In private negotiations on the purchase of the VT-4, according to the price disclosed later, the Arab League countries set five price points.

The Super Luxury version, that is, the installation of A-level additional armor, dual ballistic remote-controlled weapon stations, active defense systems, laser and electronic countermeasures systems, 1800 horsepower power packs, and the psychological price of the VT-4 equipped with fourth-generation tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells is $17 million.

The normal luxury version, that is, the active defense system is reduced on the basis of the super luxury version, and the psychological price of the VT-4 equipped with third-generation tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells is 14 million dollars.

The luxury version is based on the ordinary luxury version, the additional armor is downgraded to B-level, and the 1500-horsepower power package is replaced, and the psychological price is 11 million US dollars.

The regular version, with a 1200 hp power pack, reduces the remote-controlled weapon station, removes additional armor, and has a psychological price of $8 million.

The low-profile version, that is, the reduction of the laser and electronic countermeasures systems on the basis of the normal version, is $6 million.

In addition, the Arab League countries have set prices for individual subsystems.

Of course, purchasing the subsystem separately will definitely be much higher than the package price.

To put it simply, as long as Pakistan can get a lower price than the psychological price, it can make a difference.

Take Saudi Arabia's favorite super luxury version as an example, if Pakistan can get a purchase price of 1,600, it can earn $600,000 per car.

The problem is that the psychological price offered by the Arab League countries is actually not too high.

To put it bluntly, there is still no money.

You must know that in Huaxia's export list, the price of the VT-4 corresponding to the luxury version is 14 million US dollars, which is 3 million US dollars higher than the psychological price of the Arab League countries.

No matter how iron the relationship between Pakistan and China is, it is impossible for Chinese manufacturers to make money at a loss.

The point is that the electronics are too expensive, and the 1800 hp power pack has not yet been developed, and the development cost will definitely have to be spread over the head of each tank.

The negotiations went very hard.

Saudi Arabia couldn't sit still at first, and a few months later, it signed a contract with Huaxia to purchase an approved ordinary luxury version at a unit price of 14 million US dollars, that is, to use A-level additional armor on the basis of the luxury version, and retain the interface for installing an active defense system.

In this way, as long as the active defense system is installed in the future, compared to the super luxury version, it is 1800 horsepower less power pack.

In fact, the 1500 hp powerpack is sufficient.

How much do you purchase?

60 cars.

Just enough to equip two mechanized infantry brigades.

In addition, Saudi Arabia has upgraded the 60 "Salman" it previously obtained, and it has 120 "Salman", which can arm four infantry brigades.

The four infantry brigades are the basic strength of Saudi Arabia to deal with the threat from the north.

Including the later upgrade for Salman, Saudi Arabia spent only $1 billion here.

In other words, $1 billion to get enough advanced main battle tanks to arm four mechanized infantry brigades is extremely cost-effective.

Of course, this is without taking into account the previous purchase of another 60 "Salman".

Under the influence of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman have successively purchased a batch of VT-4, but the purchase quantity is pitiful.

It's not that these tyrant countries can't even come up with a few hundred million dollars, but they are waiting for good news from Pakistan.

This is Pakistan's "Khalid 2" main battle tank.

At the beginning of this century, shortly after the "Khalid" was put into production, the Pakistan Army proposed performance indicators for the next generation of main battle tanks.

This is also very understandable, that is, the technology of "Khalid" comes from the VT-1, and the basis of the VT-1, that is, the chassis can be traced back to the Type 88 tank in China, belongs to the second generation of the post-war main battle tank, and its final development model is the ZTZ-96, so it is not advanced at all.

In fact, the biggest shortcoming of "Khalid" is the chassis.

Using the second-generation chassis and the third-generation turret, the "Khalid" can barely be regarded as a third-generation main battle tank, and there is no problem with the previous model of the T-72B1, and it is also handy against the Indian monkey version of the T-90S, but it is powerless in the face of the real third-generation main battle tank.

Also, the chassis of the "Khalid" already has little potential for improvement.

Obviously, the only way to get a more advanced main battle tank is to start from scratch.

Initially, Pakistan intended to develop its own.

This idea is also normal, that is, after obtaining the production technology of "Khalid", Pakistan has established a relatively complete tank industry, and has trained a group of technical personnel, so it believes that it has the ability to develop a third-generation main battle tank without relying on outside help.

Of course, outside help, especially financial assistance, is definitely needed.

It's a pity that after more than 10 years, Pakistan has not developed a famous name.

Why?

Pakistan has only mastered the technology of producing "Khalid", and has not mastered the technology of developing tanks, let alone the development of the chassis of third-generation tanks.

You must know that in the world, there are only seven countries that can develop and produce third-generation tank chassis, namely the United States, Russia, China, France, Germany, Japan and Israel.

After more than 10 years of doing it, it has not made a name for itself, and Pakistan can only choose to import.

Interestingly, Pakistan was the first to choose not the Chinese VT-4, but Ukrainian and Polish tanks, and even intends to produce tanks together with Turkey.

Of course, it turned out that what Pakistan did was actually for the purpose of accumulating technology.

To put it bluntly, under the banner of imports, they went to these countries to learn from them, trying to solve the technical problems of designing and producing tanks on their own.

Well, the result is definitely not much better.

At that time, the "Altai", which best met the requirements of the Pakistani military, that is, the Turkish version of the South Korean K2, was never finalized because of problems with the power system.

When it comes to tank power packs, countries that can develop and produce them are even better.

Excluding the gas turbines developed by the United States and Russia, there are only three countries in the world that can develop advanced tank power systems, namely Germany, France and China.

In other countries, they are either not advanced enough or are imported imitations.

After a big circle, Pakistan finally returned to the path of cooperation with China.

Of course, because there is no urgent need, Pakistan is not very active in the "Khalid 2" project, after all, the main force of the old adversary India is the T-90S, and the "Khalid" is enough to cope, as long as India does not have better tanks, Pakistan does not need better tanks.

Now, the Arab League countries have brought this need.