Chapter 449 High Strength Steel
More intentions for cooperation! When hearing Mhamad's words, everyone's eyes lit up.
Now, what the Soviet Union lacks the most is foreign exchange. If there were sufficient foreign exchange, the reforms in the Soviet Union would have been able to be smoothly promoted. For foreign exchange, the Soviets tried their best to borrow a lot from Western Europe. In the end, they were almost trapped in a vicious cycle of borrowing money and interest repayment.
If Pakistan can have some trade exchanges with the Soviet Union, it will be of great benefit to the Soviet Union. Even though the two sides were still in a confrontation last time, the Soviet Union hoped to sell the nuclear reactor to Pakistan, but unfortunately it ended in failure. If the two sides now have some economic cooperation, it will be of good benefit to both sides.
Ogalkov frowned. Now, what is there to do with the Soviet Union? There is only arms. Pakistan is not looking down on the lower-level arms, and it is high-end. It is afraid that Pakistan will not look down on it. Some of them are unable to export them.
The Su-27 fighter jet is almost the highest-end weapon that the Soviet Union can take, and it is of high value. However, Pakistan has equipped the Tomcat fighter jet, so it must be despised.
"What do you want?" asked Marshal Ogalkov.
"It's mainly some basic industries," Mhamad said: "For example, metallurgy, chemical industry, and machinery manufacturing. We hope to introduce your country's technology from your country to improve our domestic industrial level."
Pakistan's domestic industry is all assisted by China and has completed a comprehensive industrialization project.
But now, a few years have passed, and many of these projects have begun to lag behind. After all, China's technology is also the technology of the 1960s.
As long as there is no need to involve Soviet secret projects, such ordinary basic industries can certainly be provided by the Soviet side.
"We are very willing to help Pakistan develop industry." Gorbachev said: "What do you need specifically?"
"For specific projects, we will leave some people to talk to you in detail." Mhamad said: "For example, alloy steel with yield strength of 850mpa."
Mhamad spoke casually, as if it was just an ordinary industrial steel, but when Marshal Ogalkov's eyelids twitched wildly, is this still an ordinary industrial?
If you want to have advanced national defense, you need advanced industry. Why is the United States strong? It is because the United States has the highest industrial capacity in the world.
Although it is just an ordinary steel, there is a lot of knowledge. If the steel used on a ship is to travel in the waves, the hull will have to bear huge pressure. The performance of special steel for marine products is called yield strength, which is mainly expressed by mpa (megapas). Generally, ships, such as oil tankers, bulk cargo ships, container ships and other civilian ships, are about 250mpa, which is enough, and ordinary military ships also need to be around 300mpa. However, for example, steel for aircraft carriers and submarines. Among them, steel for aircraft carriers, especially for aircraft carrier flight decks, it requires very strong steel, at least above 850mpa.
After all, the flight deck of an aircraft carrier has to constantly withstand the take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft, especially landing, which is simply a shock! And when taking off, the hot heat flow is also a test.
At the same time, the submarine needs to sail underwater. Every ten meters lowered, an atmospheric pressure will be increased. Even if it is dived by 300 meters, it is equivalent to 30 atmospheric pressure. Ordinary steel will be squeezed flattened directly.
Pakistan wants to transform an aircraft carrier. However, steel has to be imported from the United States, which Mhamad has taken a lot of effort to get.
Looking around the world, there are not many countries that can make steel for aircraft carriers. The United States has the best quality. The two models of steel, hy-100 and hy-80, are the best steels for aircraft carriers or nuclear submarines. In later generations, even the proud Gaul Chicken, when she was manufacturing its own USS Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, faced the best steel in China, with the yield strength of about 550mpa. In desperation, she imported hy-80 special steel from the United States.
The Soviets' steel was also quite good. The Soviets' best-known one was the special alloy steel synthesized by high-temperature nickel, chromium and titanium. The yield strength of this steel is the world's largest, up to 1,000mpa!
Mhamad was impressed by the later generations. In the Ukraine, China bought the empty-shelled Varyag from Ukraine. This aircraft carrier had been alone on the ship platform for several years and had not been treated with rust at all. After it was brought back, it was placed in Dalian for more than ten years. However, it had not rusted. The steel used in this aircraft carrier can naturally resist seawater corrosion! Moreover, in order to prevent being missed by magnetic torpedoes and mines, military ships need to be demagnetized. Ordinary warships need to undergo demagnetization of the hull before leaving the factory, but this warship has no such step at all and has no magnetism. This steel is originally demagnetized!
