In Paul's view, no matter how advanced the weaponry is, if it is handed over to a group of pigs, it is also a group of pigs.

It is impossible for a group of pigs to beat a group of lions, and even a lion cannot beat it.

But it also has to be said that after the fighting in Salah al-Din province, Paul refreshed an intuitive impression of the Iraqi army.

The troops in front of them are not all without combat effectiveness at all, and they are also fighting relatively well against the Islamic State forces.

In his eyes, such an army is worthy of being a strong army that is detached from bureaucracy.

But if you want to compare the army in front of you with the U.S. army, or with the world's first-class army, Paul is not optimistic about such an army at all.

"At least their ranks are all very neat so far, but I heard that there have been no rehearsals before this, and if this is placed in our army, there is no army that can do it." St. John shook his head and said with some regret.

"Combat effectiveness is not to look at parades and performances, we have never had a decent military parade, but our combat effectiveness, do we still need someone to prove it?" Paul said with some amusement.

"I understand what you said, but I think that no matter what, such an army should not be underestimated, they are definitely more terrible than the several ace troops under Saddam Hussein's command at the beginning." St. John said.

"Perhaps, at least in terms of the overall force structure of the Marin Division in front of us, it has completely reached the world-class level, and the complete formation of armored troops, as well as the theater air defense system and battlefield radar monitoring system connected with the medium, far and near, can completely allow the ground troops. In a quick assault. It still maintains theater air defense support for its own troops. ”

Paul did not contradict St. John's words. Instead, he gently rubbed the beard on his chin with his fingers, and said slowly: "In terms of firepower, the establishment of such a structure has exceeded the establishment of one of our heavy divisions, especially the ground artillery and long-range rocket artillery systems, once our army faces such an opponent, in terms of long-range firepower, it will be completely suppressed." This is not good news. ”

As soon as Paul's words fell, a convoy of anti-aircraft missiles and long-range rocket artillery in front of him was passing in front of his eyes.

The next thing that appeared was the tank killer who was on the trailer, being dragged by a heavy truck, and the long barrel of the tank killer was even a little longer than that of a truck trailer.

The tall body sat on the heavy truck, which was a little higher than the front of the heavy truck, and the self-propelled gun, which weighed nearly sixty tons, caused huge cheers as soon as it was unveiled.

In particular, tank killers have guns with a caliber of up to 172 mm on the ground. It's simply the level of a giant cannon.

This made Paul, who was born in the army, look at the neat rows of self-propelled guns up close. I feel a little chill in my heart.

On the battlefield, especially in modern times, infantry is worried about precision shelling under the guidance of artillery drones, in addition to snipers hiding in the dark.

You must know that the shelling in the current war environment is not the era of World War II, when all firepower could only be relied on to achieve lethality.

Rather, if a few soldiers get closer, they may attract a precision artillery shell fired from dozens of kilometers away.

In the era of precision guidance, it is no longer the era when veterans are afraid of guns and new soldiers are afraid of guns, but all of them are afraid.

"What do I think, the future science and technology group in the development of weapons and equipment, compared with Russia and China, is simply far surpassed, this era has also made such a huge caliber artillery, will not be a waste of firepower?" Paul said with some oddity.

St. John said with some amusement: "Perhaps, they like this kind of directness and violence of the king of the army, and watching the fierce artillery fall on the enemy's position can also improve the morale of their own soldiers, the Iraqi army obviously needs such morale, and also needs this kind of fierce artillery fire to give the soldiers courage......

"It's kind of funny, but I'm afraid that in fact, it really needs to be like this, and I really want to say a moment of silence for their opponents." Paul said.

When the two were communicating, the team had come to the rear, and there were also neat rows of heavy trucks, but this time it was no longer self-propelled guns, but all main battle tanks.

As soon as the Rhino main battle tank appeared, it once again attracted the cheers of everyone in the square.

Although none of these tracked weapons and equipment have walked in front of him, the narrator has already explained that the Marin Division will soon be the first to go to the battlefield in the north, so the tanks are all dragged by heavy trucks, not by themselves.

And although it is sitting on a heavy truck, the huge body of the main battle tank brings a sense of pressure to people, but it is like an innate temperament, full of fury and strength.

This is the fact that the Iraqi government army has purchased hundreds of Rhino main battle tanks, but the main battle tanks passing in front of everyone in front of them seem to have no end.

A simple comparison, that is, a little less than the Warrior assault vehicles and those infantry fighting vehicles, but the lack is also very limited.

Because in front of the queue are twelve heavy trucks driving side by side, and there is a tank behind each heavy truck.

The rows of tank teams seem to have no end, and the already long heavy trucks stretch the length of the team.

A full forty rows of such a convoy gives people a sense of continuity.

"I heard this tank is very useful." St. John spoke.

"Who did you listen to?" Paul said.

"Didn't you see the reports from the U.S. instructors and staff officers in the Iraqi Defense Forces?" As he spoke, St. John looked at Paul with a puzzled look on his face, and said: "The instructors we arranged for the Iraqi government army are the soldiers who are responsible for assisting the Iraqi army to learn to use the Abrams main battle tank, and they have driven this main battle tank many times, and they have given high praise to the operating system and fire control system in it, and even said that they are not inferior to our M1A2SEP...... at all."

"In fact, for this main battle tank, the Ministry of Defense has conducted many analyses, based on the achievements of the Future Technology Group in the field of high-tech, this Rhino tank is indeed a very good main battle tank, excellent means in terms of weapon systems, as for other data, all are somewhat modest, the power of the artillery and the protective performance, and not to the point of excellence." Paul commented.

"But this is enough for the Iraqi army, and the main thing is that they can equip more than 600 of these main battle tanks in such a short period of time......" )