Chapter 143, 10 billion military purchases

After being silent for a long time, Su Su asked, "Do you want to negotiate with Iran to withdraw troops now?" ”

"Nope." Canglong directly refused, "Since we are strong, we must be strong to the end, once we are soft, even if we negotiate with Iran, they may still threaten us in the future." ”

"But holding on to it like this, it will be very unfavorable for us to suffer from the enemy at that time, and once the central government passes the negotiations with Iran and Kuwait, it will put us in a passive position of public opinion." Su Su warned, "It is even possible to involve the US military, and then we may face the collapse of the entire system." ”

"Natasha's plan seems to be seamless, but it is only seamless in her own eyes, so I have to follow her plan, if I don't go according to her plan, there is no threat to us." Canglong said calmly, "Tell Vivian that Khuzestan's mining plan will not be suspended, and that everything will be business as usual until I order negotiations with Iran." ”

Su Su didn't know what Canglong thought, but he still left the execution, but Canglong summoned the Russian envoy Nikolav at the first time, and after the two discussed for an afternoon, Nikolav took a special plane to leave Basra urgently.

A month and a week after the Ahvaz War, Iranian cabinet ministers travelled to Baghdad at the request of the Iraqi Prime Minister for peace talks, and after a few days of negotiations, the central government signed the Five Peace Measures with Iran and ordered the immediate withdrawal of the Prophet's army from the occupied Iranian province of Khuzestan Province.

This incident caused a sensation throughout Iraq, and everyone knew that the Basra Prophet Army did not obey the central government's dispatch at all, and besides, the Prophet Army counterattacked in self-defense this time, which was fully justified, and gained enough face for the weak Iraq to conquer a province in Iran.

Such a victory was also rare in Iraq in the past, especially after the Iran-Iraq war, when the two countries formed a deep enmity, the central government unilaterally signed a peace agreement with Iran and demanded the withdrawal of the Prophet's army, which deepened the people's antipathy towards the central government.

Especially the people of Basra, the central government is incompetent, and now we have laid down the province of Khuzestan and raised their eyebrows once, but the central government is pulling back its legs, this agreement has made the people of Basra excited, many people took to the streets to demonstrate, hoping that the prophet would not obey the orders of the central government, and at the same time opposing the withdrawal of troops, the people of Basra also scolded the central government as a puppet government of the United States, and for a time the voice of supporting the Prophet's army to break away from the central government and establish another regime is getting louder and louder.

Even some people in the central provinces have responded to Basra by demonstrating, and in a sense, Basra's victory is an honor for the whole of Iraq and for all Iraqis.

At the same time, Iran sent 15 divisions and about 100,000 men from the country to advance into Khuzestan Province, and it was in a position to annihilate all the Prophet troops defending Khuzestan Province.

At this time, Canglong convened an executive meeting and a military meeting at the same time to urgently deal with the current situation, and at the same time find out the psychological conditions of all high-ranking officials and officers.

In their speeches at the meeting, the top military officials advocated a war with Iran to the end, but the senior administrative officials were not very happy to fight, and told Canglong that they hoped to negotiate with Iran to allow the Prophet Army to withdraw and maintain the status quo.

To Canglong's surprise, this time Vivian actually did not advocate negotiations, but advocated war, and she suppressed all the high-ranking officials with an unusually tough sentence: "Khuzestan Province is of great strategic importance to Basra, first of all, the coastline is extended, and secondly, it is a strategic buffer, if Iran signs a peace agreement with us, then we can withdraw our troops, but they do not sign an agreement with us, but with the central government, that is, once we withdraw now, the central government may even let Iranian troops in the future, Purge us rebels who are already in the eyes of the central government, and if Basra is breached, it will not only be the Prophet Army who will die, but also those of you who work for the Prophet's Army. ”

The high-ranking officials stopped talking, because they didn't expect the consequences to be so serious, but after careful consideration, they found that Vivian was indeed not alarmist, most of them were appointed by the new government and had worked for the Prophet Army for so long, it was impossible for the central government to use them at that time, even if they were not killed, they would definitely not have the current treatment.

Therefore, for the sake of their glory and wealth, no one dares to mention the word negotiation.

Vivian's words made Canglong very satisfied, and after the meeting, Canglong found her and said, "Have you changed sex?" ”

"I'm just thinking about the future of Basra." Vivian said with a cold face, "Now we may face not only Iran, but also Kuwait, you had better come up with a way, otherwise once Basra is finished, even you will not be able to get out of it, don't forget how much money you have invested here." ”

"This is a gamble, no one can guarantee that they will win, all they can do is to try their best to increase the weight to ensure that they can win." Canglong smiled.

