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In the end, they made a decision to export the E-2 early warning aircraft to Iraq. However, it is not the E-2C early warning aircraft that the United States is currently producing, but the E-2B early warning aircraft that is being improved.

In order to cope with the emerging threats, the navy has been improving the navy's own carrier-based early warning aircraft, that is, the E-2A early warning aircraft, which was first used in the Vietnam War and had many technical defects. Therefore, in On the basis of E-2A, the E-2B early warning aircraft was improved. In 71, all 84 E-2B early warning aircraft were equipped with the Navy.

However, the performance of this kind of early warning machine is still not recognized by the US Navy. Therefore, when the early warning machine was improved in 71, the E-2C was also developed. E-2C has become the most classic model of carrier-based pre-warning aircraft in later generations. It has always been in service and exported to many countries.

The E-2C used at this stage mainly uses the improved AN/APS-138 radar, including a new all-radiation aperture control antenna, in order to reduce side lobes, which can deal with the increasingly serious jamming threat.It can detect air targets anywhere within the surveillance envelope of 1250 million cubic kilometers, while monitoring maritime traffic conditions, and can also detect cruise missiles 270 kilometers away.

Now, the U.S. Navy is gradually refitting the E-2B it uses into E-2C, and it is still in new production. Therefore, since Iraq needs it, it should simply put these things that have already reached the Grumman company to accept the pre-warning for refitting. If the machine is sold to Iraq, forget it. This is also an expression of friendship between the two sides.

This process was very fast. When Brightman met Taha again, he told him that the United States now has a batch of ready-made E-2 early warning planes that can be sold to Iraq, and each one only charges [-] million U.S. dollars. When it was time to pay, it was almost dark.

Taha is satisfied with such a quick decision by the United States, but he is very dissatisfied with the unit price of the early warning aircraft, because these are all stocks in the United States, and they are not worth such a high price. If so, Iraq will charge them US$[-] million for the use of the shipyard and US$[-] million for environmental pollution.

After further negotiations between the two sides, Iraq finally imported six E-9000 pre-warning aircraft at a cost of 2 million US dollars each. Both parties were quite satisfied with this contract. At the same time, Iraq's rescue of American submarines also began.

Chapter 896 Step on the nuclear submarine to determine whether there is a nuclear leak

As a multiplier of air combat power, the pre-warning aircraft is a very expensive high-tech aircraft. Even the U.S. Navy’s own internal procurement price for the newly manufactured E-2C is about 2 million U.S. dollars. However, due to the fact that this batch The aircraft is just an E-1000B that has been out of the factory for more than ten years. Although it has undergone improvements in the middle, including the replacement of a new zhōngyāng computer, the United States only exported it at such an extremely favorable price in order to show its "friendliness" towards Iraq. Iraq actually cut the price of [-] million US dollars, but it was within the tolerance of the United States.

$9000 million!A heavy-duty Mirage 4000 fighter jet in Iraq, the price of its own production line is about 5000 million U.S. dollars. It is E-2B. In later generations, in 2, the pre-alarm aircraft purchased by Taiwan was also E-93B. It was only slightly modified by the United States and sold to Taiwan. It was a sky-high price at that time.

Of course, the contract is now concluded by Taha. When President Qusay returned, these early warning planes had already been flown back to the Iraqi air force base. Half a month later, Qusay finally had the opportunity to inspect these early warning planes. When the aircraft was launched, they expressed strong protests against the United States, and expressed serious protests against the fraudulent behavior of the United States in this transaction. They hoped that the United States would improve the batch of early warning aircraft in Iraq, especially the replacement of new radars.

When the United States received this news, it felt like a mouthful of old blood was about to be spurted out. At what price and what kind of things to buy, the United States did not have a big mouth. This price is already a very reasonable price for this kind of early warning machine. Iraq only pointed out the purchase of E-2, and E-2B is also an E-2 pre-warning machine.

Internally, Taha was also severely reprimanded by Qusay because of this incident, and the two had a very unpleasant quarrel.

Of course, this is all a show for outsiders to see.

Knowing that the Americans agreed to export it to the E-2, Qusay was too happy. This time, it came without any effort.

Although it is a backward E-2B, the technology of the airframe is worth the price. In order to meet the needs of the ship, this airframe is newly designed.

Compact airframe, the wings can be folded, the cantilevered trapezoidal upper single wing, the outer wing can be folded back after a 90-degree rotation (while most carrier-based aircraft use upward folding).When stretched, the wingspan is as long as 24.56 meters, and when folded, it is only 8.94 meters, which is less than half of the original, which greatly reduces the storage space on the ship.

In order to shorten the height, the radome can also be raised or lowered by hydraulic control, and the maximum drop height can reach 0.64 meters when it is stopped, which is beneficial for storage.

