In fact, this is only the research and development cost. If calculated during the war, it would be even more. The cost of modern warfare has been calculated since the Iraq War. At that time, the US CIA report confirmed that modern warfare is really

It's not something that people without money can afford.

The development and procurement of weapons and equipment is only one of the many tasks involved in preparing for war. Once these equipment truly begins to enter the battlefield and become a war machine, the burning of money will accelerate significantly.

Since the "September 11" incident in 2001, as of February 2005, the United States has accumulated additional funding for the "war on terrorism" of US$346 billion. The high-tech war carried out by the US military and its coalition forces consumed a large amount of US dollars. During the Iraq War

When an armored division or infantry division of the U.S. military alone is attacking at full speed, it consumes an average of 5,000 tons of ammunition, 2,000 tons of fresh water, 80,000 tons of food, and 600,000 gallons of fuel every day. If the cost of equipment losses is included, these figures will be even greater.

In the first 15 days of the most intense fighting, hundreds of thousands of American and British troops spent hundreds of millions of dollars every day. On the first day of the war, the United States spent 300 million U.S. dollars. In this war, due to the special nature of the military operations,

In order to meet the needs of ground combat, each soldier is also equipped with self-equipped equipment worth nearly US$7,400. According to statistics, a US soldier’s combat uniform is worth US$56, a bulletproof vest is US$1,584, a helmet is US$139, and a field backpack equipped with infrared equipment is US$400.

An M4 rifle with a scope costs US$900, a rocket launcher and a flashlight cost US$920, and a night vision device costs US$3,500. In just half a month since the war began, US-British joint fighter jets dropped more than 8,700 precision-guided bombs and missiles, which cost at least US$1.1 billion to launch.

The average cost of a Tomahawk cruise missile is at least US$1.2 million. In the first 15 days, a total of 700 missiles were launched. This alone is equivalent to throwing 86 tons of gold into Iraq.

The war in Iraq continues to this day. Although the main war operations have long been declared over, the huge consumption is still increasing day by day. Although different agencies have different conclusions based on different calculation methods, these huge numbers only illustrate one problem. The impact of the war on

Both the United States and Britain are a heavy burden. The U.S. Congressional Budget Office recently released a research report stating that from 2003, when the U.S. and British troops entered Iraq, as of June this year, the United States and Britain have invested approximately 5,000 troops on the Iraqi battlefield.

~1 U.S. dollars. The U.S. and British coalition forces spend an average of nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars on the Iraqi battlefield every month, which is equivalent to 4,000 U.S. dollars per second. If calculated separately, the British spend an average of 160 million U.S. dollars on the Iraqi battlefield every month, which is

62 U.S. dollars per second. In 2007, the United States will allocate 36 million U.S. dollars to the United Nations Refugee Agency, which is not enough to cover the three hours spent by the U.S. and British coalition forces on the Iraqi battlefield.

Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize winner in economics at Columbia University, believes that the total investment by the United States in the Iraq War will exceed two trillion U.S. dollars. This means that on average, every American citizen, including children, will

The New York Times also pointed out that during the preparation stage for the Iraq war, U.S. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld estimated that the total cost of the war was only about 50 billion U.S. dollars. Now, if the U.S. military stays in Iraq for one more second, U.S. taxpayers will

It costs $6,300 more.

War is a continuation of politics, and the development of military technology and equipment is also a gradual process. Every step of the war and the development of the army must be paved with huge amounts of money, even if it is just the update of equipment. From this perspective, war

In addition to spiritual confrontation, the competition between the two sides is also a battle of financial resources. After all, poor soldiers cannot resort to force. Li Cong also understands this truth. Although the group now has sufficient financial support, Li Cong does not want his group to fall into trouble because of the war.

Dilemma.

In a war, heavy troop groups fighting fiercely, long-range missiles for precise assaults, sea formations chopping waves, new fighter planes flying in the sky, various satellites in deep space, etc. are indispensable and important elements for a perfect war picture.

