Super military empire

For a Dragon Guard 1 model of US$2.3 million, although it is said that US$300,000 is for Pakistan’s introduction fee and transit freight, the price is a bit high.

Even though the Dragon Guard I had already demonstrated performance on the Iran-Iraq battlefield, because of the confrontation in the southern theater, no further demonstrations were made.

In the central and northern battlefields, Iran has lost a large number of tanks and fighter jets, which urgently needs to be supplemented.

Samnila knows the details of the Dragon Guard I, and even the Dragon Guard II will be improved. He wants to replace all the heavy equipment of the Iranian army with Chinese ones, so that it can be guaranteed.

Especially now that it is a very uneconomical business to exchange f14 Panda fighters for China's J-8II second-generation fighters.

Samnila has promised very well in China, but now he faces tremendous pressure at home, even Khomeini disagrees with such a plan.

Believed to betray Iran’s interests.

The relationship between Iran and China in this era is far from reaching the relationship they have been sanctioned for decades, and China has been secretly supporting the relationship.

Now encountering such an opportunity, Samnila naturally cannot miss it.

"From the very beginning, the Ministry of National Defense has a document that clearly stated that it is to provide logistical support to the mercenaries who help us fight. We provide them with the weapons and equipment and ammunition supplements they need at cost prices. Now it seems that the combat effectiveness of mercenaries , Far beyond our imagination..." The words of the Secretary of Defense are irrefutable.

However, other senior officials obviously did not believe that dozens of people could kill dozens of tanks, and their own casualties were even negligible for them.

"General Samnila, we hope that the military will be cautious about this kind of thing! The country has a limited number of foreign exchange sources. We cannot grasp when the war will end. Our army is undergoing reorganization and is preparing to return the Iraqis. Attack. A large number of heavy weapons and equipment lost in the central and northern theaters need to be replenished. Who doesn't know the financial pressure?" People from the Ministry of Finance were the first to object.

Khomeini's ideas, they are all clear.

The counterattack against Iraq is not only to drive Iraq out of Iran’s territory, but also to occupy Iraq and expand the radiation area of ​​Islam...

"You mean you don’t plan to pay for the mercenaries? Tens of millions of dollars of funds are exchanged for their lives, Ihor, I think you should understand that once these powerful mercenaries hate us, they To our opponent..." Samnila snorted and said to the finance minister who was unwilling to pay.

Fighting is a matter of the military, and giving money is naturally a matter of the Ministry of Finance.

Pahlavi took away the immense wealth of the Iranian nation. Now they don’t have much funds left. The war does not know when it will end. According to the current rate of equipment loss, they can’t last long.

The weapons and equipment from China slowed down the course of the war, and the two sides began to face confrontation on the current front.

Others don't know what happened to Neptune, but Samnila can't.

Once the Guardian mercenary group is pitted, the source of their weapons and equipment will be completely cut off.

At least, the Chinese are not exporting their weapons and equipment, as in foreign countries, the most advanced ones are not sold, and the conventional ones have to be reduced.

Just look at the monkey version of the t72 that the Iraqis got from the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union uses the fully equipped t72, as for the mercenary group to destroy dozens of them with a rocket launcher?

The Chinese can be considered very conscientious. The tanks that were originally used by them were exported to them. There was no reduction plan at all, and even improved models were provided to Iran.

The price is not expensive!

Compared with the old tanks in the United States and those in Europe, it is definitely a good thing with a super cost-effective.

"Perhaps, we should make plans after seeing our heroes. If the experience can be promoted, we should equip such artifacts!" Khomeini, who has not spoken, worried that his men would continue to make noise.

Now there is a big contradiction between the military and government departments because of funding issues.

Since being sanctioned by the United States, Iran’s oil output has dropped sharply. The country has not yet fully stabilized. As a result, a war broke out. The Iraqi invasion, the daily war expenses, and the loss of weapons and equipment are astronomical figures.

Now, the Iranian Ministry of Finance has only expenditures and no income every day. The foreign exchange and fiscal surplus left by the Pahlavi dynasty have long been unable to make ends meet under the corruption of some officials and the expenditure of war funds.

The supreme leader spoke, and everyone had no opinion.

They can also think of the consequences once they offend these heartbroken mercenaries.

In Iraq, Saddam was looking at his most trusted Tikrit division commander Major General Qasim with a stern look. Similarly, there were several grassroots officers and soldiers from the Tikrit Division’s most elite first regiment. .

The letters of the battle written by the first regiment, Mubasar, the deputy commander Ihaji, and the combat staff Jidohab, were all placed in front of Saddam.

"Is the tank provided by the Soviets really like this? The other party destroyed it only with a rocket launcher?" Saddam came to power in a military coup, and he knew very well about the army's weaponry and combat effectiveness.

They have all the most advanced weapons and equipment in the world. They used to be the Soviet camp. Now even the United States has begun to try them well, indicating that Saddam Hussein, as long as it is in the interests of the Americans, advanced weapons from the United States and European countries Can be exported to Iraq on a large scale.

In the US-Soviet struggle for hegemony, the steel torrent of the Soviet Union threatened the entire Western world, and even fighter jets such as the MiG-25 maintained its advantage for a long time.

The most equipped Iraq is Soviet-style equipment.

Now tell him that the world's most advanced tank, which the Soviets sold for three million dollars, is just a pile of scrap iron!

Who can accept it?

"Yes, President! The opponent encountered by the third regiment in front of Mahshahr Port was the latest Chinese tank exported to Pakistan. China did not equip it for Iran's emergency... At the same time, the rocket launcher this time, It is also used by the Chinese to study individual weapons and equipment for defense of the Soviet T72 tank armor cluster. The situation of the Chinese people knows that they cannot afford a huge number of tank clusters, especially the Soviet Union, which has huge productivity. Keep pressure on China..." As the head of weapons procurement and the head of intelligence in charge of the entire Babylonian empire, Canram knew that his poor work had made Saddam very upset.

