“…… The Iranian rout was being pursued, and then a group of weird tanks suddenly appeared...... Many of the exploding tanks were a strange armor-piercing bullet nailed to the turret, and in about a second or so, the tank exploded......," the Iraqi soldier who had the privilege of witnessing it told the engineers of the Nizhny Tajik group and the officers of the logistics and equipment department of the Soviet Planning Commission.

Many officers and soldiers who participated in that battle basically said the same thing.

"I heard that our high-explosive shells can't penetrate the opponent's armor? Even if our armor-piercing shells hit each other, it is useless? On the armor-piercing bullets, those tanks are still combat-ready? The engineer asked, gritting his teeth.

They arrived in Basra, and from the information gathered, the situation was far from encouraging.

It is inconceivable that the opponent's armor-piercing shells can take out their powerful defensive armor. And the armor-piercing projectile they studied, even if it hits the opponent, the high temperature generated by the armor-piercing projectile when it breaks through the metal brings a powerful splashing jet stream that cannot destroy the internal facilities of the opponent's tank, and it still has combat capability.

This shows that the opponent's tank armor is much thicker than they expected.

Hearing this, it was as if something extremely frightening had happened, and the soldier who was questioned was full of panic.

Finally, under the reprimand of the commander, he finally understood, and replied tremblingly: "When the tank that was chasing us was hit, two armor-piercing shells were hit at the position of the main armor, three were also hit in the side armor, and even the back of the turret was hit, and the two tanks around us were knocked out in a row, and finally retreated intact......

"It can't be! Tank turret back. That's where the entire turret armor is weakest! "One of the engineers of the Nizhny Tajik Group jumped straight up.

Their armor-piercing shells are capable of penetrating even the more defensive T64. Or frontal armor!

Iraq's acquisition of hegemony in the Persian Gulf would be of great benefit to the Soviet Union. The Soviets could have wiped off the oil riches of the Persian Gulf and, at the same time, had access to a warm-water port that the Soviets lacked.

The tanks they supplied to Iraq were not a simplified version of the monkeys supplied to Vietnam, as well as to India.

The Chinese destroyed a lot of T72s in Vietnam with anti-armor missiles, and Iran does not have a good relationship with China, but it has good relations with Pakistan. Pakistan's relations with China are very strong. It is feared that the Iranians will get Chinese anti-armor missiles through Pakistan, which will deal a serious blow to the entire export of the T72.

In the same way, it will deal an incalculable blow to the entire Soviet Union, as well as to the republics that continue to produce such master tanks.

"Chekov, the facts are in front of us!" After investigating the situation. The head of the Lower Tajik Group & sent here, who is also the deputy general secretary of the Lower Tajikistan, Kiravsky, said with a gloomy face.

"But who made these tanks! Could it be the Americans? ”

"It shouldn't be Americans. If the Americans had such equipment, they would have given priority to equipping themselves! Any country that produces such tanks, will give priority to equipping themselves...... "Kiravsky said, shaking his head.

The Americans, under pressure from the USSR, were constantly working on new tanks.

Their new tank, which has only now been tested, has begun trial production in small batches, and is similar in appearance to the Iranian one, but the American one is a heavy tank.

"Could it be that Iran did it itself? It's even more unlikely! If it were from China, China should have given priority to equipping their Northern Corps. And not exports. I have never heard of the export of weapons and equipment by the Chinese to Iran! "Shelepin, who was in charge of intelligence, also came here.

The intelligence in his hands has collected a lot of Chinese intelligence since the special forces competition with China in 79.

The Northern Corps did not equip the new tanks, but only added an unknown number of cloudburst shells to 130 rockets with warheads. Even the anti-tank missiles that performed very well on the southwestern battlefield and destroyed the T72 tank of the Vietnamese army were not equipped.

The pressure on China is greater than on the Americans.

The Soviet Union deployed nearly 10,000 tanks of various models on the northern border to suppress China.

The whole world is very clear.

