First, in addition to tanks, Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries have also become interested in a lot of Chinese heavy equipment.

In terms of the situation at that time, in addition to the main battle tank, the Arab League countries needed long-range artillery the most, especially self-propelled howitzers.

Why?

Several Arab League countries that sent ground troops to participate in the war, except for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have a small number of PLZ-45G, the main artillery of other countries is the M109 series, in fact, even Saudi Arabia is mainly M109, and the number of PLZ-45G equipment is very small, so it cannot be the main force.

At the time of the withdrawal from Iraq, most of the M109s were given to the Iraqi Defense Forces.

At that time, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait simply withdrew the PLZ-45G.

That is, there is a huge gap in the artillery forces of Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries.

In response to this market, arms dealers in Europe and the United States immediately launched a public relations campaign.

The United States brought the M109A8, the latest generation of "Paladin"; The French sent a vehicle-mounted gun nicknamed "Caesar"; The Germans brought the PzH2000; The British offered a vehicle-mounted gun based on the M777; In addition, arms dealers from South Africa, Russia and other countries have provided samples, hoping to win orders from Saudi Arabia and other countries in one fell swoop and make billions of dollars in profits.

What about Huaxia?

In fact, Huaxia has long been promoting PLZ-05G to Saudi Arabia and other countries, and the latest foreign trade model is specially developed for Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.

Before the outbreak of the Iraqi civil war, Saudi Arabia did show a strong interest in the PLZ-05G.

Don't forget, on the battlefield in Yemen, the PLZ-45G is the most reliable support firepower of the Saudi ground forces, deeply trusted by the Saudi military.

It's just that Saudi Arabia is interested in precision-guided artillery shells produced in China.

Why?

Cheap.

The unit price of precision-guided artillery shells put into the international market by Huaxia is between $15,000 and $20,000, and the difference in price is related to the caliber.

In other words, even a 155mm precision-guided artillery shell is only $20,000 a round.

What about competitors of the same kind?

The United States starts at $100,000, Russia costs $50,000, and Sweden and other small countries produce precision-guided artillery shells as high as $150,000.

Obviously, Huaxia's precision-guided artillery shells are extremely cost-effective.

Although compared with ordinary artillery shells, it is still very expensive, and the factory price of a 155-mm high-explosive shell is only a few hundred dollars, but the strike efficiency of precision-guided artillery shells is dozens of times that of ordinary artillery shells, especially when dealing with point targets, a precision-guided artillery shell is equivalent to more than 100 ordinary artillery shells.

In addition, higher accuracy reduces collateral damage.

In urban warfare, the value of precision-guided shells is even greater.

Huaxia's precision-guided artillery shells are not only inexpensive, reliable, but also have excellent performance, for example, the firing range is generally higher than that of similar products in Europe and the United States.

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have not purchased new self-propelled howitzers, but have improved the PLZ-45, in fact, to continue to use Huaxia's precision-guided artillery shells.

Like European and American countries, Huaxia's precision-guided artillery shells are sold in bundles with artillery, not alone.

To use Huaxia's precision-guided artillery shells, it is necessary to purchase Huaxia artillery, preferably self-propelled howitzers, or at least towed howitzers.

Obviously, if the artillery of Western countries is purchased, Saudi Arabia and other countries will not be able to use Huaxia's precision-guided artillery shells.

If you buy it together with the shells, the cost will be too high.

Don't forget, shells are consumables.

The Iraqi civil war lasted for several months, and the ground forces of the Arab League participated in several battles, and about a million artillery shells were consumed.

Although most of them were ordinary shells, many precision-guided shells were also used.

According to later information, the Saudi Army alone used tens of thousands of precision-guided artillery shells on the ground battlefield in Iraq.

What is this concept?

If the United States uses the "Excalibur," it means that these shells alone are worth more than one billion dollars, and the use of Huaxia's precision-guided artillery shells will be more than $200 million.

If the Arab League had not withdrawn its troops, the consumption of precision-guided artillery shells would have increased several times if the combat operations in Iraq continued for a few more months.

In a low-intensity war, dozens, or even tens of billions of dollars, are used up just by artillery shells?

It's insane.

Even if Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries are local tyrants, and some have money, they can't spend it like this.

Of course, Saudi Arabia and other countries do need to replace artillery, especially self-propelled howitzers.

After several years of fighting in Yemen, almost all of the dozens of PLZ-45Gs in Saudi Arabia are nearing the end of their service life.

It's not that the service is over, but the artillery is about to be scrapped.

The most ideal choice is definitely another Huaxia self-propelled gun, that is, the PLZ-05G.

It's just that the price of PLZ-05G is not cheap, and its latest model, which is an improved model for the Gulf countries, has a unit price of up to $22 million!

In other words, it is more expensive than the top luxury version of the VT-4!

Why is it so expensive?

First, a large number of advanced technologies have been adopted, and second, the Chinese Army has not adopted these luxurious subsystems.

In other words, the importing country has to bear the cost of the development and development of these subsystems, so the points are spread over each exported artillery.

Actually, expensive is still a secondary issue.

Many of the new technologies used on the PLZ-05G are immature, so there are problems with reliability, and Huaxia weapons have always been known for their high reliability.

In addition, it was affected by the Iraqi civil war.

After the outbreak of the Iraqi civil war, to be precise, after Saudi Arabia sent troops, Huaxia unilaterally terminated all arms trade negotiations with Saudi Arabia.

It was only when negotiations resumed that Saudi Arabia found out that there was no need to purchase PLZ-05G.

Why?

A new generation of self-propelled howitzers developed by Huaxia for itself is about to be launched, and it is extremely advanced in performance and there are no problems in terms of reliability.

Even if there is a problem, the Chinese Army will solve it.

To put it simply, just a few more years, Saudi Arabia is expected to buy a better artillery than the PLZ-05G from Huaxia.

What's the point of waiting a few years?

Let's not forget, just the negotiations for the purchase of PLZ-05G have been going on for several years.

In addition, artillery is long-range strike fire, and long-range strike fire is not only large-caliber howitzers.

According to this line of thinking, Saudi Arabia did not choose PLZ-05G, but turned its attention to the A-300 ultra-long-range rocket launcher, and even bought the production line.

You know, in the Iraqi civil war, the Saudi 24-door A-300 did not meet an opponent.

When Wang Dong led his troops to attack Kut, the 24 A-300s wiped out thousands of rebels with rockets in a few hours.

In the words of Saudi generals, with a few dozen more A-300s, they would be able to send the rebels back to the Stone Age.

Of course, it's a bit of an exaggeration, but with the suppression of the A-300, there is certainly no problem in reducing the rebels to an armed force in the nature of a guerrilla.

It is precisely for this reason that Saudi Arabia asked Huaxia for the 120-door A-300 after 60 VT-4 "Salman" XEs.

Of course, it also includes the assembly line of rocket artillery and the patent for the production of rockets.