Babylonian Empire

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As soon as he finished speaking, Xiu En interrupted him: "That's absolutely impossible. Those guys in BAE took so much effort to pass the arms sales project to Saudi Arabia. If we use this to exert pressure, I am afraid that Saudi Arabia will voluntarily abandon this contract and switch to other products, such as fighter jets produced by Iraq itself!"

The Tornado fighter is a variable-sweep wing fighter jointly developed by the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. Except for the equipment of the three R&D countries, the export is dismal, and it is only sold to Saudi Arabia. If this pressure is used, the contract will be messed up. , that is definitely not what they want to see.

The powerful Britain, does it mean that there is no solution to this crisis?Looking at her staff, Mrs. Thatcher was very upset.

Chapter 751 New Main Battle Tank

"There are only eternal interests between countries." Qusay said: "Now, the international oil price is so low, except for oil exporting countries, other countries are very welcome, especially the United States, the United States does not want oil prices to rise at all. , for them, the lower the oil price, the lower their cost of living. Moreover, the United States has invested heavily in the arms race with the Soviet Union, and the current national financial strength of the United States has also reached a low point. Now, the US fiscal deficit, It often reaches hundreds of billions of dollars, so the United States will not speak out at all."

Hearing Qusay's words, Prince Sultan showed a smiling face: "That is to say, no matter how much Britain cries and calls for Reagan, Reagan will not let go and put pressure on us."

"Yes! Now that the oil price is as low as 25 yuan per barrel, I estimate that after the British cannot get promises from the United States, the British will directly come to put pressure on our oil-producing countries." Qusay continued.

British pressure?Now, when they look at the British, they no longer look up to them, but despise them.Ever since the British embezzled the advance payment for Sky Shining, Prince Sultan felt that the British were no longer so trustworthy. If it weren't for the Tornado fighter jets, they had already placed a deposit, and they might have canceled the contract long ago.

"Then, what we have to do now is..." Prince Sultan looked at Qusay, and before he finished speaking, Qusay took over again.

"Continue to lower the oil price. When the oil price is as low as fifteen dollars, the attitude of the British people should be changed. It is useless for Mrs. Thatcher to cry and beg us. We want the oil price to be lowered to less than ten dollars. We want the British People, for every barrel of crude oil exported, they have to pay a few dollars, but the British have to bite the bullet and continue to produce and export oil, and continue to lose money." Qusay said.

"How is that possible? The oil price is low, so they can cut production." Prince Sultan said.

"We can cut production, but they can't because, they are the British Empire," Qusay said.

Prince Sultan looked at Qusay in disbelief, expecting Qusay to continue.

However, Qusay didn't continue talking. Although he knew the reason, it should be more interesting to leave it to Prince Sultan to guess.

"If we do this, we can hit the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom. Moreover, if the British want us to reduce production and increase prices, they must agree to our conditions." Qusay said.

"What conditions?"

"We want to buy BP (British Petroleum) shares, especially their overseas oil fields in Canada and even the United States. We want to let the UK open the restrictions on our funds, so that our funds can be If they flow into the UK, we will let their overseas business be sold to us in the face of heavy debts." Qusay said that the agent of our side is coming back with a little intention, and this purpose is the main purpose.

In later generations, BP is the top five in the world's top [-] companies. Qusay absolutely does not want to see BP become so powerful. Therefore, by taking this opportunity, he must cut off the tentacles of BP!

Hearing Qusay's words, Prince Sultan was shocked again. This Qusay is simply a devil, no, a god in the Arab world.

"His Royal Highness, the tank factory we are going to will arrive soon." Qusay said.

This time, the T-72 tank factory in Iraq has produced the first batch of [-] tanks for the Saudi Army. Originally, a tank battalion from the Saudi Army could receive them. However, Prince Sultan, who is in charge of national defense, had to After learning about it, I was very happy to come to Baghdad uninvited. As a result, I originally planned to let the people below take over for a while, but now Qusay had to accompany Prince Sultan to the tank factory.

In the car, the two exchanged views on the recent situation. This campaign was originally initiated at the suggestion of Qu Sai. Now, it has reached the most critical time. Prince Sultan feels very uncomfortable when he thinks that he can vent his anger. happy.

It was Elad, the person in charge of the tank factory in Iraq, who was in charge of welcoming them. Under his leadership, the group went directly to the open-air storage square behind the tank factory.

Since construction is going on everywhere in Iraq, the construction is very tense, so it was originally planned to be built as a closed tank storage place, but no construction has been carried out.

Fortunately, the climate in the Middle East is dry, and there has been no wind recently. These newly built tanks are neatly arranged, and they are so new that it can be seen that the paint has not dried yet.

