Dominate South Asia

Originally, Iraq had ordered the JF-17 fighter jet developed by Pakistan. As the main fighter jet in the future, this fighter jet has advanced electronic equipment and can effectively fight against other third-generation aircraft. Unfortunately, the current incident occurred before any of the fighter jets were delivered. Pakistan firmly stood on the side of Kuwait. Even the Emir of Kuwait was rescued by Pakistan.

In this case, Pakistan shamelessly terminated the agreement, and the deposit paid by Iraq before was also wasted. Now Iraq's main fighter jet is still a second-generation fighter jet!

Originally, after inspecting the Soviet fighter jets, Iraq was quite interested in the spacious Su-27 and even signed an order for 40 aircraft. However, the Su-27 performed very poorly in the air over Afghanistan. After inspecting Pakistan and deciding to purchase Pakistan's JF-17, Iraq lost interest in this Soviet product with backward avionics and large and thick structure. It canceled the order and ordered Pakistan's JF-17 instead.

The Iraqi Air Force has a good chance of winning against Kuwait, but Iraq really cannot confront multinational forces, especially American fighters.

When it comes to this issue, Saddam is no longer as confident as before, and he is also having a headache.

"Mr. President, I have contacted an international arms dealer. He has a way to buy MiG-29 fighters from the Soviet Union. This is also a good third-generation aircraft." Seeing that Saddam was also worried about this, Ibrahim continued.

MiG-29? MiG-29, like Su-27, is a third-generation aircraft developed by the Soviet Union! International arms dealers, can they also bring fighters like MiG-29?

Saddam was immediately very interested and said, "Where is that man? Bring him here! I want to talk to him in person."

Two days later, a Soviet man secretly came to Baghdad and met the de facto ruler of Iraq in Saddam's mansion.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, President Saddam." The visitor said, "You can just call me Xiao."

"Do you have a way to get the Soviet MiG-29 fighter jets?" Saddam asked. Although the Soviet Union was once an ally of Iraq, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Soviet Union actually changed its face. When the United States proposed to organize a joint army to drive out the Iraqi army at the United Nations, the Soviets actually abstained from voting. As a result, the United States' proposal was confirmed by the United Nations. With the authorization of the United Nations, the United States has mastered international public opinion.

"Yes." The visitor said, "I have a wide network of contacts in the Soviet Union. I can get all kinds of weapons, except nuclear weapons. I can get about 40 MiG-29 fighter jets."

"Is it second-hand goods in service in the army?" Saddam asked.

The visitor shook his head: "No, it is a fighter jet that has just been produced by Mikoyan Company and has not yet been delivered to the troops."

"Then how can you get it?" Saddam was puzzled.

"Mr. President, you may not be very clear about the situation in the Soviet Union. Now, the Soviet Union is undergoing in-depth reforms, and the country's investment is tilted towards economic construction. Many defense industry units cannot get enough funds. For their own development, they have to sell their products, just like China, and have begun to take a similar market path. The same is true for the Mikoyan Design Bureau. Their factory is still manufacturing fighters according to the original plan, but the military expenditure is limited, and the military cannot equip these fighters to the troops, so they are piled up in the Mikoyan factory. As for me, I know a lot of people and can buy these fighters. They are all brand new MiG-29s. Except for the test flight after they are manufactured, they have not been moved again."

Forty brand new MiG-29s! Saddam was tempted: "How much is one?"

"Fifty million rubles, because the ruble has shrunk, so. Converted to US dollars, 40 million US dollars per plane will do." The other party said.

40 million US dollars! This is not cheap! If it is not for emergency at this time. Iraq would never agree to this price, but...

"What about the training of our pilots?" Saddam asked: "With only fighter planes and no pilots, the planes still cannot play their strength."

"Don't worry, Mr. President, if you buy this batch of fighter planes, the pilot training will be carried out simultaneously. You can send a few top pilots to go to the Soviet Union with me for training. At the same time, if you are willing to pay a high price, I can also poach experienced pilots from the Soviet Air Force and Air Defense Force, join the Iraqi Air Force as mercenaries, and fly MiG-29 fighter planes into the air to fight."

Poaching Soviet pilots! This is of course better! Saddam immediately nodded in agreement: "Okay, this is the best! We in Iraq hope that this agreement can be reached as soon as possible."

