USSR 1991

"Then how much does it cost?" Prakash gritted his teeth and asked the other party to directly make a price, so how long will it take for the negotiation to end.

"Well, there are two solutions now. Either you modify the number of pieces on the list, and when you reach the quantity that can be discounted for you, you will naturally be discounted, but at least you have to buy two hundred original T72s. Otherwise, how embarrassing Give you a discount."

"Two hundred tanks?" Prakash's heart was bleeding. This approach is tantamount to gouging flesh from the Indian Army. Moreover, the budget approved by the Ministry of Defense this time is only 5.8 million yuan, and two hundred tanks will be purchased. That means you don't have to buy anything else.

"Look, you really have no airs at all like those on the wine table." Yazov taunted, and the image of the Indian delegation last night drunk and ugly was also used by him as a threat to the opponent's psychology. arms.

Sure enough, Prakash blushed when he heard this sentence. After Prakash sobered up, his subordinates told him that he was holding a chair and yelling in the room last night. Everyone on the floor heard it. His roar, presumably the Soviet Union also learned of the ugliness of this ally.

"The second plan is actually very simple. The price you quoted only includes the weapon itself, but does not include the ammunition logistics. As long as you buy our ammunition, you can still give you discounts and discounts." Valenico This looks like an idea for the Indians, but it actually wants to sell more arms, said the husband.

"No, thank you, I don't think we need too many ammunition imported from Russia, and we can manufacture it ourselves." Kapoor, who saw the Soviet Union's careful thinking, declined Varennikov's proposal.

But the other party was not worried about being rejected at all. He gently tilted his index finger on the table, and directly pointed out the gap between India's current production status and the Soviet Union, "Well, I want to ask Minister Kapoor a few questions, can you produce T72 Can you produce the required shells? Can you produce the easily damaged parts of the beech anti-aircraft missile bracket? Can you produce the shells needed for the BMP-3 infantry tank? Even if you can produce them, can you guarantee that they will not explode? If you think India's local industry has reached such a level that I wouldn't mind selling it at the price you offer."

At the end, he also said a critique, "It's a pity, even the Americans dare not say that. Where does India's industrial level come from? Confidence, can you think that you can produce military industrial products with a quality comparable to that of the Soviet Union?"

Varennikov's words hit Kapoor's pain point. It is true that even if India can produce these weapon parts, the industrial gap in quality and tolerance cannot be smoothed out in a short while.Rather than developing weapons independently, it is really cheaper to buy them from abroad.

"Okay, let's just buy ammunition." Kapoor said bitterly.At the negotiating table, it is not a time to be emotional. Although the attitude of the Soviets is aggressive, everything they say is a fact that Kapoor has to admit.

"That's good, this is the attitude of friends of the Soviet people." Varennikov and Yazov looked at each other and smiled, and happily said a series of quotations. Only the Indian delegation listened to the price and The heart is bleeding.Sure enough, the Soviets are a bunch of guys who are not easy to provoke.

In the end, the Indians and the Soviets reached this agreement at a price of 4.8 million yuan, but the rare polar bear still had a conscience. He promised that as long as the parts of those weapons that appeared in the terms were broken, the Soviet Union was willing to Free replacement, and a handling fee of [-]% of the material price will be charged later.This also made the Indian delegation's heart slide into the abyss and once again rose to heaven like a roller coaster.

Both parties signed their names on the contract, and after the contract was exchanged, the transaction, which was so exciting but made the Indian delegation feel inexplicably disappointed, ended like this.Although it did not exceed the budget given by the Ministry of Defense in the end, the Indian delegation always felt that there was a feeling of being tricked by the Russians.

After the meeting, the Soviet Union proposed to invite the delegation of the Indian Ministry of Defense to have a drink again to celebrate the victory of the transaction, but this time the Indians refused faster than anyone else, and quickly said that they needed to go back to the country to deal with government affairs, so they did not intend to Stay a little longer in the USSR.

