Ali. Abdullah. Shehri, 33 years old, commander of the armored forces, nicknamed "Armored Ali". He was the commander of an armored regiment in the "Hammurabi" division, the ace of the Iraqi Republican Guard. (This Ali is not the company commander in front, this Middle Eastern country, the phenomenon of duplicate names is too common, just like my country's Wang Ming, Zhang Gang and the like)

Ali was born poor, after entering the army, the standard of living has improved significantly, from the bean sprouts body to a fat body full of fat, is jokingly called "armored Ali", but the flaws are not hidden, this person is extremely talented, especially in the command of armored forces has a rare intuition and talent, but also among the Iraqi armored commanders into the French Saint-Cyr Military Academy, the German armored forces school to systematically learn the tactics and strategy of the Western armored forces.

Taking advantage of the east wind of victory, Dad agreed to expand the 35th Brigade into the 35th Division.

Not only dignitaries, but even his equipment, also came over, although the father promised to expand the 35th Division, and the personnel are easy to match, but the equipment, it is too difficult to match, tanks and armored vehicles, there has never been a stockpile, although the Soviet Union has ordered, but, since the start of the war, the consumption is very large, at the critical moment, the Soviet Union has raised the price, Saddam Hussein really can't make up too much military spending, just the pension of the soldiers killed in the war, it is already a bottomless pit. Therefore, now Saddam Hussein is borrowing money from other countries, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries, anyway, the war they are waging now is also resisting the spread of Khomeini's fundamentalist movement, and they are fighting for them.

What he said can't be counted, so Zhang Feng, on behalf of the 35th Division, negotiated with his father, and finally agreed to supplement the tank regiment of Ali of the Republican Guard to the 35th Division in an organized manner. However, the 35th Division's other equipment will be left alone for the time being, and the 35th Division can use its own captured weapons for the time being, and only when the finances are relaxed can it provide them with enough Soviet-style weapons.

After consideration, Zhang Feng still agreed to his father's conditions.

Last time in Susangilde, a large number of British-made Chieftaincy tanks and American-made M113 armored vehicles were captured, and Zhang Feng used these equipment, plus the original T-62 tanks and Type 63 armored vehicles, to temporarily arm the 35th Armored Division.

Everyone knows that the 35th Armored Division is the initiation place of His Excellency Qusay, so the ammunition supply of the 35th Division and the department in charge of logistics of the Southern Military Region have also solved the problem for Zhang Feng. Everything else is easy to say, that is, the shells used by the Chieftain tank, and it took a lot of effort to finally solve it.

Zhang Feng knew that all this was temporary, and when the war was over, he would equip the 35th Division with a first-class armored force!

Compared with equipment, talent is also very important, which is why he chose armored Ali. Not to mention, there is also the entire equipment of this armored regiment.

The Soviet-made T-72 tank is a new generation of tanks trial-produced on the basis of the T-64 tank. Soviet-made tanks, in addition to the T-62, the next model is the T-64, but the T-64 applies a large number of advanced technologies, such as automatic loaders, aiming computers, etc., so the T-64 is mainly for internal use in the Soviet army, and it is not very stable, so the next model has been improved, and the T-72 has been equipped with troops in large quantities.

Compared with the T-62, the biggest feature of the T-72 is the use of a 125 mm caliber gun, compared with the previous generation, the firepower has been greatly enhanced, and it can easily penetrate the front armor of several NATO second-generation main battle tanks, including the "Chieftain", and the use of automatic loaders, the personnel has also been reduced to three, and a new fire control system is adopted. Although the T-72's fire control system was still somewhat rudimentary, it was already possible to maintain a high level of accuracy in the "static to motion" or "static to static" state with the use of early ballistic computers and optical rangefinders. The T-72's turret and the composite armor mounted on the front of the hull were effective against armor-piercing shells fired from the 105 mm rifled guns commonly equipped with other tanks.

As the king of land warfare, the T-72 is worthy of its title, and it can be said that any type of tank on the land of the Middle East is not its opponent.

