Rebirth of Military Workers

Chapter 318

“A lot of your country’s equipment has been purchased from our country, why do we need us?” Xie Kai suppressed his inner excitement, forced himself to calm down, and asked the Iraqis.

Zheng Yucheng and others, who were looking at the Iraqi needs list with excitement, also calmed down.

Iraq has business dealings with other domestic weapons and equipment factories. After knowing that the two countries are interested in China’s cheap and practical weapons, Iraqi and Iraqi weapons and equipment factories produced various weapons and equipment from the Soviet Union, and then imitated them. Weapon procurement team came to the door.

Now Harry Mossang proposed that 404 people help purchase domestically, which is totally unreasonable.

“We are different from other troops in that we only purchase equipment for our own use.” Isad did not give much explanation. “Similarly, we need to negotiate with you on the purchase of all weapons and equipment. The plan is based on What you proposed, we will configure the weapons according to your side…”

“But our combat unit is based on a brigade. All the equipment of a brigade is about 500 to 600 million US dollars. The price is naturally different for different configurations.” Xie Kai’s eyes narrowed.

A trip of 500 million U.S. dollars, Xie Kai didn’t know how to get out.

The Iranians prepared 500 million U.S. dollars for the organization of a brigade. Xie Kai uses the funds in the hands of the Iranians as the base price.

At that time, as long as an agreement is reached, once a country is interested in this plan, it will sell the complete set of weapons and equipment.

The equipment of a brigade is 500 million U.S. dollars.

These include armored vehicles, tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, artillery units for support, and even ground attack missiles modified by Hongqi-2…

“A brigade of 500 million US dollars?” Ibrahim frowned. “Even your offer just now did not reach a brigade of 500 million US dollars!”

“This includes ground attack missiles used to provide tactical support!” Xie Kai said. “A ground-to-surface missile with a range of 200 kilometers, carrying a 500 kg warhead, and striking accuracy can reach a range of 150 meters…”

“What’s the price of this missile?” Isad was full of suspicion.

Can China’s missile strike accuracy be so high?

“US$650,000. Mobile launch!” Xie Kai said calmly, “You can see the finished product in three months.”

“Is it a theoretical thing again?” Ibrahim looked at Xie Kai with a wry smile, “Is there a finished product for the things you sell?”

“Our domestic military industry, you should be very clear. The national strategy is tilted towards economic construction…” Xie Kai didn’t mind the other party’s ridicule.

This is the fact.

In the 404 base, the time to develop these projects is too short.

And weapons and equipment need to be accumulated over a long period of time.

Many projects are emergency plans, and they also take time.

“Before seeing the samples, we signed a contract of intent at most, except for the 359 tank, we can sign a procurement contract.” Ibrahim and the others did not entangle too much with the missile.

The Chinese don’t provide samples, they can’t see the finished product, and they give too much money, which is completely impossible.

“No problem. For the 359 tank, up to now, only the integration of the tank is left. When you see the tank prototype, you can see other things.” Xie Kai looked at Zheng Yucheng, and Zheng Yucheng said affirmatively.

The 359 tank, once the contract is signed, is also hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

“We hope that your tank shells can be used in common with Soviet shells…” Isad made the condition again.

Iraq’s domestic equipment comes from the Soviet Union, and now there are some equipment from Western countries with the same caliber. If the specifications of the shells are not the same, they cannot be fired.

“These are not problems. Many of our weapons and equipment are common to the Soviet Union!” There is no need to consider the common use of artillery shells.

The foundation of China’s military industry was built with the help of the Soviet Union. At that time, Western countries imposed a technological blockade on China, making China’s industry completely imitating the Soviet Union’s technological model.

Naturally, there is not much difference in the specifications produced.

With the same caliber, the shells only need a few changes, even the shells of the 122mm howitzer do not need to be changed.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“Whether it is a shell or a bullet, we are common to some of the Soviet Union.” At present, the domestic Bayi automatic rifle still uses 7.62X39mm bullets. The only difference is the warhead.

With the same specifications, sharing is not a problem.

The 81 type is originally an improvement of the 56 type, and the 56 type is an imitation of the Soviet SKS semi-automatic carbine. Both use M43 intermediate power bullets.

There is no problem in sharing. The only problem is that the warhead is different, which will have a great impact on the service life of the barrel.

Small-caliber rifles are about to be born. China’s firearms will use 5.8mm, which is different from the Soviet and NATO standards, and export 95 will face these problems.

Throughout the Middle East, there are a large number of M43 bullets, and the number of reserves is even much larger than that of China. It is estimated that it will not be enough to fight another world war or two.

“What about the price?” Ibrahim began to raise the price question.

Equipment procurement, prices and additional conditions are important factors that affect whether the two parties can achieve cooperation.

