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Of course, all of this is absolutely not due to Qusay's great and glorious image, but because Bush is now facing a serious domestic situation.

Domestic opposition to Bush is very high. With domestic economic problems constantly emerging, Bush is indifferent. Instead, he has been thinking about how to use the powerful force of the United States.

Can their powerful force solve domestic economic problems?

In the congressional mid-term elections, the Republican Party lost many seats in the Senate. This is a bad sign, because next year, there will be a new presidential election!

At this time, the domestic deficit of the United States was as high as 500 billion US dollars. Originally, Bush wanted to solve it by issuing national debt. There is not enough market to digest it.

Reduce military spending?This is what Bush is least willing to do, because the security of the United States requires strong force to maintain!Bush, who was born in the US Naval Air Corps, once flew a plane to participate in the war against Japan. He will definitely not commit suicide in the US.

Therefore, facing this situation, Bush has only one simple solution: increase taxes!

Although this method is simple and effective, it is definitely not a good thing, because when he was running for the election, he promised that he would never raise taxes.

Now, the unemployment rate in the country has reached [-]%, and these unemployed people have greatly increased the welfare expenditure in the United States.You must know that the United States is a country with very complete welfare. Even if they are unemployed, they can still receive enough funds for living. Therefore, in the United States, there is a special category, that is, the homeless. They never look for a job. Go to zhèngfǔ to receive relief money to live.

However, the United States began to stand on the standpoint of justice and forced Libya to surrender. In the hearts of the American people, Bush's support rate was still very high. However, the United States stationed troops in Israel and bombed Libya. These actions made the United States back Being notorious, even in China, there is a wave of opposition.

Bush won militarily, but he was at a loss politically and economically.

At this time, Bill Clinton of the mínzhǔ party was full of confidence. Since Carter stepped down, the White House has been occupied by the Republican Party for more than ten years. Now, it is time to retake the White House!

Fool, the problem is the economy!This is a sentence that Clinton has already prepared. In such a depressed economy in the United States, the focus of the United States is not to expand abroad, but to deal with domestic economic problems first, so that the people in the country can go to war hungry. President, what choice do you have besides stepping down?

Clinton is full of confidence. At the same time, he also knows that it is a time of great changes in the international situation. He wants to show his demeanor on this stage.Of course, in the election, how to win over those Jewish voters is also a problem that he paid attention to.

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Chapter 81 Baghdad

At the end of 91, the international situation was still changing, and this change was mainly in Eastern Europe. {Please search in Baidu, read the full text}

Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova and other countries successively announced their separation from the Soviet Union. This made people see that the building of the Soviet Union seemed to be crumbling, and the entire alliance seemed to be facing a bad situation.

Gorbachev, however, was still making foolish tricks. At the end of this year, the Soviet Union gave up the one-party system. At the Second World Congress, Ye Litie made an impassioned statement, demanding more power from the central government and more authority. mínzhǔ.

The situation in the entire Soviet Union was in turmoil.

The time spans to 1992.

Ukraine, Black Sea Shipyard.

A huge direct-deck warship with a jumping runway is now radiant. Today is the moment when it has officially completed its outfitting and is about to undergo sea trials!

In the open space of the shipyard, those who participated in the design and construction of it are watching with excitement as the warship begins to emit black smoke, and the boiler is ignited, ready to start.

This warship is the heavy-duty aircraft-carrying destroyer ordered by Iraq, the 11434 modified ship. This is a warship finally obtained by Iraq after nearly eight years of hard work.

At this time, the Varyag next to it is still in the final outfitting stage, and its progress can be so fast, which is inseparable from the huge investment from Iraq.

Normally, the construction of an aircraft carrier takes ten years. Even with the technology of the Black Sea Shipyard, it is a nine-year plan for an aircraft carrier. Every three years, construction of an aircraft carrier starts, one is launched, and one is outfitted.Iraq, on the other hand, provided a large amount of manpower. In terms of hull construction, it caught up with the progress of Varyag. Manufactured at an uninterrupted speed of hours, finally, before all the outfitting work was completed in Varyag, this Iraqi warship was ready for sea trials. After the sea trials, the Iraqi side will name it For Baghdad.

The commander of the Iraqi Navy also arrived at the scene and thanked Makarov, the director of the Black Sea Shipyard.

Since the Iraqis have not yet fully mastered the operation of this large warship, the Baghdad also had the help of a large number of Soviets on the first voyage, all of whom were temporarily transferred from the Kuznetsov.

This warship will be the beginning of the great Iraqi navy!

The Baghdad has a standard displacement of 310 tons and a full load displacement of 72 tons. The flight deck is 4 meters long and 4 meters wide. It uses 210000 steam turbines, [-] shafts, and a total power of [-] horsepower, which can guarantee to drive this warship. , sailing at a speed of up to [-] knots in order to release the carrier aircraft above.

The biggest difference with Kuznetsov is that the size of the island of this aircraft carrier is only half of that of Kuznetsov, and it does not have the huge four-sided phased array radar on the Kuznetsov. In fact, Due to the immaturity of the Soviet Union's electronic processing technology, this huge sky sentinel radar was proved to be immature by Kuznetsov. Therefore, this radar has been removed on the second ship Varyag.And on the Kuznetsov, which is undergoing sea trials, this kind of radar has rarely worked normally, and it is nicknamed the sky pancake. (It is even said that until joining the Russian Navy, this kind of radar was not equipped, and the outside was just an empty shell?)

