Chapter 1,76: Yizhonghai practice

Due to Iraq's capital investment and participating in many aspects of weapon development in the Eastern Powers, the defense funds of the Eastern Powers have been surplus, and various other projects have made great strides forward.

Although Iraq has participated in many projects of the Eastern Powers, especially the Air Force, and participated in the development of several types of fighter jets, it has not cooperated closely with the Eastern Powers in the Navy. Apart from the help of the Eastern Powers, it has no other cooperation in addition to assisting the construction of Iraqi shipyards.

Because the Eastern Powers have no advantages in naval ship construction and ship subsystems, although the Jiangwei class is already a relatively advanced warship built by the Eastern Powers, as long as you see the huge six-unit launcher in front of the bridge, it makes people think a lot.

When the Jiangwei class appeared in front of the world, almost everyone was puzzled by the huge six-unit launcher in front of it. What was inside such a thick figure? Some people speculated that it was an anti-ship missile, but it was thick enough and short in length, or an anti-submarine torpedo?

Finally, the ridiculous answer was revealed: it is the ship-to-air missile! This is the crystallization of decades of technology from the Eastern power: the first generation of ship-to-air missiles, Hongqi 61!, At this time, it had been lagging behind the world for more than 20 years. This kind of ship-to-air missile, which is only prepared for high-altitude targets and has a range of only ten kilometers, cannot cope with anti-ship missiles flying over the sea. After equipping warships, it was out of date. Therefore, there was no large number of equipment in later generations. After several were built, it began to build a new frigate equipped with the Sea Rattlesnake missile.

And that huge launcher was because the wings of this missile could not be folded! This reason made this missile launcher huge in size and did not have the ability to reload.

In modern technology, especially electronic technology, the Eastern powers are already far from the world, but they are catching up.

The 112 missile destroyer was launched in the later generations in 1992 and entered service in 1994. Now, since Iraq has shared a lot of funds for military projects and brought a lot of advanced Western technology, the progress of this destroyer has been greatly advanced. It was launched in 1990 and delivered to the navy in April 1991. Now, it is the youngest warship in the Chinese naval ship sequence and the most powerful combat power.

Iraqi Navy Lieutenant Colonel Abdul stood on the bridge and looked at the endless sea. Although they had not crossed the shore after a long sailing, they were in a very good spirit. This was the first time they sailed so far to come to this strange sea area and conduct joint exercises with the navy of a friendly country.

In terms of naval forces, the two countries are actually half a dozen. The naval history of the Eastern powers is relatively long, but most of their warships are very backward and far from the world's advanced level. For example, the most advanced No. 112 ship, except for the anti-ship missiles, are self-produced, the rest are imported.

Although Iraq has advanced warships through military purchases, such as the modern-class under his feet, it is considered a relatively advanced warship. However, the Iraqi Navy has not conducted a large-scale naval battle until now, and the real combat effectiveness of their remains unknown.

In the same place, the naval personnel of both countries know the great mission they shoulder and the heavy responsibility they have.

The Hyundai Euphrates is located in the middle of the fleet, with the Heden class on the left, while the Harbin and Anqing are on the starboard side. The formation of four warships has very powerful attack capabilities and strong anti-ship capabilities. In terms of air defense, the Hyundai class can provide regional air defense capabilities.

"That American ship is still following." said Yit, deputy commander of the formation.

Abdul knew that since they passed the Strait of Malacca, a warship followed behind him in a gloomy way. It was a Perry-class frigate of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, the "Van der Grift". This warship was very arrogant and followed them all the time. At the closest time, it was only a few hundred meters away, so they could clearly see their hull number.

This exercise will definitely not be very calm. No matter what tricks the Americans make, they will smash the American conspiracy!

"Don't worry about it, let's continue the exercise," Abdul said. "Our next exercise subject is a joint anti-submarine exercise, notifying our friends to prepare for anti-submarine exercises and release our helicopters!"

Americans are surveillance, and in such waters, they cannot drive away Americans, so they can only ignore the other party’s existence, what should they do and what else to do.

With Abdul's order, the four warships scattered and formed a single formation.

