The rise of great powers: starting from military industry - #167 - Chapter 167 The latest news in the Middle East (please vote for me)

Production workshop.

At this time, the main gun has been installed in the turret, and engineers are installing the fire control system.

They have to accurately assemble 15 kilometers of wires in place without making any mistakes.

Liu Tao is constantly using the system to scan.

Because it is not a dedicated tank production workshop, but a temporary one, and many parts have to be delivered by Liu Tao himself, the production speed of tanks is not fast.

When all the parts are complete, it takes so many people ten days to assemble a tank.

In the beginning, it took twenty days or more to assemble a tank.

These engineers were all transferred from Factory 256 and participated in the production of tanks in advance.

Similarly, in another production workshop, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns are being produced.

“This wire is connected wrong!” Liu Tao said.

After the engineers checked it, they quickly made corrections.

Also being installed are weapon stabilization systems, turret control systems and numerous sensors.

Finally, the turret work is completed.

Begin lifting the turret with a crane and attach the turret to the chassis.

Workers then began testing the entire vehicle to ensure all systems were functioning properly.

Finally, the tracks were installed on the tank, and the entire tank was finally installed.

Liu Tao jumped into the cockpit and drove the tank out of the production workshop.

After driving the system, he naturally knew that this tank was not perfect. On the contrary, there were many problems.

Strictly speaking, this is not a production-qualified tank.

But he didn’t long for engineers, because it was not easy to do this.

Every time he reached this step, Liu Tao used his own method to drive the tank for a stroll, and then repaired the defects.

Liu Tao drove this newly produced Type 80 tank. As the experience bar continued to increase, he continued to repair defects.

The next day, he drove the tank to the military camp and handed the Type 80 tank to the synthetic battalion.

Just when Liu Tao was about to stay in Hesheng Camp for a while, he was informed of a call from his superiors.

Liu Tao hurried back to the office and dialed the number of the Fifth Machinery Department immediately.

Half an hour later, the call from the Fifth Machinery Department was finally answered.

The call was made by Wang Baoguo. In addition to informing him of the latest situation of the Iran-Iraq war, the biggest news was that Al took the initiative to contact Liu Zhenbang and urgently ordered an additional batch of artillery shells.

Although most of the artillery and tanks used by the Iraqi army are weapons and equipment made by the Soviet Union, the artillery shells and tank shells are not purchased from the Soviet Union, but from China, because various Chinese artillery shells are obviously much cheaper than the Soviet Union, and they are not as expensive as the Soviet Union. That’s an opportunity to increase prices and gain greater influence.

Liu Tao had a bright smile on his face when he heard the good news.

This is indeed good news.

Not long after the first batch of goods was delivered to Persia, Persia gave a second batch of orders to purchase a large number of weapons and equipment, and Iraq also came to purchase!

Now that the Iran-Iraq war has lasted for more than a month, Persia has blocked the full-scale offensive of the Iraqi army, instead of being defeated continuously as it was at the beginning of the war.

Faced with Iraq’s powerful offensive, the Persian army responded hastily, and its air force attacked 16 targets in Iraq. The ground forces adjusted their deployment and moved toward the border, gathering 7 divisions and 2 brigades on the front line, in addition to a large number of Revolutionary Guards.

The focus of Persian defenses was on the northern front to guard the main channels and delay the Iraqi army’s attack.

Obviously, the Iraqi armored forces did not work hard at once, and they did not have eye-catching tactics after being blocked from the offensive.

Soon, both sides will fall into a stalemate, which is a brutal war of attrition.

Before the war begins, both sides may feel that the weapons and ammunition they have prepared are sufficient to win the war. But when the war begins, both sides will find that the consumption of weapons and ammunition exceeds imagination.

Even though Iraq had previously purchased a large amount of weapons and ammunition from Liu Tao, the consumption of weapons and ammunition was still unexpected. Now Iraq’s ammunition can only be used for another month. The originally prepared tank shells and some Soviet-made artillery shells have basically been consumed. .

When the Iran-Iraq War broke out, the international oil price exceeded 40 US dollars/barrel. You must know that at the beginning of the year, the international oil price exceeded 30 US dollars/barrel. Europe and the United States complained a lot, and the people were quite dissatisfied. Even the United States had to withdraw from its oil reserves. A large amount of oil is needed to stabilize oil prices. At this time, Iran and Iran are buying weapons and ammunition from Europe and the United States, and the European and American countries are not willing at all.

China has become the best choice here.

Tanks, artillery like those in Iraq, even Soviet-made artillery shells, can be purchased from China, because China’s current weapons and equipment are basically imitations of Soviet-made artillery shells, and China has all kinds of Soviet-made artillery shells.

Some of the artillery shells that Persia needs are not available in China, and the size of the artillery shells is different. But Persia has the money, so it can just buy cannons and tanks directly, and then purchase the artillery shells.

“When the cannon goes off, there is ten thousand taels of gold. This is true!” Liu Tao put down the phone and sighed with emotion.

The war has only started for more than a month, and both sides have to purchase weapons and ammunition. Otherwise, if the war continues for another month, both sides may be trapped in the dilemma of having weapons but no ammunition.

This is the shortcoming of non-industrialized countries. Many of them have to be purchased.

Unlike industrialized countries, when fighting a war, they can rely on their own military factories to continuously produce weapons and ammunition, and the production rate is even faster than the consumption rate.

If a non-industrialized country goes to war with an industrialized country, the industrialized country will ultimately win.

In this regard, China has always insisted that industrialization is the right path!

“Although the war has only started for more than a month, Persia has suffered heavy losses!” Although Liu Tao did not know the details, he was still shocked when he heard what Wang Baoguo said initially.

The Iran-Iraq war broke out, Iraq launched a full-scale offensive, and Persia organized border defense.

Iraq dispatched 5 divisions and two brigades of ground troops, more than 1,200 tanks, and about 50,000 people. They were all elite Iraqi troops. They launched a rapid attack on Persia in three directions: north, center, and south. Although Persia assembled 7 divisions and 2 brigades on the front line, as well as a large number of Revolutionary Guards, it still could not stop Iraq’s fierce attack.

Now Iraq has occupied 20,000 square kilometers of Persian territory and controlled a narrow strip of land on the east bank of the Shatt al-Arab River, with an invasion depth of 90 kilometers in the south.

If the Persians were not afraid of death and had the superiority of the air force, plus the fact that Iraq penetrated too quickly after winning the initial battle, and the logistics supplies could not keep up with the progress, and the unfavorable terrain slowed down the attack, it is estimated that the Persians really will suffer greater losses.

But even so, Iraq still surrounded Abadan, the Persian oil center, and the initiative on the battlefield was still firmly in Iraq’s hands.

In terms of losses, Persia’s losses were far greater than those of Iraq.

Many arsenals were either bombed by Iraq, or they were blown up by themselves because they were defeated and did not want Iraq to seize supplies.

And this is also the reason why weapons and ammunition are consumed quickly on the battlefield, not only because they are used by soldiers, but also because they are destroyed in large numbers.

Next, we need to adjust the publishing time. Many chapters have been reviewed recently, so we need to allow enough review time.

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