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8 Seventy Chapters GLONASS Project Negotiations

"Iraq will provide us with one billion dollars in funding to support the launch of the remaining [-] satellites for GLONASS satellite navigation, and then we will provide Iraq with [-] satellite navigation receivers, and each receiver will only charge a cost One thousand dollars." Minister of Defense Sergey said: "One hundred thousand receivers is enough for your country, even for countries in the entire Middle East region. When we launch satellites, we will give priority to signals covering the Middle East region. "

That is, Iraq will pay $11 billion and just get those clunky Soviet-made receivers?Qusay sneered: "Your Excellency Sergey, do you know why we in Iraq strongly support your country's satellite navigation project?"

This is also where Sergey is confused. Iraq went to the Soviet Union to buy various weapons, and even proposed to buy the latest Su-27 fighter jets. These can be accepted by them. However, Qusay proposed to cooperate and join the GLONASS satellite navigation project , This makes them a little puzzled. Satellite navigation is a concept just proposed, and its practicality has not yet been shown. Even the United States is still in the experimental stage.

"President Qusay, that's because our Soviet Union has advanced technology in this area, and you are always very interested in new technologies," Ligachev said.

"No, we have no interest in immature technology. The reason why we proposed to participate in your satellite navigation project is because there are huge benefits in it." Qusay said, Qusay said very straightforwardly, Why am I participating?It's because I can make money in it!

Who wants to do business without money?

"President Qusay, your country is rich in oil resources, do you still use this method to increase income?" Gorbachev felt that Qusay's idea was very interesting.

"Yes, we have abundant oil resources, but our oil will run out one day. Therefore, we must plan ahead and make arrangements in advance. Therefore, we have started industrial construction in China, hoping to bring our The country is becoming an industrial country, and we also hope to have outstanding achievements in one or two fields. Therefore, we have taken a fancy to your satellite navigation project. We believe that this is a project that can change people's living habits and promote people's development. Technology that improves living standards.”

Hearing this, the Soviets looked at Qusay with incredible eyes, and even Hikmat, who was beside Qusay, retreated in his heart: President Qusay, you are too good at breaking up. When you were in China, you still said , With satellite navigation, our cruise missiles can add revised instructions, and the error will be even smaller. What does this have to do with people's living standards?

"Your GLONASS navigation project was designed for both military and civilian use. What we are looking at is a huge field of civilian use. With the improvement of people's living standards, cars have played an important role in people's lives. The role is becoming more and more important. However, many people delay time and waste precious fuel during driving because they are not familiar with the road. Therefore, if our satellite navigation is fully equipped on the car, then , with electronic maps to show them the way, this will be a big market, just in the Middle East, [-] receivers are certainly not enough, probably millions, or even tens of millions. In Europe, the market will be even bigger," Qusay said.

The satellite navigation project of the Soviet Union was designed for both military and civilian use. Moreover, it does not interfere with civilian signals, and the accuracy is the same, but it cannot reach the level of GPS. However, their so-called civilian use is only limited to large-scale In the civilian enterprises, it did not occur to everyone that they depend on satellite navigation.

In this case, the market is huge.

"Guys, people think that people will spend a thousand dollars on a navigation device when they can buy a used car for five thousand dollars and a nice car for ten or twenty thousand dollars Is it?" Qusay asked.

All shook their heads.

"Therefore, the cost of this kind of satellite navigation receiver must be reduced, and a large number of advanced electronic equipment must be used to control the price of the satellite receiver within [-] dollars, and eventually, it must be reduced to less than [-] dollars. , so that it can be accepted by the public." Qu Sai said: "Do you think that the price of the terminal can be reduced to this level?"

"Impossible, even if we make it ourselves, the cost will be around [-] dollars." Sergey said, in fact, he added a little, [-] dollars is enough, but, just now, I asked Iraq for [-] dollars, He always said more, otherwise it would be too much.

"We are confident that as long as we let our engineers design this receiving device, the cost will definitely come down," Qusay said.

Iraq's own engineers?What a joke, no one else believed it.

"This is only a civilian project. We don't need it to have the ability to continue to be used in a nuclear war. We use a large number of mature components for civilian use. We believe that the production cost will be controlled. Only in this way can this navigation device Occupy the world market." Qusay said: "We need all kinds of data of this navigation satellite, and we in Iraq will develop the receiving equipment. This is the condition for our Iraq to participate in this project. We can accept the one billion US dollars you proposed. .”

It is impossible to have a complete technological monopoly and let Iraq only pay for it. Qusay is not willing to be a rooster to be slaughtered.With one billion dollars of funds to support the launch of this kind of navigation satellite, you must know that the Soviet Union's appropriation for this project is always unable to arrive on time, because the Soviet Union's funds are very tight in various places.

Gorbachev exchanged opinions with the crowd, and in particular, Defense Minister Weinberg nodded in agreement.

