Soviet Union 1991

(First update)

A large cruise ship named Aquamarine departed from Murmansk and headed eastward to bypass the Bering Strait. The cruise ship was loaded with the latest weapons parts sold by the Soviet Union to India, including some Shilka self-propelled artillery chassis and beech mountings. However, it was strange that this cruise ship, which could be fully loaded with cargo, was only half loaded with cargo and sailed to its final destination, Mumbai, India.

This cruise ship belongs to the Soviet Ocean Group. Before the captain sailed the ship to India, he received a strange order from his superiors, that is, he must load a batch of goods at the port of Oriental Pearl and then transport them to India. However, after receiving this order, the captain hesitated a little, because the things on it were Soviet arms, and the customs department of that country might not be willing to let the ship dock. The captain's superior told him to obey orders, everything had been arranged properly, and there would be no mistakes. He just had to follow the orders from above.

In fact, before the cruise ship sailed to India, the Soviet Ministry of Defense personally called China North Company and asked them if they could process and manufacture a batch of 8,000 Kalashnikov rifles during this period. Faced with the sudden order, the leaders of the North Company naturally agreed and promised to deliver all the rifles before the deadline.

This is also one of the Soviet Union's means. When the military found that 8,000 Kalashnikov rifles produced by the Izhevsk Arsenal were delivered to India, the profit obtained was almost nothing after deducting the manufacturing and transportation costs. If 8,000 cheap Type 5-6 submachine guns were ordered from China's North Company and shipped to India, then excluding the funds for purchasing firearms, the Soviet Union would earn more than half of the US dollars than before. And with the IQ of Indians, it is difficult for them to distinguish which are the real AKM rifles produced in Izhevsk and which are the Type 5-6 submachine guns produced in China.

Even if the Indians came to question, the Soviet side could confidently say that this was the Kalashnikov rifle they jointly produced with China, which was only authorized to China. It was a genuine Chinese product, oh no. A Soviet-made Kalashnikov.

After the ship docked at the shore of the Oriental Pearl, the army immediately rushed to the scene and blocked and alerted the area nearby. After all, there were 8,000 Type 5-6 submachine guns here. Then the boxes of Type 5-6 submachine guns escorted by military vehicles were loaded onto the tanker's container, placed on the cruise ship by a crane and fixed with cables. These Type 5-6 submachine guns will be transported to Mumbai. Then they will be delivered to the Indian military.

Then the cruise ship went south all the way, passed the Strait of Malacca, and finally reached the Indian Ocean and docked at the port of Mumbai. The Indian military sent people to unload the first batch of munitions from the ship and load them onto trucks. They were busy from morning to the next morning. Only then did they finish moving all the weapons.

Soon the second payment for arms was transferred to the designated account. The Soviet Union used a little trick to maximize the benefits of India's order. If it were not for the technical secrets, the Soviet military really wanted to hand over all the weapons of the foreign trade version to China, where the raw materials were cheap, for production, and then the Soviet Union would sell them to the world to earn higher profits.

In this way, China and the Soviet Union maintained a high degree of consistency in cheating Indians. The Indians who were sold and counted the money happily later called the Chinese company to ask about after-sales service. They said that their guns had some damages, whether they were broken, and whether they could be exchanged. Of course, they were rejected by the Chinese side, because it was the Soviets who signed the sales contract with them, not these Indians.

Then India went to question the Soviet Union why it could not guarantee after-sales service. The Soviets replied that the replacement of damaged parts was provided by the Soviet Union, that is, your gun was bought by China, but if you want to buy replacement parts, you still have to buy them from the Soviet Union.

In this way, the Indians spent a lot of money and did not buy the legendary solid and durable Maozi goods. Instead, they were severely cheated of a large sum of money by the cheap Type 56 submachine gun.

As a professional cheater of India, the Soviet Union also did a lot of work on product quality. Because of the latitude of the Soviet Union, it had no chance to experience the terrible feeling of India's temperature of more than 50 degrees, so the export version of the T72 tank fire control system and thermal imaging system could not adapt to the high temperature of more than 50 degrees. The tanks that had just been shipped to India needed to be returned to the factory for repair soon. The original version of the T72 was in a better situation. However, it was almost impossible to adapt to high-intensity combat training, and it lasted a little longer than the original T72, but it was still difficult to escape the fate of returning to the factory for repair.

In response, India protested to the Soviet Union, protesting that it had spent a lot of money to buy a defective product. The Soviet side did not hesitate to refute them that it was because of the climate problem. We had already informed you of the heat resistance of the tank before selling arms. It's just that you don't want to listen.

"There is absolutely no problem with our tanks. Have you ever seen such problems with weapons produced in the Soviet Union? It's just that they are not adapted to the local conditions there. But you can't blame my weapons for being of poor quality for this reason. These are two completely different things! If you really want to trace it, it was your Ministry of Defense inspection team that forgot to take this into consideration during the visit." Yazov, on behalf of the Soviet weapons factory, refuted India's fallacies.

Faced with the Soviets' righteous protest, the Soviets suddenly became speechless. Because they thought it was really reasonable, they did not pursue the Soviets' responsibility.

But the reality was in front of them and had to be solved. The Soviet Union's proposal was to install a cooling system, so that the internal temperature of the tank could always be maintained below 40 degrees, and the tank could also cope with high temperatures normally. However, it can be installed, but the price of this cooling system still needs to be paid by you Indians.

In this way, each cooling system worth 150,000 was paid by the Indian military, and the Soviet Union was willing to equip them with these control systems for free. In addition, the Soviet Union also proposed a special customized version of the foreign trade tank. If India has special requirements in terms of temperature, we can customize it according to the customer's needs. As long as the money is in place, everything will be fine.

Although the problem was finally properly solved, the Indian military could not be happy. They always felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't seem to tell... (To be continued.)