Although the $300,000 for the $2.3 million Longwei is the introduction fee and transit fee for Pakistan, the price is really high.

Even though the Longwei 1 has already shown its performance on the battlefield between Iran and Iraq, it has not been further displayed because of the confrontation in the southern theater.

In the central and northern theaters, Iran has lost a large number of tanks and fighters, and urgently needs to be replaced.

Samnira knows the details of the Rondo-1, and even the Rondo-2 will be improved, and he is bent on replacing all the heavy equipment of the Iranian army with Chinese-made ones, so that it can be guaranteed.

Especially now exchanging F14 Panda fighters for China's J-8 II second-generation fighters is obviously a very cost-effective deal.

Samnira has been well assured in China, but now he is under so much pressure at home that even Ayatollah Khomeini does not agree with such a plan.

It is considered to be a betrayal of Iran's interests.

Iran's relationship with China at this time is far from the kind of relationship that they have been sanctioned for decades and China has been secretly supporting.

Now that such an opportunity is encountered, Samnila is naturally not to be missed.

"From the very beginning, the Ministry of Defense has a document that clearly states that it provides logistical support for the mercenaries who help us in the war, and that we provide them with the weapons and equipment they need and ammunition replenishment at cost price. Now it seems that the combat effectiveness of the mercenaries is far beyond our imagination......" The words of the Minister of Defense are irrefutable.

But the other high-ranking officials apparently did not believe that dozens of people could take out dozens of tanks, and their own casualties were even negligible for them.

"General Samniera. This kind of thing, we hope that the military can be cautious! Now the country has a limited number of sources of foreign exchange. When the war will end is not something we can tell. Our forces are being reorganized in preparation for a return offensive against the Iraqis. A large number of heavy weapons and equipment lost in the central theater and the northern theater of operations need to be replenished, and who does not know the financial pressure? "The people from the Ministry of Finance, the first to raise objections.

Khomeini's thoughts, they are all clear.

The purpose of the counter-attack on Iraq is not only to drive Iraq out of Iranian territory, but also to occupy Iraq and expand the area of Islamic influence......

"You mean you don't plan to pay the mercenaries? Tens of millions of dollars of funds were bought by them with their lives. Ihor, I think you should understand that once these combat-ready mercenaries are made to hate us, they will fall to our opponents......" Samnyla snorted coldly and said to the Minister of Finance, who was unwilling to pay for it.

Fighting a war is a matter for the military, and giving money naturally has to be a matter for the Ministry of Finance.

Pahlavi has taken with them the vast wealth of the Iranian state, and now they have little money left, and the war does not know when it will end. At the current rate of equipment loss, they won't be able to hold out for long.

Weapons and equipment from China slowed down the course of the war, and the two sides began to face each other on the current front.

Others don't know what's going on with Nipudosan, but Samnira can't be unclear.

Once the Guardian Mercenary Group is trapped. The source of their weapons and equipment will be completely cut off.

At least, the Chinese export their weapons and equipment. None of the most advanced ones are not sold as in foreign countries. The regular ones have to be reduced.

Just look at the monkey version of the T72 that the Iraqis got from the USSR, if the USSR itself used a fully equipped T72. As for letting the mercenary group destroy dozens of vehicles with bazookas?

The Chinese can be regarded as very conscientious, the tanks that were originally used by themselves were exported to them, and there was no reduction plan at all, and even improved versions were provided to Iran.

The price is not expensive either!

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

"Perhaps, we should meet our heroes before we make plans. If experience can be generalized, we should equip such an artifact! Khomeini, who had not spoken, was worried that his men would continue to make a fuss.

At present, there is a lot of contradiction between the military and government departments because of the problem of funding.

Since the beginning of the sanctions imposed by the United States, Iran's oil output has begun to plummet, and the country has not completely stabilized, as a result, war broke out, the Iraqis invaded, and the daily war expenses and the loss of weapons and equipment are astronomical.

At present, Iran's Ministry of Finance has only expenses and no income every day, and the foreign exchange and fiscal balances 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 the people had no opinion.

They can also think of the consequences of offending these heartbroken mercenaries.

In Iraq, Saddam Hussein was looking at his most trusted commander of the Tikrit Division, Major General Qasim, as well as several grassroots officers and soldiers from the most elite 1st Regiment of the Tikrit Division.

Mubashar of the First Regiment, Deputy Regiment Commander Ihaji, and Operations Staff Officer Jidohab wrote letters about the battle process were all placed in front of Saddam.

"Is this really the case with the tanks that the Soviets gave us? The other side destroyed it just with a bazooka? "Saddam Hussein came to power in a military coup d'état, and he still knows very well about the weapons and equipment and combat effectiveness of the troops.

They have all kinds of the most advanced weapons and equipment in the world, and in the past it was only the Soviet bloc, but now even the United States has begun to test it on them, signaling to Saddam Hussein that as long as it can conform to the interests of the Americans, the United States and other European countries can export advanced weapons to Iraq on a large scale.

In the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union's steel torrent threatened the entire Western world, and even fighters such as the MiG-25 maintained their superiority for a long time.

Iraq has the most equipment, which is Soviet-style equipment.

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

Who can take it?

