Chapter 886: Confrontation Exercise
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To transform an ordinary slipway, so that it has the ability to manufacture aircraft carriers, the investment is huge, to build a production workshop next to the slipway, will need a variety of prefabricated parts, welded in advance, in order to improve production efficiency. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info{{}}
If the slipway is not large enough, it should be lengthened and widened.
However, despite the huge investment, Qusay also felt that this deal was absolutely cost-effective, because if he wanted the Black Sea shipyard to build an aircraft carrier for himself, and could not squeeze out the original aircraft carrier manufacturing of the Soviet Union, the only option was to start from scratch and transform a new slipway. And in this regard, Iraq will also learn a lot of technology. You must know that since Qusay has invested, he will definitely not only contribute money, but will definitely "supervise" the use of funds, and he will naturally learn a lot of techniques in this.
At this time, Soviet shipbuilding technology was also maturing, in particular, a dedicated communication line from the Neva Design Bureau to the Black Sea Shipyard was laid, directly to the two slipways. And the specialists of the Neva Design Bureau began to conduct the first 3D simulation of the asymmetrical hull contours and internal basic structure of a battleship in the USSR using the most advanced electronic computers. This greatly saved manpower and material resources, and only 17 people were needed to prepare the hull for construction. And each of the 30 parts used to assemble the hull was built in 1 to 1 and a half months. The availability of these technologies has been of great benefit to the transformation of Iraq's shipbuilding industry.
It can be said that Iraq invested a lot of money for its first aircraft carrier, and what was exchanged for it was not just that aircraft carrier that was as simple as that aircraft carrier, but also in later generations. The people involved in this project recalled, especially Makarov, who had become the honorary chief director of Iraq's shipyards at that time, that in the process of Iraq investing a large amount of money to build Iraq's aircraft carriers, it was actually in the process of digging the corners of the Soviet building, and he passed the contract with a large number of Soviet technicians. Linked together, later, under various circumstances. These people chose to start a new life in Iraq, and Qusay's scheming was deep. Even the most outstanding politician at that time was definitely inferior, and at that time, Qusay was only a twenty-year-old young man!
Of course, Makarov said this with a smile on his face, because, he was very satisfied with his life, compared to the half-dead situation that remained at the Black Sea Shipyard. He was content to watch the huge warships sail down from the Iraqi shipyards and sail the oceans, especially seeing the Soviet Union's worst enemy, which was now no match for the Iraqi navy. I feel a hint of pride in victory.
The Iraqi Navy, with the strong support of President Qusay, is gradually booming. {{}}
The development of the navy requires a large amount of investment, and President Qusay, who has grasped the pulse of the times, has nothing but the use of Iraq's oil resources. In addition to vigorously developing Iraq's industry, some unconventional measures are adopted from time to time.
July 24, 1985, Persian Gulf.
There are some winds and waves on the sea, but it is much quieter than the rough waves in the Indian Ocean. Two Iraqi-flagged frigates, undulating with the waves.
The coast of the Persian Gulf is already familiar with these two warships, and they often conduct some training here, and now the Persian Gulf is the backyard of the Iraqi Navy, and they often come out of the Strait of Hormuz to conduct some training outside the Gulf of Oman.
This time, it was the two Heden-class frigates of the Iraqi Navy, the Hedon and the Gigar, who conducted an anti-submarine training in the Persian Gulf, and the two Iraqi TR-1700 submarines were trained together with them.
Now, President Qusay is paying more and more attention to the navy, and they themselves have stepped up their own strict requirements, although both the Heddon-class and the TR-1700 have only been equipped for a year or two, but the Iraqi navy has fully mastered the cāo work of these ships, and now, it is moving to a deeper step, that is, to be truly combat-capable. {{}}
On the Heden, Captain Abdur looked at the waves on the sea outside, his body swayed slightly with the floor, but it was as steady as Mount Tai, at the beginning on the missile boat of less than 100 tons, a wave came over, which could wet people, and they were still able to dry their foreheads normally and continue to move forward, and now, staying in the air-conditioned cockpit, although the temperature outside is very high, they can still maintain sufficient physical strength.
"Turn off the gas turbine, start the diesel engine, move forward one in two cars, and prepare for anti-submarine training." Abdur said.
During anti-submarine training, the gas turbine was too noisy and would affect his sonar detection signal, so he ordered the gas turbine to be turned off, and at the same time, began to form a search queue with another ship, the Gigar.
"Release the stabilizer fins, the anti-submarine helicopter sorties, release the towed body sonar, attention, anti-submarine training begins. {{}}," Abdul commanded.
