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Qusai ended his trip at the Neva Design Bureau, and what satisfied him was that he had reached a complete agreement with the other party to redesign for Iraq a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser with a displacement similar to that of the Varyag, but with a different forward structure and superstructure. Pen, Fun, Court www.biquge.info{{}}

The anti-ship missiles were removed, the hangar was expanded, and at the same time a deck was added, and the ship island was reduced, and on the whole, it was still close to the Varyag, with a standard displacement of 58,000 tons and a full load displacement of 69,500 tons, which could carry sixty-five aircraft, in particular, after expanding the area of the deck, giving way to the take-off and landing areas, and it was possible to park twenty-six aircraft on the deck.

Although at present, Iraq can obtain only one type of carrier-based aircraft, the Su-25, and can also obtain a certain number of carrier-based helicopters, but with regard to carrier-based advanced fighters, Qusay has long been prepared in his heart.

Now, the Su-27K is still in the research and development stage, and after the nineties, there will be more than thirty aircraft left in Ukraine, which is a batch of valuable fighters, when the Soviet republics divided their property, the Kuznetsov aircraft carrier was driven away by Russia, and the carrier-based Su-33 (Su-27K) remained in Ukraine, and it was useless for Ukraine to ask for these aircraft, and when the time came, they could be sold to Iraq at a low price. On the one hand, the Su-25 is used as an important training aircraft to train Iraqi pilots who can take off and land on aircraft carriers, and on the other hand, Iraq will also modify this ground attack aircraft, which can carry all of Iraq's current ground weapons. Now the introduced Su-25 has undergone work in Iraq on a complete modification of avionics and weapons systems. It has the ability to carry guided weapons. The powerful combat power of aircraft carriers is not only in terms of air defense, but also in terms of ground attack. The Su-25, a solid ground attack aircraft, is also very necessary.

The introduction of the Ka-27 anti-submarine aircraft will significantly increase the anti-submarine capabilities of the Iraqi Navy, and the most important pre-aircraft aircraft, counting on the Yak-44, is hopeless. Counting on the Ka-31xing can be too backward, so, look at the whole world. Or the E-2C is the most reliable, so Qusay has already begun to prepare. When there was no news about Iraq's aircraft carriers, the idea was to get the pre-jing machine done well in advance.

In particular, the E-2C is a purebred carrier-based aircraft, and as long as the Soviet bomb passes the test, then taking off from the Iraqi aircraft carrier will give Iraq a strong pre-audit capability. {{}}

And when the time comes, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there will be a large loss of technical talents, especially the technology of carrier-based aircraft is in Ukraine, and Qusay is very confident. At that time, sufficient technical personnel will be accumulated, and when the time comes, the export of the Soviet Su-27 will also be relaxed.

The carrier-based aircraft used by Iraq in the future is still the Su-33 that is the most suitable. All of this will require Kusai's efforts in the future, and improving it with his own Mirage 4000 is also an alternative solution.

In short, Qusay has great hopes for Iraqi aircraft carriers. And for various purposes, the Soviet military was also very cooperative with Iraq's order. At Qusay's suggestion, the modern and dreadnought classes ordered by Iraq have also undergone minor changes, for the Dreadnought class, one AK130 gun, which is the same naval gun of the modern class, replaces the original two single-barreled 100mm guns, and increases the space for placing more SAM-9 anti-aircraft missiles. The Hyundai-class destroyer has canceled a 130-mm naval gun in the tail and moved the position of the helicopter deck downward, because the Hyundai-class helicopter take-off and landing platform is too high, resulting in the situation of high sea conditions, the take-off and landing platform above is too shaky to carry out helicopter take-off and landing operations. This design is very rare, and later experience has shown that the two naval guns are outdated. After the helicopter was removed, the single-arm engine of the anti-aircraft missile was placed in the position of the platform, and the location of the missile engine was converted into a hangar, so that it could accommodate two helicopters.

Iraq's aircraft carrier formation, with this aircraft carrier as the core, is surrounded by modern and dreadnought classes, in fact, it is not enough, under water, there are submarines, and on the surface, there are also specialized air defense ships.

Moreover, in order to be able to keep up with the speed of the aircraft carrier, ordinary diesel-electric submarines will not work, even submarines with modified AIP systems will not work, they must be nuclear submarines.

And this nuclear submarine is also owned by only five permanent members of the Council in the world. In this, Anglo-American law doesn't have to think about it, and the big countries in the East, Xing Neng really doesn't dare to compliment, that only solves the problem of whether there is or not, so it is necessary to find a way from the Soviet Union.