Due to the influence of the radome, in order to ensure the stability of the direction, four vertical airfoils are installed on the horizontal tail.The two outer vertical airfoils extend below the stabilizer; the middle two are attached to the horizontal stabilizer without descending.

The strong nose landing gear that can withstand the launch of a projectile, and the main landing gear that can withstand the huge impact force when the ship hits, just the airframe is worth the price!The lifespan of this kind of early warning aircraft in the United States is very long. E-2A has been improved to E-2B, and then improved to E-2C. It has been in service for more than 30 years. Therefore, the arrival of these aircraft makes Qusay very satisfied. .

Although the radar performance is not very good, it cannot be compared with the AN/APS-2 that is currently equipped on the American E-138C, and the United States has now developed the AN/APS-139. By the 90s, the new AN The /APS-145 radar has been developed to the extreme.

Qusay is satisfied with Taha's actions. Although the radar of this kind of early warning aircraft is backward, its performance is still much higher than that of the carrier-based Ka-31 early warning aircraft. Influenced by the clutter of waves on the sea surface, it can also monitor targets the size of fighter planes at a distance of 31 kilometers, detect sea-skimming missiles at a distance of [-] kilometers, track more than [-] signals, and guide [-] interception ability.The Ka-[-] can only meet the monitoring distance of [-] kilometers, and it needs to transmit the signal back to the mothership for analysis and processing.

It is not so difficult to develop a carrier-based early warning aircraft by itself. In later generations, even France, which has always had its own military industry, gave up self-development and purchased the E-2C from the United States.

Of course, Qusay will not be satisfied, so he was very dissatisfied with the outdated technology sold to Iraq by the United States at a high price, and protested against this deceptive strategy of the United States. After that, the United States finally agreed to use the AN/APS-120 radar to replace the The backward radar of this kind of early warning aircraft, of course, Iraq needs to pay an additional 5000 million U.S. dollars for each set of radar.

The AN/APS-120 radar is the first type of radar equipped on the E-2C. Although there is still a big gap in performance between this radar and the AN/APS-2 radar equipped with the current E-138C, it has already used the new The performance of the antenna has been substantially improved.

Qusay was completely satisfied, but only six of the E-2B early warning aircraft of the United States were exported to Iraq, which was still not enough for Iraq.

... On the surface of the sea, when it was about to get dark, the Iraqi rescue tugboat came to the side of the Baton Rouge, preparing to tow the unlucky submarine to the dock of the Iraqi shipyard a hundred nautical miles away Going up, the Persian Gulf is calm and calm, and there is nothing wrong with sailing at night.

The captain has received an order from the Fleet Command, and has reached an agreement with the Iraqi side. They will check the damage of the nuclear submarine in the Iraqi shipyard to determine whether they can continue sailing. They also know that the submarine that hit them , when it was about to leave the Persian Gulf, it ran aground.

Johnson really wanted to swim over and fight those nasty Soviets, and beat up the captain severely. Is the game of underwater collision so fun?Through the photos, the Naval Command has analyzed that the Soviet submarine that collided with them had a displacement of between [-] tons and [-] tons. If the collision was at a suitable location, they would definitely be underwater immediately. Died in a traffic accident, it is a miracle that they are now able to surface and breathe fresh air.

This Baton Rouge ship was like a girl who was raped, staying alone on the sea, waiting for rescue.

Now, with the tug in place, it's ready to go.

"No, we don't allow your personnel to step on our submarine." Johnson's face turned dark when he heard such a request.

Iraq made a request, because this time, the nuclear submarine was to be towed to the Iraqi shipyard, where there are hundreds of thousands of residents, so Iraq must be sure that the nuclear submarine did not leak.

In later generations, Japanese residents are very sensitive to the word nuclear. After the retirement of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will be stationed in the port of Japan. This has aroused strong protests from the public, and there have been many demonstrations .

Iraq proposed that it must be inspected to make sure that the nuclear submarine had not leaked before it could enter the shipyard, which made Johnson very dissatisfied.

Since the Los Angeles-class submarine entered service, it has never been observed inside by foreigners!This is absolutely impossible. I am completely sure that the nuclear submarine has no nuclear leaks!

The two sides reached a stalemate again and reported to the top.

The U.S. Navy is very annoyed. Iraq is sitting on the ground, and they are about to start taking action. Now they have made another move. They have lodged a serious protest to the Iraqi zhèngfǔ. However, at this time, Taha’s words changed, and Iraq must ensure that its own people Therefore, if they are not sure whether the nuclear submarine has a nuclear leak, their only way is to drag the nuclear submarine out of the Persian Gulf.

Anyway, the tugboat is also in place, and it is also towed. It must be inspected and if there is no nuclear leak, it will be towed to the shipyard. A submarine left to fend for itself in the Arabian Sea.