Now, the hull is still a little shaky, and the danger of taking off a helicopter from the narrow tail deck is very great, almost like walking a tightrope on a bicycle, so it is very valuable to reduce the sway of the hull, and the stabilizer fin is the most effective stabilizer. It is installed on the two sides of the ship, and the profile is wing-shaped, also known as the side rudder. The anti-roll fin is rotated by the cāo longitudinal mechanism to generate a force on the water current, so as to form a stabilizer moment and reduce the sway, so as to reduce the roll of the hull.
With Abdul's order, the stabilizer fins opened, and the shaking of the hull suddenly lessened.
An AB212 helicopter, from the tail helicopter platform of the Heden, against the waves, began to take off slowly, the helicopter's rotors rotated, drove the fuselage, left the helicopter platform, and then, against the wind, flew towards the intended target.
With the arrival of these two warships, the Iraqi Navy began to have carrier-based aviation, and they sweated in order to take off and land on a narrow platform with helicopters weighing five tons.
In order to support the construction of the navy, these helicopter pilots were originally from the army, and it is said that President Qusay is now planning a naval aviation unit, and plans to transfer a group of pilots from the air force to the navy. {{}}
At sea, a very important danger is the submarine underwater, so anti-submarine warfare is a key project, and these warships ordered by Iraq are equipped with anti-submarine helicopters and have strong anti-submarine capabilities.
With Abdul's order, anti-submarine drills officially began.
Under water, the two submarines that had arrived here a day ago were waiting for the arrival of their "prey", the TR-1700 is considered the big guy in the conventional submarines, with a displacement similar to the Hedon class, and it is equipped with a modified Duux-5 sonar from Thomson Sintra, France, with excellent Xing capabilities.
The TR-1700 is highly automated, and in each submarine, less than thirty people are needed, and now, they are at their posts.
Although the Iraqi submariners have been established for a short time, they have always been under the guidance of German instructors, learning first-class submarine confrontation skills, and now, both submarines, both underwater, have turned off their engines, sat on the bottom of the sea, and quietly used their sonar to listen to the movements around them.
The Persian Gulf is the busiest bay in the world, and they have oil tankers all over their heads, so the most focused attention now is the sonar soldier, a qualified sonar soldier, who needs to go through many trainings to hear the sounds of all known ships and civilian ships, and distinguish them.
Even if a crew member on a freighter five nautical miles away drops a coin onto the deck, you have to hear how big its denomination is, whether it's face up or face down! Of course, this statement is absolutely mythical, but it is necessary to distinguish the model of the other party, especially for submariners.
Voice, related to their lives.
"Overhead, there are two large oil tankers, about ten nautical miles apart, one of which is our Iraqi Vientiane, and the other is supposed to be the mother star of Riben, which is bound for Kuwait." The sonar soldier reported to Mustafa that he was able to easily separate the tankers because of his constant listening to these sounds.
"Didn't you find any other sound signals?" Mustafa asked.
"Not yet."
The Iraqi Navy will absolutely not set up a plan for conducting exercises, and it will always be the red side that will win the victories in the exercises of the eastern powers of later generations.
They are only conducting exercises in the waters of the Persian Gulf, and this area is very wide, and the task of the two frigates on the surface is to find out the submarine, as long as the location of the submarine is discovered, simulating the firing of anti-submarine torpedoes, even if it is a victory, for the submarine, as long as it is discovered, it almost means that it will be killed. And the task of the submarine is to use active sonar to shine on the frigate before it is discovered by the frigate, which means that he can send shè torpedoes and kill the frigate on the water.
This is a real confrontation exercise, the closest confrontation exercise to actual combat, and there is no point in engaging in that kind of false one.
In this kind of exercise, the two sides can use their various means, for example, Mustafa is very cunning in the game of waiting for the rabbit, he lurks in the channel, the sound of the oil tankers will drown him, he will only be dispatched after discovering the target, quickly seize the position of the hair, complete the simulated attack.
The waterways of the Persian Gulf are busy, but, in addition to the narrow Strait of Hormuz, there are large areas of water where you can wander.
They had been lurking underwater for a day, and thanks to the shutdown of all unnecessary equipment, their electricity, which consumed only three percent, was enough for a bold and decisive operation.
The sonar knew that he had an important task on his shoulders, so he had been listening carefully, hoping to hear the familiar voices of the two frigates.
However, it has not been, maybe it will appear in the next moment, maybe it will not appear in one day.
He was not discouraged.
Suddenly, he noticed a peculiar sound, and on the mother star tanker, another very faint voice suddenly separated.