Mountain warfare is a very challenging subject, and most of Iraq is plains and deserts, and they have adapted to warfare in this kind of area, and they do not yet have a very deep understanding of the dangers of mountain areas.

What is even more terrifying is that if the Iranians conduct guerrilla warfare, they will inflict heavy casualties on their own troops in the mountainous environment.

Zhang Feng was worried about the situation of Iraq's army, but he also knew that he could only worry. The most powerful of the Iraqi army, the troops of the Northern Military District, did not fall under his command.

After Zhang Feng finished his report to the president, he immediately rushed back to the Southern Military Region.

This time, after leaving the Southern Military Region for almost a month, Zhang Feng did not expect that great changes had taken place.

In particular, when he came to the base in Zubayer, the production line of the F-20 was already running!

Parts imported from the United States are constantly flowing on the production line, and a small number of components produced by Iraq have also joined the ranks, and in the final factory, two F-20 fighters have begun to take shape.

The skins have all been anchored, and the engines have been placed in the tail, but the radome on the head is still empty, and the radar has not yet been transported.

A large crowd of people gathered around there, installing various parts.

Although the production of fighters is said to be an assembly line, in fact, many things must be done by hand, which is also the reason why a production line can only produce dozens of fighters a year.

The fighter plane is the result of the cooperation of all parties in a huge machine.

This progress is too fast, isn't it? The last time I came, I was still installing the production line and debugging it.

Moreover, they worked very seriously, even when Zhang Feng, the number one person in the Southern Military Region, came, they did not look up, they were carefully studying something.

The Americans, who were arrogant last time, have also changed their attitudes, and the questions raised by the Iraqi engineers are answered as well as if they could wear a pair of pants.

Zhang Feng faintly felt that something was abnormal.

At this time, a person came out from under the belly of the fighter, and Zhang Feng looked at it, it was actually the head of the United States here, Dr. Kashin!

"Dr. Kashin!" Zhang Feng said in surprise: "I didn't expect you to do it yourself?" ”

"In order to send the fighter to the sky as soon as possible, it must be demonstrated in person, your personnel have not fully mastered our CNC machine tool equipment, the processed parts, the accuracy is not enough, this beam, but also have to be remade, otherwise, the landing gear will definitely not be able to be retracted into the cabin." Kashin said. Those Iraqi engineers who came back from foreign countries are of a very high level, and they are already in charge of the various subsystems of the main fighters, but the Iraqis who are working on the machines are not very good, and they always make this kind of low-level mistakes, you know, this beam, imported from the United States, is also cheaper than Iraq's own production, because this metal material is very valuable, and this is already the third, and the cost has long exceeded the imported finished product!

Kashin is very rigorous, and this kind of mistake, as long as it is not accurate, must be remanufactured.

"Thank you, Dr. Cassin!" Zhang Feng said, "Thank you American friends for your sincere help to us, you are our friends!" ”

Zhang Feng was really moved.

"In order to bring down the Iranians, these are all as they should be." "However, this progress is still too slow, although most of the finished products are exported by our company, it will take another two months to complete all the work and make the first flight, and at least a month of test flights to equip the troops," Kashin said. ”

When Zhang Feng heard the other party say this, it was completely for his own interests, when would he think about it like this?

However, the number of advanced fighters on our side is relatively small, and some pilots who can fly F-20s have been trained with those two two-seater fighters, but they are all flying old Soviet fighters.

"I wonder what Dr. Cassin suggests?" Zhang Feng asked.

"Our company's production line has produced eight F-20s, which can equip two squadrons of your air force, if you feel that the current fighters are not enough, you can export these eight fighters first, even if they are in our original contract."

Is there such a good thing? When did the Americans take the initiative to send it to their door for themselves to receive?

"The Sparrow air-to-air missiles we ordered are also relatively backward models, and this time we only shipped less than a few dozen, which simply cannot withstand the consumption of several battles." Zhang Feng said.

"The company has helped to re-contact Raytheon, and the last export was only inventory, and this time it is the new AIM-7F missile." Cassin said.? Zhang Feng felt a little incredible, why did their attitude suddenly change so quickly? You know, just half a year ago, they also froze the contract for the export of this production line! And now on the contrary, take the initiative to contact and export new models of missiles?

The reason for Kashin's change of attitude is naturally a decision made by the top level of the United States.

What Khomeini did this time really made the Americans see the essence of Khomeini, and they finally knew that it was very stupid to deal with such a person, and even want to use such a person to achieve a balance of power in the Middle East.

