At the end of 1984 AD, this was an era of turbulence. This turbulence was not military or political, but economic, and in black gold that is indispensable for the development of human civilization.

Just before the new year came, we had already seen high oil prices fall, but unexpectedly, it was just a moon in the water and a flower in the mirror. The exports of several oil-producing countries were affected by various unpredictable effects, which made it impossible to complete. As a result, oil prices were only lower for a day or two and began to continue to rise, and there was no end.

Oil prices have risen to seventy dollars per barrel! Many factories around the world have been shut down. Anyway, factories are losing money when they start construction, so they might as well have to take an annual leave early.

At this moment, Iraq in the Middle East, a country that has become very famous this year, once again happened to attract the attention of the world.

In the past, Iraq, Arabia, and Israel had all kinds of conflicts, at most, only a topic of conversation among the people of other countries after dinner. The number of casualties was just a number.

But now, it is completely different. Iraq's move will affect the world, because Iraq announced that it will increase oil production!

This time, there was no thunder and little rainfall. Unlike the last increase of 100,000 barrels, this time it increased by one million barrels on the day Iraq announced. Moreover, Iraq announced that it would stabilize the increase of 3 million barrels at the beginning of next year, that is, in more than ten days.

On that day, the prices in the international oil futures market stabilized at seventy dollars and did not continue to rise, which was a good start.

People who just bought futures beat their chests and stamped their feet. They originally bought at high prices. Now, they want to sell, but there are no buyers.

Just one day later, at a new OPEC meeting organized by Saudi Arabia, held by Saudi Arabia, the proposal of OPEC Secretary-General, Iraq's Fadhil J. Al-chalabi. OPEC member states want to increase oil production and lower oil prices, otherwise the world economy will collapse.

At the same time, Saudi Arabia also stated that its oil equipment will be repaired as soon as possible and oil exports will be restored.

It was like a timely help, after a series of measures, oil prices finally fell.

What the United States is most looking forward to is the decline in oil prices, so just after Iraq paid the deposit, the United States took the lead in delivering the Sparrow missiles in its warehouse to the Iraqi Air Force. Now, the Sparrow missiles have developed to the new Aim-7m. These inventories of Aim-7-e2 models can be equipped to the Iraqi Air Force and earn a lot of income.

At the airport, Kusai was watching the American plane fly to Baghdad and unloading these things, and his face was filled with joy. In this way, the temporary lack of ammunition in the Iraqi Air Force will be solved, and it will be time to produce missiles by its own side. The arrival of the next batch of Maverick missiles and Gem Road laser-guided bombs will increase its own precise strike capabilities against the ground. If the Americans found out later that the bombs they produced were falling from their heads, I really don’t know what they should think.

It is really useful to use oil as a weapon to achieve its goals. Now Iraq has not only solved the problem of capital, but also solved the problem of insufficient ammunition reserves. Now, Iraq is only left to continue to use oil weapons to attack the British!

In his spare time, Kusai came to Basra, which has long been an important industrial city, especially Iraq's largest iron smelting plant. Moreover, at the beginning of the year, the steel plant updated its equipment to produce special wear-resistant metal smelting equipment for heavy truck production introduced by Iraq, transmission shafts, gears and other components, which all require a great deal of torque. If Iraq wants to completely localize heavy trucks, it needs to produce various metal raw materials needed for heavy trucks by itself.

In addition to these, Iraq has also updated a new set of equipment here so that it can produce the marine steel needed by the shipyard. After a year of construction, the Iraqi shipyard has begun to take shape and can start construction next year. At that time, the shipyard will not only build a few missile boats in Iraq, but will also gradually have the ability to build civilian ships. Therefore, Iraq also needs to produce marine steel by itself.

In these projects, those people brought from the Eastern powers played a very good role. They are the mainstays in the factory, with skills, motivation and willingness to endure hardships, which just happened to make up for the extreme shortage of Iraq's talents.

Moreover, Iraq has established a new metal research institute in Basra City to study the various metals needed by Iraq. Of course, due to various factors, this metal research institute is now mainly used to test whether the various alloys smelted by steel mills are qualified.

