"A lot of your country's equipment has already been purchased from us, why do you need us to come?" Xie Kai suppressed the excitement in his heart, forced himself to calm down, and asked the Iraqis.

Zheng Yucheng and others, who were excitedly looking at the list of Iraqi needs, also calmed down.

Iraq has business dealings with other weapons and equipment factories in the country, and many weapons production plants, after knowing that Iran and Iraq are interested in China's cheap and practical weapons, have engaged in all kinds of weapons and equipment from the Soviet Union, and then copied them out, waiting for the Iraqi and Iranian arms procurement groups to come to their doors.

Now Harry Moissan's proposal for 404 people to help make domestic purchases is completely unreasonable.

"Unlike other units, we only buy equipment for our own use. Issad didn't explain much, "Again, we need to negotiate with you on the overall price of all weapons and equipment procurement, the plan is proposed by you, and we will configure the weapons according to you......"

"But our combat units are based on brigades, and all the equipment of a brigade is about 5~600 million US dollars, and the price is naturally different depending on the configuration. Xie Kai's eyes narrowed into a slit.

A brigade of fifty million dollars, Xie Kai doesn't even know how to get out.

The Iranians prepared $500 million, the establishment of a brigade, and Xie Kai used the funds in the hands of the Iranians as the base price.

At that time, as long as an agreement is reached, as soon as a country is interested in this program, the complete set of weapons and equipment will be sold.

A brigade of various equipment, half a billion dollars.

These include armored vehicles, tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, artillery units for support, and even ground-attack missiles modified with the Hongqi-2......

"Five hundred million dollars for a brigade?" Ibrahim frowned, "Even your offer just now can't reach five hundred million dollars for a brigade!"

"This includes land-attack missiles for tactical support!" Xie Kai said. "A ground-to-ground missile with a range of 200 km, carrying a 500-kilogram warhead, can strike with an accuracy of up to 150 meters......"

"How much does this missile cost?" said Issad, skeptical.

Can China's missile strike accuracy be so high?

"$650,000. Mobile launch!" Xie Kai said calmly, "You can see the finished product in three months." ”

"Theoretical stuff again?" Ibrahim looked at Xie Kai with a wry smile, "Do you have finished products for what you sell?"

"Our domestic military industry, you should be well aware. The national strategy is inclined towards economic construction...... "Xie Kai did not mind the ridicule of the other party.

That's just the way it is.

In the 404 base, the time to develop these projects is too short.

And weapons and equipment need to be accumulated over a long period of time.

Many projects are contingency solutions that also take time.

"Before seeing the samples, we signed a contract of intent at most, except for 359 tanks, we can sign a procurement contract. "Ibrahim's men didn't dwell too much on the missiles.

The Chinese do not provide samples, they do not see the finished product, give too much money, it is completely impossible.

"No problem. 359 tank, until now, only the integration of tanks remains, and when you see a prototype of a tank, you can see something else. Xie Kai looked at Zheng Yucheng, and Zheng Yucheng said affirmatively.

359 tanks, once the contract is signed, is also hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

"We want your tank shells to be ......compatible with Soviet shells," Issad said again, on his terms.

Iraq's domestic equipment is all from the Soviet Union, and now there are some equipment from Western countries, the same caliber, if the shells are of different specifications, they can also not be fired.

"None of this is a problem. Many of our weapons and equipment are common to the Soviet Union!" "The question of the universality of artillery shells does not need to be considered at all.

China's military industrial base was built with the help of the Soviet Union, and at that time, Western countries imposed a technological blockade on China, making China's industry completely imitate the Soviet Union's technological model.

Naturally, there is not much difference in the specifications produced.

The caliber is the same, the shells only need to be changed slightly, and even the shells of 122-mm howitzers do not need to be changed.

"Whether it's artillery shells or bullets, we have some of them in common with the Soviet Union. "At present, the domestic Bayi automatic rifle still uses 7.62X39mm, the only difference is the bullet.

If the specifications are the same, sharing is not a problem.

The Type 81 is an improvement of the Type 56, and the Type 56 is an imitation of the Soviet SKS semi-automatic carbine, all of which use the M43 intermediate power cartridge.

There is no problem in sharing, but the only problem is that the warhead is different, which will have a great impact on the service life of the barrel.

Small-caliber rifles are about to be born, and China's guns will use 5.8 mm, which is different from the Soviet Union and NATO standards, and the export of 95 will face these problems.

In the entire Middle East, there are a large number of M43 bullets, and the number of reserves is even much larger than that of China, and it is estimated that they will not be able to use them all in one or two world wars.

"What about the price?" Ibrahim began to ask the question of price.