Ordering nuclear submarines from the Soviet Union is also unthinkable, absolutely impossible, and the only option is to lease nuclear submarines from the Soviet Navy when relations between the two countries continue to develop. {{}}

And another problem, that is, a dedicated air defense ship, in order to combat a saturation attack, an air defense system similar to the Aegis system that can have multiple channels, full vertical hair, is also a must-get system. In this regard, Qusay also has the original idea.

There is no need to think about the Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruisers, the cost of the Glorious-class and the maintenance costs are also very high, they are large and complete, anti-aircraft, anti-ship, anti-submarine and all kinds of jing. And the special air defense ship with a four-sided phased array radar and a vertical firing system has never appeared in either the warships of the Soviet Navy or the warships of the Russian Navy.

However, Kusai knows that it has appeared in history, and that is Dreadnought 3.

The Dreadnought class, produced in the USSR, was mainly for anti-submarine warfare and had almost no anti-ship capabilities, while by Dreadnought 2, anti-ship capabilities were increased, replacing the original SS-N-22 anti-submarine missiles with SS-N-14. {{}}

At the same time, in 83, in the face of the aggressive offensive of the United States, the Soviet Union also began to design the Dreadnought 3 on the excellent platform of the Dreadnought-class, that is, to improve the Dreadnought-class air defense ship.

Dreadnought 3 changed the original structure on a large scale, modifying the vertical firing devices of 16 units of "Jewel" anti-ship missiles on both sides of the forward end of the bridge, and changing the anti-submarine missiles to SS-N-15 supersonic anti-submarine missiles issued in two five-pack torpedo tubes located on both sides of the rear of the ship; 1 single-barreled 130mm gun was replaced with 2 AK100 guns; The original No. 2 gun position was moved to the position where the 48-unit "Shikili" medium-range anti-aircraft vertical fire system was installed; The short-range defense was replaced by two "Kashtan" artillery systems with four AK-630 types, and the "SA-N-9" short-range anti-aircraft vertical fire system located in the bow of the 64 unit was also retained. At the same time, in order to meet the blow of anti-saturation ability, the Sky Sentinel phased array radar used on the Kyiv-class aircraft carrier, 48 SA-N-17, 64 SA-N-9, which is already a very strong air defense, in later generations, the United States did not reach the level of Dreadnought 3 until the time of Ali Burke 3.

Such an excellent destroyer, alas, was born at the wrong time, and at the time of the collapse of the USSR, the first one was already 85 percent complete, and in the end it was forced to stop construction. The latter ones didn't get on the slipway at all.

Qusay has already fallen in love with this kind of destroyer, but unfortunately, he can't get his hands on it now.

The trip in the USSR was still very pleasant, accompanied by the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Gorshkov, after leaving the Neva Design Bureau, the next day he went to the Black Sea Shipyard.

In fact, Kusay planned to end the matter after the communication with the Neva Design Bureau. However, at the invitation of Gorshkov, Qusay came to the Black Sea Shipyard with great interest, and fortunately he came, because, here, he encountered a difficult problem that he did not expect.

The morning sun is shining on the mouth of the South Bug River in the northern part of the Black Sea, where an industrial city, Nikolaev, has come to life for a day.

The Nikolaev shipyard, located on the side of the city, is already a busy scene.

As the director of the shipyard, as the general head of the 11435 project, the director of the shipyard Makarov came early in the morning to the busiest slipway 0 in the entire Soviet Union.

Here, a huge warship is almost finished, and it can be launched after the last few processes are completed, so in addition to patrolling the slipway for a week to check the progress of each part, another important thing for Makarov is to check the preparation of various parts of the No. 2 ship in the open space next to slipway 0.

The No. 2 ship of the 11435 project, that is, the Riga (later Varyag), was built in sections of 24 super-large sections, most of which are 32 meters long, 38 meters wide, about 13 meters high, and weigh about 1,400 tons.

Now, these sections have also been built to the last moment, and everything is coming according to the construction schedule.

Because the segments were built first and then closed, Makarov demanded a very high degree of jing, and the error was not allowed to exceed 0.1 millimeter, so that when the closure was carried out, a perfect docking could be achieved.

After the inspection, it was already past 8 o'clock in the morning, and it was time to convene the people in charge of each project to hold a meeting to coordinate the progress of the day.

However, as soon as he entered the office, Makarov, without breathing a sigh of relief, received information that a secret visiting delegation, accompanied by the marshal, was coming to the Black Sea Shipyard for a visit.

Secret visiting missions? Just when Makarov was still surprised, he received another urgent document, a document signed by the General Secretary himself, that the Black Sea Shipyard needed to start construction of a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser of the same class as the Riga in a few months.

Having got this document, Makarov felt some short circuit in his brain, is it crazy above?