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Gorbachev is only thinking about it economically, if he can reach this arms sale with Iraq, then the military will have fewer mouths to ask for accounts, but of course, he also knows that he can't just consider it economically, it is absolutely not possible, and the Soviet Union cannot sell everything, otherwise, those old guys will definitely jump out and scold him for betraying the country. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ{{}}

Although Gorbachev has become general secretary, he feels that this family is not so easy to run, and there is still a force within the Soviet Union that he does not dare to move at all.

The development of the Soviet military industry was aimed at countering the Western world, especially the United States, which was a policy that the Soviet Union had been following since its establishment.

So, the sale of weapons, which needed to be carried out without harming the interests of the USSR, is it in the interests of the USSR to sell advanced warships to Iraq now? Is it in the interests of the Soviet Union to strengthen the power of the Iraqi Navy?

All these judgments must be derived from the analysis of several of them. {{}}

"We must think carefully about this matter." Gromyko said that after many years of being a diplomat, he has a very clear mind: "We have already made the Western world strongly dissatisfied with the construction of heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers ourselves, and if we build them for Iraq, then it is very difficult for us to judge what the reaction of the West will be." ”

Although the Soviet Union has never been afraid of the West, now the Soviet Union has begun to borrow heavily from the West, if the West does not lend money to the Soviet Union. The USSR now does not even have enough money to buy grain.

"Sergey, what do you think?" Gorbachev asked, and he had been keenly aware that when Qusay offered to buy such a warship, Sergei's eyes flashed with a certain excitement.

"I think it's a great opportunity." Sergei said: "We are the only ones who entered the Arabian Sea. A great opportunity to enter the Indian Ocean. \\.. \\”

At this point, all the people gathered their attention and listened attentively to Sergei's words. {{}}

Because. Sergei's words, too tempting, all the time. The Soviet Union hoped that it would be able to go south and expand its influence into the Indian Ocean.

The Soviet Union did not hesitate to risk the opposition of the whole world to launch a war against Afghanistan, and it was for this purpose that although it put a heavy economic burden on the Soviet Union, and although Gorbachev himself wanted to withdraw his troops from Afghanistan, it was a major matter related to the interests of the Soviet Union. He also had to carefully take into account the feelings of the entire Soviet leadership.

And now, Sergei has said this reason, which makes everyone excited.

"We exported these three warships to Iraq, but there were simply not enough Iraqi sailors. So, in a few years, these warships need to help the Iraqi sailors mature under the cāo of our Soviet sailors, that is, we need to send troops. As for the aircraft carriers, we need thousands of sailors to station in the opponent's naval bases, and we are afraid that we will have to send more than half of the manpower. Sergei said, and the eyes of the others gradually brightened.

For example, when Iraq was provided with advanced MiG-25, the maintenance, repair and training of this kind of aircraft were all played by the Soviets, and at the most, the Soviet Union stationed more than 10,000 personnel at the H-3 air base where the MiG-25 was located, and most of the MiG-25s were flown by the Soviets. {{}}

In other words, the Soviet Union will send about 10,000 sailors to help Iraq build these warships, and in a few years, these warships, I am afraid that Iraqi sailors will occupy a secondary position, so it is equivalent to the Soviet Navy stationed in the Arabian Sea!

Isn't this such an opportunity, what the USSR has always wanted? In the Indian Ocean, show your presence! It can echo with the Pacific Fleet in the east and suppress the US sphere of influence!

"Moreover, if Iraq does not dare to announce that it has ordered a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser from us, we can claim that this warship was built by us and that it is only temporarily staying in the port there, so that when it passes through the Bosphorus, there will be more good reason. {{}}" Gromyko added.

"Even if in a few years, the Iraqi sailors, who have completely mastered the work of the aircraft carrier, want our personnel to leave, then they will find out that they lack the necessary conditions to protect this aircraft carrier, they do not have the main air defense ships of our Kirov class and the Glorious-class, and we only export to him Su-25 attack aircraft, this kind of aircraft carrier will not be able to leave the protection range of shore-based aircraft at all, they will not attack nuclear submarines, there are not enough escort anti-submarine ships, this aircraft carrier, It's just an empty shell, at most, it's just going around the borders of the Arabian Sea, and it doesn't pose any threat to us, especially, I don't know what Qusay thinks, we have been installing powerful supersonic anti-ship missiles on this kind of warship, and he doesn't want it, so we don't have to worry about this kind of missile leaking the secrets of our counterattack against the American aircraft carrier at sea. Sergey said.

