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    War is just an extreme means to achieve a certain political goal, and these ultimately serve the economy. What Iraq needs is not to confront the United States, but to seize the time of the past few years and continue to develop itself.  The 1900s was an era of rapid economic development!  When Iraq and the entire Arab world truly become an economic power, it will be easy to solve the Israeli problem.

    Confronting the United States has aroused strong antipathy in the Arab world towards the United States, labeling himself an anti-American and gaining recognition from the Arab world. This is an action that Qusay is unwilling to do.

    Disputes and cooperation coexist. Looking forward, developing their own national economy and improving the industrial level of the entire Arab world are their most urgent problems.

    For Iraq, the most important thing at this stage is to digest and integrate the precious wealth left by the disintegration of the Soviet Union!  Of course, these valuable assets do not refer to money, but to personnel and technology.

    With the alleviation of conflicts and increased cooperation with the United States, Iraq has ushered in another stage of rapid development.  This period was a peak period of rapid development for the United States, and how could it be the same for Iraq?

    For Iraq, this change cannot be described as earth-shaking.

    March 1995, southern Iraq, Arab Space Company.

    Here, a large launcher was newly built. Of course, this launcher was not developed by the Arab Space Company itself. It was transferred from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan. However, before the transfer, this launcher  The launcher has never been used and is like brand new.

    This launcher is specially made. Three such large launchers were originally created, and they were only used to launch one thing, the Buran space shuttle!

    The Buran space shuttle was a swan song for the Soviet space program.  Its birth was extremely glorious, but its ending was just like the shattered Soviet Union, on the verge of being almost abandoned.

    In the history of human exploration of the universe, it is divided into two systems: unmanned spaceflight and manned spaceflight. The manned spaceflight technology is currently only mastered by the United States and Russia. The difference is that the United States is currently using space shuttles, while Russia is using space shuttles.  Spaceships are still being used.

    The two are equivalent to two generations apart. The spacecraft sits on the top of the launch vehicle and is launched into space like a satellite. After re-entering the atmosphere, it is recovered using a parachute like a return satellite. This kind of  method, the payload will not be too large, for example, the Soyuz spacecraft is the working mechanism of the trio.

    The space shuttle is different. The space shuttle is more like an airplane. There is a living space for seven people in the front, and a cargo bay in the middle. It can launch satellites, and it can also use a robotic arm to recover faulty satellites into the cargo bay.  Then, after space maintenance, it is launched in space. This will bring the faulty satellite back to life, and the effect is huge.

    For example, after the Hubble Space Telescope went into space, loopholes in the construction process were discovered, making the expensive space telescope unusable.  The space shuttle used this method to successfully repair the telescope.

    In this regard, Russia lags behind. However, Russia, which inherited the mantle of the Soviet Union, is still at the forefront in terms of space stations. The Mir space station has been roaming in space for more than ten years.  Basically, each working group needs to stay up there for half a year. Several of the astronauts were Soviets before going to space. After coming down, they were surprised to find that they had become Russians.

    ??It is already very good that Russia can launch two spacecrafts every year to maintain the normal operation of the Mir space station. It is simply impossible to invest more money to continue the Soviet-era space shuttle project, which is the Buran project.

    The Soviet Union started the space shuttle project no later than the United States. Since the 1960s, it has had a spiral project to conduct preliminary research on space shuttles.  The MiG-105 demonstrator aircraft developed by the Mikoyan Design Bureau underwent many test flights, with several ups and downs. Finally, in the mid-1970s, after the United States began to develop space shuttles, the Soviet Union had to have what the United States had.  This policy started the development plan of the space shuttle. They gathered some technical staff from the Mikoyan Design Bureau who were engaged in the spiral project, as well as some engineers from the Molnya, Myasishev and other design bureaus to form a new  The Morniya Consortium established was solely responsible for the development of the Buran space shuttle, and the supporting launch vehicle was developed by the Southern Machinery Manufacturing Plant in Ukraine.

    In order to transport this big guy, the Antonov Design Bureau designed the largest transport aircraft on the planet, the An-225 Dream Transport Aircraft, which can fly the Buran on its back.

    With an investment of nearly 10 billion rubles, the final??In 1988, the Buran space shuttle conducted the only unmanned launch test flight and achieved a complete success. After that, it was shelved amid the gradually turbulent politics and deteriorating economy of the Soviet Union.  .

