Babylonian Empire

The steam bomber requires a large amount of steam, produces 115 tons of steam per hour, and has a pressure of 64 atmospheres. It was designed by the Leningrad Special Boiler Design Bureau. The bomber cylinder is produced by the Volgogradsk factory. Two bombers The inner diameter of the cylinder is 500 mm, and the length is 90 meters. The design index is to eject the fighter jet at a speed of 250-280 kilometers per hour in a few seconds.

Since the fresh water used on the aircraft carrier mainly comes from the distillation of seawater, in order to simulate the real situation as much as possible, a pipe leading to the sea was dug here to introduce seawater into the distillation boiler attached to the steam bomber.

Because of Iraq's support, although the aircraft designers and shipyard technicians dismissed the catapults, the experiments were carried out nervously.

"The boiler is pressurized and ready for the experiment." Cherkov, an engineer at the Volgogradsk plant, said that this is their No. 15 experiment.

The previous experiments were very successful. The 180-ton trailer was ejected, and finally achieved a speed of 250 kilometers per hour. This time, they needed to increase the pressure of the steam. At the same time, the trailer increased to 10 tons. A ten-ton trailer can be ejected to the terminal at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour. If this target can be achieved, they can eject a heavy T-[-] aircraft.

The steam boiler started to burn, and the pressure continued to increase. It had reached 64 atmospheres, which was a normal indicator for the design. The previous experiments were all carried out at [-] atmospheres.

"Get ready, the experiment begins!" Cherkov said in the control room next to him.

Following his order, the operator next to him pressed the eject button.

A puff of white smoke immediately enveloped the entire deck, even if it is the most finely processed bomb launcher, due to thermal expansion and cold contraction, steam will overflow. The city will be shrouded in white fog, but because the aircraft carrier is sailing at high speed, the white fog will soon disperse.

Due to the increased pressure this time, the steam overflowed more than usual.

The numbers on the console were also beating rapidly, fifty, one hundred, suddenly, the numbers were beating faster than usual, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred...

"Successful, our catapult has a terminal speed of [-] kilometers per hour!" said a staff member.

"Success!" Cherkov's face darkened for a moment. The energy of the projectile was not that great at all. If he could accelerate a [-]-ton trailer to [-] kilometers per hour in such a short period of time, That is even more advanced than American technology!

Then, there is only one other possibility, it was an accident!

Cherkov came to the scene and was immediately shocked. This experiment had an accident.

The heavy objects tied to the trailer fell off, leaving only the trailer weighing half a ton, which was almost equivalent to the ejection of the piston of the catapult, and the terminal speed could of course reach this astonishing figure. At the same time, the front of the catapult cylinder The entire body was severely damaged, and the piston, which had accelerated to such a high speed, did not stop in time and hit the front.

In this experiment, the damaged equipment reached hundreds of thousands of rubles.

The Soviet Union did not have any technical reserves for catapults. In history, only the German steam catapult carriage system was introduced before World War II, and it had a short experience in the application of catapult technology. However, all these efforts were extinguished by the outbreak of World War II. All of them have been interrupted. So far, only the United States owns the catapults, and there are indeed huge technical barriers among them.

The catapult not only needs to eject the plane quickly, but also needs to stop quickly at the end. There is a lot of knowledge in this, and the Soviet Union is still figuring it out.

However, failure is not terrible, this is also the key for them to find ways to improve, the more problems are exposed now, the more they can find various ways to improve it.

While the missile launcher was still being developed, the construction of the heavy-duty aircraft-carrying cruiser built for Iraq had already begun at the Black Sea Shipyard.

Black Sea Shipyard.

Slipway No. [-] is always the busiest slipway in the Black Sea Shipyard, because, here, the second Varyag has begun to quickly hoist components and weld them into a huge hull.As for the first Brerì Nev, outfitting has already begun.

Therefore, Makarov, the director of the shipyard, needs to work more than ten hours a day. He first boards the outfitted Brerìnev to check the installation of internal equipment, and then goes to No. [-] berth to check the ship. The closing of the main body of the aircraft carrier, and also check the manufacturing status of the components of the third nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

The Black Sea Shipyard is almost at full capacity, and the three aircraft carriers are being equipped at the same time. They are building the most powerful warship for the Navy of the Red Empire.

In addition to these, Makarov has one more job, that is, he still needs to spare a few hours to go to the No. [-] slipway to check the aircraft carrier made for Iraq.

President Qusay of Iraq, for some reason, fell in love with a giant at sea like an aircraft carrier. You know, this is a system. Did he really think that with only one aircraft carrier, he could show off his might?After so many years of exploration, the Soviet Union finally embarked on the right path. The path of Iraq is still far away.