"Yes, President! The opponent of the 3rd Regiment in front of the port of Mahshahr was the latest tank exported by China to Pakistan. China itself is not equipped with it, just to give Iran an emergency ...... Meantime. This bazooka is also a single weapon specially used by the Chinese to study the defense against the Soviet T72 tank armor cluster. Chinese situation, everyone knows that it is impossible for them to afford a large number of tank clusters, especially since the Soviet Union, which has huge production capacity, has been maintaining pressure on China...... "As the head of weapons procurement, and the head of intelligence who controls the entire Babylonian Empire, Khamram knows that his ineffective work has made Saddam very unhappy.

Thankfully, he paid to buy this information from some mercenary organizations that sold out information.

Otherwise, he would have to bear the wrath of Mr. President.

"Why wasn't there any news before?" Saddam asked his intelligence minister coldly.

Instead, he looked lonely. As mentioned above, Kassim, the commander of the Tikrit Division: "You have been telling me that the T72 of the Soviets is the most advanced tank in the world!" Now 300 vehicles have been purchased, and a third of the number has been destroyed, 300 million US dollars, 30 million barrels of crude oil are gone! Even our best officers have now lost confidence in winning the war! What should I do with you, Kalam? ”

Saddam Hussein was not a moody man, but he was a ruthless man.

He wants to restore the glory of the Babylonian Empire, and Iraq wants to be the world's third largest military power. Absolutely will not tolerate such a thing.

At the very least, Iraq wants to 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 Nizhny Tajik group promised us improvements and put them into action, but the effect was ...... "Qasim was just a purely military man.

For him. You have to be better equipped.

At first, he didn't think equipment was important. But if the expensive armor they are equipped with is not combat-ready in front of a group of infantry, then these equipment. It can only make the most loyal troops to the president die faster.

China and Iraq are not enemies, and now that China is starting to reform and open up, they need a lot of foreign exchange, and if they want to invigorate the economy, they need a lot of cheap oil......

The oil of the Iranians is not exported to China.

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

When the time comes, if the equipment he buys is poor, it will be his responsibility.

Or that the Chinese do not sell equipment to him, which is his responsibility.

"Further solutions? Will it not be completed until we lose the war before Khomeini's religious ideas spread across the land of the Babylonian Empire? Do you see for yourself this above, their solution, useful? Even the opponent's individual anti-tank rocket launcher can take out their three-million-dollar tank! Aren't they going to ask for a markup? Tell the Soviets that we don't want any of the remaining T72s! Saddam rudely interrupted his intelligence minister.

For the USSR, he already did not trust it.

This has a lot to do with the fact that the Americans abandoned Iran and turned to support him, but at the same time, it was also because he lost confidence in the expensive equipment of the Soviet Union.

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

Now, however, the entire force has to be stopped because it has not yet fully grasped how many weapons and equipment the other side has, and because the Iraqi army is undertrained and its logistical support is inadequate.

"Kanram, I don't care what method you use, either you go to 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 us tanks! Saddam said coldly.

"Yes, President!"

With that, the Minister of Intelligence left the president's office, and if he stayed, he would suffer the wrath of the heavy losses of the most elite armored regiment of the Tikrit Division.

The excellent performance of anti-tank rocket launchers on the battlefield between Iran and Iraq, especially the high cost performance of this kind of thing, which can equip troops in large quantities, quickly attracted the attention of Soviet and American intelligence officers, and the information was quickly reflected in their countries.

The Americans took this kind of news very seriously, but they did not show any unconventional attention, but the bureaucrats of the military and the National Strategic Security Agency met together, knowing that this bazooka is only a bazooka for medium tanks like the T72, and for their latest M1A1 tank, it is simply like tickling, so there is nothing to care about.

Of course, the U.S. military has no bottom in mind about the actual combat performance of the M1A1 tank, which is aimed at the tank researched by the Soviet Union.

At this time, under the middle front line of Middle Eastern intelligence, Iraq wanted to purchase a new batch of tanks from the United States to counter Iran's powerful tanks from China.

The people of the military also need to put the M1A1 tank to combat test, and if the war is not performing well, then, continue to improve, otherwise once it is equipped on a large scale, it will make the entire US military waste billions of dollars in equipment costs!

"Reduce the configuration of the M1A1, provide them with M1 tanks, and reduce the various systems to evaluate the combat performance of this tank!" After discussions with the military, such an agreement was finally reached.

The huge production capacity of the United States is fully reflected at this time, and the contract for 220 export tanks for M1 tanks of $3.5 million will be delivered within six months!

The Soviet leadership, for this situation, was not very convinced.

In particular, the senior officials of the Soviet Military Council, controlled by Brezhnev, did not believe that the Soviet tanks equipped on a large scale could not compete with a single rocket.

However, intelligence from the KGB showed that the equipment of the Chinese was already beginning to subvert the position of the T72.

The Ryonpo tanks were able to pose a threat to these tanks without worrying the Soviets.

After all, what they export is a reduced monkey version of T72.

However, the anti-tank rockets that the Chinese had just made took out more than forty at a time, which made the bigwigs of the logistics and equipment planning department of the Soviet Military Council completely panic.

"Our military exercises are about to begin, and while we are ready to scare the Western camp, the backward Chinese slap us hard! This is a shame for the entire Soviet world, and even more so for the Kremlin! Comrades, where is your self-confidence? Why haven't the people of the Nizhny Tajik group submitted a report until now? "Brezhnev was very angry about the situation before him!

The 81 exercises in the West are almost ready to be completed, and at this time, China gave them a hard slap.

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 Supreme Council of the USSR will lose its prestige...... (To be continued.) )