Able to withstand the blows of the T72 and easily penetrate the T72. With the character of Chinese who have any good things hidden, it is impossible to export them.

"All intelligence agents must be mobilized. Get a clear picture of this aspect of the problem. Performance parameters of these tanks, sources. Kiravsky gritted his teeth and ordered.

"I don't need you to say it. Not only this tank, but also the parameters of the source of anti-aircraft missiles in the hands of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps must also be figured out! If the Iranian state itself is able to manufacture these weapons and equipment, it will have to destroy their research units, as well as their production units! "Shelepin knows these problems better than anyone else.

Whether the Chinese played an ignominious role in this will affect the policy direction of the entire Soviet Union.

If these tanks were from the Soviet Union, the pressure on the Soviet Union would have increased dramatically.

If these tanks had come from the United States, it would have also put more pressure on the Soviet Union.

The Soviets have always had bad relations with Iran, and even now that Khomeini is against the Americans, it will not be easy for the Soviets to reach in.

The intelligence agencies of the Americans in Iran were far more powerful than those of the USSR.

The CIA's power, after the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty, destroyed some of the intelligence agencies, and with the outbreak of the Tehran hostage incident, the CIA once again injected a large amount of money to restructure Iran's intelligence agencies.

However, nothing has been accomplished.

In this world, nothing is untraceable.

U.S. intelligence agencies quickly turned their attention to Pakistan.

The United States is not worried about the impact of these tanks on them, but through Pakistani intelligence officers, they have learned that most of the tanks in Iran's hands are the same as the XM1 project, and even many things surpass the XM1, and Pakistan and the United States are not as intimate as before, and they are not willing to hand over this new tank-related technology to the United States at all.

Such a thing means that the most secret research institute in the United States leaked secrets!

Such a major leak. For the United States, it is very shocking.

"China provided us at the very beginning with an improvement of the XM1 tank that was being studied. This shape is the same as our XM1 tank, what does this mean? Evik confronted questions from bureaucrats at the Ministry of Defense. He asked disdainfully, "We were proposing to strengthen the investigation into China in the first place......

"Is it our fault that we say that? Everyone knows the foundation of the Chinese, how did they come up with such an advanced tank? Electronic systems, computer systems, and even hydraulic suspension! These tanks were not sold by China to Iran, but by Pakistan! As an adviser to the president, Mister never imagined that the Chinese would know the details of their XM1 project.

At the very beginning, they were skeptical. But they couldn't believe it.

The intelligence services of the Chinese could not have such powerful capabilities.

The XM1 project, in any link, is not involving Chinese. Not even the surrounding links.

"Mister, you know this matter best, you have been with Ye Suwen for a long time!" Jim, as a senior technical adviser to the Department of Defense and an expert in some of the key technologies of the XM1 project, is here to put aside his suspicions, and. Mister is the most doubtful.

Ye Suwen, who is close to Mister, has very close ties with the Chinese side, but there is no evidence to show it.

"This must be thoroughly investigated!" Even if Carter doesn't want to be too concerned about these matters, he still has to take his duties as president seriously.

in their seriousness. This is a leak, the XM1 project invested huge manpower and material resources, when the Ministry of Defense gave an order for 110 pilot production vehicles. A scaled-down version of this tank appeared on the Iran-Iraq battlefield, and even showed more powerful performance than the M1A1 that the XM1 was about to be finalized. Even this tank is just a medium tank of less than 40 tons. All of them have caused U.S. companies to lose a lot in this regard.

"Whether it's the Chinese stealing our military secrets, or something else that caused the intelligence to leak out." Those responsible must be held accountable. I hope you will give us a satisfactory explanation, Mr. Avik. You spend a lot of money every year, and now this is happening. It must be curbed at the source. The Chinese can sell us relevant technologies, and if these technologies are obtained by the Soviets, it will be a great disaster for us! Secretary of Defense Gates said very seriously.