However, Iraq has money, so they can do whatever they want. If Iraq hadn’t offered generous terms, the Soviet Union would not have agreed to build an aircraft carrier for Iraq. For the conditions of the aircraft carrier, Iraq also sent nearly a thousand boatmen to work after being trained by the shipyard.The funds that Iraq paid to the Soviet Union for this aircraft carrier were enough for the subsequent funds for the Soviet Union to build the aircraft carrier itself. This is a win-win situation.

Due to sufficient funds and sufficient manpower, the No. [-] berth is progressing very quickly. After more than a year of construction, the outline of a hull has already appeared.

Chapter 975 Ericsson God Eye

The Black Sea Shipyard is the busiest shipyard in Europe. The Red Navy of the Soviet Union, in the process of rapid expansion, can allow its own aircraft carrier to continue to be built without worrying about whether the above financial allocation is in place. It relied on the capital investment of Iraq, and almost all of Iraq's funds were obtained from the island countries. That is to say, in fact, the island countries helped buy the aircraft carrier and other equipment in Iraq.

The severe economic crisis in the island country has erupted for several months, and the time has already entered 1987. However, their economic situation has not been reversed in the slightest. The bubble in the island country's economy in history has finally been seen by the government themselves. Feeling the pressure, they decided to change the direction of monetary policy.From May 1989 to August 5, the Bank of the Islands raised the central bank discount rate five times, from 1990 percent to 8 percent.At the same time, the Ministry of Finance of the island nation required all financial institutions to control real estate loans, and required all commercial banks to significantly reduce loans. By 1991, the island nation's commercial banks stopped lending to real estate.This sudden shift in monetary policy first burst the bubble in the Japanese stock market.

At that time, the government of the island country had already prepared psychologically in advance, but now, it was the result of completely unknown circumstances. Therefore, this sudden economic storm made the government of the island country also at a loss. They watched the stock price leak thousands of miles , Watching the emergence of the economic crisis, I found myself powerless.

In this crisis, except for the funds withdrawn in advance, which took away the wealth of the islanders, most of the investors, including the locals, all became victims. Only then did people realize that the original Prince Walid, what a wise decision, half a month after he withdrew the capital, the island crisis began.

Although the intelligence department of the island country secretly investigated Prince Walid, no flaws were found. It can only be said that the timing was too coincidental. The United Arab Commercial Bank was indeed facing a huge crisis at that time, and Walid The prince is also a Saudi, so naturally he can't leave him alone.

Although the Saudi Arabians are rich, they have never bothered to make international financial investment. Kuwait is possible. However, at that time, Kuwait's funds were doing business in Europe. Therefore, for the investigation of this crisis, they In the end nothing happened.

Iraq's nation-building has started to make great strides because of this successful economic operation.

At the same time, Iraq also has enough funds to upgrade its military equipment again.

A small Nordic country, Sweden.

Although Sweden is a small country, it is a big country in the research of national defense weapons. Sweden is also following a unique development path.Due to the neutrality of its defense policy, Sweden can export weapons to any country that is not sanctioned by the United Nations.

In other words, unlike the United States, Sweden has to limit the level of technology when exporting. Sweden can export its most advanced technology to countries that can afford it.

And Iraq in the Middle East has been developing its armaments with great ambitions. Therefore, a series of agreements have been reached between the two parties. Now, Iraq is already an important exporter and developer of weapons and equipment to Sweden. The reason for this is that That's because Iraqi personnel are also involved in the development of these weapons. For each export project, Iraq needs to share technology, and, in some areas, the two sides still develop jointly.

A large transport plane is parked in a final assembly plant of Saab.This aircraft uses four turbofan engines suspended on the upper monoplane structure. Under the nose, there is a navigator cabin that has long been eliminated in the West. The flat hatch at the rear and the structure of the T-shaped vertical tail are all in the It shows that it is an Il-76 transport aircraft of Soviet origin, and the logo on the vertical tail also shows that it is from the Iraqi Air Force.

This plane is now a key target of Saab. People are constantly coming in and out, installing various equipment. There are Swedes, Iraqis, and Britons, representing this plane that is being refitted. The product of an international collaboration.

Among them, the engineers of Ericsson are probably the most excited. They are full of high hopes for this aircraft, because the brand-new airborne radar system they developed for this aircraft will be installed and tested for flight soon.

Since the early 80s, Ericsson Microwave Systems has started to develop airborne early warning radar systems, and it is very forward-looking, skipping the early stages of the development of traditional airborne surveillance radars, passive phased array radars and other national early warning aircraft, directly Start with the airborne active phased array radar.

In the mid-80s, Ericsson Microwave Systems successfully developed the FSR-890 "Ericsson Eye" airborne active phased array early-warning radar, and successfully conducted an air test at the end of 1985, at the Paris Air Show in 1986 On the Internet, the PS-890 "Ericsson Eye" radar made its public debut for the first time.