"We are willing to cooperate with Iraq on this project," Gorbachev said.

Although Qusay keeps saying that this kind of navigation system will play a huge role in the civilian field and how big the market prospect will be, but Qusay knows that the role of satellite navigation in the military is even greater. Almost all civilian The development of science and technology is inherited from the military.

With satellite navigation, more precise positioning can be achieved.For example, before launching a ballistic missile, it is necessary to accurately know the position and coordinates of the launch point. On land, it can be launched quickly at a predetermined launch position, and it is even easier in the launch shaft. However, For nuclear submarines undertaking a second nuclear strike, nuclear strikes are carried out at any place on the bottom of the sea at any time. If they want to determine their position coordinates in the sea, they must use inertial guidance equipment to record their own position from the moment they leave the port. The voyage trajectory is calculated by adding the coordinates of the port to the voyage track. However, the longer the voyage time, the greater the accumulated error. Therefore, when necessary, you need to surface and use starlight navigation to determine your position. To eliminate accumulated errors, the accuracy of this navigation method is far from being comparable to that of satellite navigation.The more you can determine your position, the more you can improve the precision of the missile attack.

For another example, if the current Red Bird cruise missile in Iraq is added with satellite-assisted guidance, it can completely improve the precision on the existing basis.

In order to dispel the other party's wariness, Qusay, under the banner of civilian use, wants to make the GLONASS system develop rapidly, so it is necessary for Iraq to master this navigation technology!

Moreover, this is just the beginning, and Iraq will gradually intervene in the development of satellites, because the satellites of this GLONASS system have a very short lifespan. The few launched in the early stage will be scrapped within a year. , and the officially launched satellites have a lifespan of less than two or three years, which means that if you want to have more than [-] satellites in the sky to achieve global navigation, you need to launch satellites continuously , to repair the network, this is a huge expense, and no one can afford it.This has something to do with the backward electronic equipment used by the Soviet Union. In this regard, some Iraqi technologies are already more advanced than the Soviet Union. To extend the life of the satellite, it is necessary to improve the internal equipment, and Iraq also needs to be in it. Play a major role, of course, these are requirements that will be raised later.

Hearing that the Soviet Union agreed to this cooperation, Qusay was very happy, and then said: "In fact, many of your military industries can be developed in the direction of civilian use, which can not only increase income, but also realize the gradual transformation of military enterprises. .”

In fact, this is just Qusay’s proposal. Now, the biggest problem of the Soviet economy is heavy industry, or the military industry is too developed, and these aspects will not create value and will not contribute to the Soviet economy. The current Ge Erbachev must be thinking about this, but he has nothing to do.If you want to develop the economy, you need to reduce the military industry. However, as long as it is reduced, those cities that rely on the military industry will have serious problems, and even the society of the Soviet Union will be in turmoil.

Hearing Qusay's words, Gorbachev's eyes lit up. Indeed, if military use can be converted to civilian use.

In later generations, Russia even used the Soyuz spacecraft as a space taxi, flying rich men who wanted to go to the sky, to raise funds, not to mention other military projects, Qusay thought.

Sergey was a little dissatisfied. Now, the military industry of the Soviet Union is far behind the United States, especially the Star Wars program of the United States. It has been carried out for several years, and the Soviet Union is seriously behind in this regard.

"President Qusay, you are here this time, don't you just want to give us these opinions?" Sergey asked.

"Of course not," Qusay saw the old guy's dissatisfaction. Also, the military always wants more shares. Don't they know that the Soviet Union was dragged down by the arms race?

"The Iranian zhèngfǔ invited us to be responsible for maritime security. However, our Iraqi navy only has a few missile boats and a few frigates, which cannot meet our needs at all. Therefore, we want to order a batch of surface ships from the Soviet Union to meet our needs." Need it," Qusay said.

Chapter 871 Modern and Fearless

For this request from Iraq, Gorbachev and others are not surprised. Now, the Iraqi Air Force already has certain capabilities, especially the Iraqi Mirage 4000 fighters. Don't fall behind.Therefore, unless the Soviet Union is willing to take out the Su-15 fighter jet, the treasure of the air force, Iraq has no interest in other things.

As for the army and main battle tanks, Iraq already has the T-72 and wheeled infantry fighting vehicles. All kinds of weapons can be produced by itself. It is said that Iraq's self-produced 155mm howitzer is even more advanced than the Soviet Union. .

The weakest force in Iraq is probably the navy. The Iraqi navy is still at the stage of missile boats, and the only few frigates are definitely not satisfied.

Therefore, Iraq has now made a request to purchase warships, which is also expected. Iraq did not order a large number of Western European countries, but chose the Soviet Union. It seems that Iraq still has needs from the Soviet Union.