When conducting air defense drills just now, we need to line up in a dense formation with diamond-shaped formations, modern-class with regional air defense missiles, and other ships with point defense capabilities are on the side. The anti-submarine exercises are another formation, which needs to be lined up in a row, and the spacing is very large to reduce the speed to avoid noise interference from one's own noise.

The net is pulled one by one, and the anti-submarine helicopter drops sonar buoys in necessary areas to complete the process of finding suspicious underwater targets.

Of course, they are not without silver here. Underwater, there is a Chinese Navy's 035 Ming-class submarine, which is below them, acting as their prey.

Before the Harbin, it was not easy to find the Ming-class submarines with a lot of noise from their navy, because their own detection methods were also very backward. However, the Harbin had advanced sonar systems introduced from France, especially towed sonar, which made it very capable of detecting underwater submarines.

Of course, they didn't know that there was another submarine or a nuclear submarine underwater now!

After the Oscar Level 2 was restored by Iraq, this was their first time to come out to carry out a mission. On this submarine, there were also some Soviets.

The Oscar Level 2 did not carry cruise missiles, but only advanced torpedoes. This time they came to protect their own formations. On the way, they had practiced attacks on the Perry class several times. If the war broke out now, the Perry class, who was ignorant of life and death, would immediately see God.

This anti-submarine drill is also a confrontation drill for our own submarine to see if it can slip away quietly in its search.

Although the modern-class design mainly involves air defense and anti-ship, its anti-submarine capabilities are still excellent, and it carries two anti-submarine helicopters.

With the roar on the tail platform, a coaxially rotating Ka-27 helicopter flew into the sky. On the Harbin, a Z9 helicopter also flew into the sky, and the anti-submarine exercise officially kicked off.

The Perry-class ship at the tail was still monitoring. Captain Thomas looked at the single-shaped formation and suddenly a thought came to his mind.

The mission he came here this time was to cause trouble for the exercises between both sides!

Now, the Soviet Union has weakened, but two more countries that pose a threat to the United States have emerged, Iraq and China! The two countries conducted a joint exercise at such a sensitive time, which is clearly for the Americans to see.

Although the other party has brought out their most powerful weapons, in Thomas' eyes, they are nothing at all.

Have you ever seen the US naval formation? Have you ever seen what the Aegis system is? What is a carrier-based aircraft? I have the nerve to take out this warship.

Although he was also a 4,000-ton frigate under his feet, this did not affect the superiority of the US Navy in Thomas's heart. They were not afraid of it even against the Soviet Navy.

"Go ahead at full speed, rudder one left and go around in front of the opponent's formation!" Thomas said.

The other party is so slow, it is better to let yourself play a game with them! Thomas thought.

The Pere-class frigate also uses the lm2500 gas turbine. On the ocean, warships of the three countries use the same power, which is also a miracle. The Heden class of Iraq, the Harbin of China, and the Pere-class are all lm2500 gas turbines.

However, the difference is that the Harbin and Perry class both have a displacement of 4,000 tons, so their maximum speed is only 30 knots, but the Heden class has a displacement of only more than 2,000 tons, so its maximum speed reaches 35 knots!

Thomas looked at the slow warships in anti-submarine warfare. The most taboo thing about anti-submarine warfare was noise, so they all lowered their speed. At this time, it was time to make trouble for them!

Two lm2500 gas turbines exploded with more than 30,000 horsepower, driving a five-blade propeller behind, and the entire warship began to accelerate.

"Rear noise." The sonar soldier reported.

Then, the person in charge of looking out at the top of the bridge had reported: "The American warship began to accelerate, and they rushed towards us!"

Damn Americans, what do they want to do? At this time, the Heden class was on the far left, the Hyundai class, the Shanghai class and the Jiangwei class, and they almost all found that the American warship behind, the warship that had been in disarray, rushed up.

"The anti-submarine exercise is over, accelerate and prepare for the battle!" Abdul ordered.

The Americans' actions are very unusual now, so Abdul issued a combat order. If the Americans insisted on doing so, he would not mind putting a few 130mm shells on the other side's route first.
Chapter completed!