In fact, the Indian delegation's calf trembled when they heard that they were drinking with the Soviet military. They had never seen the state of the Russians on the wine table before, and they no longer dared to underestimate this terrible vodka nation.Anyway, since then they have learned a truth.

Stay away from the wine table, stay away from the vodka, stay away from the Russians.

1Chapter 17 Teaming up to pit India

A large cruise ship named Sea Blue set off from Murmansk and headed east all the way around the Bering Strait.This cruise ship is loaded with the latest weapon parts sold by the Soviet Union to India, including some Shilka River self-propelled artillery sites, beech fixed frames, but it is strange that this cruise ship, which can clearly load and unload cargo, only loads Half of the cargo was loaded and sailed to the final destination, Mumbai, India.

This cruise ship belonged to the Soviet Ocean Group. Before sailing the ship to India, the captain received a strange order from his superiors, that is, he had to load a batch of cargo at the port of the Oriental Pearl Tower and ship it to India together.But after receiving this order, the captain hesitated a little, because the things on it were Soviet munitions, and it might not be that the customs department of that country was willing to let the ship dock.The captain's superiors told him to obey the orders, everything has been arranged properly, there will be no mistakes, and he just needs to follow the orders from above.

In fact, before the cruise ship was sailed to India, the Soviet Ministry of Defense personally called the China North Company to ask if they could process and add a batch of [-] Kalashnikov rifles during this period of time. The leader of the Northern Company naturally readily agreed to the sudden order, and promised to hand over all the rifles before the deadline.

This is also one of the means of the Soviet Union. When the military found out that [-] Kalashnikov rifles were produced from the Izhevsk Arsenal and delivered to India, the profits obtained after throwing away those manufacturing and transportation costs were almost depleted. .And if [-] cheap Type [-] submachine guns are ordered from China's Northern Company to be shipped to India, then the Soviet Union will earn more than half of the US dollars compared to before, excluding the funds for purchasing firearms.And with the IQ of the Indians, it is also difficult for them to distinguish which are the real AKM rifles produced in Izhevsk and which are the Type [-] submachine guns produced in China.

Even if the Indians come to question, the Soviet Union can plausibly say that this is the Kalashnikov rifle jointly produced by them and China. husband.

After the ship docked at the shore of the Oriental Pearl Tower, the army immediately rushed to the scene and cordoned off the surrounding area.After all, there are [-] Type [-] and [-] submachine guns here.Then one box after another of the Type [-] submachine guns escorted by the military vehicle was loaded into the container of the tanker, placed on the cruise ship through a jack and fixed with cables.These five or six types will be shipped to Mumbai and then delivered to the Indian military.

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

Soon the second tranche of arms money was transferred to the designated account. The Soviet Union made a small plan to maximize the benefits of India's orders. If it wasn't for the technical secrets, the Soviet military really wanted to sell the foreign trade version All weapons are handed over to China, which has cheap raw materials, for production, and then the Soviet Union sells them to the world in order to earn higher profits.

In this way, China and the Soviet Union maintained a high degree of consistency in pitting Indians.The Indian who was sold and happily counted the money later called the Chinese company to inquire about the after-sales service, saying that his gun had some damage, whether it was broken, and whether it could be exchanged.Of course, it was flatly rejected by the Chinese side, because it was the Soviets who signed the sales contract with them, not them Indians.

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

In this way, the Indians spent a lot of money, and did not buy the legendary solid and durable woolen goods. Instead, they were pitted a large sum of money by the cheap Type [-] or [-] submachine guns.

The Soviet Union, which was a professional trap in India, also made a lot of moves in terms of product quality, because the dimensional relationship of the Soviet Union had no chance to experience the terrible feeling of India's temperature as high as 50 degrees, so the export version of the T72 tank fire control system and thermal imaging The system cannot 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 maintenance. The original version of the T72 was in better condition, but it was almost impossible to adapt to high-intensity combat training. It persisted for a longer period of time than the original T72, and it was still difficult to escape in the end. The fate of returning to the factory for repair.

