Chapter 640 Arms Smuggling
Originally, Iraq had ordered the JF-11 fighter jet developed by Pakistan before. As the main fighter jet of the future, this fighter jet has advanced electronic equipment and can effectively fight against other third-generation aircraft. Unfortunately, before one of the fighter jets was delivered, the current incident occurred. Pakistan firmly stood on the side of Kuwait, even the emirs in Kuwait were rescued by Pakistan.↖,
Under such circumstances, Pakistan shamefully terminated the agreement. The deposit paid by Iraq in the past was wasted. Now Iraq's main fighter jet is actually a second-generation fighter jet!
Originally, after Iraq inspected the Soviet fighter jets, it was quite interested in the generous Su-27 and even signed an order of forty aircraft at one time. However, the battle of the Su-27 over Afghanistan was very poor. After inspecting Pakistan and deciding to purchase Pakistan's Xiaolong, it was behind in this avionics. Iraq lost interest in the five big and thick Soviet goods, canceled the order and instead ordered Pakistan's Xiaolong.
In dealing with Kuwait, the Iraqi Air Force has a complete chance of winning, but in dealing with multinational forces, especially US fighter jets, Iraq really cannot face it head-on.
When talking about this issue, Saddam is no longer full of confidence as he just now, and he has the same headache.
"Mr. President, I contacted an international arms dealer. He had a way to buy the MiG-29 fighter jet from the Soviet Union. This is also a good third-generation aircraft." Seeing that Saddam was also worried about this, Ibrahim continued.
MiG-29? Like the Su-27, MiG-29 is a third-generation aircraft developed by the Soviet Union! Can international arms dealers still bring fighter jets like MiG-29?
Saddam was immediately very interested and said, "Where is that person? Take him to us! I want to discuss with him in person."
Two days later, a Soviet man secretly came to Baghdad and met the Iraqi ruler in Saddam's mansion.
"I'm very happy to see you, President Saddam." The visitor said, "Just call me Xiao."
"Do you have a way to get the MiG-29 fighter jets from the Soviets?" Saddam asked. Although the Soviet Union was once an ally of Iraq, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Soviet Union actually changed its face. When the United States proposed to organize a joint army and drove away Iraqi troops, the Soviets actually abstained from the United Nations, and the United States had the authorization of the United Nations, even if it had grasped international public opinion.
"Yes." said the visitor: "I have a wide network of contacts in the Soviet Union. I can get all kinds of weapons, except nuclear weapons. I can get about forty MiG-29 fighter jets."
"Is it a second-hand product that serves in the army?" Saddam asked.
The visitor shook his head: "No, it's the fighter jet that Mikoyang Company just left the factory and has not been delivered to the army yet."
"Then how could you do it?" Saddam was puzzled.
"Mr. President, you may not be very clear about the situation in the Soviet Union. Now, the Soviet Union is undergoing in-depth reforms. The country's investment is tilted towards economic construction. Many defense industrial units have not received enough funds. For their own development, they have to sell their products. Just like China, they have begun to take a similar market path. The same is true for the Migoyang Design Bureau. Their factories are still manufacturing fighter jets according to the original plan, but the military expenditure is limited, and the military cannot equip these fighter jets to the army, so they piled up in Migoyang's factory. I know a lot of people and can buy these fighter jets. They are all brand new MiG-29s. They have never moved except for the test flight after they are manufactured."
Brand new forty MiG-29s! Saddam was moved: "How much does one cost?"
"Fifty million rubles, because the rubles shrink, it's enough to exchange them for US dollars, and 40 million dollars per aircraft." The other party said.
Forty million US dollars! This is not cheap! If it weren't for emergency response, Iraq would never agree to this price, but...
"What should we do with our pilot training?" Saddam asked: "Only fighter jets and without pilots, the aircraft still cannot exert their strength."
"Don't worry, Mr. President, if you buy this batch of fighter jets, the pilot training will be carried out simultaneously. You can send a few top pilots to go to the Soviet Union for training. At the same time, if you are willing to pay a high price, I can also dig up experienced pilots from the Soviet Air Force and Air Defense Forces, join the Iraqi Air Force in the name of mercenaries, and fly the MiG-29 fighter jets to fight."
