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---------------------- Kusai was overjoyed, and this was great news! Yes, he had to be there himself!

Qusay's plane, which soon took off from the Baghdad airport, flew directly to Basra, where it landed on the dedicated runway of the Aviation Industry Corporation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

Now, the F-20 fighters produced in Iraq have been fully put into service, and after the United States imposed sanctions on Iraq, Iraq terminated the continued production of such fighters.

On the one hand, it is because according to the original contract, Iraq will assemble 100 F-20 fighters, when in fact, by the time the United States imposed sanctions on Iraq, Iraq had already assembled 120 such fighters. Therefore, Iraq has completed the task of producing such fighters, and at the same time, it has overproduced some spare parts.

At this time, due to the intensive use of the Iraqi Air Force, the first F-20 fighters in service have reached the end of their service life. Iraq's attitude toward these fighters is not to carry out a plan to continue to extend their lives, but to prepare to eliminate them.

Because at this time, another kind of fighter is about to equip the Iraqi Air Force. ╔╗

The J-10, the Raptor fighter jointly developed and produced by the eastern powers and Iraq!

In the big countries in the East, the Jian-10 has begun to enter low-speed production, gradually equipping the troops, and at the same time, after Iraq has enjoyed all the technology, it has also begun to manufacture such fighters simultaneously on Iraq's production lines.

At this time, the production of the F-20 was completed, so Iraq carried out a large-scale transformation of the F-20 production line in order to produce this new type of warplane.

This fighter was named the Raptors in Iraq, which is the same name given by China, but, according to convention, NATO still gave a name, which is a bit odd and called Firefly.

Even fireflies can light up the Middle East!

Iraq's needs are somewhat different from China's, because. China urgently needs an air superiority fighter to make up for the lack of a third-generation aircraft, so this fighter used to compete for air supremacy is designed with air supremacy as its main design task.

Iraq, on the other hand, already has heavy Mirage 4000 fighters to fight for air supremacy. ╔╗So. The Raptor fighter is a multi-mission aircraft, and like the West, it is a low-end model used for high and low matching.

Because Iraq's weapons research and development capabilities have also made great progress, and they have completely mastered the fire control system of the Raptors fighters, they are in the fire control system. Added the ability to attack on the ground.

Iraq's existing ordinary bombs, laser-guided bombs, and air-launched cruise missiles are all capable of being mounted.

It is basically close to the level of the J-10B in later generations, thanks to the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq in order to be able to mount all kinds of weapons on various fighters. Various efforts have been made to make them familiar with these tasks.

It's just that the aerodynamic layout is not well mastered, so something like the DSI air intake has not yet appeared on the Iraqi-made Raptor, if not equipped with ground attack weapons. They have the same air supremacy combat capability as the Jian-10 of the eastern powers.

A little stronger, to be exact, because, such aircraft in Iraq. ╔╗ Equipped with anti-aircraft weapons, which are completely first-class in this era, including R-73 missiles capable of using helmet-mounted sights and sky flash missiles with active seeker.

Moreover, the greater significance to Iraq lies in the fact that this fighter has followed the entire model development process, and Iraq is no longer just the assembler of a fighter, they have been able to simultaneously develop a world-class advanced fighter!

The J-10 project has cultivated a complete Iraqi scientific research team, and now, the first project they are developing is the project of an advanced trainer/attack aircraft.

Iraq now has a large number of third-generation aircraft, but Iraq does not have a corresponding high-level trainer aircraft, so it has been using the two-seater type of the third-generation aircraft to train pilots, but in this way, the cost of training is very high, so a kind of high-level trainer aircraft with stabilization is very marketable, and this is also the first project independently developed by Iraq.

Using advanced fly-by-wire system and stabilization technology, it can imitate the flight characteristics of different aircraft by inputting different commands, so that the third-generation aircraft can be saved and the training cost can be reduced, which is a very popular concept in later generations.

Moreover, because the aerodynamic shape of the advanced training aircraft is very good, it is not only used to perform training tasks, but also to carry bombs and carry out ground bombing missions in wartime, which is the design idea of the trainer/attack aircraft. ╔╗

This is Iraq's first project, and it will lay a solid foundation for Iraq's military aircraft development team to continue to be familiar with the design process and develop the world's advanced fighters, and when it is successfully developed, in addition to equipping its own troops, it will be exported to other Arab countries, and even around the world, so that Iraq can earn more money.