"I don't know what kind of warships you need?" Sergey asked. In the Soviet Navy, a batch of frigates and destroyers made in the 60s are about to be phased out. They can be refitted and exported to Iraq in exchange for some profits.

Who knows, after hearing Qusay's words, everyone felt that Iraq's appetite seemed too big, right?

"We need a Type 956 destroyer and a Type 1155 destroyer." Qusay said with a smile.

This sentence, even if Gorbachev heard it, took a breath of air. Gorbachev has become the general secretary of the Soviet Union, so he is very clear about all aspects, especially Yes, the Navy is always urging, increasing military spending, and building one warship after another.

In addition to the costly aircraft carrier that gave him a headache, the mass-produced destroyer also cost a lot of money. These two destroyers are the main destroyers of the Soviet Union.

The Project 956 "Modern" class destroyer is a large surface warship with a displacement of more than 8000 tons.Equipped with an anti-submarine helicopter, 48 anti-aircraft missiles, 8 anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, mines, long-range naval guns and complex electronic warfare systems.

The Type 1155 "Dreadnought" class, also known as the "Brave" class, is a large anti-submarine ship with a displacement of more than 8000 tons in active service in the Soviet Navy.

These two warships are a pair of brothers. They are for the Soviet Union to solve the problem that the electronic equipment cannot be integrated on one ship because of the backwardness of the Soviet Union. Among them, the modern class is mainly responsible for air defense and anti-ship, The Dreadnought class is mainly responsible for anti-submarine.

Modern class, the main weapon is the above eight 3M80 Sandfly (translated as rìburn in Hong Kong and Taiwan) anti-ship missiles, which is a supersonic anti-ship missile, although in later generations, this missile is known as the aircraft carrier killer , but, in fact, because of the short range, it is impossible to reach the aircraft carrier. Dealing with the aircraft carrier formation is a matter of the SS-N-19 shipwreck. However, except for the formation, if you are dealing with a single warship of the opponent, Bai Butterfly is a must-kill weapon.

This kind of anti-ship missile is very fierce. The shell made of titanium alloy has a cruise speed of more than two Machs. The supersonic anti-ship missile causes the opponent's air defense system to have a very short reaction time. Combined with ultra-low altitude flight and the snake shape at the end Maneuvering is the nightmare of all surface ships.Since the Soviet Union already had more advanced anti-ship missiles at this time, it was considered a low-end model in the Soviet Union's equipment sequence, and it was exported to Iraq. Qusay was very confident.

Another main air defense missile on the Hyundai class is the 9M38 'Gadfly' ship-to-air missile, which has a range of 25 kilometers, which exceeds the 15-kilometer range of the Italian Viper ship-to-air missile currently equipped by the Iraqi Navy. Medium-range anti-ship missiles can allow the Iraqi Navy to obtain valuable medium-range air defense capabilities.

This missile is common to the road-based Sam-11, and its performance is very good. In later generations, the eastern powers also used the same missile on the 052B.

The modern class is a powerful existence of a medium-sized naval power.

The Dreadnought class focuses on anti-submarine, without any anti-ship weapons, and anti-submarine is a series.Long-range anti-submarine, is to rely on two "card-2A" or "card-25" type anti-submarine helicopters.In addition to anti-submarine helicopters using torpedoes to directly attack, they can also guide two quadruple SS-N-27 anti-submarine missile launching devices. This anti-submarine missile has a range of 2 kilometers and a flight speed of Mach 14. Equipped with anti-submarine torpedoes or nuclear warheads with an equivalent of 55 tons of TNT, it will be difficult for any submarine to escape once it is targeted.There are 1 quadruple 5mm torpedo launch tubes in the medium and short range, with a total of 2 533mm torpedoes, a speed of 533 knots, and a range of 8 kilometers.Its own defense is two 45-unit RBU-20 anti-submarine rocket launchers with a range of 2 kilometers.

As for air defense, the Dreadnought mainly relies on 9M330 vertical launch of ship-to-air missiles. Instead of using a single-arm launch, it uses a circular eight-unit vertical launch device, 8 missile launch bays, and the entire ship is equipped with There are 64 missiles with a range of 12 kilometers. There are 2 sets of control systems on the ship. Each system can guide 8 missiles to deal with 4 air targets at the same time, so it has a certain ability to resist saturation attacks.

These two types of warships are the latest destroyers commissioned by the Soviet Navy in the 80s, which can quickly strengthen the Iraqi Navy.

In the development of the navy in Iraq, after several years of accumulation, it has finally reached a period of further development. In addition to missile boats to guard the Persian Gulf, Iraq also needs enough advanced warships. In addition to the four Hedden-class frigates, Iraq should have bigger warships.

It's just that one step has crossed to a warship with a full load displacement of [-] tons. Is this a big leap?Wouldn't it be better to choose a warship of three or four thousand tons and make a gradual transition?

Only Qu Sai knew that this span was not that big at all.