"Mr. Minister, Chinese don't have all kinds of basic strength at all, and now they have successfully researched this tank, and it has appeared on the battlefield in the Middle East, could it be that they get the relevant technology from the Soviets, and then integrate our technology......" Jim frowned and put forward his own idea.

The performance of the Chinese was beyond everyone's expectations.

There should be a lot of things that are not known.

"No way, there is a very big gap between our technological system and the Soviet one. The microcomputer technology of the Chinese should be obtained from our country, especially some advanced chips, which are likely to be lost from our country! "Although the Americans took a big advantage in the last deal with China, Mister and Jim lobbied for the 1,500-horsepower compression diesel engine technology and 1,500-horsepower gas turbine engine technology that the Chinese desperately wanted to obtain.

This is a hurdle in many people's hearts.

Gates was very opposed to this from the beginning, but the U.S. Department of Defense could not refuse China's new artillery steel technology, which would reduce U.S. military spending by a significant margin. At the same time, the power of the cloud burst bomb, whether it was on the battlefield in Vietnam or the experimental products they produced after obtaining it, further confirmed the power of this technology.

"Since the chips in their hands are spread from our country, then stop them at the source!" Carter said lightly.

He knows better than anyone what the faces of the capital predators who control the United States are.

Since World War II, many presidents have not planned to fight anyone during his term of office, which has made many consortiums that control the country's military industry very unhappy.

Even the confrontation with the Soviet Union, under his leadership, became more lax.

He wants to be re-elected, and the odds are not too great.

If the shady collusion between those conglomerates and China is discovered, someone will eventually come forward to take responsibility for this leak.

"About their missile ......"

"Those missiles are also from the Chinese?" Carter looked surprised.

Evik nodded, not saying anything more.

"Actually, we should put pressure on Pakistan to prevent them from supplying weapons and equipment to Iran!"

"Zia of Pakistan. Huck was killed by the warlord Hari. In the end, the coup d'état of Jacques ousted us, and our grip on Pakistan weakened. If you put more pressure on them, who will bear the consequences? In addition, Iran has severed diplomatic relations with us, and Western countries are still supplying them with weapons and ammunition. If all of them are eliminated, will they be given the opportunity? If we lose Iran, if we lose Pakistan, who will guarantee our interests in the Persian Gulf, our interests in the Indian Ocean? Evik immediately asked the crowd with a look of disdain.

The United States is not monolithic.

When it comes to interests, especially the interests of major corporations and the interests of the country, it is impossible to solve them easily.

A discussion, there is not the slightest result at all.

Finally, such discussions will continue.

The only consensus is that the United States must ensure the interests of the United States while controlling the flow of advanced technology into China on the basis of cooperation with the Chinese now.

Not just the United States, but the whole of Europe.

The end of the peace paradigm is the right national policy. The Chinese imitation technology is too worrying.

While controlling, it can also provoke a backlash from China, so that they do not completely think of the Soviet Union.

If the Americans weren't so proud, or if China hadn't always been too rubbish, and the equipment used by the army was at the level of technology they had in the fifties and sixties, and Liu Yijiu, who didn't have an accident, wouldn't have to worry about these problems at all.

Even if they knew about Liu Yijiu, they would not believe that such a young man would play such a great role in promoting China's military industry.

At Carter's behest, CIA agents in the Middle East leaked information to Iraq and relayed it to the Soviet Union through Iraq.

They couldn't put pressure on China, which would disrupt many of the plans they had laid out in front of them, but the Soviets were different.

The Soviet Union could have put pressure on China, and it had everything from public opinion to actual action.

Whether it was the attitude of the United States or the reaction of the Soviet Union, Comrade Liu Yijiu, the envoy of the figurines, did not know anything about it. The question of the faces of the Chinese, it is not too easy to obtain intelligence in foreign countries. China's intelligence services also do not have enough money to bribe some officials to obtain information.

When Liu Yijiu knew these things, the whole world knew about it. (To be continued......)

PS: The third chapter is coming, will the fourth be far away?