Out of the conference hall, sitting in the car, Zhang Feng's thoughts have been fluctuating, this time when he came back, Dad let himself participate in that military parade, and stood next to Daddy, that is to say, Dad has indeed made up his mind to establish himself as his successor.

It can be said that for more than a year, he has been fighting on the front line and has made various contributions to Iraq, and he should have his current status, but will his brother really be willing to give up? Will he do something against himself again?

This time back, his protection measures are stricter than last time, coupled with the incident of the last time, Uday has long been monitored, and it is simply impossible to plan an assassination against himself.

Also, why did Daddy mention the USSR several times? As soon as he said that he was introduced from the USSR, he was so happy?

"Uncle, am I getting a little closer to the United States?" Zhang Feng looked at Izat beside him and said.

This meeting, as well as attending the military parade, all had Izzat's share, so he followed Zhang Feng back to Baghdad.

Although Zhang Feng is very good at military affairs, in politics, sometimes he can't see the essence of the problem clearly, and he is also trying to improve his ability.

"It is not that we are getting closer to the United States, but that we are moving away from the USSR." Izzat said.

Far from the USSR? Zhang Feng was puzzled.

"Your Excellency the President is a man of great ambitions, and we in Iraq must take advantage of it if we want to rise." "We have very close relations with the Soviet Union, and we have imported a large number of weapons from the Soviet Union, in fact, His Excellency the President also wants to get closer to the United States, but I can't find too many opportunities, Khomeini gave us this opportunity, and you, and you have played a very important role, and with your efforts, our relations with the United States have further developed," Izzat said. ”

Zhang Feng understood, it turned out that his father was also very politically skilled, and his ideas were also between the two powerful countries!

"However, since you came to prominence, you have been close to the West, Europe, the United States, you are in contact with them, and even China in the East, you have shown greater enthusiasm, but you are indifferent to the Soviet Union, so I am afraid that Your Excellency will think that you, like those people in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are completely pro-West, but Your Excellency the President has no obvious evidence to say it. And now, you have taken the initiative to say that you have imported weapons from the Soviet Union, which naturally means that you attach importance to relations with the Soviet Union, and the president is naturally very happy. ”

Those who are in high positions must take the helm well and find their own direction in the international tide.

Zhang Feng understood, in fact, he had never thought about it so much. The weapons of Western countries are more suitable for modern warfare, he naturally bought a larger number of weapons from the West, and he knew that the development of history, the Soviet Union was going to collapse in the end, perhaps, subconsciously, he already felt that the Soviet Union was somewhat unreliable, so he was not too interested in the Soviet Union.

If Iraq wants to develop in the gap between the two empires, it really needs to accurately grasp the pulse of the times and have good relations with both the United States and the Soviet Union.

And with Iraq's successive victories in the war against Iran, the United States will certainly eventually become wary of Iraq, and may even exert pressure on Iraq, in which case, it can rely on the power of the Soviet Union.

If Khomeini is not a brain, he can completely rely on the power of the Soviet Union, you must know that after the pro-American Baviel stepped down, the Soviet Union was very interested in Iran, and from the Iranian side, it was completely possible to contain Afghanistan.

And the current Soviet Union, for the time being, has not yet shown its decline, the huge military industrial enterprises, is still advancing at full speed, the criticism of electronic technology backwardness, because in the eyes of Soviet military experts, has been staring at the ability to survive in a nuclear war, those integrated circuits, simply can not withstand too much electromagnetic impact, only electron tubes, can survive in a nuclear war.

Soviet tanks, still good.

Zhang Feng listened to Izzat's words, and his eyes suddenly brightened, and it seemed that he really had to have friendly exchanges with the Soviet Union.

October 3, in the center of Baghdad.

As the morning sun shines on the ancient Middle East, and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shimmer in the morning light, the central square is already full of people.

In the distance behind is the six-storey Palace of Believers, one of the official residences of President Saddam, and not far away, the newly erected statue of Saddam Hussein is standing on top of the huge column, waving to the crowd, never tireless.

On the rostrum in the center of the square, President Saddam Hussein, dressed in military uniform, was already standing there.

Saddam Hussein also liked to wear military uniforms in ordinary times, and military uniforms made him look more heroic and majestic, and he should have the image of a leader of a big country.

On Saddam's right hand side is a man who still looks very young, although he is young, but he has already experienced a hundred battles, and is already a well-known hero in Iraq, the god of war in Iraq, His Excellency Qusay!

