On March 11, 1985, a major event that shocked China and the West happened throughout the world.

The Soviet General Secretary, Chernenko, passed away. Gorbachev, the new leader of the Soviet Union, officially took office as the first general secretary of the Soviet Union. He became the helm of the red empire.

How will the Soviet Union go after Gorbachev comes to power? The whole world is paying attention.

In contrast, the news released by Iraq's oil minister in the Middle East is less concerned.

Due to the recent increase in oil production, Iraq's oil workers are already very tired. The full-speed operation of Iraq's oil industry has also brought new security problems. In order to make Iraq's oil industry operate healthier, Iraq needs to gradually reduce oil production.

Now, the international oil has long been saturated. In the futures market, no one is willing to speculate on medium and short-term oil futures worth less than ten dollars per barrel. If there is no profit, they may have to lose money.

In this case, the unknown institution in the East started a new action again. With the funds they had accumulated, they collected the futures in the market because, they knew that the price of crude oil was about to start to rise.

Subsequently, Saudi Arabia and other countries began to reduce production. The increase in production beyond their production capacity can last for several months, but it must not be continued forever.

Therefore, although the United States is a little dissatisfied, they cannot make severe criticisms of Saudi Arabia and other countries and allow them to continue to increase production. American oil merchants have been waiting. British Petroleum still couldn't hold on and sold one-tenth of Texas shares to help them overcome the difficulties. This batch of shares was immediately divided by American oil companies.

At the same time, an agreement that was scolded by countless British people as stolen by the country was leaked in unknown ways. When the British Energy Minister was on his way to Iraq, he signed an agreement with the other party that was not beneficial to the United Kingdom. The Energy Minister was unable to argue and accepted media questions all day long.

Iraq's actions were rapid. Iraq's funds entered the UK and acquired shares in several important British companies. Now, the UK is promoting the short-term privatization of a large number of state-owned enterprises. The UK has allowed Iraq's funds. Naturally, Kusai will not refuse this kindness and help British companies overcome their difficulties. Kusai has an unshirkable responsibility.

Moreover, because BP has been seriously injured in this struggle, in addition to selling part of Texas shares, the UK also sold 5% of its shares in Oman. This share was first acquired by Kusai.

Recently, Kusai is in a good mood, especially today.

At the shooting range of the ** Armored Regiment in northern Baghdad, Kusai is interested in reviewing the shooting training of his most trusted armored troops.

Ali's armored regiment played a great role in the last time Baghdad suppressed the rebellion. After that, it was stationed at its original station and played the task of protecting Baghdad's security.

Alibaba's main equipment is still their original T-72 tank. However, the fire control system of this tank has been improved by Iraq, and it has the same excellent imaging night vision instruments and other equipment as the new T-72 tanks produced from the production line.

Ali, who was erect, smiled and watched Kusai get off the car and immediately greeted him.

"President Kusai, you are welcome to inspect." Ali said.

"Our troops have drawn a group of soldiers to supplement other armored divisions, and their combat effectiveness has not decreased, right?" Kusai said.

"Of course not. Most of the new soldiers have the level of education in junior high schools, which is even more useful than those of me. When using weapons, they will be able to master them soon." Ali said.

As the proportion of advanced weapons in the Iraqi army is increasing, and as the popularity of Iraq's education has been revealed, Kusai has to thank his father Saddam. Almost all the newly recruited soldiers have a junior high school degree.

Therefore, Alibaba discovered that when these newly recruited people, they soon became more skilled than veterans when they operated new equipment.

On a T-72 tank next to it, several tank soldiers were handing the new shells transported from the truck into the tank from the top of the tank.

"Amir, you made great contributions this time." Kusai said to the people around him.

Amir brought back the first batch of weapons from the Soviet Union, and the gun barrels had been shipped to the tank manufacturing plant to be installed on newly-developed tanks. The shells were equipped with the elite First Armored Division, the Fourth Armored Division and the Sixtyth Armored Division. Among them, the first two Armored Divisions were originally equipped with T-72 tanks imported by the Soviet Union, while the Sixtyth Armored Division was gradually equipped with Iraq's own T-72 tanks.

As the ** armored regiment that mainly maintains the stability of Baghdad, it does not require the most advanced ammunition. Therefore, this time, the ** armored regiment was only equipped with 100 of these Soviet shells each for self-used by the Soviet Union.