In 79, the T-72M, a simplified version of the T-72, began to be exported to various Warsaw Pact countries, and with good relations, Iraq was also equipped with this advanced tank, of course, equipped with Saddam's most trusted force, the Republican Guard.

Zhang Feng was able to get this kind of weapon from his father, and he was naturally very satisfied. Although he knew that this castrated version of the T-72 was much more simplified than the model of the Soviet army's equipment, and even more ridiculously simplified than the T-64, however, it was still a fairly successful tank, which was somewhat backward against the M1A2, and was simply invincible against the Chieftain, against the M60.

(The T-72 model is further behind than the T-64, but in fact, the T-64 is much more advanced than the T-72, with tail stabilized tungsten alloy (depleted uranium) shell-piercing shells, composite armor, reactive armor, V12 engines with more than 1000 horsepower, two-way stabilizers, automatic loaders, perfect three-defense and automatic fire extinguishing devices, night vision devices and other devices, at that time, the cost was already more than three million dollars.) ）

Sometimes, quality is more advantageous than quantity.

As for the BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle, it is an infantry fighting vehicle equipped with a large number of Soviet tank divisions and motorized infantry divisions, the body of the vehicle is made of steel plate welded structure, which can resist gun bullets and artillery shell fragments, and the frontal arc area is protected against 12.7mm armor-piercing shells and armor-piercing incendiary shells, and the front upper armor is aluminum armor with reinforcing ribs. It adopts a 6-cylinder 300 horsepower diesel engine with torsion bar suspension, driving wheels in front, inducing wheels in the rear, and 6 load-bearing wheels and 3 carrier pulleys on each side.

This infantry fighting vehicle has more powerful weapons, the main armament is a 73mm 2A28 low-pressure smoothbore gun with low recoil, an automatic reloading mechanism, and is fed by a 40-round cartridge disc around the fighting compartment. It is equipped with a fixed tail stabilized armor-piercing projectile. To the right of the main gun there is 1 7.62mm parallel machine gun with an ammunition base of 2000 rounds. There are ventilation devices in the turret for the removal of gunpowder gases from the turret.

In addition to these, above the main gun there is a SEG anti-tank missile monorail launcher with 4 missiles, 2 each stored in the hull and turret. The missile is loaded through the window in front of the top of the turret, with a range of 500~3000 meters, and can only be fired during the day.

It can accommodate 8 fully armed soldiers, 4 people on each side, back-to-back, and personnel enter and exit through the double door at the back of the car. One vehicle in each motorized platoon equipped with this vehicle also carries two SAM-7 individual anti-aircraft missile launchers.

Compared to it, the Type 63 infantry fighting vehicle is simply dirty.

Coupled with self-propelled artillery and self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery, the equipment of such a tank regiment is probably worth the cost of an ordinary armored division. After Saddam Hussein agreed, he still felt a little painful in retrospect.

Ali was very happy, though, and he was eager to go to the battlefield and prove what he was capable of.

The most elite Republican Guard, which is mainly responsible for protecting the security of Baghdad, is to put it bluntly, this force is President Saddam's guard, and it is mainly used to deter elements who have abnormal movements and to quell the rebellion at any time. Therefore, unless the situation on the front line is urgent, the Republican Guard is rarely dispatched to the front.

Moreover, having heard of His Excellency Qusay's achievements, Ali knew that this commander had amazing battlefield instincts, and if he followed him, he would definitely win the battle.

For example, this time, the Southern Military Region took out tens of thousands of Iranian people in a perfect operation, and also took Abadan easily, such a record is enough to make people excited.

No, it seems that it is still a little early to say this, and his own army is going to completely occupy Abadan, but the several squads that arrived in advance have already occupied important positions, and I don't know if I will get a battle if I go, Ali's heart is a little hot.

"Quick, accelerate!" Armored Ali's fat belly was crammed into a "cramped" tank, and the fat on his belly trembled with the bumps, and he was still radio, ordering his tank regiment to speed up and rush to Abadan as soon as possible.

PS: Thanks to Fascis for the tip! I also hope that most of the other readers who like this book will provide East China Zhixiong with various characters during the Iran-Iraq War, the historical information of the Iran-Iraq War is too little, thank you readers for your great support!

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