“A $3.2 million car is far cheaper than the T-72, and it is stronger than the T72 in terms of defense and attack.” Zheng Yucheng quoted the price.

The original price is ready to sell to 3.5 million US dollars.

Whether it is a stable image fire control system or some other core technologies, it is more advanced than the T72, especially the Chobam composite armor on the armor, which is incomparable to the corundum composite armor of the T72.

In the end, in order to win this business, Zheng Yucheng gritted his teeth and cut the price of one by 300,000 US dollars.

“You have a lot of additional conditions!” For this price, the Iraqis cannot accept it.

Even if it is much cheaper than the Soviet offer.

“If you agree to settle all payments in cash, we can lower the price to 3 million US dollars! This is like a loan, which requires interest!” Xie Kai originally counted 2.5 million US dollars.

Some things, sold too cheaply, make people feel that their performance is unreliable.

“We pay 30% of the cash at most.” Ibrahim shook his head and said.

“Then, at least 3.2 million cars. And the oil price must be at least 20% lower than the international market.” Xie Kai said, shaking his head.

Anyway, now Iraqis don’t care about oil prices.

The cost of mining by Chinese companies in the past will certainly not be too high, and it is impossible to have no profit on this.

“Thanks, you are too greedy.” Ibrahim discovered for the first time that the young man in front of him was so greedy.

The price of tanks has risen, and the price of oil has been reduced.

In the end, the price they pay may even exceed $4 million per car.

“We are not the Soviet Union, and we will not develop tanks to reduce rations and sell them to your country, nor will we only sell obsolete tanks to you like the United States.”

“Your Type 69 only costs half a million dollars.”

“The Type 69 main battle tank is only the first generation. We are now talking about the third generation of the main battle tank. Equipped with an image-stabilizing fire control system, it has a 125 mm caliber smoothbore gun and has an armor-piercing capability of more than 500 mm. More than the first generation tank…” Xie Kai said with a look of contempt. “And international oil prices have been falling since the early 1980s until now!”

Isn’t this nonsense to compare the first-generation tanks with the third-generation tanks?

When the Iran-Iraq War broke out, international oil prices even reached a high price of 39 US dollars per barrel. So far, it has been reduced to about $14.

Xie Kai knows that this year, international oil prices will have a more substantial drop, reaching about US$10 per barrel. Although the Iran-Iraq War is going on, the fighting between the two sides is not fierce enough, coupled with other oil-producing countries desperately expanding production capacity, the international economy is sluggish, and oil demand growth is weak, even if the two major oil-producing countries, Iraq and Iran, reduced their oil production , The price is still falling.

“What if half of the cash is paid?” the Iraqi gritted his teeth and asked.

“If we pay for oil at a 20% reduction in the current international price, we can still deliver it to you at the price of 3 million cars,” Xie Kai said.

The current international oil price is about US$14, a 20% reduction. Even when the oil price is the lowest, 404 will not lose too much.

A barrel of oil is only 11.2 US dollars. When it recovers, it will make a lot of money.

500 million US dollars, more than 40 million barrels of crude oil.

Once the price reaches $20 a barrel and then sells, the 500 million of 404 will earn hundreds of millions of dollars more.

The oil field is controlled by 404. When the price is low, the output is reduced, and when the price is high, it is natural to work hard to mine.

The follow-up order involves more than one billion U.S. dollars. If the Iraqis paid for oil during the outbreak of the Gulf War, the 404 would have been profitable.

The Iraqis are silent. They can’t call the shots on this matter. They must report it back to the country, and the domestic decision will be made.

They have no objection to the price of million each.

The oil transaction price proposed by Xie Kai is fixed, so it is natural to disagree.

“Iraqis are not fools. As long as oil rises again, we can earn more…” Wang Guilin understood the purpose of Xie Kai.

International crude oil prices have fluctuated too much since the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War.

The Iran-Iraq War has been fought for more than four years, and OPEC’s current increase in oil production is far greater than the reduction in output by Iran and Iraq.

“Risks and benefits coexist. If we want to get more funds, we must do this. In order to obtain these equipment, the Iraqis, even if they know they are at a disadvantage, can only accept it. They owe the Soviets the equipment money, so that the Soviets will not Willing to provide more weapons and equipment… The Soviets’ appetite is far greater than ours.” Xie Kai knows better than anyone.

This is his advantage. He understands the development of history and knows where others are weak.

Iraq and China should have reached an agreement to purchase a large number of Type 69 main battle tanks. They themselves also know that the performance of this type of tank is too poor.

In order to maintain the number of tanks, they had to.

Under such circumstances, a batch of advanced tanks must be purchased to make up for the loss of combat effectiveness.