.If viewed from another perspective, these tanks, warships, aircraft, satellites and other equipment consume not only fuel and atomic energy, but also money. In the eyes of people who are good at calculation, the development and actual combat application of war and military technology and equipment

In fact, it is a whirlpool that swallows money. The term "main battle equipment" is no different from the gold-swallowing beast.

People who can calculate the cost of war generally look at the problem rationally. Americans could not grasp the cost of war well in the past, so they did not calculate it this time. What they want is to give people like Europa a blow in the head and make them understand.

Who are they fighting against? Do you have the ability? Their fighter planes are already over Spain at this time. Compared with Bulgaria, it is very different. Spain can be said to be a key point in Europa, although it may not be as good as Britain, France and Germany.

There are three main constituent countries, but it is also a very eye-catching member among the second-tier countries.

Spain (Spanish: reinodeespa) is a country located in southwest Europe, bordering Portugal on the Iberian Peninsula to the west, the Bay of Biscay to the north, France and Andorra to the northeast, and Africa to the south across the Strait of Gibraltar.

Facing Morocco. Its territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, and Ceuta and Melilla in Africa. The coastline is about 7,800 kilometers long. The territory is mountainous and is the highest mountain in Europe.

One of the countries. In modern history, Spain was an important birthplace of culture and became a global empire that influenced the world in the 16th century. Spain is a moderately developed industrial country in the world today and has a relatively complete market economy. Its national production

The total value ranks among the top among European countries, but the per capita level is not high in the EU.

The Spanish Royal Air Force (spanishroyalairforce) is one of the original armed forces of the Kingdom of Spain. It is a component of the air force of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It implements an integrated air defense system. It is mainly responsible for homeland air defense and supporting ground force operations. In 1911, Spain established the Army Aviation

The army and flight school. In 1914, the design and production of aircraft began. In 1927, the Army Air Force had 600 aircraft. In 1936, the Spanish Civil War broke out. The Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Germany and other countries provided aircraft or sent aviation units respectively.

The troops supported the air operations of both sides in the civil war. On November 9, 1939, Spain established the National Air Force. During World War II, training was strengthened and a number of air force academies were established. At the same time, a small number of troops were sent to participate in the Soviet-German combat operations.

After the war, a defense cooperation agreement was signed with the United States. The United States provided modern combat aircraft and trainer aircraft to help train air and ground personnel. In the late 1960s, it was equipped with F-5 and "Phantom" fighter jets. In the 1980s, it was equipped with F-5 fighter jets.

Type 18 aircraft. A large number of F18s were upgraded in the late 1990s. After the formation of Europa, the Spanish Air Force also achieved tremendous development. Now the Air Force has a total of more than 270 combat aircraft belonging to the leadership of Spanish local governments. In Spain, oh

There are also two large Europa air force bases on the country, which contain at least 350 combat aircraft. This is where the Americans are fighting against the Energy Group Air Force this time.

When the air force of the Americans and the Energy Group were still 300 kilometers away from several military bases in Spain, the Spanish Air Force, which had not experienced a war, immediately took off. The two air force bases of Europa also dispatched more than 60 fighter jets, which were far from the number.

They have the upper hand, but the pilots of the Americans and the Energy Group are both time-tested, and their combat experience is not comparable to that of these Spanish rookies.

The war started over the Iberian Peninsula. A large number of Europa fighter planes were mixed with the coalition forces of the United States and the Energy Group. Due to the performance of the aircraft, although the Energy Group only had dozens of aircraft, they achieved results.

The largest, and the one with the smallest casualties. On the contrary, the Europa Air Force suffered the most casualties. Many rookie pilots immediately launched their air-to-air missiles when they saw the enemy, regardless of whether they had any effect, as if launching missiles was just a procedure.

, has not experienced the baptism of actual combat, and it is very rare to be able to use half of the usual training to fight. Unfortunately, most armies can only exert less than one-third of their strength, so the results show quickly.

Out.

