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Production here has been going on all along, and now, on the production line, the Mirage 4000 fighter jets are exported to Saudi Arabia.

At present, the Iraqi Air Force is gradually replacing with Mirage 4000 fighters, and the main force on the front line already has more than 50 fighters, and the urgent needs of the Iraqi Air Force have been reduced, and they can finally be produced for Saudi Arabia.

The Mirage 4000, which was exported to Saudi Arabia, uses the same equipment as Iraq, especially with an improved fire control system, which can carry Iraq's self-produced Sky Flash missiles.

After getting the production line of the sky flash from Britain, Iraq was finally able to produce this kind of medium-range air-to-air missiles on its own; in the wartime, the number of missiles introduced at the beginning was not enough, and it simply could not withstand the huge war consumption, and only by being able to produce it itself could it solve the final problem. Although the most critical seeker of certain electronic components, also need to be imported from the aerospace company. However, even in times of war, with the relationship of the Osheng company, with the shares of the aerospace company they owned, these components could still be obtained, and now Iraq is investing money in the joint development of the active Sky Flash with Sweden, and the current production line can be improved at any time when the time comes, for the production of such active air-to-air missiles. Moreover, because all the technology is shared with Sweden, when the time comes, the most critical seeker for missiles will also be produced on the territory of Iraq, and Iraq can fully produce such missiles.

As for the short-range missiles, Iraq's self-produced fighters use R-73 large off-axis combat missiles imported from the Soviet Union with helmet-mounted sights. This missile will make the Mirage 4000 have unrivaled combat effectiveness in close combat. However, because of the authorization issue, but also to prevent leaks, it was not exported to Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia's Mirage 4000. It is equipped with a US-made Sidewinder short-range missile, and due to the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States, it can be equipped with a new type of short-range missile.

With such missiles of the USSR. Improving the fire control system allowed Iraq's own scientists to rack their brains and solve various problems. Now Iraq has a certain scientific research strength.

After solving these problems, not only the new self-use fighters have the ability to use these missiles, but the early models that left the factory first have also returned to the factory for modification and have the same combat capability.

The sky was clear and it was a good day to fly. {{}}

On the runway of the Zubayer Aviation Base, a newly manufactured Mirage 4000 is preparing for a test flight.

"President Qusay, welcome to visit here." said the head of the Iraqi side at the base.

Qusay in his spare time. Or take the time to come to these industrial bases of their own to inspect, for the Air Force, Qusay has always been the main focus.

Seeing the busy scene every day here, Cusai has a sense of fulfillment. Before the arrival of the Su-27, the Mirage 4000 was definitely the ace fighter in the Middle East and the guardian of the Iraqi sky that shook the American-made fighters.

"How's production going?" Qusay asked.

"We've been producing at maximum capacity, and we've been trying to increase the percentage of our domestic production, which is now 70 percent. We can produce it ourselves. The person in charge said.

It is absolutely impossible to produce 100 percent independently, and now, the avionics of the Mirage 4000 and all kinds of equipment in the cockpit have to be imported from France, and Iraq produces its own parts, mainly the fuselage and engines. {{}}

Qusay was very satisfied, inspected the circle, and then came to the production line of the F-20 next to it, where production is also being carried out in an orderly manner.

Before the arrival of the nineties, the main force of the Iraqi Air Force was the high and low combination of the Mirage 4000 and the F-20, the Mirage 4000 was used to seize air supremacy, and the F-20 was used to carry out the Jing strike.

At the same time, modified Su-25 attack aircraft, imported from the Soviet Union, were mainly used to conduct ground attacks.

The MiG-21 and MiG-23, the main forces that Iraq was equipped with in the past, will gradually fade out of the sequence in the Iraqi Air Force, and these second-generation aircraft can no longer take on the tasks that the Iraqi Air Force needs to undertake.

The other Mirage F1 and MiG-25 will remain in service with the Iraqi Air Force until they reach the end of their useful life and then be decommissioned. {{}}

The other, the Super 7 fighter, is Iraq's main foreign trade aircraft, and Qusay is here to see the busy Iraqi and Chengfei staff again.

