Chapter 245: The Looting of Filipino Cargo Below
The British were not polite, and forcibly increased the price of these medical kits by fifty percent, for which the Filipinos also questioned it, but because the contents of the medical kits in various countries are different, the cost price is different, and there is no reference value, and in the end, it will not be done. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
But in the end, when the British and the Filipinos signed a contract, the British logistics department was rewarded for managing the medical kits, and he sold the old emergency tactical medical kits that the British had stockpiled for ten years, not to mention a part of the revenue, and the British were finally able to distribute the latest research medical kits to their soldiers without worrying about the old guys in the inventory being moldy.
After looking for more than 30 containers, Lin Qing opened a container again, and immediately cried excitedly, finally it was not a medical kit, finally it was not a damn green bag embroidered with a red cross!
The two tanks lay quietly in the container, this guy Lin Qing knew, it was the Challenger tank developed by the British themselves, but what specific model Lin Qing did not clear, he knew that this tank was completely because Johnson and others would mention it in their ears.
The Filipinos still have some ability, and bought the British main battle tank, the Challenger tank is not cheap, this big guy was officially installed in 1983 to join the British combat sequence, replacing the British from the sixties of the last century to use the "Chieftain" main battle tank, becoming the new trump card of the British armored forces.
Although this tank is not as good as the Yankees' M1A1 main battle tank, this tank is relatively advanced in the world's tank family, and since the factory installation, it has been constantly updated, and it seems that there have been three generations of Challengers and began to be installed.
The Challenger tank uses Chobham composite armor, which was developed by the British in the seventies of the last century, but now it is a little outdated, to be precise, the Challenger 1 tank has fallen behind and withdrawn from the stage of history.
But even so, this tank is still a certain threat in the face of the T-72 of the Palawan Free Army, this tank performed quite well in actual combat, participated in the Gulf War, after all, did not drop the chain, and successfully completed its debut.
Lin Qing estimated that this tank should be a Challenger 1 tank, after all, this thing had been retired from the army in 1997, and now the British are using the Challenger 2, with the urine nature of the British, they will definitely not sell good things to the Filipinos, and they will definitely be dragged out of the warehouse and sold to the Filipinos.
Lin Qing thought well, the Filipinos suffered the loss of the main battle tank in the battle with Palawan before, and the Filipinos, who had thought bitterly, decided to buy the main battle tank themselves, otherwise their Douding tank would not be able to defeat the opponent's tank at all, and even the armor would not be able to penetrate it.
However, the Filipinos, who had never bought such heavy weapons, did not know which tank was better, so they had to turn to the British for help.
After saying what they need, the British were already happy in their hearts, obviously they liked this kind of honest customer very much, they didn't understand to ask themselves, and then recommend to them, even if it was a scrap metal, the British could boast of flowers, so they very considerately agreed to sell some main battle tanks to the Filipinos to fight against the evil Palawan Free Army.
The British began to think about what price was right for the Filipinos to buy without looking too ugly, but the model of the tank, they had prepared it from the beginning, selling the Challenger 1 tank.
After the Challenger 2 was installed, the Challenger 1 tank had already withdrawn from the battle sequence of the British, and it had long been discontinued and mothballed.
However, the British once produced a total of nearly 500 Challenger 1 tanks, and even if these main battle tanks were retired at that time, they were relatively advanced tanks in the world, so the British planned to sell them directly to make a profit, just to subsidize their increasingly embarrassing expenses due to the replacement of tanks.
However, after the British pushed this big guy to the international arms market, they found out that this guy really couldn't sell.
The sales of British equipment in the international market are not very good, and the equipment of the British has always been rather strange, whether it is light weapons or heavy weapons, in the history of weapon development, you can always see the British brain-opening masterpieces.
The second is that the British price for the Challenger 1 tank is too high, and the price is a lot, and the price is about the same as that of the British, you can buy an American-made M1A1, from the artillery, armor, range, terrain adaptability are completely destroyed British Challenger 1 A few streets, only a fool will buy the British Challenger 1.
Later, after the Chinese tank entered the international arms market, the sales of the British tank were even weaker, and some tanks that could be sold before could not be sold now, and the Chinese tank firepower configuration was similar to his 59 tanks and 69 main battle tanks, and the price was much cheaper than it.
