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The Kingdom of Sweden, located in the southeast of Scandinavia in Northern Europe, covers an area of about 450,000 square kilometers and is the largest country in Northern Europe. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info ≦≧ country name, derived from the Swedish word meaning "kingdom of tranquility".

In fact, this country is indeed a quiet country, and now, when the dark clouds of the Cold War are gathering in the world, Sweden has not been affected in any way, because Sweden's national policy is neutral, and the Cold War is nothing, that is, in World War II, Sweden did not stand on the side of the Axis or the Allies, but maintained a rare neutral posture. Germany also did not invade Sweden during the entire war. From 1940 to 1945, the peace and tranquility of Sweden contrasted sharply with that of war-torn Europe.

After entering the Cold War period, war clouds were gathering over Europe, and the powerful steel torrent of the Soviet Union could cross Germany and enter Western Europe at any time, and Sweden was still outside the two camps of the East and the West, maintaining its neutral position. However, Sweden is not an "ostrich", let alone a "dove of peace"; it has adopted a very active national defense policy, used powerful armed forces to defend its sovereignty, interests, and neutral status, and developed a very strong national defense scientific research and manufacturing capacity on the basis of the original national defense industry. ≦≧

During the Cold War, the main equipment of the Swedish army, especially the equipment of the Navy and Air Force, was developed and manufactured by the company. For example, in the most important air force equipment, there are the famous three sisters of the Angel of the Road: "Dragon", "Thunder" and "Gripen" fighters (at this time the Gripen is still in the development stage), in the multiplier of air combat forces, early warning aircraft, it is even more unique, when other early warning aircraft carry a mushroom plate, but it carries a big bamboo pole. Sweden is mentioned. Later generations often think of IKEA and Ericsson mobile phones. Volvo Sedan, a small European country with a population of less than 9 million and a land area about the size of Gansu Province, is also an out-and-out military power. Especially in the manufacture of weapons, Sweden's achievements in national defense are the envy of the Americans.

Iraq's leaders have long been aware. The necessity of maintaining a diversified range of arms imports, especially after the United States imposed sanctions on Iraq, this need has become even more urgent, although Iraq's ultimate goal is to be able to produce high-tech weapons on its own, but it is definitely not done behind closed doors, Iraq needs to fully absorb the development of existing weapons and equipment, and draw on the strengths of others, American technology. ≦≧ is undoubtedly the strongest, but the technical barriers of the United States are also the largest. Meantime. Only the NATO countries, led by the United States, are exporting weapons. They also have to listen to the voice of the United States, and if the United States does not nod their heads, they cannot sell weapons to Iraq.

France has withdrawn from NATO, so France can sell weapons at will, but not all of France's weapons are advanced enough to meet Iraq's needs, and French weapons are expensive. Therefore, Qusay has already set his sights on another major arms exporter: Sweden!

When the situation in the Middle East was becoming more and more intense, a delegation represented by Hekmat sent by Qusay came to Sweden, focusing on discussing with Sweden's Saab company about their active sky flash missiles.

In future air combat, active air-to-air missiles are definitely a trend, after over-the-horizon air combat has increasingly become the main combat style, the active air-to-air missiles that are not left alone after launch can allow the carrier aircraft to get out of danger more quickly, even if only the last 20 kilometers are the active guidance range, it can also increase the survivability of pilots in future air combat. ≦≧

Iraq has put a lot of effort into the active sky flash missile, and Sarah of the British company of Osheng Electronics has devoted great efforts to it, holding shares in the British Space Corporation, participating in the active sky flash project, and winning the joint input of Saudi Arabia and Iraq to help the British Space Corporation continue this project with Saab. However, the subsequent sanctions from the United States and the following trend of the United Kingdom caused the project to drag on indefinitely, and Qusay decided to put aside British Space and cooperate directly with Saber!

Sweden is located in the northern part of the northern hemisphere, and even 15% of the land is in the Arctic Circle, but due to the influence of the Atlantic Ocean Current, the winter is not too cold, and most of the area is temperate coniferous forest climate, and the southernmost area is temperate broad-leaved forest climate.

After stepping off the plane, Hekmatt's team met with William Scherer, head of the Defense Research Institute under the Swedish Ministry of Defense, and Sven Tobias of Saab.