Iraq's future economic development must not always follow the road of energy!

Now, Iraq's domestic country is constantly attracting Soviet bricks, and the situation in the Soviet Union is deteriorating day by day, and many far-sighted people have chosen to come to Iraq.

With these bricks, this project in Iraq, is progressing very smoothly, when the full-size prototype has appeared, Kusai suddenly opened his eyes, from the appearance, and Yak-130, the later Hongdu L-15, very similar, in terms of power, the use of an Iraqi mature F404 engine, can make the production line of this engine continue, facilitate later maintenance, can imitate the characteristics of various advanced fighters. ╔╗

After this project, Iraq's own stealth fighter will be developed, although this is a complicated and difficult process, but Iraq's technical personnel will certainly rise to the challenge and overcome a variety of technical problems, which is a road that Iraq must take.

It was in the midst of Qusay's meditation that Basa arrived.

In the assembly workshop, a fighter plane with a somewhat similar appearance to the Mirage 4000 is quietly staying there, with the double delta main wing, plus the full-motion canard wing in front, but using the belly air intake, the landing gear below, thick and powerful.

Farug Faisal, the head of the F-20 and now the head of the Raptors program, has a little red in his eyes with excitement.

Farrouge has been working here for nearly a decade, and he has witnessed the gradual strengthening of the Iraqi aviation industry, especially since they no longer need the help of the West, and they have completed the task of renovating this production line, and now, on this production line, about 20 Raptors can be produced a year, and eventually, there will be about 30 aircraft in production.

A big red flower was placed on the radome in front of the raptor, and countless technicians gathered around the plane, and among the flashing faces, there were Arabs, Chinese, and the former Americans, who were no more.

Amid hilarious applause, Qusay gave an enthusiastic speech.

"Today, we are here, ushered in the first Raptor fighter on our production line, which represents that our Iraqi military aircraft manufacturing, and ushered in a new glory, this fighter, from the beginning of the design, there are our personnel involved, we are no longer just a final manufacturer, we have mastered all the technology, all the production process, and we have the ability of secondary development. This reflects our good relations with China, and also reflects our confidence and pride in Iraq's pursuit of becoming an aviation power! Qusay's words caused a round of applause from those below.

"Now, we are facing the brutal sanctions of the United States, and they are trying to destroy the unity of our Arabs, to block the progress of our Arabs, to make us vassals, and we will never agree to it. We are a country with thousands of years of civilization, and we are now about to enter a glorious place again, and our own fighters have been able to protect their own airspace! ”

With Qusay's speech, Iraq made a tough voice, and now, the US sanctions are still continuing, but Iraq will definitely not be frightened, Iraq wants to develop, and it wants to become a real power!

No matter who you are, you can see that when Iraq began to produce this kind of fighter, it represented a new progress for Iraq, and in the past, although Iraq was able to produce it, but, in the final analysis, it was only assembled, assembled by parts, or reassembled with its own aid, but for the technical problems in this, it did not understand why it was designed like this, and what was it used for.

At most, Iraq has modified its fire control to launch a wider range of weapons.

And now, the Iraqis have mastered all the technology of this fighter, and the Iraqi fighter research and development team has also matured.

No matter how slandered you are, only when you are strong is the most important thing, and Kusai knows this truth very well. The Iraq Threat? As long as Iraq is strong enough, when the time comes, it can be said that the United States is too strong and will threaten the interests of all countries in the world!

With the gradual increase in the number of Iraq's third-generation fighters, Iraq has also begun to phase out the old Soviet fighters that were originally equipped, MiG-21 and MiG-23, which will gradually withdraw from the Iraqi Air Force.

Soviet-style backward fighters, only one of which has been retained, is the MiG-25.

Such fighters would improve avionics on a large scale, and the introduction of Soviet long-range air-to-air missiles would play a surprise role at critical times.

The Iraqi Air Force continues to enter the peak of rapid development.

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