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Crises are often accompanied by danger and opportunity, and while the people of East Asia were panicking, the Soviet Union smelled the business opportunity of arms sales. Since April 13, Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has called on all parties to exercise restraint and avoid conflict. At the same time, South Korean President Kim Yong-sam has also held urgent consultations with China, hoping that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait can resolve the issue through peaceful dialogue, and violence is not the only way. The trembling small countries around China fear that a country whose international influence is soaring will suddenly go to war at all costs. At that time, as neighboring countries separated by a strip of water, the economies of South Korea and Japan will certainly suffer to a certain extent.

Even though both sides are now advocating Sino-Japanese friendship, it is not uncommon for them to stab themselves in the back.

In the face of the increasingly tense situation in East Asia, the Soviet Ministry of Defense put forward a bold idea, which did not require many countries to exercise prism and restraint, but instead sold arms to countries in the Asia-Pacific region and took advantage of the Hai-Taiwan crisis to set off an upsurge of an arms race among small countries in East Asia.

"Sell our shore-to-ship missile systems to Japan?" Yanayev's first reaction was that the plan didn't seem to be very reliable.

Yanayev expressed his concerns, "There is still an island dispute between us and Japan, and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force also regards the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy as an imaginary enemy. ”

But the Ministry of Defense, which is bent on creating more budgets, has long thought of ways to deal with it, and Yazov replied to him bluntly, "Arms sales to Japan must sell the latest fortress system in order to arouse Japan's interest." ”

The performance of the Bastion system, which had just entered service, was indeed very satisfying to the Red Navy of the Soviet Union, and the North Sea Fleet deployed two groups of K-300P "Bastion" coastal missile systems equipped with supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles on the Kola Peninsula. It would be possible to defend nearly 1,500 kilometers of the Soviet coast from possible attacks by marines, and to create a 300-kilometer "death zone" in the Barents Sea for NATO warships.

The Black Sea Fleet was the first to acquire the "Fortress" missile system. They were deployed in the Crimea, allowing the USSR to control the entire Black Sea waters, including the Bosphorus outlet. Now the Bastion system covers the Barents Sea, and in the near future it will be deployed in Kamchatka and the Baltic Fleet.

"Threatening the Soviet Army can also threaten American aircraft carriers, drive a wedge between Japan and the United States, and allow the Soviet Union to infiltrate Japan." The "Fortress" system can leave a back door, and the range of the missile has shrunk, and the performance of the product has shrunk, and the range of the missile has also shrunk, and it does not have the ability to launch calibers, and the range of the gem is compressed to 300 kilometers. Even 300 kilometers is still out of reach for Japan. The detection means are made of Japanese products, and the combat system leaves a back door for the Soviet army, which can not only improve the strike capability of the sea without worrying about the leakage of core technologies, but also arouse the suspicion of the United States and facilitate the penetration of the Soviet Union. ”

On the one hand, the Soviet system cannot be sold to Japan for the sake of secrecy, and on the other hand, it is not very compatible, which is more similar to a kind of cooperative research and development, and the cooperation with Japan in the development of the fortress system can also increase potential international customers, and the Soviet missiles plus the Japanese radar can be sold to other countries that use Western systems. The infiltration of Soviet influence into Japan was one of the convenient ways for the Soviet Union to intervene in Asia-Pacific disputes.

In the face of common interests, countries can let go of all previous grievances.

"If the sale is carried out openly, it will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the Americans, and perhaps the project will be blocked as soon as it is established, but what if it is under the banner of Soviet-Japanese cooperative research and development? After all, their Maritime Self-Defense Force also needs to purchase their own products, so that Soviet weapons can enter the Japanese market openly. "Defense Minister Comrade Yazov said.

"We also need the co-optation of our Chinese friends, and in this tense and delicate time, no one wants their territory to be inexplicably overloaded with flags of other countries the next day. Even if we sell at a high price, instead of complaining, the Japanese side will be even more grateful to Dade and the Soviet Union for saving Japan. ”

"And what about the South Kuril Islands?" "They can deploy these weapons on the four northern islands to deal with the threat to our ships." In this way, the Soviet Union simply helped its enemies to forge a sharp sword. ”

"So our plan needs to leave a way back, in the bastion system to eliminate the function of self-identification and classification of targets by importance, the selection of strike tactics and the implementation of the plan, we will not offer our enemies a long sword that pierces our hearts, but give them a rusty blunt knife."

"Not just Japan, but also the redesigned, scaled-down version of the Bastion system could be sold to countries in Southeast Asia, which in turn sold attack ships to their enemies, and the Soviets continued to receive money through an arms race between them. But by doing so, we're stealing the Americans' business, so selling the Bastion system wasn't going to be an easy deal in the first place. ”

Minister Yazov's proposal has aroused Yanayev's interest, and now is a critical period for the construction of the vine system, if the reduced version of the bastion system can be marketed, it will be a milestone for the construction of the vine system, and perhaps the goal of ten vine system satellites to monitor the world can be completed earlier.

"General Secretary Yanayev, this is what we envision. Don't you need to look at it? When Yazov saw that Yanayev had directly closed the plan, he thought that the other party was dissatisfied with his arms sales plan.

"No, I'm not dissatisfied, Comrade Yazov, I'm just very interested in this plan now. In the near future, the Soviet Union will visit all countries that could engulf this crisis in the strait, so we will also use this to sell our anti-ship systems. Yanayev said that since the Ministry of Defense has this heart, then he and Pavlov will also contribute to the situation and add a financial support for the final construction of the vine system.

"South Korea, North Korea, and Japan, whose interests are closely related to the seas and Asia-Pacific powers, are often the most worried about war, so the Bastion system, as an excellent anti-ship weapon, will be able to expand the sales of our shore-based missiles in the Asia-Pacific market." Yanayev muttered to himself, "Sure enough, it is more direct to use arms to improve relations between the two countries than to talk about win-win results and common interests." (To be continued.) )