After hearing that the ** Armored Regiment was equipped with smuggled shells, Kusai was suddenly very interested and brought Amir, who was reporting to him about the execution of this mission, to the nearest Armored Regiment base to see the effect of this shell.

Ali personally got into the T-72 tank. This time, since President Kusai was inspecting it himself, he would naturally be the one who performed it himself.

Two thousand meters away, several simulated targets were already there. This time, they were just experimenting with the power of the tank gun. Therefore, those targets were composed of homogeneous steel plates, divided into 400 mm and 600 mm thick.

"Prepare, an armor-piercing bomb." Ali issued an order to the gunner while operating the fire control system to aim at the target.

The automatic ammunition filling machine turned and an armor-piercing projectile that was slapped in the first position was stuffed into the cannon chamber.

This is an Iraqi steel core armor-piercing bomb, which aims at the target of a 400-mm steel plate.

"Boom!" The body of the marching car trembled. When the shell was fired, they did not stop. Since they had the ability to shoot during the marching, they had to use the maximum potential of their equipment.

After the firing was completed, the barrel of the gun was automatically lowered to four or five degrees, and the packaged projectiles and cartridges were lifted by the ammunition lifter, and the bomb pusher was stuffed into the barrel chamber. Then, another shell was fired.

Kusai looked at the performance of the tanks with a telescope and felt quite satisfied. They were shooting during the journey, and the interval between the two shells was less than ten seconds, while the theoretical rate of fire of t-72 was eight rounds per minute.

Although he knew that tank shooting of this kind of performance nature was operated by the most well-trained people, he also knew that since Ali could operate tanks to this level, then every group of tank players in the armored regiment had this level, and he knew Ali's ability.

I have a pointed head, and I want to drill in!

The first steel core armor-piercing projectile drilled out of the gun barrel and flew in a nearly straight line. Soon, it accurately hit its own target. Ali's gunner aimed very accurately.

This is a head-on battle! The steel core of the armor-piercing bullet is being stuffed inward, and the steel plate is also trying hard to block the penetration of this kind of thing. The speed of the steel core is getting smaller and smaller, and it is getting more and more difficult to wear.

Finally, when the tail of the steel plate was already bulging, the steel core armor-piercing bullet could no longer penetrate and remained helplessly on it.

Then, another tungsten alloy armor-piercing bomb flew to the front of his target. The 600-mm thick steel plate was a piece of steel more than half a meter thick! The armor-piercing bomb was drilling inward and drilling inward. Its pointed tip easily pierced into the steel plate and continued to move forward.

Suddenly, it felt like it loosened its head and had already passed through the steel plate. At this time, it also exhausted its last strength and left the second half of its body in the steel plate.

Ali's tank was driven to the front of the target. What he feared the most was that his shell was not hit, and that would be looked down upon by President Kusai.

Of course, on the other hand, this new armor-piercing bomb is said to be powerful, but he still doesn't believe it can penetrate 600 mm thick steel plates, which is a distance of 2,000 meters!

He was stunned when he jumped out of the tank.

The armor-piercing bombs he equipped did not shoot through the 400-mm thick steel plate. This was something he had prepared for. For tanks that had been equipped with his armored forces for several years, he was familiar with all the data of the tank.

However, another imported armor-piercing bomb seems to be too abnormal, right? It is a steel plate of 600 mm thick! The exposed tip seems to be sneering at the armor-piercing bomb next to it. Look, the gap between the Soviet Union and the exported ones is quite huge!

Then, Kusai took the field car to the front of the target and saw this amazing comparison result. He was also very shocked. The difference between what the Soviet Union provided to the outside world and what it used for its own use was too big, right?

If Iraq had the performance of weapons used by the Soviet army in later Gulf War, it would not have ruined the reputation of the T-72, right?

Two thousand meters away and six hundred millimeters deep, this is just a tungsten alloy armor-piercing bomb. If it were the Soviet depleted uranium armor-piercing bomb, it would probably be even more perverted.

"Amir, you have made great contributions for us!" said Kusai.

"President, look, this kind of armor-piercing bomb has only been equipped with a hundred of us and distributed to each tank, which is only a single digit. Should we be equipped with another batch?" Ali said.

"That depends on our equipment minister." Kusai said. This experiment strengthened his determination to bring back the Soviet Union's family. How many good things are there in the Soviet Union's arsenal!

Just when Kusai was sighing about the original Soviet weapons, he didn't know that something big threatened Iraq's interests occurred in another place...!~!
Chapter completed!