Babylonian Empire

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After the establishment of the Arab Cooperation Convention Organization, the rest of the Arab countries expressed their intention to join.

Just when the West began to sanction Iraq, even more shocking news came from the north. The Red Empire will conduct a large-scale sale to Iraq!

The Soviet Union will export to Iraq helmet sights and R-73 combat missiles used to improve the performance of aircraft air combat. These equipment can be installed on Iraqi Soviet fighters, as well as F-20 fighters and Mirage 4000 fighters on Iraq's own production line superior.The Soviet Union provided Iraq with colored metal smelting equipment and various high-grade metal raw materials for aero-engines that Iraq could not produce for the time being, titanium alloy blanks, and a series of other military sales items. What is even more surprising is that the Soviet Union will send Iraq provided two heavy water reactors, which were built on the outskirts of Baghdad and next to Zubayr, to provide electricity to various new factories built by Iraq in these two places, and alleviate the power shortage in these two places.

The last news is like a blockbuster. This is the Soviet Union's defiance of the US sanctions. The US wants to sanction Iraq, why not sanction Israel?Israel has developed nuclear weapons!During the Cold War, Israel and Iraq became the focus of the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union respectively. The Soviet Union announced its attitude in this unique way.

The United States wants sanctions, so the Soviet Union will provide assistance, and whatever the United States sanctions, the Soviet Union will provide!

The United States tried in vain to pass sanctions on Iraq, so that even if Iraq had a fighter plane production line, it would stop using it due to lack of raw materials. However, they miscalculated this time. The Soviet Union has those raw materials!The USSR can deliver!The sophisticated processing equipment has already arrived in Iraq. As long as there are raw materials, Iraq can produce them!

Of course, the Soviet Union still cannot provide assistance for certain components. For example, the Soviet Union cannot provide the radar electronic equipment of the F-20 fighter jet.

However, the wishful thinking of the United States has come to nothing.

The eyeballs of the NATO countries following behind the United States are all red. The Soviet Union even sold the nuclear reactor to Iraq. They cannot even sell a single screw, because this screw may be used in Iraqi weapons.They also have to endure the subsequent reduction in oil production due to sanctions against Iraq, and the rise in their own oil prices, all because of Iraq's attack on Israel.

In fact, all Western European countries are thinking that even if Iraq’s attack on Israel was overdone, it is within common sense. Iraq only killed Israel’s nuclear base, and Israel also killed Iraq. The nuclear reactor in China, the two sides are considered even, why do you have to sanction?Originally, Iraq showed signs of getting closer to the West. The behavior of the United States abruptly pushed Iraq towards the Soviet Union. What good did it do for the West?Just because Iraq attacked Israel?If Yi Se Lie didn't do the underground nuclear test first, would there be so much trouble?

Seeing that those businesses can't be done, the Soviets and the French are cheaper, but they can't do it themselves, the arms groups in Western Europe, all the eyes are straight.

They didn't know that there was a reason why the Soviet Union was so generous.

Qusai stood up and helped the Soviets kill the Israeli nuclear facilities, helping the Soviet Union a lot, and afterward, he voluntarily admitted that he did it himself.Although military observers continued to suspect that Iraq did not have that capability, and that the second batch of missiles flew from the Mediterranean Sea, it was not Iraq that did it at all, but no official argument was formed.

The subsequent series of sanctions by the United States were all caused by the Iraqi attack. Therefore, the Soviet Union opened up technical barriers and finally agreed to export helmet sights and R-73 missiles to Iraq.

Of course, there is no free lunch in the world, and Iraq has to exchange the wreckage of the blackbird. Moreover, Iraq has paid a high price for the import of these things.

Iraq also spent a lot on the import of other things. This is a helpless choice. Although the sanctions imposed by the United States this time seem aggressive, they did not have a great impact on Iraq. The ambition of the workers, they worked hard to complete the localization rate of various weapons imported from outside, and finally reached [-]%!

Moreover, the facts have also confirmed the correctness of His Excellency Qusay’s policy. If Iraq buys all weapons from abroad, then foreign sanctions can collapse Iraq’s powerful army, but now, Iraq can reduce this impact to minimum.

As for the nuclear reactor, it was a project decided after Gorbachev took the initiative to talk to Qusay, because the two sides need to launch a strong counterattack against the sanctions imposed by the United States. There is nothing more powerful than a nuclear reactor.What's more, Iraq is a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, so it is entirely possible to have this kind of civilian nuclear reactor, and it will be supervised by the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that it will not be used for other purposes.

