Soviet Union 1991

(Second update)

Poor Vietnam was forced to agree to buy 50 "monkey version" t72 tanks under the half-intimidation and half-inducement of Yanayev. This shameless act of forced buying and selling even made Pavlov unable to bear it. He asked Yanayev if it was necessary to be so ruthless? After all, they were once allies and comrades.

Yanayev just answered him calmly, "It's normal. It's not that hooligans don't want to be permanent members. Anyway, China will not buy our ships for the time being. If China really doesn't take action after Vietnam places a large order, the Vietnamese will be grateful to us in return. Do you believe it? The world has changed. It's no longer a time to pay attention to class friendship. Whoever has a hard fist and does whatever it takes can become a world leader."

Compared with the current situation, Britain and the United States have the same interests. Although they occasionally do things that betray each other, in most cases they still present a state of being inseparable. Since the Charles de Gaulle era, France has always been independent of the alliance, showing an attitude of wandering but not fighting. So what the Soviet Union had to do was to unite closely with its southern neighbors to fight against a group of shameless hooligans who were ambitious to evolve them.

When the Soviet Union and China became partners in exchange for greater profits, the interests of some of the surrounding allies could be appropriately sacrificed, such as Vietnam and India. In addition to creating some profits and value for the Soviet Union, these countries did not seem to increase much political bargaining chips.

It was precisely because of this that China was willing to get closer and closer to the Soviet Union, so that it appropriately ignored the warnings of some former allies.

Just after dealing with a bunch of T72 foreign trade version tanks, military officials from the Indian Ministry of Defense also came to Moscow to join in the fun, saying that they wanted to inspect the Soviet Union's armaments in order to purchase weapons suitable for India's national conditions. But Yanayev knew very well that the southern neighbor had signed an order agreement for a batch of Type 85 main battle tanks with Pakistan a few weeks ago, which immediately stimulated India's nerves, so they attempted to purchase new tanks from the Soviet Union to meet the needs of their own army armored forces.

For countries like India where people are stupid and have a lot of money, Yanayev has always been open to all comers. However, this kind of thing can only be handled by the Ministry of Defense. As a national leader, he is not suitable to participate in such military trade occasions. But Yanayev reminded Defense Minister Yazov to remember the Ustinov rule. Being too kind to India's purchase price is cruel to our military industry.

Yazov nodded in understanding. At least now the Soviet military leaders have reached a consensus, that is, as long as India comes to buy tanks, they will definitely cut off a large piece of meat from him and make him grateful to them.

The Indian official delegation includes Defense Minister Kapur, Deputy Chief of Staff Prakash, and some accompanying Defense Ministry officials. After the Soviet Union sold them a batch of Tunguska air defense systems with conscientious prices and quality last year, India began to be obsessed with Soviet armaments after tasting the sweetness, so this time they plan to place a larger order, give priority to upgrading the army's equipment, and strive to fully crush the armored divisions on the opposite side of Pakistan this year.

This arms race was naturally strongly welcomed by the Soviet Union. Moreover, the Soviet Union did not intend to give India the export version this time, but provided two T72 options, the export version and the original version.

However, when the Indian official delegation saw the price difference of each tank, their hearts could not bear it. They questioned the Soviet officials with the price list, "What? The price of the original version of the T72 and the export version is more than four times different. What's going on?"

Defense Minister Yazov kindly explained to them, "Look, there are naturally differences between the original T72 and the export version of the T72. Although they are both steel fiberglass steel three-layer composite armor, you can see that the main difference is the turret. The export version uses a cast steel turret instead of the original version of the composite armor turret. The difference between the self-use version and the export version is mainly the difference in software. Many of the export versions have been simplified, and there are dozens of simplifications. For example, the degree of automation of the fire control system, three-defense equipment, fire extinguishing system, etc."

"You get what you pay for, so do you still think the price of the original version is too high?" Yazov refuted the other party speechless. Finally, Chief of Staff Prakash had to come out to help.

"Well, what Zhang Yazov of the Soviet Ministry of Defense said was just the unit price. We will buy in bulk at that time, so the price will still be negotiated." Prakash's words dispelled the officials' doubts.

"Yes, if we buy in bulk, we will indeed reduce the price a lot. For example, the original offer for the Mi-17 transport helicopter sold to China was 5 million US dollars, but the final transaction price was only about 2 million US dollars. Of course, the quantity. This is a military secret and cannot be leaked casually. Please understand the delegation." Yazov said apologetically.

Hearing the defense minister's assurance, the delegations were relieved. Next, they visited the original version of the T72 tank model. Compared with the foreign trade version with more than a dozen items cut, the original version is indeed much better than other export models. In addition to the T72 tank, there are BMP-3 armored vehicles, Shilka self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and SAM-11 Beech air defense missiles.

The Indian delegation's praise was seen by Yazov, especially after seeing the improved version of the beech, they asked directly about the price.

"Everything is easy to talk about. We will give our respected Indian friends the biggest discount, really." Yazov said with a malicious smile. If you can come and talk to us about the price at the next wine table, please come and talk about the price.

After several rounds of visits, the Indian delegation determined the weapons to be purchased. Because the Soviet side rejected their request to visit the MiG-29 because the MiG fighter was not suitable for export recently. However, the Indian side was very satisfied. After all, it was unheard of in the history of arms sales to buy original Soviet weapons at a conscientious price. This also made the newly appointed Deputy Chief of Staff Prakash secretly happy.

It's just that the stupid and kind-hearted Ah San didn't expect that the Soviet Union had designed a trap long ago. The so-called cheap arms sales? When you can afford an order for 500 original T72s in one go, let's talk about the original arms sales. Yazov stood quietly aside, looking at the group of smug Indians, thinking secretly in his heart.

The Russians are terrifying not only on the battlefield, but also on the dining table and the wine table. They are also a group of rough and violent Soviet giant bears. (To be continued.)