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And now the United States is not very proficient in the use of titanium alloys. To be precise, the United States is not as good at this aspect as the Soviet Union. You must know that when the Blackbird reconnaissance plane was manufactured, the United States was in order to build the titanium alloy shell of the Blackbird. , or a titanium alloy imported from the Soviet Union at a high price.

Therefore, for submarines, the United States has never thought of using titanium alloy shells. They use HY80 high-yield alloy steel developed by themselves. Nuclear submarines made of this alloy steel can reach a maximum depth of 450 meters.

In addition to the fact that U.S. submarines cannot enter such deep waters, another aspect is that all the existing anti-submarine weapons of the U.S. Navy cannot be used reliably at depths below 300 meters.

All of this is due to the water pressure. If the seawater does not drop ten meters, the pressure will increase by about one atmosphere. In such a deep seawater, the water pressure is a terrible thing. The torpedo exploded abruptly!

what does that mean?The U.S. Navy can only watch itself slip away, but there is no way to stop it!

Back then, U-2 could fly freely in the sky, wasn't it because it flew so high that no aircraft or missile could reach it?Now, Ye Ruofu dared to be so bold because he dived deep!

In order not to expose the performance of his own submarine, he just let Oscar 2 dive to a depth of 500 meters. This is also the depth without any restrictions stipulated in the operation manual. What if he dived to a depth of 600 meters?What would the Americans look like?What about 700 meters, 800 meters, 900 meters?I am afraid that the Americans will definitely think that their submarine has crashed, right?

The Oscar 2 has no bow level rudder, only the cross rudder at the tail to control, as the tail level rudder rotates, under its prying, the bow of the K-132 starts to sink, the whole submarine, like a cheerful The fish plunged into the deep water.

"The submarine is diving at an accelerated rate, and he wants to slip away." Inside the Baton Rouge, the sonar crew reported to the captain.

"Full speed forward, three degrees of horizontal rudder, we follow." Johnson said.Want to play hide and seek?Then play with you!

In the deep water, two submarines started a chase. The Los Angeles-class followed the Oscar-class and swam into the deep sea together.

Soon, Johnson found that something was wrong. On the depth gauge, the needle had already pointed to 400 meters. After he took over the submarine, he had not dived to such a depth several times.

Submarines want to attack surface ships, and the depth generally does not exceed 100 meters. Although they are designed to reach more than 400 meters, they usually operate at a depth of more than 100 meters.

However, the other party is still diving!

"Balance the hull, stabilize at 420 meters, and pay attention to tracking by sonar." Johnson said.

Depressedly watching the opponent dive into the 500-meter-deep sea, although the distance between the two sides is less than eight nautical miles, Johnson has nothing to do with the opponent and can only follow behind. Moreover, he found that the opponent's speed is as if He was a little faster than himself, especially when the opponent started to move forward after balancing the boat, he felt like he couldn't catch up.

At the same time, Thomas, the captain of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, also received the report.

Chapter 878 A Secret Contract Reached

Iraqi President Qusay's visit to the Soviet Union is also a major international event. Journalists from various countries are paying attention to this Iraqi move.When President Qusay inspected the nuclear power plant aided by the Soviet Union, he was kindly invited by the Soviet ambassador to Iraq to visit the Soviet Union. So, he only agreed to the nuclear power plant provided by the Soviet Union?There must be other projects!

Sure enough, they were very surprised by the official news that Iraq would invest [-] million U.S. dollars to participate in the satellite navigation project of the Soviet Union. Satellite navigation products for civilian use will help the Soviet Union to promote this global navigation project, which will be a win-win strategy.

The satellite navigation project of the Soviet Union has always been discussed internationally. If this project is completed, it will play a huge advantage in the civilian field. In the suburbs, the positioning function is required.In particular, Iraq claims that it will realize navigation terminal products that can be installed on cars after being reduced in size, and even realize handheld devices, which can bring great convenience to people when combined with digital maps.

However, more discerning people see that this system of the Soviet Union was developed for the military and serves military interests. What does this mean?Does the huge Soviet military enterprise want to transform to civilian use?Did the Soviet Union finally want to change the domestic economic structure under the leadership of Gorbachev?It's a joke, the Soviet Union has such a huge army, so many military forces, Gorbachev's foothold is not yet stable, how can he betray the interests of the military.

The high-level U.S. analyzed this conclusion in the first time. This is because the Soviet Union was short of money, so it absorbed funds from Iraq, but was unwilling to export more technology to Iraq, so it limited Iraq to civilian use. , Now, the GPS satellite navigation project of the United States is also used for both military and civilian purposes, and the precision for civilian use is a notch lower. Therefore, they speculated that the Soviet Union must have done the same.

Even so, this news is considered explosive, and outsiders don't know it at all. The news announced by the Iraqi side this time is only a small part of the agreement signed by the two parties.Iraq and the Soviet Union have reached an agreement this time that will greatly damage the interests of the United States and threaten the strategic balance in the Middle East.

After reconfirmation by both parties and another round of negotiations, an agreement was finally reached.Iraq will order three warships from the Soviet Union, a modern class, a dreadnought class, and a heavy aircraft carrier cruiser.

If they want the greedy Red Navy to agree to allow Iraq to equip these warships, then they must get enough benefits, and the conditions offered by Qusay are impossible for them to refuse.

Iraq agreed that in order to help train Iraqi naval personnel, the Soviet Union would dispatch more than 8000 Soviet naval personnel to Iraq in batches after the warships were built to help Iraq master the operation, maintenance and maintenance of the three warships. Work, because Iraq does not have the ability to operate large warships, and the navy has no experience, so the Soviet Navy will stay at the Iraqi base for at least five to ten years, because Iraq has no heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers ordered by Iraq for more than five years It is impossible to fully grasp the time.

Originally, the Navy was still extremely reluctant, but the high-end Granite anti-ship missiles and the Su-27K carrier-based aircraft were removed. Although the Soviet Union had only begun to develop this type of carrier-based aircraft, it was actually equivalent to selling an aircraft to Iraq. It's just a carrier. The Soviet Navy's estimate of the combat effectiveness of this kind of warship is not as good as half of the Brennev built by the Soviet Union, so they still agreed.

Qusay suggested that because of the lack of anti-ship missiles, he needed to put forward a series of requirements for the specific design of the aircraft carrier, so that the Neva Design Bureau could make slight improvements on the basis of the prototype drawings.If there are not enough designers, Iraq is willing to send the best engineers in the country to help for its own aircraft carrier plan.Moreover, because there are too few Iraqi naval pilots and there is no technical reserve, Iraq hopes to send pilots to the Air Force Education and Training Center at Ukraine's New Fedorovka Airport to train Iraq's own carrier-based pilots.There is a full-scale deck structure of the Brerniev aircraft carrier, including the jump deck, which can also simulate the shaking of the ship and be used to train carrier-based aircraft pilots.

The Soviet Union agreed to Qusay's proposal. What kind of designers can Iraq have?Even if they went to the Neva Design Bureau, they couldn't let them have access to any confidential things. At most, they could design beds for sailors?

Of course, they didn't know that Qusay's so-called involvement of designers did not really involve in the actual design. Even if the Iraqi side was sincere, the Soviet side would have reservations.It is impossible for the Soviets to teach the Iraqis how to design an aircraft carrier.

The most important function of Qu Sai's own personnel is to communicate, yes, to find out all the capable and talented people in the entire design bureau, and then make good friends to prepare for the future.Therefore, these talents must not only have sufficient technical knowledge, but also have sufficient communication skills. It is still difficult to find such talents, because most designers, that is, intellectuals, have a kind of education The mentality cultivated by the model is not able to communicate or not deliberately artificial. However, there are many talents in Iraq now, and such talents can definitely be found.

Talent, talent is always the most important, President Qusay is far-sighted and thirsty for talent.In later generations, most of the people from the Neva Design Bureau went to the great eastern country, and they also contributed to the modification of the Liaoning.

This contract is top-secret. During the construction of the warship, during the sea trial and before finally sailing to the Iraqi naval port, the Soviet Union will always claim that it is building for itself, especially the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser.If the news leaks out, the United States will definitely intervene to make this contract ruined. In particular, the United States will definitely manipulate Turkey to prevent the warship from passing through the Bosporus Strait.

In the end, the Soviet Union would allow these warships to be permanently stationed at the naval base in Iraq in the form of a visit, which gradually became a fait accompli.

Both sides are very satisfied, especially the Soviet Union and Iraq agreed to the command authority of the Soviet naval advisers on these three warships, especially on the aircraft carrier. In this way, the Soviet Navy finally made important progress in the strategy of going south to the Indian Ocean, which is equivalent to Gained a reliable naval base.

Before this, the Soviet army had a similar experience. When it sold the MiG-25 to Iraq, a large number of Soviet consultants were stationed in Iraq. At most, it reached nearly 25 people. Many MiG-3s were made by Soviet pilots came to fly.However, after Qusay came to power, the number of Soviet personnel was gradually reduced. Up to now, there are only a small number of Soviets in the H-[-] Air Force Base.

On the third day of Qusay's arrival in Moscow, he came to the Neva Design Bureau accompanied by Marshal Gorshkov, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union and Commander of the Navy.

The Neva Design Bureau was established on January 1931, 1. At that time, according to the order of the zhōngyāng Bureau of the All-Soviet Shipbuilding Industry Federation, a special shipbuilding bureau for dúlì economic accounting was established: zhōngyāng Shipbuilding Design Bureau, which was responsible for the centralized design of military shipbuilding. , to speed up the revitalization and further development of the navy of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.The first project of the design bureau was the leader of the destroyer of the "Leningrad" class with a displacement of 18 tons.

After changing its name to the 17th Design Bureau, it was changed back to the name of the Neva Design Bureau, and after the location was relocated due to the war, it returned to Leningrad, where it was originally located.

After decades of development, the Neva Design Bureau has become the oldest surface ship design bureau in the Soviet Union.All the current main warships of the Soviet Union, including aircraft carrier cruisers, are the products of this design bureau.

Marshal Gorshkov, who accompanied Qusay, was a well-known figure in the Soviet Union. He was born in 1910 and joined the navy in 1927. Since then, he has dedicated his life to the Soviet Union. naval career.

Gorshkov is a graduate of the Frunze Naval School and the Advanced Directorate Course of the Naval Academy.Served as the Pacific Fleet frigate, destroyer captain, detachment captain.In World War II, he served as fleet commander, deputy commander of the Novorossiysk defense zone, acting commander of the 47th Army Army, commander of the 56th Army Group, commander of the Danube Fleet of the Navy, and commander of the Black Sea Fleet Squadron. He participated in many battles and has rich combat experience.After the war, he successively served as the chief of staff and commander of the Heitong Fleet, and the first deputy commander in chief of the navy. In 1956, he served as the deputy minister of defense and commander in chief of the navy. Until now, it has been 30 years.

Gorshkov experienced the period of the four Soviet leaders Khrushchev, Brerenev, Andropov, and Chernenko, and now he is under the order of Gorbachev.Marshal Gorshkov had a huge influence on the Soviet Navy. He advocated ocean-going attacks and competed with the United States for maritime supremacy, which is in line with the current Soviet Cold War thinking.

Moreover, Gorshkov is a staunch aircraft carrier faction. Even during the Khrushchev period, when ballistic missiles were most admired, Gorshkov also used the rhetoric of better searching for US nuclear submarines, and passed the construction of the first type of later Plans for a large-deck Moscow-class helicopter carrier.

Gorshkov is very satisfied with the Iraqi order plan, a major event that had an important impact on the Soviet naval strategy. Therefore, after taking him to visit the Neva Design Bureau this time, he will also take him to visit the Black Sea shipyard.

Chapter 879 Neva Design Bureau

Leningrad, on the shore of Lake Ladoga, there is a long row of seven-story buildings with a very simple appearance. This is the old Soviet Navy Design Bureau, Neva Design Bureau.

Qusay's visit this time is of course not just to visit the huge warship design organization of the Red Empire with Gorshkov's company, and to feel their demeanor. The main purpose of Qusay's visit this time is to Iraq needs to explain clearly the specific refit plan and designers for refitting the heavy-duty aircraft-carrying cruiser.Because the warships ordered by Iraq are not exactly the same as those produced by the Soviet Union.

The powerful granite missiles are also very large, occupying valuable space. Although the displacement of the Soviet aircraft carrier and the American aircraft carrier is approximately the same, the number of aircraft carried is about half less. The Soviet Union let the aircraft carrier take on the work of the cruiser. However, the Iraqi aircraft carrier will not take that path.An aircraft carrier is used to load aircraft. The combat effectiveness of an aircraft carrier does not lie in how many powerful missiles it has installed, but in how many powerful fighter jets it has on it. Therefore, Qu Sai proposed not to use ultra-long-range anti-ships such as granite. Missiles, on the one hand, the Soviet Union will definitely not give them. On the other hand, even if the Soviet Union gave them, they will not be installed on the aircraft carrier for use. The carrier-based aircraft is the key.

Of course, this is caused by the different combat ideologies of the two sides. The mission of the Soviet aircraft carrier is to provide limited air supremacy and help its own ballistic missile nuclear submarine reach the launch position under the protection of the attacking nuclear submarine. Therefore, they do not need so many at all. The carrier-based aircraft and the idea of ​​nuclear war are a main idea of ​​the Soviet Union. They have been taking the road of miniaturization of electronic tubes, and they are also for nuclear war.

Moreover, because the Soviet Union had far fewer ships than the United States, it had to pursue large and complete, and piled all the weapons on the aircraft carrier. If the US aircraft carrier did not have a formation, it would never dare to come out. However, the Soviet Union’s An aircraft carrier, even if there is only one aircraft carrier left, can still continue to fight. It has perfect air defense, anti-submarine and anti-ship capabilities. Even if there is no carrier-based aircraft, it can continue to fight. This is why the Soviet Union stubbornly called it a heavy carrier aircraft. The reason why cruisers are not called aircraft carriers.

When they came to the Design Bureau, Qusay and his team received a warm welcome. Gorshkov is a frequent visitor here, and he can call everyone here by name.

In a large meeting room on the third floor, the two parties sat down, and Qusay met the head of the Neva Design Bureau, chief designer Anikiyev, designer Belov and others.

Anikiyev took over the role of the person in charge of the entire design bureau when he was designing the Type 11433 (the fourth improved ship of the Kiev class), and presided over the design of the Type 11434 (which is now on the slipway). Lerì Nev, later renamed the aircraft carrier Kuznetsov), he almost stood at the peak of the surface ship designer in the entire Soviet Union, and now, he is mainly responsible for the daily affairs of the design bureau.

The latest design of the 11437 model, which is the nuclear-powered Ulyanovsk aircraft carrier, was designed last year under the leadership of the chief designer Belov.This aircraft carrier is the first real super aircraft carrier in the Soviet Union that is equipped with missile launchers and can carry [-] aircraft.

"Everyone has received the news that we will design an aircraft carrier improved on the 11434 model for Iraq. Because Iraq does not need to use our P-700 missiles, it needs to be redesigned. Iraqi President Qusay wants to cooperate with our Let's communicate with the design bureau," Gorshkov said.

After finishing speaking, the Soviet side applauded and welcomed Qu Sai's arrival. Looking at these confident designers, they were all very proud, because, under their hands, they designed the most powerful Soviet warship.

Designing an aircraft carrier is a huge task. For the Soviet Union, from the Moscow-class helicopter carrier, to the composite product of the Kiev-class cruiser and a small aircraft carrier, and finally to the current supercarrier, there are many precious things in it. Experience, a small design error may lead to catastrophic consequences, and the amount of engineering is quite huge.

Designers in the Soviet Union are also gradually improving, especially now, they have gradually abandoned the way of drawing operations. The design bureau has applied a brand-new automatic electronic technical document formulation system, and the design bureau has become the leader in the development of the automated design system for surface warships. unit.The electronic computers equipped in the Design Bureau ensured the complete automation of the system for drawing up construction drawings, cable registers and other textual documents (they constituted 70% of the total volume of construction documents).Moreover, the Soviet Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry and the Ministry of Communications jointly decided to establish a dedicated communication channel for the Neva Design Bureau-Black Sea Shipyard.In later generations, in 1987, the design bureau automated design system - factory automation production design technology preparation system was put into use.