Pilots from the Soviet Union! Of course, this is better! Saddam immediately nodded and agreed: "Okay, this is the best! We in Iraq hope that this agreement can be reached as soon as possible."
"If this is the case, please pay me a deposit. I will take the deposit to Migoyang to pick up the goods." The visitor said calmly, just like selling cabbage.
"I wonder if you are interested in other Soviet goods?" The visitor continued to ask: "S300 missile, T80u main battle tank, Sam-18-pin air defense missile, and Scud missile."
Everything touched Saddam's heart, and Saddam kept nodding: "Yes, we all want them!"
S300 is the most famous air defense missile system in the Soviet Union! With this system, the airspace security of important cities such as Baghdad can be protected. The t-80 main battle tank is a main battle tank equipped by the Soviet Union itself and will never export! There are also Scud missiles, the more things, the better!
With a huge billion-dollar contract, arms dealer Xiao left Baghdad and began his biggest arms deal.
Xiao is Shostakovic, who was captured in the Afghan war in his early years and was finally willing to be a truck driver and live his own happy life. Later, he was spotted by Mhamad and became an arms dealer, specializing in selling Soviet arms. His business was getting bigger and bigger.
Exporting advanced fighter jets like the MiG-29 is not something that Migoyan Design Bureau can do. After Shostakovic's activities, the Soviet senior officials have already made accusations and cannot blatantly support Iraq, secretly export some weapons, and make a big profit at the same time. This is completely possible.
Because of Mhamad's time travel, the Afghan war was far more cruel than in history, which directly led to the Soviet army investing more power in Afghanistan. The failure of the confrontation with Mhamad also indirectly led to the Soviet veterans such as Marshal Akhromyev being purged by Gorbachev. The reform pioneer, who was originally excluded and suppressed, was favored by Marshal Olgakov, the new military ideological leader, was favored by Gorbachev and promoted to Minister of Defense. The reforms that were originally stopped within the Soviet army were carried out unswervingly with the support of Gorbachev.
The Soviet Union lacked a lot of funds in the military transformation process and economic reform, so a large amount of surplus military equipment was sold through open or illegal channels to obtain the funds urgently needed by the Soviet Union. This policy was also acquiesced by Gorbachev and Olgakov. Although the Pakistani people were not easy to come forward, Shostakovic, a former member of the Soviet army, used his racial advantages and earlier relations in the army to smuggle various types of Soviet arms under the guidance of money and beauty.
Now, the outbreak of the Gulf War is indeed beyond the Soviet Union. In addition to hating Saddam's actions of not saying hello and acting unscrupulously, the top Soviet leaders were even more angry at the US imperialist gathering troops from multiple countries in the name of justice to teach his younger brothers. Although the United Nations cannot publicly support Iraq, now, through the help of Shostakovic, delivering a large number of active-service advanced equipment to Saddam is an effective way to maintain the Soviet Union's influence in the Middle East and help him fight against the US imperialist.
Of course, the Soviets would see the impact of the United States going to war in the Middle East, which the Soviet Union could not tolerate!
Shostakovic hummed an unknown tone and left Iraq and went to Syria. The arms smuggling this time was very special and had to be transferred through Syria.
Is this shameless? Now that we are going to interfere with Iraq by force, Mhamad is actually secretly helping Iraq increase its military strength!
After receiving the news from Xiao, Mhamad touched his nose. This is necessary and time must be grasped. These new arms must be driven out of Kuwait before transporting them. In other words, this batch of arms needs to be used in the confrontation with the Americans. At that time, Mhamad just clapped his hands and shouted that both sides would cheer up!
Let’s start preparing now, everything is for that moment!
Just as Iraq was secretly buying arms, a delegation from Pakistan came to Grumman Company.
At this time, Grumman Company was in a panic, and the whole country was very grateful for the arrival of the Pakistan delegation. Pakistan solved a big burden for Grumman Company!
The troubles of Grumman Company began with the Iran Gate incident.
The rogue country of Iran seized American hostages. In order to solve this problem, the Reagan administration had to reach an agreement with Iran to transport weapons and accessories to Iran and exchange hostages.
The incident was originally very secretive, but for some reason, it was suddenly exposed last year.
Chapter completed!