(1st Update)

A large cruise ship called the Sea Blue departed from Murmansk and headed east to bypass the Bering Strait. The ship was loaded with the latest weapons parts sold by the Soviet Union to India, including some sites for self-propelled guns on the Shilka River and fixed frames for beech, but it was strange that the cruise ship, which could be loaded and unloaded with cargo, was only half loaded and sailed to its final destination, Mumbai, India.

The captain of the ship, which belonged to the Soviet Ocean Group, received a strange order from his superiors before sailing for India, that is, a cargo must be loaded on the port of the Oriental Pearl and transported to India together. But after receiving this order, the captain hesitated, because the contents on it were Soviet munitions, and it was not necessarily the customs department of that country that was willing to let the ship dock. The captain's superiors told him to obey orders, that everything had been arranged, that there would be no mistakes, and that he just had to do what he was told.

In fact, before the cruise ship was sent to India, the Soviet Ministry of Defense personally called the North China Company to ask if they could process and manufacture a batch of 8,000 Kalashnikov rifles during this period of time.

This was also one of the means of the Soviet Union, and when the military department found out that 8,000 Kalashnikovs produced from the Izhevsk arsenal were delivered to India, leaving aside those manufacturing and transportation costs, there was almost no profit left. And if 8,000 cheap 5-6-type submachine guns were ordered from the northern company of China to be shipped to India, then the money for the purchase of firearms would be excluded. The Soviet Union earned more than half of the dollars before. And with the IQ of the Indians. It is also difficult for them to distinguish which are the real AKM rifles made in Izhevsk. Which are the five-six-type - submachine guns produced in China.

Even if the Indians came to question, the Soviets could say in a bold way that this was their Kalashnikov rifle jointly produced with China, and it was only licensed to the Chinese side, such as the fake Chinese side, oh no, the Soviet-made Kalashnikov.

After the ship docked on the shore of the Oriental Pearl, the army immediately rushed to the scene and cordoned off nearby. After all, there are 8,000 5-6-Type submachine guns. Then boxes and boxes of five-six-type submachine guns escorted by military vehicles were loaded onto the tanker's containers. It is placed on the cruise ship by means of a crane and secured with a cable. These five or six will be shipped to Mumbai and then delivered to the Indian military.

The ship then traveled south, through the Strait of Malacca, to 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 the morning until the next morning, when they were able to carry all their weapons.

Soon the second tranche of arms was sent to the designated account, and the Soviet Union, with a little subcalculation, maximized the benefits of the Indian order, if it were not for the technical secrecy. The Soviet military really wanted to hand over all the foreign trade versions of weapons to China, which had cheap raw materials, for production, and then the USSR would sell them to the world. to earn higher profits.

In this way, China and the Soviet Union maintained a high degree of consistency on the pit of 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, they were rejected by the Chinese side, because it was the Soviets who signed the sales contract with them in the first place, not them, the Indian Asan.

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

In this way, the Indians spent a lot of money, and instead of buying the legendary solid and durable Maozi goods, they were ruthlessly cheated by the cheap Type 5 or 6 submachine guns.

As a professional pit India, the Soviet Union also did a good job in product quality, because the Soviet Union did not have the opportunity to experience the terrible feeling of India's temperature reaching 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 tank that has just been shipped to India needs to be returned to the factory for maintenance not long after, and the original version of the T72 is in a better situation, but it is almost impossible to adapt to high-intensity combat training, and it is more than the original T72 to last for a while, and in the end it is difficult to escape the fate of returning to the factory for maintenance.

In response, India protested to the Soviet Union, protesting that it had spent a lot of money to buy defective products. The Soviets did not hesitate to retort that it was because of the climate, and we had already told you about the heat resistance of the tanks before we sold the arms, but you didn't want to listen.

"There is absolutely no problem with our tanks, you have seen when such a situation has appeared with weapons produced in the Soviet Union, but you are not accustomed to the water and soil on your side. But you can't condemn my weapons for being of poor quality for that reason. These are two different things entirely! If you really want to pursue it, it is that your Ministry of Defense delegation forgot to take this into account when visiting. "Yazov represents the Soviet arms factory and refutes India's fallacies.

In the face of the righteous rhetorical protest of the Soviets, the Soviet Union suddenly had nothing to say. Because they really made sense when they thought about it, they didn't hold the Soviet side responsible.

However, the reality of the situation had to be solved, and the Soviet Union proposed a plan to install a cooling system, so that the internal temperature of the tank could always be maintained below 40 degrees, and the tank could cope with the high temperature normally. But you can install it, but you Indians still have to pay for the price of this cooling system.

In this way, each cooling system worth 150,000 yuan was paid for by the Indian military, and the Soviet Union was willing to equip them with these control systems free of charge. Moreover, the Soviet Union also put forward 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 needs of customers, as long as the money is in place, everything is easy to say.

Although the problem was properly resolved in the end, the Indian military could not be happy, and always felt that something was wrong, but it seemed that they could not say it...... (To be continued.) )