Super military empire

The m-60a3 tank is the fourth generation of the American m60'Barton' series and the ultimate improved main battle tank. It was developed in 1971 and rolled off the line at the Detroit Tank Plant in February 1978. The first batch of m60a3 was in May 1979. The tank was delivered to the first armored division of the US Fifth Army in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Up to now, it has been mainly used to equip American troops and NATO countries in Europe.

Saudi Arabia has always wanted the most advanced m60 in the United States, but the Americans have been procrastinating on it.

The Chinese Dragon Guards gave them new choices, but this is likely to anger Americans.This will have a big impact on Saudi oil exports.

"If you abandon the import of m60 and buy Dragon Guard from China, it will anger the Americans even more!" The king's worry is not unnecessary.

Bandar and Sultan shook their heads at the same time. For them, strategic weapons such as Dongfeng-3 have been purchased from China, and purchasing some conventional equipment will not have much impact.It is impossible to purchase the most advanced m1 from the United States.

After all, what the Americans exported to Iraq was only to test the combat performance of these tanks through war, rather than exporting them to Iraq on a large scale.

"Your Majesty, we bought a second kick, and we don't care about hundreds of tanks." If there are more lice, it is not itchy, and there is no need to worry about more lice.

The Americans will definitely make noise, but the oil crisis once again, the United States, which has not fully emerged from the financial crisis caused by the oil crisis in the 1970s, cannot bear it!"What's more, the Americans still need us to produce oil desperately to suppress international oil prices and reduce the Soviet Union's foreign exchange income!"

"Then buy from China?" The king was still a little worried.

After all, he is not only considering military aspects.

"I also think what Liu Yijiu said is right. Buying from China has great benefits for us. Now that we have decided to cooperate with China in the high-tech field, and develop our military system through Chinese military industry. , This is an opportunity. Buying a lot of weapons and equipment from China can send our people to their factories to learn and understand the operation of their military factories and various supporting facilities..." Sultan nodded.

As long as China does not attach political conditions to the weapons and equipment procurement contracts, it will not be easy for them to be caught by Western countries when the war breaks out.

As for the war with Saudi Arabia, Iran is now inextricably fought with Iraq. It has no ability to provoke Saudi Arabia. Only one public enemy in the Muslim world, Israel remains.Once war with Israel, the United States will definitely stand on Israel's side.The Jewish chaebol basically controlled more than half of the entire US economy.

"How much to purchase? Their tanks are not cheap!" Although the king is rich, and he made a bold statement at the beginning, Liu Yijiu's reasons persuaded him that he would purchase at least 5 billion US dollars in conventional weapons for China. Order.

Although the performance of the Dragon Guard is good, the price is very expensive. If the Dragon Guard II, equipped with various missiles, and equipped with various types of shells, the Chinese estimate that they will also have a big mouth.

"At least one armored brigade and three regiments with 330 vehicles!" This was to purchase equipment for his new army, and Bandalton spoke.

At the beginning, the king was planning to purchase 450 Pattons from the United States.

"We still need at least three helicopter battalions, 72 Zhi-91..."

Fighting helicopters with tanks is clearly the direction of future warfare.

Through his contact with China during this period, Prince Bandar felt that he should lay a solid foundation with China now. The technology in the Ninth Academy is not worse than what he saw in the United States.

At that time, as long as China is willing to export weapons and equipment, negotiations with the Americans will also have a lot of advantages.

"No, we have to purchase at least five hundred Dragon Guard tanks. The armored unit is no longer equipped with other tanks. This tank has anti-armor capabilities, and has anti-aircraft capabilities, and has high battlefield survivability. It is compatible with American infantry fighting vehicles. Conduct coordinated operations..." Sultan categorically suggested.

"Is this a bit too much? A Dragon Guard II will cost at least 2.5 million U.S. dollars. The reserves of various ammunition and missiles are not small figures. Five hundred vehicles are worth at least 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. At the same time, And their helicopters. I heard that the price is 10 million U.S. dollars each? Adding accessories and others, it costs almost one billion U.S. dollars..."

Even the king of the richest country in the world, Fahd is a bit painful.

The Chinese pitted Saudi Arabia 5 billion U.S. dollars on strategic missiles and rockets alone, plus tanks and helicopters, and this is more than 7.5 billion U.S. dollars.If you purchase something else, the tens of billions of dollars will be gone.

This is hundreds of millions of barrels of crude oil!