This metal research institute brings together almost all the talents in Iraq in this field, including professors returning from foreign countries, graduate students from Iraq, and experts invited from major Eastern countries. The leader of the research institute is a famous metallurgical expert in Iraq, Jamil. (I have been searching for a long time, but I haven't found the full name. I regret that if you know, you can tell me.)

The Metal Research Institute is divided into two research institutes, which are responsible for civil and military projects respectively.

The civilian research institute is very close to the steel mill, but another research institute is in another suburb of the city, very far away from it.

Moreover, the guards there are very tight, especially recently, intelligence personnel from the Messiha Bureau are monitoring the surrounding situation.

The Kusai team did not enter the city of Basra, and from outside, they walked around to the Military Research Institute of Metal Research.

When the Kusai team arrived, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun in the west pulled the shadow of their group very long.

"Welcome to the President to come and inspect." Jamil was already waiting outside.

Jamil looks 1.8 meters tall, even among the European crowd. When he arrives, he is even taller than Kusai, who is only 1.7 meters tall. He is wearing a pair of glasses and is a bit gentle.

"Professor, thank you for your hard work. I just came to see how our progress is?" Kusai was very anxious.

Of course, Kusai was very anxious because the information that the two generations of Chobam armor, which had taken countless efforts and one of the agents was still imprisoned in the UK, was all put here. Iraq needs its own efforts to try out the main armor of its future main battle tank.

The agent, Iraq is still trying his best to ask the UK for help. Moreover, with the subsequent oil production increase of Kusai, he believes that he will let the British send people back obediently. And these information must bear fruit!

Although Iraq has more and more scientific research talents, it is absolutely not qualified to study the main armor of tanks. Iraq still has a long way to go.

However, now, the data obtained is just transformed into actual products, so the difficulty will be much smaller. Although it is much smaller, it is also a difficult situation facing Iraqis. This difficulty must be overcome by the Iraqis themselves.

Kusai once thought about giving the Soviet personnel he hired to study with Kartsev. Several of those personnel specialized in composite armor. However, in the end, he denied his idea. The main armor is the core secret of the tank, and all countries are extremely confidential. Even Iraq has spent a huge amount of money to introduce a complete set of T-72 production lines, and the main armor is still imported from the Soviet Union.

If the Soviets saw their own information, who would know if they would secretly go back to the Soviet Union? Kusai didn't want to make wedding clothes for others.

Fortunately, the information obtained was not only the design information of Chobam 2 armor, but also the metal processing technology, which made the responsible Jamil overjoyed. With the processing technology, they just needed to do it.

So, after obtaining the technical information, Jamil immediately led the most outstanding personnel under his command to start researching.

However, the specific processing process is also extremely troublesome. They have just started to do it now, and President Kusai has arrived, which shows how important President Kusai attaches to this project.

Inducing Kusai to the conference room, Jamil gave a report to Kusai.

"We are now studying those data. We need to recalculate all the data on the data and verify all the content on the data. In this way, we can digest and absorb the data." Jamil said.

Kusai nodded: "Yes, that's how we should be. Our steps must be steady and we must study these data thoroughly."

"Now, according to the processing technology, we are preparing to start trial production. Although we have not officially shot the target yet, we expect that the protection data should be able to reach. This armor should exceed the main armor of the T-72 main battle tank we equipped, and even exceed the main armor of any kind of tanks currently in service in the world." Jamil was very confident.

At this time, the depleted uranium armor of the United States was still under development, so the Chobam 2 armor has absolutely first-class protection capabilities.

"I hope to meet our needs, so that we will have an advanced armor. Our chief designer has begun to design our next generation of main battle tanks. This main battle tank requires our own armor." Kusai said: "Science and technology are the primary productive forces. Scientific and technological workers who are striving on the frontline of science and technology are outstanding talents who have changed the world. I hope everyone will continue to work hard and strive to realize that our self-produced main armor can be put into production and use as soon as possible. This is related to the lives of our army brothers."

Kusai's speech was both an encouragement and an urgency. Everyone present was deeply inspired. Their research was taken seriously by President Kusai. They needed to produce such advanced armor to repay President Kusai!

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