After several months of fighting, especially after the entry of ground forces into the war, several Arab League countries had ideas.

The most aggressive, and the first to act, was Saudi Arabia.

That is, through Pakistan's matchmaking, 60 VT-4s of the luxury version, namely "Salman", were obtained, and they were immediately put into the battlefield.

In Kut, these 60 "Salman" became famous.

That is, on the night before Wang Dong returned, 60 "Salman" vehicles blocked a rebel armored brigade, and without receiving any long-range fire support, they destroyed dozens of rebel tanks and nearly 100 infantry fighting vehicles by relying on tank artillery alone.

What's more, not a single Salman was damaged.

Only one of Salman's sighting systems was damaged by shrapnel during the battle, but it was quickly repaired and was back in combat after a few hours.

In the whole battle, not a single tankman of "Salman" was killed or wounded.

More specifically, more than half of Salman's achievements were completed outside 3,500 meters, and less than one-fifth were within 1,000 meters.

That is, the accuracy of the fire of "Salman" is frighteningly high.

The farthest hit was recorded in the second half of the counterattack, when a "Salman" fired at the rebels at a distance of about 4,800 meters, accurately hitting a BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle, and after destroying the vehicle, the armor-piercing shell also knocked out an armored vehicle behind the vehicle.

Of course, there was a bit of luck in this hit.

It is undeniable that the firepower of "Salman" is not only accurate, but also extremely ferocious.

Of the "Zulfirka" destroyed by "Salman", one of the armor-piercing shells penetrated from the front, then through the entire crew compartment, through the engine compartment in the back, and finally fell outside the tank, and the armor-piercing shell was most likely fired from 3000 meters away.

It can be said that with Huaxia's third-generation special tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectiles, "Salman" can kill any kind of main battle tank in the world today, even if it is a main battle tank with additional armor.

Later, the Saudi military organized a live-fire test, which proved that the "Salman" with the third-generation armor-piercing projectile has an ultimate penetration depth of more than 800 mm, and if the fourth-generation armor-piercing projectile that has not yet been exported from China is used, the ultimate penetration depth is close to 900 mm.

Actually, this is not the strongest.

Why?

Huaxia also has depleted uranium alloy armor-piercing shells.

Although Huaxia has been focusing on the development of special tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets, mainly because Huaxia is the world's largest tungsten reserve and producer, with massive tungsten ore resources, but Huaxia is also developing depleted uranium alloy armor-piercing bullets, the key is that tungsten alloy has a difficult problem to solve.

That is, tungsten alloy bullet core has a self-blunting effect when piercing armor, while depleted uranium alloy is worried about a self-sharpening effect.

That is to say, in order to achieve the same penetration depth, the tungsten alloy bullet core must be made longer, and the increase in the length of the bullet core will inevitably increase the processing difficulty.

To make matters worse, the worried total length was subject to the shell size limit.

In fact, this is also the key to the United States' insistence on using depleted uranium alloy armor-piercing shells.

Of course, the depleted uranium armor-piercing shells developed by China are only for its own use and are never exported, and the United States has never provided depleted uranium alloy armor-piercing shells to other countries.

Fortunately, the third generation of armor-piercing shells is sufficient, and the fourth-generation armor-piercing shells are enough for the main battle tank for the next two decades.

Compared with the powerful firepower, the protection of "Salman" is not inferior.

In the battles that unfolded around the Kut, "Salman" was hit more than once by heavy anti-tank missiles of the rebels, but none of them were pierced by the missiles through the frontal armor.

At that time, several of the damaged "Salman" vehicles were hit by missiles on the side.

Only, this situation didn't last long.

With the advent of the active defense system, and priority is given to the front-line troops, that is, it is installed on the "Salman", and in the face of anti-tank missiles, the "Salman" has an additional means of defense.

Later battles proved that the active defense system developed by Huaxia was able to effectively deal with anti-tank weapons with a speed of less than 450 meters per second.

When intercepting individual anti-tank missiles such as the "Cornet", their hit rate is as high as 80 percent.

It is a pity that "Salman" arrived a little later.

When 60 "Salman" vehicles were put on the battlefield, almost all the decent tanks in the hands of the rebels were knocked out, and the tanks aided by Iran were not advanced, and they were not even worthy opponents, after all, "Zulfirka" was not even comparable to the T-90S.

As a result, in the vicinity of Kut, "Salman" did not take the test of armor-piercing shells.

At that time, the only case of the battle was when an "Salman" was hit by an armor-piercing bullet fired by the "Zolfirka" in the front of the turret, but it did not penetrate.

Obviously, this example is not very convincing.

"Zolfirka" uses Russia's second-generation armor-piercing projectiles, with an equivalent penetration thickness of only 400 mm, which can't even deal with some second-generation main battle tanks with better protection, and definitely can't deal with third-generation main battle tanks, let alone the best in third-generation main battle tanks.

In addition, none of the people in that "Salman" tank were injured.

When hit, the tank only shook violently and then continued the fight.

It was not until the end of the battle, when the tanker inspected the tank, that he discovered a hole in the front of the turret, and the measurement found that the penetration depth was less than half that of the turret armor.

Of course, one thing is for sure.

If the equivalent thickness of protection against armor-piercing shells in the front of the "Salman" hull exceeds 1000 mm, then the equivalent thickness of protection against armor-piercing shells will definitely be more than 600 mm, and the frontal turret must be slightly better, between 650 mm and 700 mm.

This level is not outstanding.

You know, the equivalent thickness of protection of the US military M1A2 exceeds 850 mm.

It's just that the combat weight of "Salman" is 10 tons less than that of the M1A2, and if you add these 10 tons, that is, equipped with additional armor according to the highest standards, the protection capability of the "Salman" is definitely not below the M1A2, and the equivalent thickness of protection between the hull and the front of the turret must be more than 800 mm.

In addition, additional armor provides better protection against armor-piercing shells, even increasing the thickness of protection to 1500 mm.

It can be seen that "Salman" is fully clothed and can block all artillery armor-piercing shells except for M829A4 and DM63.

That's definitely top-notch protection.

You must know that "Salman" can also penetrate the frontal armor of the M1A2 and "Leopard" 2 when using Huaxia's fourth-generation armor-piercing projectiles.

If there is any flaw in "Salman", it is maneuverability.

In fact, this is the only fault that can be found in "Salman", but this flaw will soon be completely solved.