"Your Excellency, Your Royal Highness, the tanks we exported to Saudi Arabia were modified according to the plan proposed by His Royal Highness last time." Elard said: "We added high-power air conditioners, which were imported from Germany. In the experiment, it is completely possible to keep within 40 degrees in the car in a desert area of ​​more than [-] degrees. However, we did not install a refrigerator, but set a fixed position where drinks can be placed at the air outlet of the air conditioner. In this way, as long as the air conditioner is turned on, the drinks will be cold, and, in order to increase comfort, we have designed a new type of seat, which can reduce the bumps during driving."

Due to the small internal space of the T-72 tank, after Kartsev's repeated design, it still couldn't be integrated into the refrigerator, so he had to give up. Moreover, when the air conditioner was turned on, the power of the engine would be consumed, resulting in a decrease in mobility, but , because the new 6TD engine is used, which exceeds the original T-72 tank engine by more than 200 horsepower, so the maneuverability is slightly higher than the original T-72, but the ammunition has been reduced by two storage positions .

Hearing that Prince Sultan nodded, these tanks were really an improvement for Saudi Arabia. He was very interested in disregarding the weather of only a few degrees Celsius, took off his coat, and got into the tank.

When Prince Sultan entered, Qusay asked, "Why can't I see old comrade Kartsev?"

"He is leading almost all of our scientific research personnel to develop a new type of main battle tank, so there is no time to greet you." Elad said. ?Only then did Qusay remember that the last time he read those reports that he had suppressed for a long time, one of them was about the pre-research of the new tank of the tank factory, and applied for a development fund of 100 million US dollars, because the development of the tank is a It was a project that took a long time, so Qusay didn't pay much attention to it. He always thought that these were still on the design drawings, so after quickly allocating funds, Qusay put this matter in his mind Later, and now, after hearing what Elard said, it seems that the development of new tanks has made great progress?

"To what extent has the development of our new tank progressed?" Qusay asked.

"The design is being developed steadily, and if it is suitable, a prototype car may be trial-produced by the end of this year." Elard said. "We have already determined the main performance. The improved version of the 6TD engine can reach 1200 horsepower, and the total weight is less than 45 tons. The main gun uses the same 125 mm caliber high-pressure smoothbore gun, but the length may be changed to 48 times the caliber. , using the same automatic loader as the T-72, the fire control system is from Germany, and it is improved by itself."

When Qusay heard this, he was overjoyed. In addition, the Chobham armor has also been put in place. It seems that the era of Iraq having fully independent main battle tanks is coming.

Just as he was talking, Prince Sultan showed his big face and said, "This tank is not bad, but I want to drive it myself and experience it."

Prince Sultan also thought about an addiction.

Looking at the enthusiastic prince, Qusay left him here for a test drive, and he himself used the excuse of inspecting the production line to meet Kartsev, an old comrade who had given up his spare time, and it seemed that he had rejuvenated his life in Iraq It's the second spring.

Arriving at the newly established tank design bureau on the side of the tank production plant, Qusay saw that Kartsev was discussing design problems with many designers. Among these designers were Iraqis, Soviets, and others. Some people from the big eastern countries.

When Kartsev was asked to come from the Soviet Union, he took away some technicians from Nizhny Tagil. After they came here, they found that the salary was much higher than that of the original design bureau, so they worked very hard. Iraq's own technicians are also gradually growing up.And those faces familiar to the Easterners are the talents that Iraq poached several times from the large Eastern countries when many military factories changed production due to the reduction of armaments.

When Qusay came in, Kartsev stopped explaining and greeted Qusay.

Qusay signaled him to continue and not disturb his normal work.

The other technicians turned their backs to Qusay, and they are all seriously studying. Now, the overall plan is being gradually determined, and they must be cautious, otherwise, in the later stage, if there is a problem, it will be delayed progress and waste of money.

Qusay saw the big picture that Kartsev was gesturing. It was a design drawing of a tank. Seeing the round cast turret on it, he felt a little dissatisfied. Kartsev's design thinking was still stuck. In the traditional Soviet style, the future development direction should be welding turrets.It would be great if western designers join in and integrate the advantages of the East and the West.

Just as he was thinking, he heard a voice saying: "I think that an active laser jamming or even suppression system can be installed on our tanks, so that when the opponent uses the laser range finder, it can destroy them. targeting us."

Chapter 752 Iraq needs more powerful main battle tanks!

Laser weapons, even in later generations, often only appear in science fiction movies. The characters in it hold laser guns. When a red light passes by, the opponent is burned through a hole, and the laser guns in the spaceship , and can even destroy the opponent's large space battleship with one shot.