To Saddam's left is Defense Minister Adnan, who is single-handedly responsible for the military parade.

The Iraqi Republican Guard, the most loyal to the president in Iraq, is responsible for maintaining order on the scene and protecting the president's safety, and most of them are from the president's hometown, Tikrit.

In a stand in the rear, there were also journalists from various countries, who had been invited to the event.

President Saddam Hussein is in high spirits today.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the parade officially began.

The first to come was an infantry squadron.

When looking at the walking posture of those soldiers who were carrying guns like shovels and throwing their arms at a high level, Zhang Feng wanted to laugh, this can be called a military parade?

Although it seems that the formation is neat, but in fact, it is very messy, the leather shoes are not raised as high, the head is not as straight as the collapse, and the cuffs are not in the same line, but it is true that they cannot be asked to do so, they are only temporarily pulled from the field troops, and have not undergone professional training for half a year.

Then there was the phalanx of several T-72 tanks, a tank company of the Republican Guard, who had been on the front line in the battle of Khorramshahr and were a tough force.

The T-72 tank held its muzzle high, as if showing off its strength to the world, the T-72 tank, the trump card in the Iraqi army.

The reporter in the back raised his camera and filmed this scene, and after going back, he rendered that Khomeini, who was like a madman in the eyes of the Western world, could not compete with such a powerful army as Iraq.

Then, some chariots came, and everyone's eyes looked straight at them.

A large four-axle driven field truck, with huge wheels rolling and the front windshield tilting downward, is a unique Soviet rugged style, and the most eye-catching thing is the round thing on the upper part of the body, which is a surface-to-surface missile!

Scud!

All the reporters in the stands were in a sensation, they did not expect that President Saddam Hussein would be so confident that in such a grand occasion of the military parade, Iraq's national weapon, tactical ground-to-ground missiles, would appear!

The "Scud" missile (Soviet designation R-11, Scud is named after NATO) is a short-range surface-to-surface tactical ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union in the 50s, and is an imitation of the German V-2 missile. Type A entered service in 1957, and Type B, an improved version of Type A, entered service in 1965.

The "Scud-B" missile is 11.37 meters long, 0.885 meters in diameter, has a take-off weight of 5.9 tons, and the propellant is dimethylhydrazine and red smoke nitric acid weighing 3.7 tons, and the warhead weighs 1 ton, can hold 860 kilograms of explosives, and has a killing radius of about 150 meters. The missile adopts customary guidance, has a maximum range of 300 kilometers, and a circular probability error of 300 meters.

Since 1980, the Soviet Union has replaced the "Scud-B missile" with a new generation of solid-mobile medium-range missiles SS-23, and at the same time, it has introduced a large number of such missiles to the international market, and Egypt, Syria, North Korea, and other countries have all equipped them with such missiles.

This missile, equipped to the Northern Military District.

Ballistic missiles refer to missiles that fly according to a predetermined program under the thrust of a rocket engine and fly according to the trajectory of a freely thrown object after being turned off. When the warhead falls at an extremely high terminal velocity, it is very technically problematic to intercept it, and in later generations, the United States spent countless dollars to develop NMD and TMD defensive ballistic missiles, but the effect is still very limited.

This kind of weapon, which was exported to Iraq, is naturally an offensive weapon that Saddam Hussein values the most, and this time, taking advantage of the military parade to show it in front of the world, it can put strong pressure on Iran.

In Saddam's eyes, this is naturally the most powerful weapon, but Zhang Feng doesn't see it that way.

The firing range is only three hundred kilometers, and on the border line of Iraq, it is simply impossible to cover Tehran in Iran, moreover, the error is too great, the error is three hundred meters! And the ground-attack cruise missile he is developing, the Red Bird No. 2, has an error of more than ten meters at most, a difference of an order of magnitude!

Moreover, the cost of the Red Bird II is only one-tenth of that of this Scud, and after improving the engine, the range will be greatly improved.

The military parade is a means of demonstrating its own force, but will the display of such an offensive weapon excessively irritate other countries, such as making the United States wary of Iraq?

This Scud missile became the focus of the parade, so much so that when the Iraqi Air Force's most advanced MiG-25 streaked through the sky, the reporter's eyes were still fixed on the missiles that disappeared from view.

The next day, the headlines of all the international pages of the newspapers of various countries were the Scud missile in the launch vehicle, compared to the AFP newspaper, which was not so brilliant, and their headline was the figure on the rostrum, next to the waving President Saddam, was Iraq's No. 2 man: Qusay-Abdullah.

(To be continued)