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18 Su-27S fighters plus 6 Su-27UB fighters for a total price of $374 million. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn this order contract, Ukraine will also upgrade the electronic countermeasures system and replace the 24 fighter jets with more advanced radars, and then provide a series of technical services, for which the Somali government will pay 520 million US dollars.

In addition, Ukraine will train pilots and logistical maintenance personnel for the Somali Air Force, which will require the Somali government to pay another $10 million.

A squadron of Su-27 fighters spent $530 million, and the Somali political axe does not know whether it was lost or earned.

But time is running out, and both Somali and Ukrainian political axes are satisfied with this order contract and agree to formally sign the arms purchase contract the next morning. And the first batch, which includes 4 Su-27S and two Su-27UB fighters, will be split and airlifted to Somalia for assembly. The remaining fighters will be upgraded and modified in Ukraine itself, and all are expected to be delivered to the Somali Air Force by the end of 07.

"Is there an agreement on the procurement of anti-aircraft missiles?" The smile on Li Mo's face has never been broken, and he is very satisfied that the Ukrainian political axe can meet the needs so quickly. Although he still wonders why the American political axe did not change the attitude of the Ukrainian political axe, for him now, none of that matters, the important thing is to sign the contract as soon as possible to transport the fighter jets back home.

Although Hussein was still immersed in the imminent acquisition of a squadron of very elite air force fighters in Africa, he still held back the excitement in his heart and replied, "Boss, for anti-aircraft missiles, the Ukrainian political axe provides two models, one is the Sam-6 anti-aircraft missile, NATO code name 'Gadfly', and an all-weather process air defense missile system. Although this missile was made in the former Soviet Union, it has experienced the fourth Middle East war, shot down 41 fighter planes, and became famous for a while. The other is the Beech anti-aircraft missile, which is an improved model of Ukraine on the basis of the Sam-6, which is basically the same as the Russian-made Sam-11, which is more advanced than the Sam-6 anti-aircraft missile, and has a stronger anti-electronic jamming system. ”

"The price of the two missiles is different, and the surname Neng is also different. The former is a short-range anti-aircraft missile, $2 million set, including a three-mounted launch vehicle and three missiles. The latter is a medium- and short-range anti-aircraft missile, a $5 million set, including a quadruple missile launcher and four missiles. Boss, which one do you think we should buy? Hussein asked, rubbing his hands together with some excitement.

A pair of expectant eyes kept rolling his eyes and looked at Li Mo, in fact, he wanted to buy the 'Beech' anti-aircraft missile in his heart, and from the Su-27 fighter, his psychological attitude had changed a lot. Advanced nature is better than backward.

However, the thought of the price of the 'Beech' more than twice as much as the Sam 6 made Hussein's heart beat a drum.

If this price is placed on a fighter jet, it is not expensive at all, but the number of anti-aircraft missiles needed is very large, and the unit price is so high, once the quantity required is large, the total amount is also a large amount. Moreover, the anti-aircraft missile launcher has only one launch of missiles, and each missile unit will definitely need a part of the spare missiles, so that the money paid will be even more.

Li Mo smiled slightly, from Hussein's face, how could he not see the small thoughts in Hussein's heart.

"If we want to buy, we will naturally buy good. In Africa, the Sam-6 missile can still be used, but the enemy we are facing is very powerful, and the Sam-6 has already had countermeasures for the other side, and buying it back can only cause some slight threats to the other side. Tell the Ukrainian political axe that we will purchase 24 'Beech anti-aircraft missiles', with 8 more missiles in each reserve. You go to negotiate the specific price, I only ask for one point, that is, we want to have it in stock, and we will ship it back with the fighter this time. ”

If it weren't for the money brought this time, it would be almost, and Li Mo would still plan to purchase more, after all, Li Mo had several important places in his hands that needed to strengthen air defense. 24 anti-aircraft missiles, which is barely enough. After all the Su-27 fighters were upgraded and refitted, there was a squadron of fighters, and in the face of the air invasion of other countries, Somalia finally had a little capital to counterattack.

The next day, representatives of the Somali and Ukrainian political axes signed their names on two contracts. The contract for a large order with a total amount of 660 million US dollars was officially concluded.

The media from all walks of life, who had long been informed by the outside world, soon got some inside information about this largest foreign arms sales order from Ukraine in the past two years, and they were surprised and excited at the same time. This is big news.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Mo and Chief of Staff Hussein, as well as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Kirichchenko and his entourage, jointly attended the handover ceremony of the two missile boats.

Although it is only two missile boats, it means a lot to Somalia. The Ukrainian authorities also expressed their attention because of the large order from Somalia, and the Chief of the General Staff Kirichenko personally attended the ceremony.