Fortunately, he spent money to buy this information from some mercenary organizations that sell information.

Otherwise, he has to bear the anger of Mr. President.

"Why is there no news before?" Saddam asked his intelligence minister coldly.

Instead, he looked at a lonely face, as the former Tikrit Division Commander Kassim: "You have been telling me that the Soviet T72 is the most advanced tank in the world! Now three hundred have been purchased. One-third of the quantity was destroyed, 300 million US dollars and 30 million barrels of crude oil are gone! Even our best officer has now lost the confidence to win the war! Karam, what should I do with you What?"

Saddam is not a moody person, but he is indeed a cruel and ruthless person.

He wants to restore the glory of the Babylonian Empire and Iraq is striving to become the world's third largest military power. He will never tolerate such things.

At the very least, Iraq must maintain its hegemony in the Middle East.

Otherwise, Saudi Arabia and other countries that support him will no longer provide them with war funds.

"President, maybe we can get in touch with the Chinese. The Lower Tajik Group promises us to make improvements and put them into action, but this effect..." Qasim is just a pure soldier.

For him, he must have better equipment.

At first, he didn't think equipment was very important, but if the expensive armor they equipped was not effective in front of a group of infantrymen, then these equipment could only make the troops most loyal to the president die faster.

There is no enemy between China and Iraq. Moreover, China is now beginning to carry out reform and opening up. They need a lot of foreign exchange. To invigorate the economy, they need a lot of cheap oil...

The Iranian oil is not exported to China.

"President, the Soviets are now working on further solutions..." What Kanram fears most is to let him contact the Chinese.

At that time, if the equipment purchased is poor, it will be his responsibility.

In other words, it is his responsibility if the Chinese do not sell equipment to him.

"Further solutions? Will it be completed until we lose the war and Khomeini's religious ideas spread on the territory of the Babylonian Empire? Look at this for yourself, are their solutions useful? Even the other side's Individual anti-tank rocket launchers can solve their three million dollar tanks! Don’t they want to increase the price? Tell the Soviets that we don’t need the remaining T72!" Saddam rudely interrupted his intelligence Words from the Minister.

He no longer trusts the Soviet Union.

In the process, it has a lot to do with the Americans' abandoning Iran to support him, but at the same time, it is also because he has lost confidence in the Soviet Union's expensive equipment.

Before Iran was able to compete with the T72 tanks, their armored forces advanced very quickly.

But now, the entire army has to stop because it hasn't fully grasped how many weapons and equipment the other side has, and the Iraqi army's lack of training and logistical support defects have been highlighted.

"Kanram, I don’t care what you use. Either you find a tank that is more powerful than the Chinese tank, or you find a way to contact the Chinese! No matter what the price, let the Chinese Sell ​​the tank to us!" Saddam said coldly.

"Yes, President!"

After speaking, the intelligence minister left the president's office and stayed again. He would endure the anger caused by the heavy losses of the Tikrit Division's most elite armored regiment.

The excellent performance of anti-tank rocket launchers on the Iran-Iraq battlefield, especially the cost-effectiveness of this kind of thing, and the ability to equip troops in large quantities, soon attracted the attention of Soviet and American intelligence personnel, and the information was quickly reflected in their domestic.

The Americans attached great importance to this kind of news, but they did not show any unconventional attention. It was just that the military and the bureaucrats of the National Strategic Security Agency had a meeting together, knowing that this kind of rocket launcher is only for t72. The rocket launcher of a medium-sized tank, for their newly equipped m1a1 tank, is basically like a tickling, and there is nothing to care about.

Of course, the US military has no idea about the actual combat performance of the m1a1 tank. This is a tank developed for the Soviet Union.

At exactly this time, under the front line of the Middle East intelligence agencies, Iraq hopes to purchase a batch of new tanks from the United States to counter the powerful Iranian tanks from China.

People in the military also need to let the m1a1 tank be tested in actual combat. If the war performance is not good, then continue to improve, otherwise once large-scale equipment is carried out, the entire US military will waste billions of dollars in equipment costs!

"Reduce the configuration of the m1a1, provide them with the m1 tank, and reduce the configuration of various systems to evaluate the combat performance of this tank!" Under the discussion of the military, such an agreement was finally reached.

The huge production capacity of the United States is fully demonstrated at this time. The contract for 220 export tanks for a 3.5 million US dollar m1 tank will be delivered in six months!

The top Soviet leaders did not believe this situation very much.

Especially the senior officials of the Soviet Military Commission controlled by Brezhnev did not believe that the large-scale Soviet tanks would not be able to resist a rocket.

However, intelligence from the KGB shows that Chinese equipment has begun to subvert the status of t72.

The Dragon Guard I tanks can pose a threat to these tanks, but they do not worry the Soviets.

After all, what they export is the reduced monkey version of t72.

However, the anti-tank rockets just made by the Chinese killed more than forty vehicles at a time, which made the leaders of the logistics equipment planning department of the Soviet Military Commission completely panic.

"Our military exercises are about to begin. When we were about to scare the Western camp, the backward Chinese slapped us severely! This is the shame of the entire Soviet world, and even more the shame of the Kremlin! Comrades, where is your usual self-confidence? Why haven't the people under the Tajik group submitted a report yet?" Brezhnev was very angry at the various situations in front of him!

Exercise 81 in the West was about to be completed. At this time, China gave them a slap in the face.

If it fails to come up with an effective plan, the prestige of the Soviet Union will be greatly reduced.

Even in the Soviet Union, the Soviet Supreme Council will lose its prestige...