"If so, please pay me the deposit, and I will take the deposit to Mikoyan to pick up the goods." The man said calmly, just like selling cabbage.

"Are you interested in other Soviet goods?" the visitor continued, "S300 missiles, T80U main battle tanks, SAM-18 anti-aircraft missiles, and Scud missiles."

Everything touched Saddam's heart, and Saddam nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, we want them all!"

S300 is the most famous air defense missile system in the Soviet Union! With this system, the airspace security of important cities such as Baghdad can be protected, while the T-80 main battle tank is the main battle tank equipped by the Soviet Union itself and will never be exported! And the Scud missile, the more the better!

With a huge contract worth billions of dollars, the arms dealer Xiao left Baghdad and started his biggest arms trafficking operation.

Xiao is Shostakovich, a Soviet special forces soldier who was captured in the Afghan war in his early years and finally willing to be a truck driver and live a happy life. Later, he was spotted by Muhammad and became an arms dealer, specializing in selling Soviet arms. His business is getting bigger and bigger.

The export of advanced fighters such as the MiG-29 is not actually something that the Mikoyan Design Bureau can decide. After Shostakovich's activities, the Soviet high-level officials have tacitly agreed that they cannot openly support Iraq and secretly export some weapons and make a fortune at the same time. This is completely possible.

Because of Muhammad's crossing, the Afghan war was far more brutal than in history, which directly led to the Soviet army investing more forces in Afghanistan. The failure of the confrontation with Muhammad also indirectly led to Marshal Akhromyev and other Soviet veterans being purged by Gorbachev, while Marshal Olgakov, the pioneer of the reformists and the leader of the new military thought who was originally excluded and suppressed, was favored by Gorbachev and promoted to Minister of Defense. The reforms in the Soviet army that were originally stopped due to the resistance of the veterans were carried out unswervingly by Marshal Olgakov with the support of Gorbachev.

The Soviet Union lacked a lot of funds in the process of military transformation and economic reform, so a large amount of surplus military equipment was sold through open or illegal channels to obtain the funds urgently needed by the Soviet Union. And this policy was also tacitly approved by Gorbachev and Olgakov. Although it was not easy for Pakistanis to come forward, Shostakovich, a former member of the Soviet Army, took advantage of his racial advantages and his previous relationships in the army, and smuggled all kinds of Soviet arms with money and beauties.

Now, the outbreak of the Gulf War was indeed beyond the Soviet Union's expectations. In addition to hating Saddam's unauthorized actions without warning and disobedience, the Soviet high-level officials were even more angry at the US imperialists for gathering multinational forces in the name of justice to teach their own little brother a lesson. Although they could not openly support Iraq in the United Nations, now through Shostakovich's matchmaking, delivering a large number of advanced Soviet military equipment to Saddam might be an effective way to maintain the Soviet Union's influence in the Middle East and help it fight against the US imperialists.

The Soviets would certainly see the impact of the US war in the Middle East, which the Soviet Union could not tolerate!

Shostakovich hummed an unknown tune, and after leaving Iraq, he went to Syria. This arms smuggling was very special and had to be transferred through Syria.

Is it shameless to do this? Now that they are going to intervene militarily in Iraq, Muhammad is secretly helping Iraq increase its military strength!

After receiving the news from Xiao, Muhammad touched his nose. This was necessary, and the time had to be grasped. These new arms had to be transported after the Iraqis were driven out of Kuwait. In other words, this batch of arms needed to be used in the confrontation with the Americans. At that time, Muhammad only had to clap his hands and shout "Come on, both sides!"

We had to start preparing now. Everything was for that moment!

While Iraq was secretly buying arms, a delegation from Pakistan came to Grumman.

At this time, Grumman was in a state of panic. Everyone was very grateful for the arrival of the Pakistani delegation. Pakistan had solved a big burden for Grumman!

Grumman's troubles all started with the Iran-Contra affair.

Iran, a rogue country, held American hostages. In order to solve this problem, the Reagan administration at the time had to reach an agreement with Iran, transporting weapons and accessories to Iran and exchanging hostages.

The incident was originally very secretive, but for some reason, it was suddenly exposed last year.

Reagan has left office, so he has nothing to do with it. However, the main parts shipped to Iran at that time were parts for Tomcat fighters, and Grumman, the manufacturer of Tomcat fighters, became the scapegoat thrown out by the government and the military. (To be continued ~^~)