    The Buran space shuttle is very similar in appearance to the American space shuttle. The fuselage is 40 meters long, 16 meters high, 5.6 meters in diameter, 24 meters in wingspan, 4.7 meters in diameter in the payload cargo compartment, 18.3 meters long, and can carry 30  tons of payload into low orbit and can transport back 20 tons of cargo. The crew cabin has a volume of 70 cubic meters and can be used by 2 to 4 astronauts. There are also 6 seats for the crew. In addition to the captain and driver, there are  There are 2 satellite repair personnel, 1 robot operator, and 2 to 3 scientific researchers.  The total take-off weight of the aircraft is 105 tons and the landing weight is 82 tons.

    If such a thing is abandoned and completely disappears from people's sight due to the collapse of the factory building, only the last one is left, which was bought by the Germans as an exhibition. Its fate will make people wonder.  It was a shame, and at the same time, it was something Kusai didn¡¯t want to see.

    Therefore, as Russia is now in urgent need of funds, their space program has stalled. Last year, they could not even build a Soyuz spacecraft. Therefore, the Mir space station had to be temporarily mothballed.  It has become an uninhabited paradise.

    Russia knew that in the past ten years, their space program would probably not receive much funding, so it finally agreed to Iraq's request. Iraq invested US$2 billion and fully took over the project.  The project was also moved back to the Arab Space Company, including the technical personnel of the entire Morniya complex, and was packed back to Iraq.

    Everyone is happy with this transaction.  For Russia, this two billion US dollars is definitely not a small number. It means that many of Yelitie's reform plans can continue.

    Now Ye Litie has been disillusioned with the West. He already knows that if Russia wants to regain its strength, the West cannot rely on it, but only on itself.  It is very cost-effective to sell things that are no longer needed now and can be reused in the future, which have long been outdated, in exchange for the funds they urgently need.

    Iraq purchased a lot of things from Russia, such as Su-27K fighter jets, and ordered a new batch of twenty-four. The Sukhoi Design Bureau has been operating normally. If it were not for foreign military sales, then,  Russia may have gone bankrupt long ago.

    When the Soviet Union was developing this project, it had already invested 10 billion U.S. dollars. Now Iraq has taken it over with only 2 billion U.S. dollars. It is a complete bargain. You know, the value of this to Iraq's aerospace industry is immeasurable.  of.

    "If Iraq wants to reach the sky in one step, it cannot do it on its own. It can only rely on external technology. At this time, taking over the stalled Blizzard project will allow Iraq's aerospace industry to develop by leaps and bounds.

    Now, Iraq's aerospace project can launch low-Earth satellites. This is almost entirely the result of Iraq's independent development. It is a liquid rocket developed on the basis of Dongfeng-3, but its thrust is limited. Its role for Iraq is to allow  They have completed the journey from imitation to self-made, and the experience they have accumulated in this process is a valuable asset that no one can give them.

    At the same time, based on another solid Rsd-10 Pioneer missile, Iraq successfully obtained a solid intercontinental ballistic missile by increasing the number of stages. This gave Iraq its own trump card. For Iraq, its significance  , is even more significant. If it were not for the emergence of this missile, it would not be able to effectively deal with the US nuclear deterrence.

    Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Iraq only had these two systems. However, since then, Iraq's technology has made greater progress. They have welcomed many rocket experts, almost all of whom came from the Southern Machinery Manufacturing Plant in Ukraine.

    The Southern Machinery Manufacturing Plant is a famous rocket base in the Soviet Union. The Cosmos, Hurricane-2, Hurricane-3, Zenit and other launch vehicles were produced by the factory. However, now that the Soviet Union no longer has these rockets,  The manufacturing has also become single digits, or even 0. This has made it difficult for this manufacturing plant to survive and a large number of technical personnel have been lost. Some of these experts have gone to China, and most of them have been poached by Iraq.

    The scale of the Arab Space Company has expanded dramatically. Now, they finally ushered in their most important project, the first flight of the Buran space shuttle!

    This aircraft, if fundamentally speaking, is not entirely produced in Iraq. It is a follow-up of unfinished construction in the Soviet era.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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