A few tyrant countries need hundreds, or even thousands, of main battle tanks at once, and together, it is a huge market of thousands.

What's more, these local tyrant countries are staring at Huaxia's VT-4.

The Pakistani authorities are not stupid either, and immediately saw a huge business opportunity in it.

To put it bluntly, if you can get these orders, even if you are just an intermediate agent, you can get rebates, are you afraid that you won't be able to make money?

Of course, Pakistan wants to be more than an intermediary agent.

Immediately after joining the Arab League Shopping Group, Pakistan accelerated negotiations on the introduction of the VT-4 and targeted technical improvements.

Of course, the name of the project is still "Khalid 2".

According to the idea of the Pakistani side, under the name "Khalid 2", a completely new main battle tank will be produced on the basis of the VT-4.

Actually, it's mainly for export.

In order to be in a hurry, to be precise, to obtain orders from the Arab League countries, the Pakistan Army significantly revised the technical performance indicators of the "Khalid 2".

To put it bluntly, it's all about serving customers.

After months of painstaking negotiations, Pakistan finally received a mandate from Huaxia.

That is, in the form of a technical license, for Pakistan to produce VT-4, and for Pakistan to make the necessary improvements as needed.

To put it bluntly, it's actually "modified".

Subsequently, Pakistan confirmed the launch of the "Khalid 2" main battle tank.

The biggest change in the "Khalid 2" compared to the VT-4 is in appearance, to be precise, in the appearance of the appearance, that is, only additional armor has changed.

According to later published information, the "Khalid 2" is actually the real VT-4.

What Pakistani arms companies did was actually add a layer of steel plate with a thickness of only a few millimeters to the VT-4's A-class additional armor.

Of course, in terms of protection, this layer of steel plate is the decoration.

However, when it was advertised, Pakistan claimed that it was a new type of additional armor developed by itself, and that it could effectively defend against jet weapons such as rockets.

Well, even if it's true.

Anyway, when the "Khalid 2" came out, it was indeed very different from the VT-4 in appearance, at least it looked like a brand new main battle tank.

Of course, there are several different versions of the "Khalid 2" according to the configuration, and various subsystems can be added according to customer needs.

The point is that this tank is produced in Pakistan, and Pakistan has full intellectual property rights.

However, Huaxia will charge a patent licensing fee.

According to later disclosures, for each "Khalid 2" exported by Pakistan, it will have to pay Huaxia between $1.5 million and $3 million in royalties depending on the model.

Even so, Pakistan is still making a lot of money.

After the production line of "Khalid 2" was put into operation, Saudi Arabia was the first to place an order for the purchase of 600 vehicles, and also purchased an assembly line, to be precise, with technical assistance from Pakistan, to build a factory in Saudi Arabia capable of full maintenance.

Within the next two years, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman also became customers of Khalid 2, and all purchased in large quantities.

Within five years, orders for "Khalid 2" reached 2,000 units, and it would take ten years for them to be fully delivered.

According to conservative estimates, this tank alone has brought Pakistan at least $10 billion in foreign exchange and created tens of thousands of jobs.

Because the sales were so good, the Pakistani manufacturer even gave a brand new "Khalid 2" to the military museum in China.

It's just that the outside world doesn't know that China's arms companies have made billions of dollars without doing anything.

Of course, this is just the beginning.

It must be admitted that the "Khalid 2" with the VT-4 pedigree is very good in all aspects, especially firepower, fire control and power.

It can be said that "Khalid 2" was one of the best main battle tanks in the world at that time.

Especially after Huaxia approved the export of the fourth-generation tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectile, the firepower of "Khalid 2" immediately increased to the world's top level.

You know, this armor-piercing projectile with a maximum penetration depth of not less than 850 mm is capable of penetrating the frontal armor of all tanks.

The problem is, "Khalid 2" is, after all, produced in Pakistan.

Huaxia can transfer the technology for the production of tank guns to Pakistan, and can also export 1800 horsepower power packs, or even let Pakistan produce 1500 horsepower power packs on its own.

As for the fire control system, it is also mainly assembled in Pakistan, and only the core components are supplied by Huaxia.

With only one technology, Huaxia will not be transferred to Pakistan.

What the?

Armor!

You must know that in the world, there are only four countries that can develop the latest armor, namely the United States, Britain, China and Russia.

Strictly speaking, there are only the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.

Russia's armor technology, in fact, has long been outdated.

As for other countries that can produce tanks, such as Germany and France, their armor technology is either not advanced enough or comes from other countries.

Take the "Leopard 2" as an example, no matter how much the Germans boast about it, its protection is not as good as the M1A2.

According to the tests secretly done by the Germans, the frontal turret of the latest "Leopard 2" A8 has an equivalent protection thickness of only 750 mm against armor-piercing shells.

Again, this is the result of the installation of additional armor.

Without additional armor, it is only up to 600 mm.

It is important to know that the frontal equivalent protection of the turret of the M1A2SEP has a thickness of at least 850 mm, and the US Army does not have a tradition of installing additional armor.

Huaxia's ZTZ-99C has a frontal equivalent protection thickness of more than 800 mm, and can reach an astonishing 950 mm after installing additional armor.

It can be said that armor is the core of the tank and the most critical technology.

Of course, American technology is unique and never exported.

Then, in the first camp of armor technology, only the British Chobham armor and the Chinese cermet armor remained.

State-of-the-art armor, certainly for its own use.

The second level is used for export.

It will be authorized to produce by a third party in the form of technology output.

In fact, this is also the key problem of insufficient protection of the "Leopard 2", that is, what Germany has obtained is actually the old technology that the British have long eliminated.

At that time, Huaxia provided Pakistan not with cermet armor, but with ordinary review armor.

Only on the VT-4, which was directly exported from Huaxia, there was a first-generation cermet armor, and Huaxia's own main battle tanks had already used the second-generation cermet armor.

It can be said that the biggest problem of "Khalid 2" is protection.

As a local tyrant, and has "Salman" imported directly from China, so after buying "Khalid 2", Saudi Arabia immediately did a comparative test and found this problem.