.. "After this incident, we realized that our navy is too weak, so we want to buy some missile boats from your country..." Kusai said.

Missile boats? The Minister of Defense thought he had heard it wrong. Iraq has always made big moves. He originally thought that if Iraq wants to buy it, the worst thing is frigates. Iraq still has those small missile boats. However, in today's countries, there are really no frigates or destroyers that can be used...

"We can fully meet your needs. What kind of missile boat does Iraq need? Is it the Hornet class or the Valley class?" asked the Minister of Defense.

The Hornet class, the Valley class, are their main missile boats.

However, Kusai looked down on them. Those were products from before the 1970s. Moreover, the displacement was too small. What he wanted was a slightly larger "Red Star"-class large missile escort boat.

Iraq's current naval capabilities are even more difficult to cruise in the Persian Gulf, so Iraq urgently needs a missile boat. In the Persian Gulf, missile boats are enough.

The Red Star is the second-generation missile boat in the country, with its displacement increased to 500 tons. While increasing the living space of the crew, it also provides better conditions for the modification of this missile boat.

Moreover, this missile boat uses the c801 anti-ship missile, which can be produced independently by Iraq. In addition, it can also be modified with extended-range models, or it can be modified with Iraq's improved ground attack missiles based on the c801, Red Bird One or Red Bird Two, so that this missile boat can conduct ground attacks with the support of its own C3i data link.

The only thing that makes Kusai somewhat uncertain is that in later generations, this missile boat entered service in the late 1980s. Now, has this missile boat started to be built?

"We need a missile boat with a displacement of about 500 tons. Moreover, it can be equipped with four C801 anti-ship missiles, and the boat needs two twin 37mm cannons at the beginning and end as air firepower." Kusai said: "The displacement of the Hornet and Valley classes is too small."

The Minister of Defense was clever in his mind. He had a missile boat on the design drawings to meet this need. Construction has not started yet because the funds have not yet been in place. Since the other party has proposed it, you might as well build it for them first!

"We have a Red Star missile boat that is perfectly suitable for your needs. If we sign a contract, we can start construction now. The construction cycle of this small boat will not exceed half a year." The Minister of Defense said: "I wonder how many ships you need?"

Sure enough, there is a Red Star! Kusai was happy: "We need ten ships. However, we can deliver them in batches, and the five ships in advance will be produced on your side, while the five ships in the later stage will be produced by Iraq."

You make it yourself? The Minister of Defense asked: "His Excellency Kusai, does your shipyard have a shipyard?"

"No, but, it will be there soon," said Kusai.

After listening to Kusai's words, everyone here laughed. On such an occasion, Kusai actually told such a joke.

"As long as your country needs it, we are willing to help your country build a shipyard and produce such missile boats." The Minister of Defense said that building a shipyard also requires a lot of investment. In this way, the country can also obtain a portion of foreign exchange.

"We need this shipyard to be larger in scale. In addition to building these missile boats, we can also build thousands of tons of civilian ships." Kusai said.

"It's absolutely fine, it's just a tanker worth tens of thousands of tons. As long as you are willing, we can help you build such a large shipyard." said the Minister of Defense.

"In addition to missile boats, we also need to customize several large training ships for naval training to you," said Kusai.

Now, the Naval Academy in Basra has begun to gradually cultivate talents, but so far, they are just talking about it on paper, at most they use civilian ships to go out to sea for training. This is very unreasonable. If the Iraqi Navy wants to be strong, it must start with basic talents. When catching talents, in addition to educating them, training is also very important. In this way, professional training ships are needed.

Large training ship? The Minister of Defense asked solemnly: "What size and form of training ships are your country needed?"

Because at this time, the country's navy did not have professional naval training ships, and they were always renting merchant ships and fishing boats for internships for naval cadets, and the first professional ocean-going naval training ship designed by the country, the training ship "Zheng He" was still stuck on the drawings.

"The length is more than 100 meters, with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons. There is a flat deck in front, which can take off and land several helicopters, or carry standard containers." Kusai said: "This ship needs to have various functions such as navigation training, helicopter training, medical training, national defense mobilization drills, and carrying 300 standard containers. By installing various container modules, a civil transport ship can be quickly converted into various types of military auxiliary devices for wartime use. In the Cambridge War two years ago, the British could quickly modify many civilian ships during the sailing process to achieve military purpose, or by loading different container modules, such as loading medical module containers, they can be converted into rescue ships."