After thinking about it, Qusay agreed to the Soviet Union's friendly proposal, because these two places will continue to carry out various industrial constructions in the future, and the problem of power shortage will become more and more serious. Nuclear power plants can provide clean energy for these places, and , This is indeed a very powerful counterattack, letting the United States know that Iraq will never compromise under the pressure of the United States on certain issues.

Of course, this will gradually stand on the opposite side of the United States. This is actually not Qusay’s original intention. Originally, Qusay wanted to get all kinds of benefits in the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union for hegemony, but no one was too close. .But in the specific operation, various problems appeared.

For example, Israel, the tyrant of the Middle East, has nuclear weapons, and Iraq has to do it, which will anger the United States. This is Iraq's last resort and necessary choice.

Because of this problem, Iraq and the United States are gradually drifting away, but their relationship with the Soviet Union is getting closer. However, this is also good. Now that the relationship has been established, in a few years, half of the Soviet Union is waiting to be moved back to Iraq!

... Surrounded by some green sea water, occasionally plankton swims by. The sunlight is composed of seven colors of light. Among them, the ability of red light to penetrate the water is the weakest. It is several meters deep under the water. Red light can't reach it, and green light can penetrate more than 100 meters. In this tens of meters deep seabed, green is the most common color.

Korchagin, a Soviet naval diver who graduated from the Kronstadt Naval Submarine Academy of the Soviet Union, is now a special combat member of the PDSS underwater special operations unit of the Black Sea Fleet. At this time, he is searching underwater with his companions with.

If you want to become a diver, you need to pay a lot of hard training, but underwater is also full of dangers.

He was wearing a black tight diving suit. What he carried on his back was not a cylindrical oxygen cylinder, but a square container like a backpack. There were two tubes leading to the diving goggles and the underwater breathing apparatus in front of him. The combination, the mirror wraps the nose, and uses the mouth to suck on the one-piece breathing equipment.

No bubbles flew out of his head.

What he uses is the new type of underwater breathing equipment developed by the Soviet Union. Using oxygen cylinders, it is easy to spit out air bubbles and expose his position. He is carrying a diving fully closed rebreathing system on his back with a carbon dioxide filter tube. The exhaled air is filtered and recycled, so there will be no water bubbles, no exposure of the target, and no impact on vision and shooting. This is the highest level of Soviet diving equipment.

6Chapter 16 Underwater contact

After a "difficult" search, when the Iraqi searchers were about to give up, they finally discovered that the target they were looking for did not fall on land, but fell into the Caspian Sea!

They heard about several local residents who witnessed this situation. These residents are Arabs. They have a good impression of the arrival of the Iraqis. Naturally speaking, they are also the most reliable. They saw the black shadow falling into the They landed in the waters of the Caspian Sea more than ten miles away from them. The time and place were more consistent with the speculated situation of the blackbird's fall. Moreover, after the incident, the surrounding sea water was covered with dead fish, all of which were cooked, as if The temperature is very high.

Therefore, after the Iraqi side found the target area, it notified the Soviet Union as soon as possible, and sent people to guard the surrounding waters.

After the Soviet Union got the news, it immediately sent divers to conduct on-site surveys, because the Iraqi navy was very weak. As for the divers of the Iraqi navy, they are still not graduating from the Naval Academy in Basra.

The reconnaissance work is handed over to the Soviet divers. After the exact waters have been surveyed, they will salvage. The Soviet side feels very lucky. If the plane crashes on land, then what they can get is probably only some fragments , and now that they entered the water, what they got was probably a complete plane!

Think of a complete SR-71, the most mysterious reconnaissance plane for the Soviet Union, an aircraft that can fly to three times the speed of sound like the MiG-25, the Soviet aviation engineer, the chief designer of the Mikoyan Design Bureau , I feel itchy.

However, even the Iraqi side only got information about the approximate location of the plane temporarily. They blocked the sea here, and they had to search for the exact location where the plane crashed.

For this deal, the Soviet Union had to use its own strength, but the Soviet Union was already very satisfied.

A brigade of divers from the Soviet Union came here by helicopter, and then rented a civilian boat to start the search.

Because, to the west of the Caspian Sea is Turkey. They did this to avoid alarming the Americans. If the Americans knew that the blackbird had landed here, they would definitely not give up.