Equipment procurement, price and additional conditions are important factors influencing whether the two sides can reach cooperation.

"At $3.2 million, a car is far cheaper than the T-72, and it is stronger than the T72 in terms of defense and attack. Zheng Yucheng quoted the price.

The original price was ready to sell for $ 3.5 million.

Whether it is a stable image fire control system or some other core technologies, they are more advanced than T72, especially the Chobham composite armor on the armor, which is incomparable to the corundum composite armor of T72.

In the end, in order to win this business, Zheng Yucheng gritted his teeth and reduced the price of $300,000.

"You have a lot of strings attached!" the Iraqis could not accept the price.

Even if this is much cheaper than the offer of the Soviets.

"If you agree to settle it all in cash, we can lower the price to $3 million! It's like a loan, it needs to be interested!" Xie Kai originally calculated $2.5 million.

Some things, sold too cheaply, make people feel unreliable.

"We pay up to 30 percent in cash. Ibrahim shook his head.

"Well, at least 3.2 million vehicles. And oil prices must be at least 20% lower than those on the international market. Xie Kai shook his head and said.

Anyway, now the Iraqis don't care about the price of oil.

Chinese companies used to mine it, and the cost was certainly not too high, and it was impossible to have no profit on it.

"Thanks, you're too greedy. For the first time, Ibrahim discovered how greedy the young man he was looking forward to.

The price of tanks has risen, and the price of oil has been depressed.

In the end, the price they pay may even exceed $4 million per car.

"We are not the Soviet Union, and we will not sell tanks to your country at a reduced rate after they are developed, nor will we sell you only scrapped tanks like the United States. ”

"Your Type 69 is only half a million dollars. ”

"The Type 69 main battle tank is only the first generation, and we are now talking about the third generation of the main battle tank. Equipped with a stabilized image fire control system, it has a 125 mm caliber smoothbore gun, an armor-piercing capacity of more than 500 mm, and its own defense performance is far superior to that of the first generation tank......" Xie Kai said with a look of disdain. "And international oil prices have been falling since the early eighties!"

Isn't it nonsense to compare the first generation tank with the third generation tank?

International oil prices, at the time of the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, even reached a high price of $39 per barrel. As of now, it has been reduced to around $14.

Xie Kai knows that this year, international oil prices will drop even more sharply, reaching about $10 per barrel. Although the Iran-Iraq war is ongoing, the two sides are not fighting fiercely enough, and other oil-producing countries are desperately expanding production capacity, the international economy is sluggish, and the growth of oil demand is weak.

"What if you pay half of the cash?" asked the Iraqi through gritted teeth.

"If we pay for oil at a 20% reduction in current international prices, we can still deliver it to you at the price of 3 million cars. Xie Kai said.

At present, the international oil price is about 14 US dollars, a decrease of 20%, even when the oil price is the lowest, 404 will not lose too much.

A barrel of oil is only $11.2, and when it recovers, it will make a lot of money.

$500 million, more than 40 million barrels of crude oil.

Once the price reaches $20 a barrel and then sells, the 500 million funds of 404 will make hundreds of millions of dollars more.

The oil field is controlled in the hands of 404, and when the price is low, the production will be reduced, and when the price is high, it will naturally have to be exploited desperately.

The follow-up order involved more than a billion dollars, and if the Iraqis had paid for the oil during the outbreak of the Gulf War, the 404 would have doubled.

The Iraqis are silent, they can't call the shots on this matter, they have to report back home, and the decision will be made at home.

They have no objection to the $3 million price per vehicle.

Naturally, he disagreed with Xie Kai's proposal that the oil transaction price should be fixed.

"Iraqis are not stupid, as long as oil rises again, we can earn more ......" Wang Guilin understood Xie Kai's purpose.

International crude oil prices have fluctuated too much since the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war.

The Iran-Iraq war has been going on for more than four years, and OPEC has increased oil production far more than Iran and Iraq.

"Risk and benefit coexist. We have to do this if we want to get more funding. In order to obtain these equipment, the Iraqis can only accept it, even if they know that they will suffer a loss. They owed the Soviets money for their equipment, which made the Soviets reluctant to provide weapons and equipment...... The appetite of the Soviets was much greater than ours. "Xie Kai knows it better than anyone.

This is his advantage, to understand the development of history, to know where the weakness of others is.

Iraq should have reached an agreement with China to purchase a huge number of Type 69 main battle tanks, which they themselves also knew were too poor.

In order to maintain the number of tanks, they had to do so.

In such a situation, it is necessary to procure a batch of advanced tanks to compensate for the loss of combat effectiveness.