What Kusai said was the idea of ​​the later generations of "Shichang". Iraq needs professional ships trained by naval forces. Since it is needed, it requires a large ship, which is used for training in normal times and can provide other uses during wartime and will not be outdated in the future. Moreover, the large deck in front can take off and land multiple helicopters at the same time. If it is really time for wartime, anti-submarine will be of great use.

The ideas proposed by Kusai moved these people. None of them expected that a layman who could almost be said to be without a navy would actually put forward these ideas. In this case, this ship would be of great use.

"His Excellency Kusai, your ideas are very interesting. We need to design such ships, from design to construction to service, it will probably take two to three years." said the Minister of Defense.

"We can wait, but this ship must meet our requirements," said Kusai.

"His Excellency Kusai, we invite you to visit the Shanghai Qiuxin Shipyard, and at the same time, explain your ideas in detail to our designers." said the Minister of Defense.

One of the trips in Kusai was to visit Shanghai, so the Minister of Defense said he would invite him to visit the Shanghai Shipyard, and Kusai agreed immediately.

After the meeting, it was almost dark. After a friendly banquet was held between the two sides, Kusai checked into the hotel.

The sky in the capital was still very clear at this moment. Looking at the stars in the sky, Kusai suddenly became interested and wanted to go out and ride a bicycle and go around.

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Western Iran, Bakhtaran region.

This place was originally a mountainous land on the barren Iranian plateau, and crops could not be grown on the land. Only in the Gare Valley, a tributary of the upper Karhei River, can there be some food, mainly wheat and sugarcane.

But now, in the tall and quiet mountainous area, the noise suddenly began to begin, because geological survey experts from Austria have discovered minerals here.

In addition to iron ore, there are mainly copper ore, and rare earth ore has been found in a special place.

A simple mountain road has been built. The Steyr 91 series and the Mercedes-Benz G-80 series 6*6 off-road heavy trucks have entered Iraq in advance. They travel here and transport the ore dug out of the cave to Iraq to the west. They will turn it into Iraq's continued metal resources.

Those who are responsible for these transportation tasks are all the transportation troops of the Iraqi Second Line Reserve. After changing these trucks, they immediately realized that it was a world of difference from the worn Soviet-style trucks they drove before.

These cars have strong horsepower, especially turbocharger technology. Even in the plateau, they have enough power to support heavy-load climbing of cars. Although the rated load is only fifteen tons, these Iraqi transportation companies often pull thirty tons or even forty tons to complete their tasks, which is a serious overload. Steyr and Mercedes-Benz have shown their ability to adapt to overloading.

One of the convoys was very curious about the minerals they transported, because the stones they transported looked no different from ordinary stones, but they were told that this was a rare ore. In order to avoid being discovered, they needed strict confidentiality measures. The entire convoy could not talk to the outside world. There were personnel from the intelligence agency in Baghdad and, before entering the cave, they would replace other insiders to drive.

Therefore, although they are very curious, they know that they have important responsibilities and dare not say a word.

They didn't know that what they did was indeed a very secret thing, because what was being excavated there was a place for underground nuclear tests.

Because now a large number of Iraqi cars transport ore here, even if they are discovered by satellites in the sky, they will only think it is ordinary ore transportation and will not know any other secrets there.

At this time, in the cave, Heidal Hamza, the head of the Physics Department of the Research Center of the Iraqi Ministry of Nuclear Energy since the 1970s, was all the main figures involved in the nuclear program. They are now commanding the final battle in the cave.

Underground nuclear tests are divided into shallow and deep layers. After the shallow layer is exploded, large pits will still be left on the surface, so the main purpose of deep nuclear tests is to dig holes underground. There are mainly two ways to dig holes underground and vertical holes. For convenience and simplicity, Iraq adopts the method of flat holes, and is far away from underground water sources, etc., to prevent underground pollution.

Now, they have excavated the tangent direction of the horizontal tunnel at the foot of the mountain according to the geological conditions. Each horizontal tunnel has several tunnels with a depth of 150 meters and a cross-sectional area of ​​12 square meters, which is convenient for transportation equipment and equipment. Then, they place monitoring devices several meters to 10 meters away from the center of the explosion. At the exit of each horizontal tunnel, there is a distribution platform for testing equipment and distributed into corresponding communities to place various equipment with different performances. The final automatic explosion console and detection instrument console are located 5 kilometers away from the exit of the tunnel.

Now, the hole has been dug and they are waiting for the equipment to be shipped. To be continued...

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