Taha's attitude made it impossible for Brightman to put forward an opinion. If it was changed to the American side, it would indeed do so.

Then, Taha said, it was because the domestic reaction was also very strong, especially the fear that the collided nuclear submarine would have an accident, which would affect many places, and Iraq could not afford this kind of loss. Those who disagree, if the United States disagrees, then Iraq has no choice but to adopt the latter method.

In the end, the United States finally agreed, but they insisted that only one technician should board the submarine for inspection, and the time should not exceed 10 minutes.

The detection is very simple, as long as you take the instrument and walk around the back cabin for a week, you can measure it.

When it was getting dark, an Iraqi personnel was wearing a full set of protective clothing. This was the single-person protective equipment with the highest level of protection that Iraq had purchased from the West after the completion of the nuclear reactor. His whole body was covered in this kind of protective clothing. In the protective clothing, the Iraqi inspectors carrying a suitcase and handheld terminal detection equipment boarded the nuclear submarine.

Although it is still far away for Iraq to build its own nuclear submarines, this is a rare opportunity to observe the structure of Western nuclear submarines. Therefore, Iraq will never let go of this opportunity. It is not so easy to enter Iraqi shipyards , for example, the submarine would have to be inspected by Iraqi personnel.

Haji Shafi, the chief engineer of the Iraqi shipyard, is an Arab engineer who held an important position in the French shipyard. After the Iraqi shipyard started construction, he returned to the Middle East under the call of President Qusay and served as the Iraqi shipyard. The chief engineer of the shipyard, together with the Chinese personnel, was responsible for the manufacture of Iraqi missile boats, while the civilian project was completely in charge of Haji Shafi. As a chief engineer, he was very interested in the design and construction of ships , especially military ships, moreover, his memory is very good and he never forgets.

Wearing a full set of protective suits, the people on the Baton Rouge nuclear submarine only thought he was an ordinary skilled worker. They were wearing navy short sleeves. Looking at this fully protected man, they started testing in the nuclear submarine.

Chapter 897 Pointing at Japan

Compared with what happened to the Baton Rouge, the situation on the K-132 in the distance is much better. After receiving instructions from Moscow, Yezhov finally accepted the help of the Iraqi personnel, but this help is not too big The effect is because the submarine has been deeply stuck in the reef. What's more troublesome is that the second accident caused the deformation of the outer non-pressure hull, which got stuck inside and could not come out at all.

The Soviet experts in charge of handling the accident also arrived quickly.

This night is destined to be a sleepless night. Both the United States and the Soviet Union are trying their best to rescue their own submarines in the Persian Gulf. The American submarines are relatively lucky. The way they dealt with the damage to the submarine was very correct. Although it cost a lot, and they even had to use the sale of a few outdated E-2 early warning planes to win over the Iraqis, they did not More puzzles arise.

However, for the Soviet Union, it was much more troublesome. The Soviet nuclear submarines were very thick, so the captains were also rough in style. Yezhov made a mistake in operating the submarine, and the handling process was even more erroneous, which led to this incident.

After the Soviet experts arrived, they were helpless about this situation.

Because this is a shallow water area, the rescue ship cannot perform salvage operations, but if it wants to pull it out, it is too tightly stuck, it cannot be pulled, and there is a danger of breaking the damaged hull of the submarine.

However, the parties involved, the Soviet Union and the United States, did not make any comments on this incident, but the media in the world talked about it.

Among them, a report by Agence France-Presse attracted the world's attention the most.

In this report, a Soviet nuclear submarine was tracked under the sea by an American nuclear submarine. In order to get rid of the tracking of the United States, this nuclear submarine entered the Persian Gulf. As a result, the American nuclear submarine followed, because the Persian Gulf is relatively It is small, so when the Soviet nuclear submarine turned around, it collided with the American nuclear submarine. The American nuclear submarine floated up urgently, but the Soviet nuclear submarine was safe and sound, but because it was not familiar with the waterway, it accidentally ran aground when it was out of the Persian Gulf.

The analysis and reasoning of this accident are relatively close to the truth, but the key point is that the analysis after this report is more important, especially, the propeller at the tail of the Soviet nuclear submarine has been analyzed in detail, it is simply a professional nuclear submarine design tone of voice.

No matter how the Soviet nuclear submarine is improved, the noise is huge, because the Soviet nuclear submarine does not have advanced propeller processing technology. However, in this picture, we can see that the Soviet Union has abandoned the original five-blade propeller and switched to seven-blade propeller. Large skewed propellers, such advanced propellers, cannot be manufactured with Soviet industrial technology. The only possibility is that the Soviet Union introduced multi-axis linkage CNC machine tools from the West!