"Iraq provides us with a billion dollars in funding to support the transmission of the remaining ten satellites of GLONAS satellite navigation, and then we provide Iraq with a hundred thousand satellite navigation receivers, each of which costs only one thousand dollars." Defense Minister Sergei said: "One hundred thousand receivers are enough for your country, even countries in the Middle East, and when we send satellites, we will give priority to signals covering the Middle East."

That is to say, Iraq will invest $1.1 billion and only get the bulky receivers made by the Soviet Union? Kusai sneered: "His Excellency Sergey, do you know why we, Iraq, strongly support your country's satellite navigation project?"

This is also the confusion of Sergei. When Iraq went to the Soviet Union, it purchased various weapons and even proposed to buy the latest Su-27 fighter jets. These were acceptable to them. However, Kusai proposed to cooperate to join the Gronas satellite navigation project, which made them a little puzzled. Satellite navigation is a concept just proposed. The practical xing has not been shown yet. Even the United States is still in the experimental stage.

"President Kusai, that's because our Soviet Union has advanced technology in this regard, and you are always very interested in new technologies." Ligachev said.

"No, we have no interest in immature technology. The reason why we propose to participate in your satellite navigation project is because there are huge benefits." Kusai said. Kusai was very straightforward. Why did I participate? It is because I can make money in it!

Who is willing to do a business without money?

"President Kusai. Your country has rich oil resources. Do you still use this method to increase your income?" Gorbachev thought Kusai's idea was very interesting.

"Yes, we have rich oil resources, but our oil will always be exhausted. So, we must prepare for the future and make advance arrangements. So, we have started industrial construction in China, hoping to build our country into an industrial country. We also hope to have outstanding achievements in one or two fields. Therefore, we are interested in your satellite navigation project. We believe that this is a technology that is enough to change people's living habits and promote the improvement of people's living standards."

Hearing this, the Soviets looked at Kusai with incredible eyes. Even Shikmat, who was beside Kusai, gave up in his heart: President Kusai. You are so vague. When you were in China, you also said that with satellite navigation, our cruise missiles can add correction commands. The error is even smaller. What does this have to do with the people's living standards?

"Your GLONAS navigation project was designed for both military and civilians. What we like was a huge area of ​​civilian use. As people's living standards improve, cars play an increasingly important role in people's lives. However, many people are delaying time and wasting valuable fuel while driving because they are not familiar with the road. Therefore, if our satellite navigation is all equipped on cars and then, with electronic maps, we will indicate the road for them, this will be a big market. In the Middle East, 100,000 receivers are definitely not enough, and it may cost millions, or even tens of millions. In Europe, the market is even bigger." Kusai said.

The Soviet satellite navigation project was designed for both military and civilians. Moreover, it did not interfere with civilian signals. The degree of jing was the same, but it did not reach the level of GPS. However, their so-called civilian use was limited to large civilian enterprises. I did not expect that everyone was dependent on satellite navigation.

In this case, the market is huge.

"Everyone, everyone thinks that if people can buy a second-hand car for $5,000 and a good car for $1,000 or 20,000, will they spend $1,000 to buy a navigation device?" Kusai asked.

Everyone shook their heads.

"So, the cost of this kind of satellite navigation receiver must be reduced. Using a large number of advanced electronic equipment, the price of satellite receivers should be controlled within 300 US dollars, and eventually, it will be reduced to within 100 US dollars. In this way, it can be accepted by the public." Kusai said: "You think that can reduce the price of terminals to this level?"

"It's impossible. Even if we make it ourselves, the cost will be around seven hundred dollars." Sergei said. In fact, he increased a little, and four hundred dollars is enough. However, he had to say more when he wanted one thousand dollars with Iraq, otherwise it would be a bit too much.

"We are confident that as long as our engineers design this receiving device, the cost will definitely come down," said Kusai.

Iraq's own engineer? No one else believes it.

"This is just a civilian project. We don't need it to have the ability to continue to be used in nuclear war. We use mature civilian components in large quantities. We believe that production costs will be controlled. Only in this way can this navigation equipment occupy the world market." Kusai said: "We need various data on this navigation satellite, and we develop and receive equipment from Iraq. This is the condition for our Iraq to participate in this project. We can accept the billion-dollar funding you have proposed."

It is impossible to make Iraq pay only if it wants to completely monopolize technology and make it only pay. Kusai is unwilling to be a slaughtered rooster. With a billion dollars in funds to support the launch of such navigation satellites, you must know that the Soviet Union's allocation to this project is always unable to be on time, because the Soviet Union is in various places, and the funds are very tight.

Gorbachev exchanged views with everyone, especially Defense Minister Weinberg nodded in agreement.

"We are willing to work with Iraq on this project," Gorbachev said.

Although Kusai has always said that the huge role of this navigation system in the civilian field and how great the market prospects can it have, Kusai knows that the role of satellite navigation in the military is even more huge. Almost all the development of civilian technology has been inherited from the military.

With satellite navigation, can it achieve more accurate positioning? For example, before launching a ballistic missile, it is necessary to accurately know the position coordinates of the launch point. On land, it can be quickly launched at a predetermined launch position. In the launch well, it is easier. However, for nuclear submarines that undertake secondary nuclear strikes, nuclear strikes are carried out at any seabed at any time. If you want to determine your location coordinates in the sea, you have to use inertia.

ing guidance equipment, from the beginning of leaving the port, records its own navigation trajectory, and calculates it through the coordinates of the port and the navigation trace. However, the longer the navigation time, the greater the accumulated error. Therefore, when needed, it is necessary to surface, use starlight navigation to determine your own position, and eliminate cumulative errors. The degree of this navigation method is far from comparable to satellite navigation. The more you can determine your position, the more you can improve the degree of missile attack.

For example, if the current Red Bird cruise missile in Iraq is coupled with satellite assisted guidance, it can completely increase the degree of jing based on the existing ones.

In order to eliminate the other party's wariness, Kusai, under the banner of civilian use, needs to enable Iraq to master this navigation technology!

Moreover, this is just the beginning. Iraq will gradually intervene in the development of satellites, because the lifespan of this GLONAS system is very short. It takes less than a year for a few satellites to be launched in the early stage to be scrapped, and the official orbit satellite has a lifespan of less than two or three years. This means that if there are more than twenty enough satellites in the sky to achieve global navigation, it is necessary to continuously launch satellites and re-network. This is a huge cost and no one can afford it. This is related to the backward electronic equipment used by the Soviet Union. In this regard, some Iraqi technologies are already more advanced than the Soviet Union. To extend the lifespan of satellites, internal equipment needs to be improved. Iraq also needs to play a major role in it. Of course, these are all requirements to be put forward in the future.

Khusai was very happy to hear that the Soviet Union agreed to this cooperation and continued: "In fact, many of your military industries can develop in the direction of civilian use, which can not only increase income but also achieve gradual transformation of military-industrial enterprises."

In fact, this is just Kusai’s proposal. Now, the biggest problem of the Soviet economy is that heavy industry, or military industry, is too developed, and these aspects will not create value and make no contribution to the Soviet economy. Gorbachev is definitely making an idea in this regard, but he has no choice. If he wants to develop the economy, he must reduce the military industry. However, as long as it is reduced, those cities that rely on military industry will have serious problems, and even the Soviet society will become turbulent.

When Gorbachev heard Kusai's words, his eyes lit up. Indeed, if military use could be converted to civilian use.

In later generations, Russia even used as a space taxi to fly with a wealthy man who wanted to go to heaven to raise funds, not to mention other military projects, Kusai thought.

Sergei was a little dissatisfied. Now, the Soviet Union's military industry is far from catching up with the United States, especially the United States' Star Wars plan, which has been underway for several years, and the Soviet Union has lagged behind in this regard.

"President Kusai, you are here this time, and you just want to give us these suggestions, right?" Sergey asked.

"Of course not," Kusai saw the old guy's dissatisfaction. It was also that the military always wanted more shares. Don't they know that the Soviet Union was dragged down by the arms race?

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fu invites us to be responsible for the security of the sea, but our Iraqi navy, with only a few missile boats and a few frigates, cannot meet our needs at all, so we want to order a batch of surface ships from the Soviet Union to meet our needs." Kusai said.

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