"So you're going to have times when you're so unsure." Vivien looked at him seriously, "You'd better win, or I won't let you go even if the Americans let you go." ”

"Why don't you let me go?" Canglong looked strange.

"Failure means you're wasting my time and youth." After Vivien finished speaking, she turned around gorgeously and left.

Looking at her amorous back, Canglong's heart moved for no reason, and finally snuffed out his thoughts.

At this tense moment, Nikolov returned from Russia, and when he saw Canglong, he said: "What you want will arrive soon." ”

In the last secret talk, Canglong was talking about the 10 billion US dollars in arms, which is a big list, even the Russians will not be able to digest it for a while, but fortunately, Canglong has already mentioned it when he signed the military alliance agreement, so the Russians are prepared, and now it comes in handy.

This $10 billion armament includes the 70,000 people of weapons and equipment expanded by the Prophet Army, and at the same time the strength of the missile unit and the air force is enhanced, followed by the equipment expansion of the field division.

Among them is the Su-27 fighter that can completely defeat the US F15 and F16, according to the Su-30 is an improved version of the Su-27, almost absorbing all the advantages of the Su-27, but in the procurement of fighters, the Su-27 is relatively cheap, and at the same time it has been tested on the battlefield for much longer than the improved version of the Su-30.

No matter what kind of weapon, only after the test of actual combat, and get unanimous praise, can it be regarded as really good, not what has a technical advantage, this is like the Russian-made AK47, from the twentieth century to the twenty-first century has been prosperous, its stability and maneuverability, compared with many advanced technology rifles, more reliable.

The same is true of fighter planes, for example, in the last century, the Americans created the Blackbird reconnaissance plane, which has the largest reconnaissance plane of the century, and this kind of aircraft is rampaging around the world at a speed that missiles cannot keep up with, and was once the main reconnaissance plane of the United States for reconnaissance of the former Soviet Union, but why don't the Americans develop this kind of superfast aircraft into fighters?

It's very simple, this kind of ultra-fast performance is not suitable for use on fighters, it is impossible for pilots to use him to fight, maneuverability in the air is not strong, even if there is really such a fighter, it is not that pilots are willing to try, because although the Blackbird reconnaissance plane maintained a record of not being shot down, it fell twelve planes.

Therefore, American pilots call this kind of plane a death plane, and whenever a pilot sees this kind of plane, he will shake his head, no matter how fast the speed is, it may fall when he lands, and then it will definitely be the end of the plane being destroyed and people killed, and when it is used in fighter jets, such speed is not good at all, to adapt to the modern battlefield, speed is not the first, anti-radar stealth is the first.

You're fast, what's the use of not being able to aim at your opponent? Others can't hit you, you can't hit others, and you're still flying at high risk, but others can land steadily.

So relatively speaking, the Su-27 is a well-known excellent fighter that has passed the test of time, while the Su-30 is expensive, but lacks time and actual combat testing, the Americans' F-22 Raptor fighter is the first in the world, but the United States has only built less than 200 in total.

Some people wonder why the United States doesn't build more fighters for such a good fighter, but instead uses the F15 and F16 as the main fighters? It's very simple, because the first two are relatively cheap, cost-effective, and the probability of accidents is less, and F22 to put it bluntly, although the performance is good, but it is actually a money-losing goods, up to 200 million US dollars in cost, even the United States can't afford it, and this is only the cost, not including the annual maintenance costs.

Someone once said that the maintenance cost of the F-22 is more expensive than the cost, which is equivalent to raising an aircraft carrier, and the high-speed aircraft of the F-22 is impossible to take off and land on the aircraft carrier, which further disintegrates most of its value.

Of course, the F22 is not a chicken rib, and if it can be stationed at an air base in certain sensitive areas, such as Kadena Airport in Okinawa, the strategic value is very considerable.

And the purchase of Su-27, is also unanimously proposed by the Air Force, everyone believes that Su-27 in terms of cost performance, better than Su-30, Su-30 that has not passed the test of time, relatively high risk, easy to have accidents, for example, this air raid on the port of Khomeini, if the pilot at that time was not flying Su-30, but Su-27, there is no need to take the plane to hit the warship, the chance of retreating is very large.

In addition to fighters, this time Canglong also added four big guys, Tu-22M bombers, to the Basra Air Force, making up for the short version of the Air Force without bombers.

At that time, Bai Wuchang suggested that buying a fighter-bomber would be more cost-effective than a bomber, after all, Basra was only so big, and it didn't do much to take a bomber.

But this time, Natasha's urgency prompted Canglong to spend a lot of money to buy four bombers, and even if Russia did not promise to provide technology, he also bought it.

Why do you have to buy it at all costs? Quite simply, an air force with bombers and an army without bombers are two completely different levels.