The current Super Seven is still a model produced for Pakistan, using the same avionics as the F-20 provided by the United States, and in the early stage, more than a dozen aircraft were modified together with American personnel.

Even so, it was very troublesome to refit, and Cheng Fei proposed several times to complete all the modifications in Chengfei, but the United States rejected and insisted on carrying out the modification in Iraq in accordance with the original agreement.

Therefore, these avionics are installed under the supervision of American technicians.

"There are still six Super Seven fighters left, and by the end of this year, we will be able to complete the modification." Coming to one of the factory's offices, Engineer Farouge said. {{}}

Farrouge has been in charge of the F-20 fighter jets, but is also responsible for the Super 7 modification.

"Hopefully, our own avionics will be developed at that time, so that we can continue to produce them for countries such as Syria." Faruger continued.

The modification of Super Seven, because of the stalemate with the United States last year, was interrupted for a period of time, otherwise, all the modification tasks have now been completed, and Iraq has also earned millions of dollars in this project, which is a good start.

What they need to wait for is the joint development of new avionics, and in this regard, Iraq has also made a lot of investment, including the purchase of various mature subsystems from the West.

Thinking of this, Kusai said to the person in charge of Chengfei next to him, Xiao Dangsheng: "To what extent has our avionics system been carried out in Chengfei?" ”

Although Qusay had already received a report from Cheng Fei, he still wanted to ask this young man in person, this person is an experienced engineer in Cheng Fei, mainly in charge of avionics, and some time ago, he returned to China to attend a meeting in Cheng Fei.

Xiao Dangsheng remembered the discussion he participated in after returning to China, although he couldn't divulge too much because of the principle of confidentiality, he still said: "Using some electronic components imported from the West, our research and development has entered the final stage, but the final time is still uncertain, because we are the first time to write the software, we may encounter many unexpected problems, we have not been able to reverse decipher the code in the prototype, and can only imitate according to the function." ”

In terms of avionics, including the key fire control system, software is also a very important aspect.

"I hope that you can increase the progress of research and development and make every effort to promote the process of our self-developed avionics." Qusay said. He had already mentioned these words to the Iraqi group that remained in Chengfei.

Qusai was just a verbal encouragement, but when he finished speaking, he heard Xiao Dangsheng ask: "President Qusay, I have always had a question." ”

"Say it." Kusai said that he knew that in Cheng Fei, this Xiao Dangsheng was an alternative and a more daring person to speak, and his questions could represent some problems.

"Why did you participate in the 603 Institute's J-7 project?"

J-7, which reminded Qusay that he had sent more than 50 technicians to the Xi'an Aircraft Design and Research Institute to intervene in the research and development of this kind of military aircraft, and it has been more than two years now.

Due to the participation of Iraqi funds and personnel, the development of this fighter has been carried out rapidly, and the fighter-bomber project, which was established in the seventies, has experienced several storms, especially the impact of the country's reduction in military spending, and has developed slowly for a time, until Iraq enters, and within a few years, the comprehensive detailed design stage has been completed, and the first prototype is being prepared.

Why participate in this program? Naturally, Qusay knew very well in his heart, because, Iraq needed a low-cost fighter-bomber! The Jian-H-7 is another choice of the Iraqi Air Force to carry out a sea attack, with a long range, great power, and a large bomb load, and to carry all kinds of guided weapons.

What is more important is that by participating in the development of this kind of fighter, Iraq's aircraft designers have completed the entire process of developing an aircraft, which is of great benefit to training Iraq's own research and development team. The J-7 adopts computer-aided design in an all-round way and uses an analog fly-by-wire system, which will give Iraqi designers an understanding of the system engineering of aircraft development, which brings many advantages.

Up to now, Iraq has introduced all the production lines of fighter planes, and the research and development of fighter planes is completely blank.

How to answer this person's question? Tell him that he went to steal the teacher to learn the arts?

However, the engineer was indeed a little naïve to ask, and Qusay said: "We in Iraq and your country have a deep friendship, and we are helping your country to complete the development of fighter planes, and we are also helping ourselves." ”

Do we help ourselves with mature aircraft designers, or do we help them ourselves? There can be a lot of understanding in this, and Kusai deliberately said it very vaguely.

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