You must know that this is only the first time they have come to Sweden, and it can also be said that it is the first time that the Iraqi high-level has come to Sweden. ≦≧

Sweden is a small country and does not invest very much in weapons, but it is also very important for its military industry to achieve such a huge development, and to export weapons to foreign countries. Now, the Iraqi side took the initiative to send people to inspect the Swedish project, which made Sweden very excited, the French made a lot of Iraqi money, and now, finally, it is Sweden's turn! Therefore, Sweden attaches great importance to this visit of the Iraqi side, and they have carefully studied the equipment of the current Iraqi army, hoping to open up various markets and quickly occupy the military market in Iraq, and, through Iraq, it can also radiate to the entire Middle East, for example, after Iraq used the Mirage 4000 and T-72, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have not expressed their intention to buy?

"Welcome friends from the Middle East." Schoeller said.

"It is a great honor to be in this beautiful country. ≦≧," Hikmat said, shaking hands with the Swedish dignitaries.

Scherer and Tobias also shook hands one by one, and they looked at the Iraqi personnel who came as if they saw countless dollars injected into their military-industrial complex.

Led by Swedish personnel, Hekmatt visited the Saab company, where in 1937 Bofors and Erocle-Joeforth joined forces to form the Saab (sometimes translated Saab) aircraft company. In the early fifties, the Saab company developed the fighter Saab-29, which was widely used in the Korean War, and Saab made its own brand in the world in this opportunity, and then Saab and the Scania-Vabis car factory established in 1890 merged to form the Saab-Scania Group, which became the world's industrial group that simultaneously manufactures high-tech products such as aircraft, automobiles, trucks, combat vehicles, rockets, satellites, computers and communications.

Hekmat visited the Saab company with great interest, although now, Iraq already has a production line of various weapons, but Hekmat still visited their fighter production line with great interest, and he found that compared to the Iraqi production line, there is a huge advantage here, fully skilled skilled workers! This is the result of years of accumulation in industrialized countries. After the visit, the two sides held a meeting to discuss the projects that Iraq intends to introduce.

Iraq came here to prepare the project of an active sky flash missile, and the Swedish side knew very well about it, so the first topic of negotiations was about this missile. Until now, Saber was still in the development phase, and progress was slow due to the fact that funding from the co-developer, British Space, had been delayed.

"We are here this time, mainly for your active sky flash missile project." "We've seen that you've been working with British Aerospace for a long time on this missile, but the UK doesn't have the money to spend on this project, so we hope that we can replace the British side and become your partner," Hikmatt said. ”

Although they knew that the other side was here for this kind of missile, Scherer, Tobias, and others did not expect that Iraq did not want to directly introduce this kind of missile, nor did it say that it wanted to introduce a production line, but invested money to participate in the development of this kind of missile.

On the Iraqi side, the idea put forward is even more bizarre, leaving aside the British and cooperating with Iraq?

You must know that this project was originally cooperated with the United Kingdom, the missile bodies were all provided by the United Kingdom, and Sweden was mainly responsible for the development of the most important seeker, and the two sides worked together in a vain attempt to seize the market for air-to-air missiles in the future.

Britain's economy has been sluggish recently, and accordingly, spending on defense has shrunk, and even the AWACS aircraft, which they have studied for several years and have been close to success, have finally been sold to Iraq. The subsequent sanctions ended Britain's exports to Iraq, and the boycott of Arab countries led to an even more recession in the world economy.

If cooperation with Britain continues, then, most likely, this missile will end without a problem, but if it cooperates with the Iraqi side, Britain will face a contract dispute.

Therefore, as soon as Hekmat put forward this statement, the Swedish side hesitated. In the past, Iraq just let out the rumors, bypassing British Space, and cooperating with Saab, but that was just to force British Space to make concessions, but now, it is already real, Iraq must kick the British out of this plan and intervene itself! Because, the British are too much!

Originally, Iraq and Saudi Arabia contributed 50 million each to help British Aerospace continue to complete the project of active sky flash missiles, and at the same time ordered a batch of such missiles.

However, then the British imposed sanctions on Iraq in accordance with the requirements of the United States, and at this time Iraq had already invested five million dollars, and it was wasted in this way, even with Saudi Arabia, and suffered a loss, although there was a relationship with Sarah in the British Space Company, but when this was a national policy, no matter how big a company was, it could not do anything.

So, this time, we must shabu the British and let them vomit blood by themselves!