This system has been modified, and the transport plane installed in Iraq has a more famous name, Lixin God's Eye.

And this aircraft is a new generation of pre-warning platform built by Iraq with huge investment. It uses an excellent military transport aircraft, the Il-76 as the platform. This transport aircraft has a large load and a wide internal space, and can accommodate more than ten people. Moreover, compared with the Yun-ten, this aircraft was born for military use, has the ability to take off and land in the field, and has better various performances. In later generations, many countries have selected this aircraft for modification, such as The air jǐng-2000 of the great eastern country.

Now, as the relationship between Iraq and the Soviet Union continues to heat up, Iraq has obtained a total of more than fifty Il-76 transport aircraft from the Soviet Union. Therefore, this transport aircraft can finally be used as a platform for refitting into various professional aircraft. Such as early warning aircraft and electronic warfare aircraft.

At present, the Iraqi army is equipped with a total of two types of early warning aircraft, the hunting fan early warning aircraft, which took root in Iraq, thrived, and finally supported the sky of Iraq. In previous battles, good results have been achieved. However, This kind of early warning machine uses the method of amplifying fighter jet radar, which is technically outdated. In particular, in order to make this kind of early warning machine practical, Iraq reduced the ability to track and process low-speed moving targets, so that the computer can effectively Sufficient power to process data, but also reduced detection of targets such as helicopters, cars, etc., this is the final compromise.Therefore, the performance of this pre-warning aircraft is far from that of the E-3, and in recent years, electronic technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, this type of aircraft has begun to look aging, and it must be upgraded or eliminated.

The other is the E-2 pre-warning aircraft that has already been purchased. Although under the strong opposition of Qusay, the United States upgraded the radar of this pre-warning plane exported to Iraq, and even replaced the radar antenna with a new one. , However, it is still far from the latest model used by the U.S. Navy. Moreover, the platform of this early warning aircraft is small and can only accommodate three operators. The ability is not very outstanding, and this is also the defect of the small pre-warning machine.

However, the E-2 pre-warning machine also has advantages. It uses the situation of a mushroom plate. In the process of the crash, he also mastered a lot of technical reserves.

On the basis of combining the various advantages and disadvantages of the two types of early warning aircraft, plus the experience of the Ericsson Eye project of Ericsson, Iraq has carried out the development of the next generation of early warning aircraft, which is based on the Il-76 platform. In fact, the active phased array radar technology developed by Ericsson is used, together with various electronic equipment such as computer processing systems, to form a new type of early warning machine similar to E-3.

Originally, Ericsson’s Eye was a beam-type radar antenna, like a piece of wood, mounted on the fuselage. In this way, it could only scan the space area of ​​120 degrees to the left and right, and 8 degrees to the front and rear were blind spots. To detect the target, the carrier aircraft needs to make figure-of-eight flights non-stop. This is also the characteristic of the Swedish military industry. They need to base themselves on the national conditions. The large-scale strategic pre-warning aircraft of the United States and the Soviet Union are advanced in performance, but they are too expensive and not suitable for national defense. In Sweden, which has a limited budget, the total number of the Swedish Air Force is less than 1.Therefore, they developed this form of pre-warning aircraft, the cost will be well controlled, and it will be easier to sell it to the air forces of many countries with limited budgets. Moreover, in order to reduce costs, but also because the carrier aircraft is a small passenger aircraft , They did not directly process the signal on the carrier aircraft and guide the air force to fight, but transmitted the signal back to the ground for comprehensive analysis and processing.

However, this form of structure is a bit tasteless for the wealthy Iraq. Therefore, after investing in Iraq, Ericsson's Eye has become Ericsson's God's Eye. What Iraq needs is a large-scale warning The machine, therefore, the balance beam, has also been recreated as a mushroom tray.

As long as you overcome the most basic T/R module manufacturing difficulties of active phased array radar (that is, each launcher and receiver module), data processing algorithms, etc., change the shape of the radar antenna, and load more modules, these are not The problem is that in later generations, the Eastern powers also appeared after the Air Police 2000, and the Yunba Balance Beam appeared later.

Personnel from Ericsson and Iraqi personnel jointly developed the technology.

This newly manufactured butterfly antenna has a radome with a diameter of ten meters, which is one meter longer than the radome of the A-50 pre-warning aircraft. The larger the radar antenna, the higher performance it can have. In later generations, Sold to India's Falcon in color, the diameter of the radome is 11 meters.However, although the diameter of the radar antenna is larger, the active phased array technology is adopted, and the radar antenna does not need to rotate. The same mushroom plate does not need to rotate, which can reduce the impact on the flight performance of the carrier aircraft itself.

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