Chapter 394： 2 The outbreak of the Iraq War

"Boom, boom." The roar of the engine of the desert camouflage tank echoed in the field.

The unique V-shaped wave shield at the front, the high gun barrel and the cast turret all represent that this is the latest Soviet export tank, the T-72M! The Iraqi army was the first user of this tank! Equip them all to the most powerful Republican Guard in Iraq!

This is the Hammurabi Division of the Republican Guard! As the first unit to change to the T-72, the combat effectiveness of the Hammurabi Division is second to none in the entire Iraqi army! And now, their task is to cross the border and occupy the southern part of Iran! Capture the Iranian towns of Khorramshahr and Abadan!

Such a huge armored force is very spectacular when charging!

A command-type T-72 tank stopped, and a fat commander stuck out half of the body from the T-72 turret, picked up the telescope, and looked at the terrain in the distance.

Lieutenant Colonel Ali Abdullah Sheikhri, commander of the 8th Armored Brigade of the Hamorabi Division in Iraq, his eyes were full of excitement, he had already crossed the national border and entered the territory of Iran! These lands will all be Iraqi land!

Ali was born in a poor family in Tikrit. He was small and thin. After he joined the army, he was assigned to the armored force. After that, his living standard improved significantly. From a bean sprouts body to a fat body full of fat, he was ridiculed by others. Known as "Armored Ali", but his flaws do not hide his flaws. He is extremely talented, especially in the command of armored forces, with rare intuition and talent. He is one of the few Iraqi armored commanders who has entered the French Saint-Cyr Military Academy. , The German Armored School systematically studied the tactics and strategies of the Western Armored Forces.

After Saddam became the president, the soldiers from Tikrit were all selected to join the Republican Guard, and Ali also transformed himself into the brigade commander of the 8th Armored Brigade, the most combative among them!

When they crossed the Iranian border ten minutes ago, the Iranian border guards gave a token resistance and then retreated. No one can stop the T-72 tank attack!

Just thinking about the time when the 125mm grenade easily destroyed the Iranian fortifications, Ali was extremely excited. The Iranians are not the opponents of the Iraqi armored forces at all!

"Attention, the Iranian Chieftain tank was found in front!" Ali's telescope saw the smoke billowing in front of him, and soon, he judged the opponent's tank model, the old-fashioned Chieftain tank!

In some respects, with a combat weight of 57 tons and a tank gun of 120 mm, the Chieftain seems to be an advanced tank made in the 1960s. However, the outdated sighting system and the engine only have 650 horsepower, making this This kind of bulky tank has poor mobility, just like the heavy tanks of the World War II era. If it is all added to the armor, the problem is that in the era when the Chieftain tank was born, there was no concept of composite armor. This kind of bulky The thickness of the armor of the Chieftain tank is generally 80-90mm, and the thickest part of the armor is the front of the turret, which is only 150mm. In this era, such thin armor is simply an appetizer for the T-72. In Hokkaido, the T-72's special armor-piercing projectile can penetrate one meter thick homogeneous armor!

Discovering the Iranian armored troops, Ali was very excited, retracted back into the turret, and directed his armored troops to attack!

Charge, charge! Black smoke came from the tail of the T-72 tank, the high-horsepower engine roared, and the gun barrel was high. At a distance of 1,500 meters, the tank gun opened fire.

"Boom, boom!" With the firing of the tank gun, the Iranian tank on the opposite side was instantly destroyed, and the cast tank turret was lifted off. The scene was extremely spectacular.

"Go around behind the Iranians and wipe out the Iranians!" Ali kept giving orders on the radio.

The charge of dozens of Iranian tanks did not play any role. The T-72 tanks of the 8th Armored Brigade destroyed all the Iranian Chieftain tanks in less than five minutes!

Go ahead, keep going! The battle just now made Ali quite satisfied, Iran is already too weak to be attacked! We have two more hours before we can rush to Khorramshahr! I can rush to Abadan tomorrow, and in half a month, I can reach Tehran, the capital of Iran!

Behind the T-72 tank is the BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle, which is an advanced infantry fighting vehicle introduced simultaneously with the T-72 tank. The body adopts a welded steel plate structure, which can prevent bullets and shell fragments. It is resistant to 12.7mm armor-piercing projectiles and armor-piercing incendiary projectiles, and the front upper armor is aluminum armor with ribs. It adopts 6-cylinder 300-horsepower diesel engine, torsion bar suspension, driving wheel in front, inducer in rear, 6 road wheels and 3 idlers on each side. The maneuverability is very strong, and it can completely keep up with the forward speed of the main battle tank.

At the same time, there is also a 73mm 2A28 low-pressure smoothbore gun on the infantry fighting vehicle, and a SEG anti-tank missile monorail launcher, equipped with 4 missiles, which completely inherits the characteristics of Soviet weapons and has powerful firepower! Even against tanks, you can give it a shot.

Inside the infantry fighting vehicle are the soldiers of the 15th Mechanized Infantry Brigade. In their hearts, they are silently encouraging themselves to destroy the Iranians and regain our own land!

This is just one of the entire army attacking Iran In this military operation against Iran, Iraq is doing its best, and the three-way army is marching from the north, middle and south at the same time!

Due to the terrain, the attacking troops in the north and the center were just feints, and only the troops in the south were the focus!

While marching, Saddam delivered an uplifting speech on TV, facing Iran's export revolution, Iraq has no choice, Iraq is already a modern country with enlightened popular elections, and will never go for a* ****** The road of the savage country! Under the slogan of exporting revolution, hmn is actually doing something even more maddening. It even openly challenged basic international norms and detained or even killed diplomats. This is an act that will be condemned by the whole world! Iraq will uphold justice for the entire Middle East world and get the truth back!

Almost right after Saddam's speech, the White House press secretary also started his speech. In view of Iran's stubbornness, it still does not want to repent, and it continues to kill innocent American hostages. The second stage of combat missions, the ground attack begins! Moreover, if Iran continues to kill the held hostages, then the United States will consider using nuclear weapons against major cities in Iran, including Tehran! (To be continued.) To find this site, please search for "" or enter the URL: