w Chapter 896: Stepping onto a nuclear submarine to determine if there is a nuclear leak

As a multiplier of air combat forces, the pre-jing aircraft is a very expensive high-tech aircraft. The newly-made e-2c, even the US Navy's own internal purchase price, is around 200 million US dollars. However, since this batch of aircraft has only been out of the factory for more than ten years, although it has undergone improvements in the middle, including a new zhongyāng computer, the United States exported at such extremely preferential prices in order to show its "friendliness" to Iraq. Iraq actually cut a price of 10 million US dollars, but it is within the US's tolerance range.

Ninety million US dollars! The price of a heavy Phantom 4000 fighter in Iraq was around 50 million US dollars on its own production line. This was simply a bargain price to buy a pre-jing machine. Although this pre-jing machine was not a new e-2c, but an e-2b. In later generations, in 1993, the pre-jing machine purchased by Taiwan was also an e-2b. It was just slightly modified by the United States and sold to Taiwan. At that time, it was a sky-high price.

Of course, the contract is now reached by Taha. By the time President Kusai returned, these pre-jing aircraft had been driven back to the Iraqi air base. When Kusai finally had the opportunity to inspect these pre-jing aircraft half a month later, he expressed strong protests to the United States and expressed serious protests against the United States' fraud in this transaction. He hoped that the United States would improve the Iraqi pre-jing aircraft, especially the new radar.

When the United States received this news, it felt like a mouthful of old blood was about to spurt out. At what price and what kind of thing to buy, the United States did not open its mouth. This price is already very fair for this kind of pre-jing machine. Iraq only pointed out that buying e-2, e-2b is also an e-2 pre-jing machine.

Internally, Taha was also severely rebuked by Kusai for this incident. The two had a very unhappy fight.

Of course, this is all for outsiders to watch.

It was too late to learn that the Americans agreed to export the e-2. This time, it was completely free to get it.

Although it is a backward e-2b, the technology of the body is worth this price. In order to meet the needs of boarding the ship, this body is completely newly designed.

The compact body is the wings that can be folded, with a single wing on the cantilever trapezoid, and the outer wings can be rotated at 90 degrees and folded backwards. The wingspan when stretched is as long as 2456 meters, and after folding it, it is only 894 meters, less than half of the original one. It greatly reduces the storage space on the ship.

In order to shorten the height, the radome can also be raised or lowered by hydraulic control. The maximum drop height during shutdown can reach 064 meters, which is conducive to storage.

Due to the influence of the radome, in order to ensure direction stability, four vertical wings are installed on the horizontal tail. The two vertical wings on the outer side extend below the flat tail; the two middle pieces are fixed on the horizontal stabilization surface without any downward extension.

The strong forward landing gear that can withstand the ejection takeoff and the main landing gear that can withstand the huge impact force of the ship impact, but the body is worth this price! The lifespan of such pre-jing aircraft in the United States is very long, and the e-2a has been improved to e-2b and e-2c, and has been in service for nearly 30 years. Therefore, the arrival of these aircraft made Kusai very satisfied.

Although the radar performance is not very good, it cannot be comparable to that of the ones currently being equipped on the US e-2c, and the United States has now developed... By the 1990s, the newly-fabricated radar has developed to the extreme.

Kusai was satisfied with Taha's actions. Although the radar of this prejing aircraft was behind, its performance was much higher than that of the carrier-based Ka-31 prejing aircraft. At least, facing the influence of the clutter waves on the sea surface at the sea, it can also monitor targets of fighter jets at a distance of 300 kilometers, and find missiles flying over the sea at a distance of 100 kilometers, track more than 1,500 signals, and guide forty interception capabilities. The Ka-31 can only meet the surveillance distance of 100 kilometers, and also need to send the signal back to the mothership for analysis and processing.

It is very difficult to develop a carrier-based prejing machine by itself. In later generations, even France, which has always been independent in military industry, gave up self-development and purchased the American e-2c.

Of course, Kusai would not be satisfied, so he was very dissatisfied with the backward technology sold to Iraq at a high price. He protested the United States' deception strategy. After that, the United States finally agreed to use... radar to replace the backward radar of this pre-jing aircraft. Of course, Iraq needs to pay an additional 50 million US dollars for each set of radar... Radar is the first-type radar equipped with the E-2c. Although this radar is still very different from the current E-2c equipment... radar performance, new antennas have been used, and the performance has been essentially improved.

Kusai was completely satisfied, but the US's e-2b pre-jing aircraft was only exported to Iraq for six, and Iraq was still not enough.