The weapons have already been given to Khomeini, and only part of them have been returned, and only Khomeini can do this kind of thing.

Now, needless to say, their high-IQ American high-level people are ordinary people, and I'm afraid they can see something.

And the U.S. [***] side, until the last moment, absolutely cannot be dispatched. Therefore, if the United States wants to deal with Khomeini, it can only take the form of assistance to Iraq.

What's more, the fact that His Excellency Qusay in Iraq actually visited the Soviet Union is a very bad signal, and it is necessary for them to tempt this guy Qusay with the cake of arms.

Therefore, after receiving the news that the company was fully cooperating with Iraq, the American technicians who were in the cowboy style of the western United States at the beginning all put away that attitude and began to work in earnest, and the progress was very fast.

There is another reason, that is, Northrop's lobbying for the US Air Force again, which has failed again.

Northrop still concentrated its main forces in the country, producing several production models, hoping to win the favor of the US Air Force.

It is a pity that the US Air Force already has a light fighter like the F-16, and does not want to equip it with a fighter of the same class, which is not conducive to logistics maintenance.

Although the performance of the F-20 was very good, and moreover, the price offered by Northrop was also attractive, the US Air Force was unmoved.

Since these planes have already been produced, the company's top management has made a decision after deliberation: Taking advantage of the presidential and congressional agreement to lower export restrictions to Iraq, export new Sparrow air-to-air missiles, and by the way, sell these fighters to Iraq.

Even if the price is lower, it is acceptable.

It's just that they haven't waited for the main owner, and after Zhang Feng came back, the person in charge of these matters hadn't reported to him, he had already gone to the production line by himself, and Kashen was just a researcher, and he wouldn't beat around the bush when he said these things, so after Kashen saw Zhang Feng, he said these things directly.

Zhang Feng thought about it in his mind, and he already understood the general situation of the matter, I am afraid that this is still the ghost of those hostages in Iran, does the Yankees want to let themselves be substitutes for the dead ghosts and rush to the front for them? I don't want to do this kind of thing.

There is no solution to the hostages taken by Khomeini, and it is all wrong to do what to do, if the Americans really dare to use force, the Iranians will absolutely dare to tear up the votes, and moreover, they will definitely dare to kidnap the Americans in the Middle East.

"Thank you very much for your friendliness." Zhang Feng said: "Your country's selfless assistance this time has made us feel your country's support for our people in the Middle East. ”

"We will always be brothers with Iraq." Kashin said. It's hard for him to say such a thing.

Brothers? Zhang Feng knows very well how this brother ran rampant on Iraqi soil in later generations, and now, the two sides are just using each other.

Was it Ayatollah Khomeini who helped him this time and made Americans realize the importance of nurturing themselves? Zhang Feng was still a little puzzled.

Subsequently, Zhang Feng went to the anti-ship missile production line on the other side of Zubayer, which was also a busy scene.

The technicians sent by China, headed by Liang Lao, are tackling the problem of attaching a small turbojet engine imported from Iraq to the improved Red Bird No. 2 missile body, which has a range of more than 200 kilometers, which is still a bit short of what is needed.

If you really want to make a big leap, then you have to install turbofan engines, and fuel consumption will be further reduced, but unfortunately, even Iraq has no way to get this kind of thing for the time being.

Even so, compared to Chinese engines, there has been a lot of progress, thrust has increased, fuel consumption has decreased a lot.

Zhang Feng knows that this kind of thing takes time, and the progress of technology is not so easy.

When Zhang Feng was still visiting, he received a letter from Yured from the Messiah Bureau, who had an emergency and needed to report to Zhang Feng.

Emergency? Could it be the Northern War situation? Zhang Feng did not continue to visit, and immediately rushed back to the military region.

"Your Excellency Qusay, we have received information that the Iranian Air Force is showing signs of a large-scale sortie." Yured said.

Isn't the Iranian Air Force already ineffective? Zhang Feng, who hurried back, was still a little puzzled.

"Our men can't get close to Iran's air bases, however, they found that the Iranian fuel trucks have been delivering fuel to the base recently, which confirms that there will definitely be large-scale air operations on the other side." Yured said.

Although it was impossible to infiltrate the interior, recently, the other side's fuel trucks have been driving too frequently, and the ground crew has suddenly become diligent, entering and exiting the hangar very frequently, and after the intelligence officers reported this abnormal situation, Yurid analyzed it and came to the conclusion: The Iranians, I am afraid they are planning a large-scale air attack!

(To be continued)