Although China's 59.69 is a medium tank, China initially used the Soviet military industry, so the tank pays attention to firepower configuration, except for the armor is inferior to the British, the rest of the British are a few streets.
The end result was that the British threw the tanks into their own warehouses, and in addition to selling them to a few small countries in the Americas and the Middle East, there were nearly 400 of the 500 tanks left.
Tank storage is different from gun storage, which requires regular maintenance work, otherwise the tank will quickly rust and become a pile of scrap metal.
Every year, the British government paid a large expense for the maintenance of these tanks, and before that, the British should prepare to return all these tanks, but this proposal did not pass, because the British military representatives believed that the tanks could be sold at a good price if war broke out in certain areas.
As the British waited, the Iraq War broke out, but the British were invaders and could not have sold their tanks past the Iraqis, so the British had to continue to spend a certain amount of money on maintenance and repairs every year.
Fortunately, the British soon discovered a new way to use these tanks as training tanks.
However, the British army is very limited, so the demand is not very large, even if the 400 Challenger 1 main battle tanks are sent to various units to the maximum, even the Air Force has sent a few, responsible for the daily security patrol of the base, but there are still close to 300 Challenger 1 main battle tanks lying quietly in the British warehouse.
This thing has now become a piece of chicken ribs for the British government, and it is a pity to lose it, and it is tasteless if it is not discarded.
When the Philippine government proposed the need to buy main battle tanks during the negotiations, the British immediately had a more wonderful expression than flowers on their faces, looking at these Filipinos, feeling closer than their own father, the British people all over the world looking for the next home, did not expect the next home to send to the door themselves, among which a few words of Chinese A Philippine official came up with an ancient Chinese saying in his mind, stepping on iron shoes has nowhere to find, and it takes no effort to get it.
Now that the Filipinos have been sent to the knife of the British to prepare to be stabbed, the professional pit people for hundreds of years, and the British will definitely not let go of such a good opportunity to slaughter the fat sheep, a second-hand Challenger No. 1 main battle tank is three million pounds, and it will bite the price and not let go.
However, the Filipinos are not stupid, and in the process of negotiation, they were required to observe the performance of the Challenger 1 in actual combat, although the British pit the Filipinos a lot in price, but the British still know and rest assured about the performance of the Challenger 1 tank, and they were very generous in the afternoon of the same day to invite the Filipinos to conduct actual combat observation.
The British finished some caution, took out the Challenger tanks that had been left in the warehouse and had fallen a layer of dust, and sent them to the Filipinos, telling the British that these tanks had been in the warehouse for a long time, but they were made in England, and the quality was very reliable and could withstand any test.
The Filipinos don't know what the British are selling, and the British are now almost selling melons and boasting about themselves, but the Filipinos don't know if they are stupid, and the people they come to negotiate have military representatives, but they have never come into contact with these tanks, and they don't understand what the concept of these tanks is to take them out again after a long time.
The Filipinos don't know about the Challenger 1 tank, they really don't know, because their country's tanks have always been light tanks, and they have never even seen medium tanks, let alone such heavy main battle tanks.
So the Filipinos looked at the barrel, looked at the appearance and other shapes, and finally took out the photo and compared it with the T-72 used by the Palawan Free Army, and found that it seemed to be a little stronger than the T-72.
After that, the British were asked to conduct a fire test, although the British agreed to come to check the tanks in the morning, and the Philippine representatives followed in the afternoon, but they were very well prepared, and several T72 tanks that looked very majestic and majestic were placed on the shooting range, and the Philippine representatives who came to observe were dazzled.
These tanks were bought back to deal with the T72 of the Palawan Free Army, what is the use of not penetrating the T72's armor if they are bought back?
The Filipinos watched with wide eyes as the Challenger No. 1 tank hit the target, and the three shells were ready to hit the three T72 "tanks", and the three targets immediately turned into a ball of flames, and the surrounding Philippine representatives applauded.
How powerful did the Challenger 1 tank become? This is completely a play written and directed by the British, these T72 tanks only have the shape of T72 tanks, but armor and other things are ordinary steel, which was designed by the British to coax some countries bordering Russia before, but I didn't expect it to come in handy again today. (To be continued.) )