In this regard, India protested to the Soviet Union, protesting that what it bought at a high price was actually a defective product.The Soviet Union did not hesitate to refute that it was because of the climate problem. Before we sold the arms, we had informed you of the heat resistance of the tanks, but you were unwilling to listen.

"Our tanks are absolutely fine. Have you ever seen such a situation with weapons produced in the Soviet Union? It's just that your side is not acclimatized. But you can't blame my weapons for not being of good quality for this reason. This is completely They are two different things! If you really want to pursue it, it is because your Ministry of National Defense inspection team forgot to take this into consideration during the visit." Yazov refuted India's heresy on behalf of the Soviet weapons factory.

Facing the righteous protests of the Soviets, the Soviet Union suddenly became speechless.Because they really made sense after thinking about it carefully, they didn't hold the Soviet Union accountable.

But the reality is in front of us and we have to solve it, and the solution proposed by the Soviet Union is to install a cooling system, so that the internal temperature of the tank can always be maintained below [-] degrees, and the tank can also cope with high temperatures normally.But the installation is OK, but the price of this cooling system needs to be paid by you Indians.

In this way, each set of cooling systems worth 15 was paid by the Indian military, and the Soviet Union was willing to help them equip them with these control systems for free.Moreover, the Soviet Union also proposed a special customized version of foreign trade tanks. If India has special requirements in terms of temperature, we can customize it according to the needs of customers. As long as the money is in place, everything is easy to talk about.

Although the problem was properly resolved in the end, the Indian military couldn't be happier. It always felt that something was wrong, but it seemed that it couldn't be explained...

Chapter 148 The Evil Conspiracy

"All of you here are the elites of the Republic. Some of them can even be said to be the top intelligence analysts in the entire world, and the ones who decide the world's political situation, but why didn't they see through the conspiracy set up by the Soviets? And they are still a No clever conspiracy? Just because of the false information deliberately provided by the Soviets?"

Bush asked word by word, each word was pronounced with extra emphasis.President Bush's question even made intelligence master Dick Cheney feel a little embarrassed, not to mention the president's political adviser Brent and White House Chief of Staff Skinner who had already been silent.

Because the Soviets used a small tactical nuclear weapon to pretend to be a red mercury nuclear bomb, which deceived almost everyone in the United States, including a group of intelligence analysts and high-level CIA officials. There are already supernuclear weapons powerful enough to collapse the US economy.

"There is also the so-called God's Stick project, which was just something that President Yanayev said casually. The rocket launched from Baikonur observed in May last year was just an experimental reconnaissance satellite. It's not the so-called stick of God. But our intelligence officials firmly believe that this is an experimental version of the stick of God. As if they are the Soviets who participated in the development plan, oh no, it should be said that it is better than the Soviet Union One has to be proficient.”

Bush wantonly ridiculed everyone sitting there, and at the end, he quietly added a sentence, "Perhaps I should clean up the idiots of the CIA and lay off all the agents who provided false information. In this way, they will have Enough awareness to know what to do and what not to do. Trying to deceive a president, for example, is something no one should think about."

Everyone present was silent, and no one dared to answer when the president was furious.

Bush is angry enough now, if it weren't for the intelligence provided by NATO allies that proved that the Soviet Union did not have the so-called red mercury and the rod of God that was ready for experiment, Bush would still be kept in the dark. Think about the past few months And it's ridiculous to set the security level to the highest level.This Qiu Bush remembered, he tried every means to trick Yanayev once.

"My president, you can't deny the entire intelligence grassroots just because of a single misjudgment of intelligence. In fact, our intelligence collection work on the Soviet Union has been very successful in recent years. If the management is changed at this critical moment, perhaps There will be some... turmoil." Skinner said very cryptically, in fact, what he meant was that all the top CIA executives should not be fired because of the president's momentary emotional judgment.

