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So far, Kuwait has purchased a total of 150 Chinese PLZ-45 self-propelled guns

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So far, Kuwait has purchased a total of 150 Chinese PLZ-45 self-propelled guns
2018-12-11 16:01:29
https://www.toutiao.com/a6633642657413333512/
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Military fans know that the PLZ-45 is the best self-propelled artillery currently sold by the northern Chinese industry. It sold 27 to Kuwait in 1997, and in 2001, Kuwait added 27 more, with a total of 54. (Three battalions); In 2008, Saudi Arabia ordered 54 orders at a time. In 2013, Algeria ordered 18 more orders... The cumulative export volume has exceeded 150!

In addition, the average unit price of China's exports of PLZ-45 self-propelled artillery is about 7.1 million US dollars, equivalent to nearly 50 million yuan, many people feel expensive, but in fact still do not understand the system configuration of PLZ-45 self-propelled artillery.

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A PLZ-45 self-propelled artillery battalion is not only 18 artillery pieces. The supporting system also includes: 1 battalion command vehicle, 3 fire command vehicles, 9 front-end observation/search vehicles, 2 engineering rescue vehicles, and weather radar vehicles. 1 vehicle, 1 ballistic radar vehicle, 18 ammunition supply vehicles, 4 mechanical maintenance vehicles...

Zero and zero total total, a PLZ-45 self-propelled artillery battalion is about 50 vehicles, the value of this 9 billion flowers! Of course, the PLZ-45 self-propelled artillery is sold well, not only depends on the supporting vehicles, but also has two important indicators that attract attention.

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The first is the fire coverage intensity. The Chinese PLZ-45 belongs to the 155mm large-caliber self-propelled artillery. Each launch vehicle has 30 rounds of ammunition, with a maximum range of 40 kilometers. The fastest rate of fire is 5 rounds per minute. In theory, the maximum killing of a single shell is The radius is 60 meters (more than 10,000 square meters), and a PLZ-45 self-propelled artillery battalion of 18 artillery pieces can smash 90 rounds of artillery shells into enemy positions within one minute. The fire coverage area is about 1 million square meters... It is said that Saudi Arabia can use a PLZ-45 self-propelled artillery to smash a 600-strong town in 5 minutes.

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The second is a very easy to use air conditioner. At that time, the competitors encountered by China PLZ-45 at the Kuwait tender was the self-propelled artillery of the United States, the United States and Russia. After various levels of assessment, the performance of the artillery in various countries was good, but only the military air conditioner of China PLZ-45 was the best. So in the end, Kuwait selected the PLZ-45 self-propelled artillery.

In this regard, many people think that the local tyrants in the Middle East are enjoying themselves, so they will choose the air-conditioning equipment, but this is not the case. The average temperature in the Middle East can reach more than 40 degrees. If there is no air conditioning, the internal temperature of the armored vehicle will exceed 50 degrees.

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When the soldiers are hot, they can run out to cool off, but the instruments in the car are not so lucky. If it is exposed to high temperatures for a long time, even if the instrument does not malfunction, the life will be greatly shortened. It is said that 20% of the tank armor life in the Middle East is shortened in relation to high temperatures.

In the bidding process of the year, military air conditioners in countries such as the United States, Britain and Russia could not work in a 50-degree high temperature environment, and Chinese air conditioners could still operate normally in a 55-degree high temperature environment. Therefore, it has won the favor of the Kuwaiti military. So who produced this military air conditioner in China?

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In fact, in the 1980s, China did not have military air conditioners at all. At that time, the Western media still ridiculed that Chinese equipment was installed with civilian air conditioners. For example, some warships and external air-conditioners with external air-conditioning were really embarrassing.

Since then, China's civil air-conditioning production company Hefei Swan Refrigeration Technology Co., Ltd. has begun to focus on military air conditioning, and finally successfully launched China's first military air conditioner in the early 1990s, which not only has three anti-functions (anti-nuclear, chemical, biological weapons) ), but also can work normally in a 75 degree temperature difference environment, so you can kill foreign air conditioners!
 
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150 for a small country like Kuwait that has no apparent enemies right now to fear?

@Khafee your take?
 
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150 for a small country like Kuwait that has no apparent enemies right now to fear?

@Khafee your take?
After being occupied by Iraq in 1990(well for a while), Kuwait regarded national defense security as a top priority.

After you have been robbed by a robber, you will attach great importance to security issues.
 
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After being occupied by Iraq in 1990(well for a while), Kuwait regarded national defense security as a top priority.

After you have been robbed by a robber, you will attach great importance to security issues.

Yea but it's 29 years too late to buy them right now. Iraq right now isn't the Iraq of 1990. Must be for other purposes, just don't know what or which.
 
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Yea but it's 29 years too late to buy them right now. Iraq right now isn't the Iraq of 1990. Must be for other purposes, just don't know what or which.
Those who are always militant(Warmonger) will put themselves in danger, but those who completely forget the war will perish.

-----China Sima's Art of War (Published 356-320 BC).
 
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