After the warship is built, it cannot be delivered to the navy immediately, because the warship is a huge system, and it is a very long process to integrate and run-in all the equipment, so it is necessary to conduct sea trials in the Black Sea in advance.

"Mr. Makarov, I am very grateful to your personnel. It is your best cooperation that allowed our warship to leave the dock at such a fast speed for sea trials." Iraqi Navy Commander Nasser said.

"This is what we should do." Makarov said: "I hope our cooperation can continue."

The Black Sea Shipyard is the largest shipyard in the Soviet Union. However, like other departments, they are also faced with continuous arrears of wages from their superiors. Even the construction of the Varyag was originally allocated directly from Iraqi funds, but , Now it is also beginning to be misappropriated by the superiors.

In this case, the enthusiasm of the workers is of course not very high, but it is enough for the Iraqi side.The workers who built ships for Iraq all received an additional allowance from Iraq. Under such circumstances, they naturally worked hard and were very efficient.

After the completion of this aircraft carrier, the next project they can look forward to is the fourth ship of the Glory class, the Ukraine.

With the funds for the aircraft carrier being constantly embezzled, the construction of other warships is even less optimistic. Among them, more than 80.00% of the No. [-] ship has been completed, but now the project has come to a standstill.

It is said that Iraq is currently negotiating with high-level officials to purchase this warship. After that, Iraq will invest funds to complete the warship.This would benefit the shipyard a lot.

In order to hide his eyes and ears, Nasser wore a coat and a hat to cover his face. Although the weather here was good enough, it was still cold and windy in February.

"I also hope that our cooperation can continue. Mr. Makarov, our President Qusay, has always praised you as an excellent engineer." Nasser said.

Hearing this, Makarov smiled and said, "I'm just an old boatman."

In order to launch the Iraqi warship as soon as possible, Makarov's research work has been carried out in Iraq. For example, one of Makarov's granddaughters is receiving a good education in the UK, and after graduation, she will enter Europe. Internship at Sheng Electronics Company.

In Qusay's eyes, technicians are treasures, especially those like Makarov who are more familiar with the shipbuilding industry than themselves, and they are even more rare wealth. Taking him to Iraq to use his spare heat can also help Helped Iraq's shipbuilding industry boom.

Just as they were talking, the time was up. With the sound of the siren, with the help of several tugboats, the huge hull slowly left the dock.

In the captain's room, Abdul was excited. He had practiced on the Kuznetsov for a while, but when he came to the Baghdad, he had a different feeling.

Next to him, the Soviet Navy Colonel looked at the excited Iraqi and felt emotional in his heart.

From here, you can see the entire deck, there, the parking area, the take-off and landing area, and the landing area, all clearly, especially the two catapults on the angled deck, which made them sigh. The performance of an aircraft carrier has surpassed that of their Kuznetsov, and even the Varyag, which is about to be completed, does not have such a powerful performance. Only Order 107, that is, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, can Compared with this one, but that one, the current construction progress is less than 50.00%.

"Four vehicles, one forward." The Soviet Navy Colonel ordered, during the sea trial, he will assume the main command task.

The sea trial of this aircraft carrier has already been clearly seen by the American satellites in the sky. Now, when the Soviet Union needs to rely on debt to survive, they can still continue to build aircraft carriers, which is simply a great irony.

In the middle, though, intelligence analysts noticed something unusual.

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Baghdad, Qusay learned that the Baghdad has started sea trials, which means that the Iraqi navy has taken another big step forward.

Sea trials, if slow, will take two or three years. For example, the Kuznetsov ship has not yet completed the finishing work.However, that is because it is the first ship, and this warship, coupled with Iraq's sufficient funds, is expected to complete sea trials within a year and join the Iraqi Navy.

During this year, following the sea trials, the Iraqi aircraft carrier operators will also be trained in place, especially in the later stage, when carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing training will be carried out.

So far, 27 Su-[-]k carrier-based fighter jets produced by the Soviet Union for Iraq have been delivered, and four of them have been left in Ukraine for subsequent flight tests, while the rest have been stationed at the Qeshm Island Naval Base Well, the Iraqi naval aviation will thoroughly understand the performance of this aircraft, and then complete take-off and landing training in batches.

According to the original agreement, Qusay ordered forty Su-27k carrier-based fighters. In this way, according to the design, the Baghdad can carry a total of 65 fighters, in addition to forty Su-27k fighters, plus five Hawkeye warning Aircraft, there can also be 25 fighters, Iraq ordered 27 Su-[-]utg and [-] Ka-[-] anti-submarine helicopters.

Under normal equipment, forty Su-27k, five Hawkeye early warning aircraft, five Su-25UTG and fifteen Ka-27 anti-submarine helicopters.

This is also determined by the strength of Iraq at this stage. The main combat mission of the aircraft carrier will be to seize the supremacy of the sea. The heavy Su-27k carrier-based fighter will never lose even if it encounters the most powerful Tomcat fighter of the US Navy. ,