"We don’t have to buy all the Dragon Guards II tanks. These tanks are not much different from the Dragon Guards I. You can still equip them like the Iranians. One-third of the Dragon Guards plus two-thirds of the dragons. Weiyi type. This will save a lot of money. Moreover, our five hundred vehicles belong to the contract of intent. We require the other party to deliver about two hundred vehicles at the beginning, and we will see the situation later. If the new Chinese tank is Liu We will talk about the heavy tanks mentioned in 19 at the time! As for the helicopters, I think 50 is almost the same.” Prince Sultan measured it and felt that there was no need to pursue the best of all.

"As long as they sell, they will all use Dragon Guard II!" The king waved his hand and said boldly.

The Dragon Guard II has anti-aircraft missiles!

At that time, even if these tanks do not fire their guns, they will be scattered along the surrounding area of ​​the battlefield to form a huge blockade.

"But their missile range is obviously not enough! We should make demands on the Chinese side! Since we want to do it, we must do a good job. If they can't meet our needs, they won't be able to deal in this area! "The king's idea is not only to satisfy the performance of China's air defense missiles.

The Americans exported the F15 aircraft to Saudi Arabia, but the missile restrictions are very deadly.

The same is for Israel.

"In this case, we will ask them to be equipped with more missiles. After this is down, I will discuss with the Ministry of National Defense. Their Red Flag 5 has poor performance and poor survivability, so we don't want to buy it. This can be put later. , After all, what your Majesty promised is to give 5 billion US dollars in orders in the next few years." Sultan has always been optimistic about China's Hongqi-5 air defense missile.

The king nodded, and Bandar had no opinion.

Several people discussed it again. Originally, Bandar also hoped to be able to purchase a part of the 203mm heavy howitzer from China, but when he thought of having a huge tank force and a large number of missiles, it was equipped with thousands of long-range rockets and hundreds of them. For precision guided missiles, artillery is no longer necessary.

The discussion lasted for a long time. After Liu Yijiu came out of the palace, he was always placed in a villa and waited for several days before being taken into the palace again.

"Director Liu, here are our purchasing list and some of the technical conditions we hope to achieve. You can take a look, and then discuss with your country’s technicians. We will discuss what can be done and what can’t be done. "When Liu Yijiu arrived at the palace, Prince Sultan handed Liu Yijiu a contract in Arabic and Chinese.

Liu Yijiu frowned when he saw 500 Dragon Guard II tanks, 220 of which needed to be provided to Saudi equipment within a year, with two base ammunition equipment.

When I saw the dense list behind, I could only sigh suddenly!

Because many things on the list cannot meet the other party's requirements.

If long-range air defense missiles such as the Hongqi-9 are produced, the data on this arms sales will increase a lot!

The only thing that can be exported is 220 Dragon Guard tanks, plus 50 Z-91 armed transport helicopters and various supporting ammunition.Other anti-aircraft missiles or something, no!

There are also medium- and long-range air-to-air missiles with a range of more than 30 kilometers. Not to mention export, China itself does not have it.

In the end, after negotiations, the Longwei II tank was sold by Liu Yijiu for 2.4 million. These do not carry missiles. If the missiles meet the requirements of Saudi Arabia, they will have to count the money separately!Five hundred Dragon Guards II, two base-numbered shells, one base-number missile, without improved missiles, the total contract value is 1.8 billion US dollars!

50 helicopters, a variety of ammunition, a set of reserve ammunition, 10.4 million US dollars each, the total contract value is 520 million US dollars!

For conventional weapons, Saudi Arabia spent a total of 2.32 billion US dollars, plus Dongfeng-3's US$3.9 billion, rockets and missiles, totaling 1.22 billion US dollars. In total, Saudi Arabia spent 7.44 billion US dollars in this regard!The training cost of 60 million U.S. dollars, plus the subsidy for Chinese technical engineers to travel to Saudi Arabia.

So far, a total of 7.5 billion US dollars in weapons purchase orders have been obtained from Saudi Arabia!It exceeded a large part of Director Liu's imagination.

At the same time, Saudi Arabia is unwilling to give oil fields to China. For specific related matters, it will wait until Dongfeng-3 arrives in Saudi Arabia before negotiating.According to the 70% advance payment, Saudi Arabia will pay China US$5.25 billion in cash, and the remaining balance will not be paid until after the equipment is in place and the Saudi forces have the combat capability!

"Director Liu, did you hear me wrong? So many!" Even Qi Hao didn't expect that his trip to Saudi Arabia would be such a big gain.

You know, this is an astronomical figure that he never dared to think about.

"Oh, it's only 7.5 billion U.S. dollars. For them, it's too little. Unfortunately, our country's fighter planes are not good, otherwise it would cost tens of billions!" Liu Yijiu said regretfully.