In his eyes, this kind of warship has no anti-ship capability, and the escort formation is also much worse, at most it is just a carrier carrying aircraft, and there is no powerful carrier-based aircraft, although Qusay said that it should be equipped with bombs, and Iraq does not have the ability to develop its own carrier-based aircraft. {{}}

Sergei represents the military's point of view, and he looks at the problem very carefully, and the export to Iraq is only a moving aircraft carrier ship at sea, which can allow the Soviet Navy to exist in the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean from now on, and it is of great benefit to the Soviet Union's strategy of pursuing a southward expansion.

When Kusai really gets the aircraft carrier and uses it for a few years, it will be found that without the help of the Soviet Navy, their aircraft carrier will have no practical combat value at all, and when the time comes, they will probably have to ask the Kirov cruiser of the Soviet Navy to escort them, and once the Red Navy enters there, it will not come out again.

It's a temptation that no one can refuse. Fighting Afghanistan and dying so many people, isn't it just to go south?

Now, it's a great opportunity!

Although their pockets have been deflated, their vision is still long-term.

"President Qusay, we didn't plan to buy an aircraft carrier before we came." Deputy Commander of the Navy Karim asked.

With the same doubts, there are also Hikmat and others, could it be that President Qusay is doing this on the whim?

They all know that President Qusay's big naval thinking, but this leap seems to be a bit big.

So, returning to the embassy, in the room that had already been checked, confirming that there was no KGB eavesdropping equipment, Karim couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, we don't have a plan, it's just our thoughts." "Because, just now, I saw that the Soviet Union was reluctant to sell us even two Dreadnought-class and Modern-class, so I added an aircraft carrier, so that the Soviet Union may still sell it to us together." ”

Hearing the president say this, others were puzzled, the Soviets did not sell two destroyers alone, plus their ace aircraft carrier, the USSR was willing to sell it instead? What kind of logic is this?

Although the Soviet Union has always called it a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser, by the time it reached the third generation, it had no similarities with cruisers, and it was an aircraft carrier in the real sense.

This is the pride of the Soviet Navy, you know, the first Brennev, which is still on slipway 0, is preparing to be launched, and there are still a few years before it enters service, and the Soviet Navy is willing to sell this kind of aircraft carrier to Iraq? It's a fantasy.

"Because, after we introduce large warships, we in Iraq have no experience in our own affairs, and we will inevitably hire a large number of Soviet personnel, so that the Soviet Navy will take this opportunity to control our Navy and realize their strategy of going to the South Seas." Qusay said.

"Our Iraqi navy must not be controlled by the Soviet Union, and we must stand on our own feet." This was stated by the deputy commander of the Navy, Karim.

"Sometimes, when there are certain conflicts in reality, we need to be patient for a while." "We only agreed to the Soviets' terms before they were willing to sell us these warships, but when the warships actually arrived in our ports, the initiative was in our hands," Qusay said. ”

Qusay didn't feel that there was anything wrong with saying this, although the eyes of the people next to him were a little strange, and it was very courageous to play tricks with a big country like the Soviet Union, but there was nothing that President Qusay did not dare to do, and they all firmly followed President Qusay.

Let the Soviets build the warship first and drive it to the territory of Iraq, the Soviets want to be arrogant, it is impossible, because, the construction of the aircraft carrier has a long cycle, in Qusay's prediction, it will not be built until the early nineties, this is still the fastest estimate, you know, the United States supercarrier, it takes almost ten years, the Soviet Union in order to catch up with the United States, the Black Sea shipyard has carried out various technological improvements, shortened the construction period.

At that time, the whole Soviet Union was probably already panicking. In later generations, the first aircraft carrier, which had been renamed Kuznetsov at this time, completed sea trials in such a stormy environment.