Of course, Mhamad knows the importance of this kind of steel. If Pakistan wants to develop in the future, it will not work without this high-strength steel. In the future Mhamad's grand plan, there will be nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. Pakistan has broad maritime rights and interests to protect, it is necessary to have such high-strength steel.
"What do you want this kind of steel to do?" Ogarkov asked.
"Our industry needs." Mhamad said: "If we want to build an oil pipeline, we want to increase the oil pressure, we need high-strength steel. If we want to make various mechanical equipment, we also need high-strength steel."
Mhamad said casually that no matter how high the pressure of the oil pipeline is, it is impossible to have hundreds of atmospheric pressures. This is just an excuse. After all, both sides can know the real situation.
Marshal Ogalkov frowned. This kind of steel is a top secret. If Pakistan directly imports steel, it would be fine. If it wants to build such a steel industry in Pakistan, it would bring a lot of chain reactions.
"We Pakistan are spared no effort to improve our industrial level," Mhamad said. "We Pakistan plan to invest tens of billions of dollars."
Tens of billions of dollars! Although this amount of funds seems to be despised by the huge red empire, this amount is definitely not small.
Mhamad has a focus. He was reluctant to spend even tens of millions of dollars on the British. He planned to buy the British Type 82 destroyer for more than 10 million US dollars and also used Argentina to suppress it. However, Mhamad was very generous to the Soviet Union.
It’s not okay to be unrighteous. This kind of thing is not okay by stealing. In later generations, China spent a lot of money to modify the aircraft carrier and build the aircraft carrier itself and bought it back from Russia.
For example, Zhang Zhaozhong, the director of the Strategic Fool Bureau, once introduced a situation: When we want to build an aircraft carrier, we allocated the money for building an aircraft carrier. We first took out more than 40 million US dollars to start the shipyard, build roads, docks, and build workshops. After all these infrastructures were completed, we found that we did not have the steel to build an aircraft carrier!
(The style of the bureau chief has always been to speak in a staggering way. In the Gulf War, Baghdad had been hollowed out and the US military would fall into the vast ocean of the Iraqi People's War. As a result, the desert storm was beaten extremely smoothly. It also said that China did not have a fourth-generation aircraft, but it was the J-10 reform. As a result, it seemed like it was a slap in the face. The J-20 test flight was in a few days. Welcome to watch the bureau chief chief chief executive.)
Mhamad has been preparing for it all the time. He did not take the ordinary path. He first had a carrier-based aircraft, then built an aircraft carrier, first built a scrapped aircraft carrier for training, and then accumulated strength and slowly prepared to build an aircraft carrier by himself.
Although this road will be very difficult, Mhamad has been preparing for it. Now, it is just a pre-store and buy the technology of using steel for aircraft carriers first!
"How much do you plan to invest in this high-strength alloy steel project?" asked Marshal Ogalkov.
After all, steel is just a basic industry, only steel can do nothing. Whether it is an aircraft carrier or a nuclear submarine, it is a huge system project. Therefore, Ogalkov wants to know how sincere Pakistan is, if the price is sufficient, technology can be exchanged.
The Soviet Union was short of money, and military reform and digital construction all required large investments. It was worth using a steel technology export to exchange for sufficient funds.
"We can pay about 300 million US dollars," said Mhamad. "The yield of this alloy steel must be high enough and has magnetic resistance. We also need welding technology. If we can output all the equipment and open a factory to manufacture it in Pakistan, we plan to invest about 500 million US dollars. Of course, we can also discuss the price in detail."
Five hundred million US dollars! Mhamad has enough to buy several advanced warships. Now, buying a kind of steel seems to be a loss. Only Mhamad knows the absolute value! His price is within one billion US dollars!
After all, only this one is the only one, buy it from the United States? Wake up, Americans will never sell this technology. When the Soviet Union collapses in later generations, they will buy at the bottom. Mhamad is afraid that he will not be able to wait. Due to Mhamad's time travel and the disintegration of the Soviet Union will be delayed. The manufacturing of a warship will take several years, and Pakistan must prepare as soon as possible.
In the world financial market, Mhamad has made a lot of money, and in the subsequent island countries, Mhamad will make another profit. Now, Pakistan will never have a headache about money.
If the other half of the Earth's United States knew, I wonder if it would be too much to scold Mhamad. The United States still has a lot of accounts, waiting for Pakistan to stay.
Chapter completed!