telling the United States that if the United States dares to make this move, Iraq will also accept it: first seal up the F-20 production line, and transfer these skilled workers to the Phantom 4000. Go up the production line!Well, the US embargo will not affect Iraq, but it will cause great losses to Northrop.

The sanctions imposed by the United States are ineffective for France, because France has withdrawn from NATO. Any action by France does not require the authorization of the United States. For Dassault, the export of this heavy fighter will definitely make a profit A lot, it seems that some of the high-level ideas are not properly considered!

Seeing the change in Brightman's expression, Qusay admired the president of the Fifth French Republic, General de Gaulle, in his heart.

After the Second World War, France nominally wore the halo of a victorious country, but its comprehensive national strength and international influence plummeted. Like other European countries, in the midst of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the policy of ingratiating, Eastern Europe After taking refuge in the Soviet Union, Western Europe regards the United States as the boss.

Until December 1958, Charles de Gaulle was elected as the first president of the Fifth French Republic.After de Gaulle came to power, he implemented a series of tough foreign policies; maintained national independence and strived for the status of a great power; he was both alliance and dúlì with the United States, and he was firm and dialogue with the Soviet Union, breaking the bipolar structure of the United States and the Soviet Union and promoting the multipolarization of the world; 'Europe for Europeans' at its core!

These policies were later called 'De Gaullistism'. De Gaulle zhèngfǔ not only insisted on developing dúlì nuclear power, but also proposed to be on an equal footing with the United States and Britain in the North Atlantic Alliance. Naturally, it would not satisfy the United States. After being rejected by the United States, De Gaulle In 1966, he angrily withdrew from NATO military integration.Since then, France's status as a great power has been re-established.

With such an outlier as France, the United States is sometimes helpless, such as now.

Moreover, if Saudi Arabia also purchases this kind of fighter jet, it will have an impact on the US policy. Saudi Arabia is pro-American, and the treatment of Saudi Arabia by the United States is definitely very good. Purchased, the dependence on the United States is very strong, but if Saudi Arabia purchases Mirage 15, this situation will change a lot.

Things are a little tricky!

"Besides, on the way back to Baghdad, when Prince Sultan heard that we still have a tank production line in Baghdad, he was also very interested. He hoped to visit this tank production line after the meeting with you. It is very likely that Saudi Arabia will also equip this kind of tanks on our production line." Qu Sai continued.

If Saudi Arabia is equipped with Mirage 4000, which is already unacceptable to the United States, then it is even more unacceptable for Saudi Arabia to equip this kind of tank on the Iraqi production line, because that kind of tank is from the northern Soviet Union. 72!

Although this kind of tank is already produced on the production line in Iraq, a tank of Soviet origin equipped with the pro-American Saudi Arabia will embarrass the United States. This kind of tank will not be provided to the United States for them to try out.

Looking at Brightman's expression, Qusay enjoyed it very much. In any case, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States will never put all its energy in the Middle East. It will use the Soviet Union as a shield at the right time, or not bad.However, if Prince Sultan is satisfied this time, ordering the next batch of tanks from his own production line is also a good choice.

In fact, since the tank production line was transported from the Soviet Union, the installation was completed, and it was officially put into production, Qusay has not been here a few times, because Qusay, who is in power, has too many things to do.

However, now that Prince Sultan is very interested, Qusay also knows that it is time to take him and go there to have a look. When a guest comes, he must show him the good things at home, right?

"The chief engineer has worked hard." When Qusay entered the tank production plant, he saw Kartsev, who was already grizzled, wearing the same uniform as ordinary workers, and his hands were still oily. It seemed that he knew he was here. , coming from the production line.

On the contrary, Kartsev has nothing. Since he came to Iraq, he has adapted to life here. In particular, the T-6 tank equipped with a 72TD engine has started trial production.

Kartsev has been engaged in the tank business all his life, so it is not hard to work with the tank all day, especially with a good salary.

Prince Sultan looked at the old Soviet man with some surprise in his eyes. Why is this Mr. Qusay so powerful? Isn't this man a famous Soviet tank designer?

Sultan is the Minister of Defense and has a lot of understanding of these naturally.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Sultan said, "I never thought that Iraq would invite such a world-class master of modern tanks."

"The prince has won the award." Kartsev said. From the notice, he knew that the person in front of him was Prince Sultan of Saudi Arabia.

With the help of the interpreter, the two parties exchanged a few pleasantries, and then walked into the production workshop.

Although Saudi Arabia is also equipped with a large number of tanks, Prince Sultan still does not know how the tanks are produced.

And here, on a huge production line, workers are busy nervously. Among these people, there are both Iraqis and Soviets. Under their hands, the shapes of various tank parts are gradually formed.

When the production line was introduced, workers had to be retrained. Therefore, Qusay invited a group of workers back from the Soviet Union with high salaries, and together with Kartsev, they came to Iraq.

"Chief engineer, what is our current progress?" Qusay asked.