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On the sea, when it was almost dark, Iraq's rescue tugboats came to the side of the Baton Rouri and were preparing to tow the unlucky submarine to the dock of the Iraqi shipyard a hundred nautical miles away. The Persian Gulf was calm and there was nothing to sail at night.

The captain had received an order from the Fleet Command and had reached an agreement with Iraq that they would check the damage to nuclear submarines in Iraq's shipyards to determine whether they could continue sailing. They also knew that the submarine that hit them was stranded when they were about to leave the Persian Gulf.

Johnson really wanted to swim over and fight with the hateful Soviets and beat the captain hard. Is the underwater collision game so fun? Through the photos, the Navy Command has analyzed that the Soviet submarine that collided with them has a displacement of between 15,000 tons and 20,000 tons. If the collision is moderate, they will definitely die under the water immediately in a traffic accident. They can now surface and breathe the fresh air in their breathing mouth. It is a miracle.

This Baton Rouri is like a raped girl, staying alone on the sea, waiting for rescue.

Now that the tug is in place, it is ready to start anytime.

"No, we do not allow your personnel to board our submarine." Johnson's face turned gloomy when he heard such a request.

Iraq made a request because this time, it was to tow the nuclear submarine to the Iraqi shipyard, where there were hundreds of thousands of residents, so Iraq must be sure that the nuclear submarine had no radioactive leakage.

In later generations, residents of the rien were very sensitive to the word "nuclear". After the US Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier was retired, the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was about to enter the rien port, which aroused strong protests from the people and demonstrations were conducted many times.

Iraq proposed that it was necessary to check and be sure that the nuclear submarine was not leaked before it could enter the shipyard, which made Johnson very dissatisfied.

Since the Los Angeles-class submarine has been put into service, it has never been entered into the internal observation by foreigners! This is absolutely impossible. I am completely convinced that there is no nuclear leakage in the nuclear submarine!

The two sides were in a deadlock again and reported to the top management.

The US Navy was very annoyed. Iraq was starting to take action. Now that this move has come, they filed a serious protest to the Iraqi government. However, the tone of Taha changed at this time. Iraq must ensure the safety of its people and ensure that there is no serious ecological disaster in the Persian Gulf. Therefore, if we cannot be sure whether there is a nuclear leakage on this nuclear submarine, their only way is to tow the nuclear submarine out of the Persian Gulf.

Anyway, the tugboats were in place, and they were towed, either checked, and there was no nuclear leakage, so they were towed to the shipyard. If they did not cooperate or there was a nuclear leakage, they could only towed out of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, allowing the submarine to fend for itself in the Arabian Sea.

Taha's attitude made Brightman unable to make an opinion. If it were the United States, it would have to do so.

Then, Taha said that it was because the domestic reaction was also very strong, especially because he was afraid that the collision of the nuclear submarine would have an accident. This would affect many places. Iraq could not bear this loss. Many Iraqi senior officials were opposed. If the United States disagreed, then Iraq had to adopt the latter method.

Finally, the United States finally agreed, but they insisted that only one technician could board the submarine for inspection, and the time could not exceed ten minutes.

Inspection is very simple. Just hold the instrument and walk in the rear cabin for a week and you can measure it.

When it was getting dark, an Iraqi inspector was wearing a full set of protective suits. This was the highest protection level single-person protective equipment purchased from the West after the nuclear reactor was built. His whole body was covered in this protective suit. He was carrying a suitcase and a handheld terminal detection equipment, and he stepped onto the nuclear submarine.

Although Iraq is still very far away to build a nuclear submarine, this is a rare opportunity to observe the construction of Western nuclear submarines. Therefore, Iraq will never miss this opportunity. It is not so easy to enter Iraq's shipyards. For example, Iraqi personnel have to check the submarine.

Kazakh Shafi, chief engineer of Iraqi shipyard, is an Arab engineer who has held important positions in French shipyards. After the Iraqi shipyard started construction, at the call of President Kusai, he returned to the Middle East and served as the chief engineer of Iraqi shipyards. Together with Chinese personnel, he was responsible for the manufacturing of Iraqi missile boats. Civil projects are entirely under the charge of Kazakh Shafi. As a chief engineer, he is very interested in the design and construction of ships, especially military ships. Moreover, he has a very good memory and can never forget them.

Wearing a full set of protective suits, the people on the Baton Rouri nuclear submarine only thought he was an ordinary technical worker. They were wearing naval short-sleeved shirts and watching the full set of protective people start testing in the nuclear submarine.m

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