But now, lasers still have a long way to go if they want to develop into a weapon. In particular, high-power lasers still have technical problems to be solved.Only the United States and the Soviet Union have invested heavily in this area.They want to use laser weapons to kill each other's satellites in space.

Lasers, laser-guided bombs, and laser rangefinders are also being used now, but these lasers are very weak and can be used to provide photos, but if you want to kill the opponent with lasers, even if it only damages the opponent's targeting system, it will be difficult. It is difficult.

However, this proposal is undoubtedly creative. Even Kartsev was attracted by this voice. Through the translation, he also realized that this idea is creative.

But Kusai, who was behind, was keenly aware that the other party might be one of the designers of the 99 tanks of the later Eastern powers, because this unique laser active suppression system only existed on the 99 tanks of the Eastern powers. Pass.

When the 99 tanks of the Eastern Powers appeared before the eyes of the world, many people were surprised by the two "mysterious" devices on the turret: the sandbox-shaped device behind the gunner's hatch and the dome-shaped device behind the commander's hatch .

This mysterious device has been speculated for a long time, until a tank chief engineer later confirmed in an interview that it is a "laser suppression and sighting system", which is an innovation designed by our tank designers themselves.

The dome-shaped device behind the commander's hatch is a set of laser warning receivers. The circular device can receive all laser sources within a 360-degree range. The sandbox-shaped device behind the gunner's hatch is a set of active The laser self-defense device is composed of a microcomputer controller, a tracking turntable and a servo system, a laser suppressor, a thermal imager, a jammer and other instruments.

This device is very domineering, it has two working states: passive and active.When the system is in passive mode, it mainly relies on the warning equipment to perceive the enemy's position, and the jammer shoots a weaker laser beam to mark the target position; after being confirmed by the computer, the power of the laser beam suddenly increases to form a "sharp" attack on the target. hard kill".Not only can it damage the opponent's sighting equipment, it can even blind the eyes of the shooter who is aiming.If the active mode is turned on, the system first uses low-energy pulses to scan suspicious areas, and once it recognizes the low light reflected by the lens of the other party's sighting instrument, it will automatically fire to destroy it.

Qu Sai knew about this, but others didn't. Therefore, the designer's words shocked many people.

As a well-known tank designer in the Soviet Union, Kartsev knew the inside story. In the Soviet Union, although there was already composite armor in terms of tank protection, they were still following "heretical ways".One of them is the explosive reactive armor. In 1983, the most famous armor design unit of the Soviet Union, the "Contact"-1 explosive reactive armor of the Soviet Academy of Iron and Steel Science, appeared on the T-80B main battle tank. During the period of leaving the Soviet Union, it is said that all Soviet tanks stationed in East Germany, including T-72, T-62M and T-55AM, were equipped with "Contact"-1 explosive reactive armor.

The outermost layer of this explosive reactive armor is a thinner metal shell, and the inside is a working assembly composed of a throwing plate (throwing outward), a back plate (throwing inward), explosives, and fixtures.After the metal jet penetrates the casing and the throwing plate, it produces a thermal effect sufficient to detonate the explosives.Under the impetus of the explosion wave, the throwing board flies out while the back board moves in the opposite direction and forms an elastic wave, which causes huge fluctuations in the shooting flow and even interrupts the shooting flow.In this way, the power of armor-piercing shells can be reduced by 50%, providing a protection capability equivalent to 400 mm. More advanced explosive reactive armor is also under development.

And the other one is more slanted, active defense system!In the early 80s, the Soviet Union developed the world's first active defense system: "Thrush", which uses the principle of hard damage and uses rockets with fragmentation warheads to intercept incoming anti-tank missiles and rockets. The 60-degree arc area provides protection, and the success rate against RPG anti-tank rockets can reach 80%.

These two systems both use hard killing methods, one is to wait until the opponent hits you before exploding, and the other is to attack when the opponent is about to hit you, (it's like a tank's own small TMD, of course, it’s only similar in purpose, but far worse in performance.) Now, the idea proposed by this person is even more unique, to develop a brand new thing on the tank’s weapon, which is used to destroy the opponent’s sighting equipment!

If it can be successfully developed, it will be simpler and more practical than explosive armor and active defense systems!

"However, in this case, the equipment contained in the turret will be increased. Our turret has a fire control system, an automatic loader, and also accommodates the commander and gunner. The space is already very narrow. Adding these devices will make the interior of the turret even more crowded, if that is the case, when we choose armored soldiers, I am afraid that the height cannot exceed 1.5 meters." An Iraqi engineer said.