"Our production line is in orderly production, because the front armor ordered from China has not yet arrived, so the final assembly is still waiting. However, most of the car body and turret have been produced. It is expected that the first batch of tanks, About [-] vehicles will be produced and equipped with troops next month," Kartsev said.

Armor is a core secret, so while introducing tank production lines, armor still needs to be imported directly from the Soviet Union.

"What about our diesel engine production?" Qusay asked.

"The production line of the 6TD diesel engine is also running normally, and the first batch of finished diesel engines has produced more than 20 units." Kartsev said.

Although the progress is not as high as Qusay hoped, Qusay is still very happy that the first batch of tanks produced by Iraq will soon enter active service. After the production is stable, the annual output will be several hundred vehicles, which is enough to equip the Iraqi Army .

At that time, it will be time for the army to change its blood.

Chapter 463 Tanks with air conditioners and refrigerators, we need hundreds of them in Saudi Arabia!

Tanks are a symbol of strength. Although Saudi Arabia is rich, Saudi Arabia has never thought of introducing various modern industries. Now seeing the tank production line, Prince Sultan's impression is very shocking.

"What is the performance of this tank?" Prince Sultan asked very curiously.

"Our tank has a total weight of 41 tons. Due to the use of a 1000-horsepower 6TD diesel engine, the power per ton has reached 25 horsepower per ton. The maximum off-road speed is 45 kilometers per hour, and the maximum travel distance on the road is 480 kilometers. It uses a 2A46 smoothbore gun. At a distance of 1000 meters, the thickness of the armor is 475 mm. Due to the use of the automatic loader, the crew has been reduced to three." Speaking of this tank, Kartsev suddenly started talking.

It's a pity that when the accompanying translators spoke these technical terms, some translations were not very accurate, but Prince Sultan still heard the word "automatic bomb loader".

What is the most indispensable thing in Saudi Arabia?money!What is Saudi most lacking?Soldiers who are not afraid of death!

You must know that in the West today, there is no tank that uses an automatic loader. time, can reduce a person's casualties.

It's not that Western tank soldiers are not afraid of death, but that the automatic loading technology of current tanks is not very mature. After the first T-64 tank equipped with an automatic loading machine entered service, this automatic loading machine was fully Reliability issues that have plagued technicians for several years. The automatic loading machine of the T-72 tank, because the index is lower than that of the T-64, many simplification measures have been taken, and the reliability is even higher.

Seeing that Prince Sultan was a little moved, Qusay knew that he needed to add fire.

This is also strange, for the expensive Mirage 4000, Prince Sultan decided to buy it at once, and this much cheaper T-72 tank, it seems that Prince Sultan has not yet taken a fancy to it.

"Actually, when I first introduced this tank production line, I was preparing to make some improvements," Qusay said.

Improve?Having said that, Kartsev stared at Qusay. This tank can be said to be the masterpiece of his life. It is also a very clear choice to improve and make this tank more powerful.

The key is to see how to change.

If it is a major change, it is better to design a brand new tank.

"The thing that T-72 needs to improve the most is the fire control system." Qusay said: "Our fire control system, the night vision device used so far is still infrared headlights, which has long lagged behind. I suggest that you can Go and visit the 69 modified tanks of our Southern Military Region, which have already used infrared night vision devices, and in night battles, the enemy can find the target first.”

Qusay is completely reasonable. As the first generation of infrared night vision devices for tanks, infrared headlights will be eliminated sooner or later. It is inevitable to use infrared night vision devices.

"Moreover, our tanks have not yet used laser range finders, and the fire control data still needs to be entered manually. Now we can win against Iranian tanks, but it is very dangerous to fight against the new generation of Western tanks." Qusay said.

Kartsev can't argue with this point. In fact, the domestic T-72 has been replaced with a laser rangefinder, but the one exported to Iraq is naturally a simplified version.

Qusay pointedly proposed to improve the fire control system, which made the old-fashioned Kartsev seem to have no doubts at all, so the most critical thing is how to change it.

The Soviet Union will not export the advanced fire control systems used by the Soviet Union itself.

Listening to Qusay's narration, as the Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia, Prince Sultan also listened very seriously.

Seeing Kartsev looking at him, Qusay felt at ease. He was very good at these things, and he knew what the future trend would be!

"We have already cooperated extensively with Germany's Krupp-Atlas Electronics Company. The last 69 improvement project was to introduce a full set of their FLP-10/EMES18 fire control system, so now we are still The laser rangefinder and infrared imaging night vision device can be introduced.” Qu Sai expressed his thoughts, and those things that the Soviet Union refused to export can be bought from the West: “Also, we want to improve the T-72 The advanced fire control computer allows the data of the laser rangefinder to be directly input into the computer without manual settings. In this way, the response speed of the system can be greatly accelerated."

Infrared night vision devices, laser rangefinders, and fire control computers are cross-linked. This is the solution that Qusay is now proposing, but it is not perfect.