What they don't know is that the United States has gone through untold hardships and is also searching for the two missing pilots and the blackbird.

Regardless of whether it is a mechanical failure or not, in short, if the blackbird did not fly back, then there is a possibility of leaking secrets. Although it has been several months, the Americans have not given up and are still looking for it.

Moreover, at this critical moment, the CIA finally obtained useful intelligence. They discovered that Iraqi armed personnel secretly blocked the waters near Tongkabang in the Caspian Sea. They analyzed a large number of satellite images and blackbirds. The flight route at that time also came to this conclusion: until now, they have not found the wreckage of the black bird, and the black bird probably fell in the Caspian Sea!

Therefore, the United States also sent its own divers to search this sea area quietly, and they aimed at the blocked sea area.

On the surface of the sea, the sea is calm and has not been affected by any tensions in the Middle East, but underwater, a silent confrontation is beginning tragically.

In order not to be discovered by the Iraqi personnel, American divers launched from an ordinary civilian boat far away from that sea area. In order to complete the long-distance diving, they carried three oxygen cylinders on their backs, and used large water tanks. Lower jet propulsion system.

This propulsion system is similar to a torpedo in appearance, and uses the same battery as the torpedo, but in order to prevent the user from being scratched at the rear, a ducted water jet propulsion system is used. Outside the coaxially reversing propellers, there are An outsourced protective layer.

This propulsion system, which can greatly reduce the fatigue caused by divers diving for a long time, can be called their underwater taxi.

Divers wear two flashlights above their heads. Although it is still relatively bright underwater, they still need to use this kind of thing to observe more carefully at critical times in order to better spot the target.

As they moved forward, behind them, streams of air bubbles emerged. This was their diving equipment, that is, scuba, exhaling air bubbles.

Scuba, also known as a self-contained underwater breathing device, can be used to breathe freely when people dive into the water.In seawater, pressure is your worst enemy.For every 10 meters in depth, the water pressure increases by 1 atmosphere.If the air pressure you breathe is higher than the general air pressure, the nitrogen in the blood and tissues of the human body will be highly concentrated; if the pressure drops rapidly, the nitrogen in the human organs and blood vessels will have a toxic effect, killing the diver.Scuba diving allows divers to breathe air at the same pressure as surface air in sea water.The diver's own breathing can be controlled by adjusting the air supply on the scuba and the air pressure when it enters the lungs. The diver takes it and puts on a vest with high-pressure air inside to dive to a depth of 50-60 meters. of water.

Scuba, flippers, and diving goggles are the equipment of ordinary divers. For divers who are now entering the water, they also add flashlights, diving watches, underwater jet propulsion systems, and their necessary diving knives.

Underwater is dangerous. In addition to encountering large underwater creatures, they may also encounter other unknown underwater personnel, and there may be battles.

Under water, the weapons commonly used by humans, firearms, cannot be used, because the water has a lot of resistance, and the spinning bullets will not move a few meters in the water, and will be greatly deflected due to the action of the water. Falling into the water below, therefore, the American frogmen, after entering the water, can only use the most common cold weapon of human beings: knives.

Three oxygen cylinders are enough to provide oxygen for several hours. They rushed to the underwater area of ​​the predetermined sea within four to 10 minutes, searched for an hour, and then returned.

The previous group of twenty frogmen had gone back without finding anything, and they hoped their luck was better.

The underwater water jet propulsion system in his hand is working at full strength. Although the noise is loud, it is insignificant compared to the noise made by the submarine. It can be found within ten meters at most, which is within their visually visible area. Not too much risk.

No one will sit on this kind of propulsion system. Although it feels like sitting in a car, it will bring a lot of resistance. They all pull the upper handrails to keep their bodies parallel to this underwater propulsion system. , like flying in the sky, shuttling forward in the water.

Henry looked around vigilantly. He is a special member of the Navy Seals. This time, he participated in the search mission. However, he very much dislikes this underwater propulsion system, and he likes to swim freely. , instead of now, holding those two handles like driving a walking tractor, and this feeling reminded him of the torpedo submarine of the kamikaze in Japan.

Soon to reach the destination, Henry and his teammates raised their vigilance again. They turned on their flashlights and observed the situation on the bottom of the sea, hoping to find the blackbird of the U.S. Air Force that crashed here in advance.

This is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack, you have to have a lot of luck in it if you want to find it.