"Of course I understand this, Chief of Staff Skinner." Bush said slowly, with a dejected expression on his face, "Recently, our confrontations with the Soviet Union ended in failure, so we cannot lose to them this time. .Whether it is a ruthless rebuttal in terms of tactics or strategy."

"In terms of recent issues, it's best to make a fuss about Chechnya." Intelligence guru Dick Cheney pushed his glasses with his middle finger, and opened the report on the desktop. "Recently, someone actively contacted the Caucasus region." The agents of the CIA, I hope the CIA can provide them with another batch of arms aid, who do you think is that person?"

"Chechens? The escaped Maskhadov?" Bush's first thought was this guy.

"It wasn't Maskhadov, but Basayev who was not killed in the bombing in Dagestan." Dick Cheney said excitedly, "He was lucky to escape that air strike. According to intelligence analysis, Basayev is trying to launch another attack in the Soviet Union in order to achieve the goal of releasing Dudayev who was imprisoned by the Soviet authorities. So we can make a fuss about this.”

"Well, can we get in touch with him?" Bush asked cautiously.

"Of course." Dick Cheney nodded, "And we can do it more covertly, using a third party, that is, our agent in Chechnya to complete the arms deal. As for the source of the arms, we can first Africa, and then after a few rounds in Europe, it was sent to the Chechens, so that even if the KGB agents traced it, they could only find our European and African agents in the end.”

Dick Cheney is very cautious about the secretive tricks behind this.Although what he told President Bush lightly, the actual operation is extremely cumbersome and complicated, so the president only needs to ensure that there are no mistakes in the strategy. As for the tactical details, it should be left to the agents of the CIA. Do.

"Did Basayev make a list of weapons?" Bush asked. From the list provided by Chechnya, we can see their current actual military strength.

"Of course there are, from revolvers to Kalashnikov rifles, from RPG rocket launchers to anti-personnel landmines and fragmentation grenades, the situation of these Chechens who escaped death is very bleak." Dick Cheney said. "However, although the situation in Chechnya has stabilized for the time being, the terrorists active in the mountains will always become a hidden danger to the Soviet Union. We will help them while they are still a little climate, and they will definitely be uprooted by the Soviets in the future."

"You mean they will be annihilated by the Soviet army?" Bush asked curiously.

"It's not the Soviet army, it's the ruthless agents of the KGB." Dick Cheney put a bunch of bloody photos in front of Bush, and Bush found that Dick Cheney had divided these photos into two parts. One is not bad, the other is extremely bloody.

"The one on the left is a Russian prisoner captured by the Chechens. They separated his head and bled him until the blood dried up before hanging him up and dropping him on a tree for display." Dick Cheney eloquently Said to Bush.

"The one on the right is the Chechen terrorists captured by the KGB agents. These people have a much more tragic end than the Russian prisoners. They cut the stomachs of these poor people and slowly let the blood out. They even cut their tongues, eyes, The nose and ears were slowly cut off, and the fingers were sawed off one by one, and then sent to the Chechen rebels, telling them that this is the fate of betraying the Soviet Union."

"It is even more cruel to kidnap these Wahhabi family members and torture those poor women and children in front of them until the other party tells the information. After the other party tells the information, immediately implement the most terrible punishment, Wrap strips of cloth soaked in lard on the bodies of these Chechens, then hang them with chains and burn them alive. And after they were burned, they poured pig feces into the burial graves before burying them. KGB Tell the religious extremists in the Caucasus who are trying to attack civilians in this cruel way that this is what you will do when you betray your motherland."

"Besides humiliation, the KGB's practice represents hellfire and uncleanness in the religious sense. This is also the reason why the Khawabi faction regards the Soviet KGB as a devil. There is such a saying in Chechnya that they would rather face themselves Take a shot in the head first, and don't be thrown into the courtroom by KGB agents, that is the real life is worse than death."