Amid loud salutes, 80 Somali naval officers and sailed slowly out of the port and into the Black Sea with two missile boats and a small supply ship leased from Ukraine. They will cross the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles Strait into the Mediterranean Sea and finally reach the southern Somali port of Kini Boyan, a small military port that has just been built.

This trip back to China is also a newborn Somali Navy training trip. Li Mo looked at the three ships that gradually disappeared into the sea level, and silently blessed in his heart.

On the night of April 23, 2007, Li Mo and his entourage returned to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The head of the sales department, Mouse, will remain in Ukraine and wait for Ukraine to upgrade and modify the Su-27 fighter.

The first batch of six Su-27 fighter jets will be airlifted to Somalia by the Ukrainian side three days later, and then help Somalia assemble them, and at that time, a group of Ukrainian pilots and logistics technicians will also arrive with them to fulfill the contract and train Su-27 pilots for Somalia.

Back in Mogadishu, Li Mo did not stop and took a helicopter back to the headquarters of the Kismayo Group.

The next day, after Li Mo had dealt with the official affairs of the past few days, he summoned Shi and Wang Ning to listen to the reports of the two.

The first thing to understand is the construction of the Military Academy, with Li Mo's large funds, the Military Academy in Baidoa City has begun to renovate. The construction was all handed over to Fang Sihai's construction company.

"Boss, we have simply renovated the original barracks of the Rahanwen Resistance Army into a temporary academy, and the first batch of thirty experienced veterans were recruited in the army, and twenty cadets from two daimyo schools in the country were recruited after strict examination and fully met the requirements. They will be the first batch of junior cadets of the Army Command Branch of the Baidoa Military Academy, and they will undergo a one-year closed study, all of which are junior command cadets, and after graduation, they will be arranged to enter the army as deputy platoon commanders and other positions. In this workshop, our idea is to be an experimental surname. Although the semester is only one year, I think these veterans with a lot of combat experience and college students with a lot of knowledge should be able to do it. Shi made a brief report on some things in the Military Academy, and focused on some of the problems, so that Li Mo had an intuitive understanding.

Although the training and teaching time of cadets recruited by foreign regularized military academies is different, Somalia is now in urgent need of a large number of qualified junior commanders, especially junior officers or non-commissioned officers who need to understand advanced international combat experience and theory.

Because only they can contact the soldiers at any time, and pass on some advanced tactical knowledge to the soldiers. So that the Somali Defense Forces are slowly reborn from the bottom up, and it is no longer the kind of tactical thinking that still stays in the West during World War II.

"Well, that's a good idea. We have no experience in this area, so we have to experiment and sum up on our own, and we also have to learn from the ideas and methods of other military schools in the world. The two of you have to work together. Li Mo was very satisfied with the way the stone was done, and nodded in praise.

"By the way, what about the faculty of the academy? How did you solve it? "It is very important how well a college runs, whether it has a future for development, and whether it has a qualified teaching team. And as a military school, even more so.

Of the 70,000 Somali Defence Forces, very few have received formal military academy studies, and most of them are veterans who have been honed from the war. These veterans are all good at carrying guns to fight tough battles. However, modern warfare is becoming more and more like small-scale local wars, and even local armed conflicts involving dozens or hundreds of soldiers. Moreover, all kinds of technical weapons emerge in an endless stream, and some technical weapons cannot be played without a certain amount of knowledge. However, in small-scale local battles, the importance of many technical weapons is difficult to estimate.

Soldiers with experience and technical knowledge are hard to find, and there are not too many experienced soldiers. In addition, in order to ensure that we are in an advantageous position in a local conflict, we must ensure that every soldier has the skills and knowledge. They know how to make all kinds of technical weapons, and can replace their comrades-in-arms in some special duties at any time, so as to maintain the integrity of the various firepower combinations of the entire combat unit. It is still very difficult for the current Somali army to do this by the soldiers themselves, after all, there are still not many literate people in the army, unlike some countries, all the soldiers have a high school education or above, and even have a university degree. This kind of soldier is not to say like a special soldier, who can drive a tank and fly a plane, but at least he can basically adapt to his new identity when he transforms from a machine gunner to a demoman.

And the ordinary uneducated soldier is certainly far behind the literate soldier in this respect. Just like making a bazooka, you should at least understand what wind power is, what is the impact of sighting the target, and you should take these issues into account, rather than carrying a bazooka and seeing the target appear in the crosshairs, you are very confident that it will definitely hit.

Somalia does not yet have the ability to raise the cultural level of its soldiers all at once, and it has become a task that must be completed to improve the capabilities of low-ranking officers and non-commissioned officers, otherwise the peace talks will be modernized and regularized.

(To be continued)