Less than half an hour after the handover between aircraft, the U.S. Naval Aviation Force retreated after losing 21 aircraft, successfully destroying an air force base. Even with precautions, the entire base still suffered thousands of casualties. The Energy Group Air Force suffered the least casualties.

Only five aircraft were lost, and the remaining aircraft returned quickly. Among the Europa air forces, especially those managed by the Spanish local government, the losses were the greatest. 51 of the 190 aircraft that took off were shot down, and two of them were shot down.

It was caused by our own people crashing into our own people. There were five or six other planes that could only fly back staggeringly, and two more were missing. It was probably more serious than bad.

The more than sixty aircraft belonging to the Europa Central Air Force are pretty good. At least they started fighting with the Americans. They didn't just come up like flies on the brow. After losing more than a dozen aircraft, they followed the Americans. It's just that

Maybe they don't understand the reason why they should not pursue the enemy when they are poor. The second batch of more than 50 American fighter jets has long been waiting for them. Naturally, the result is that after the Europa Air Force lost more than 20 aircraft, it only had less than three

The ten planes returned to their original base. When they landed on the runway that was quickly cleared for them, they found that some of the ground crews they were familiar with before could no longer be found. A missile actually hit the ventilation facility of the air raid shelter. Several

Hundreds of people were suffocated to death in the air-raid shelter. After that, the pilot was directly promoted to the third level, but the rest here were all filled with grief.

It seems that Europa has never been victorious in air battles. After this battle, the morale of the Americans has greatly increased. From their perspective, some of the defeats they encountered in previous years seem to have disappeared. Europeans have always said that they

How come their own army has become elite? Now it seems that it is no different from some of the second-rate troops they encountered before, and it is even worse than those second-rate troops.

Although they achieved victory in the air war, the troops attacking Gibraltar did not seem to have any intention of calling back. After all, the attacks of some air forces could not damage Europa, just like the air raids on the United Kingdom during World War II. What they ultimately brought to the United Kingdom was

It's just a small loss. As long as they can persist, I believe there won't be much results. But Gibraltar is very important to them. As long as they can win here, they will control the Mediterranean again. Although the energy

The fleet of the group can enter the Mediterranean, but it can only threaten the southern part of Europa, instead of being able to enter the Atlantic Ocean at will as it is now.

Tens of thousands of troops began to attack under an order. Battles with huge crowds had not happened in the past ten years, but they happened today. There were even fierce hand-to-hand battles in the Gibraltar area. The cruise missiles of the Europa Navy were like

Firing frantically towards the position like no money, the helicopter dropped all the ammunition it had on the American soldiers' heads again and again.

Even though they are all the ace troops of the United States, they were a little dumbfounded when they faced such an attack. They are all newcomers. Although they wear the hat of the ace army, they are not the same army decades ago after all.

, when the casualties reached 5,000 people, there was a retreat in some places. Fortunately, the people who supervised the battle team were still good at doing things. After shooting more than a dozen deserters, they finally knew what to do. They just occupied

In Gibraltar, do they have any escape route? Of course there is none, they can only persist.

With the sea behind them, do they want to swim across the Mediterranean Sea to the African continent on the other side? Just when they could no longer hold on, the sound of a large number of helicopters came from the sky. The first one to appear was the ny Wu-01 helicopter.

A burst of rockets and hundreds of planes were fired at the Europa army that was charging over, leaving Europa with hundreds of corpses and dragging more than a thousand wounded and starting to retreat. Several armored vehicles were still smoking, inside

There are also soldiers who are crawling out. They won't think about the so-called honors at this moment. As long as they can continue to live, they may do anything.

Then behind these helicopters were Chinook helicopters carrying 8,000 African regiments. A large number of soldiers quickly took over from the Americans to defend the defense line. At this moment, they were not divided into any energy groups or the United States, at least at this time they

We are brothers in the trenches. A large number of American wounded have been treated. The remaining American soldiers seem to be energetic. They work together with the soldiers of the Energy Group to defeat the attack of countless bosses today. At least there is half an hour of peace now.

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"Thank you so much for just now. If you hadn't arrived in time, we might not have been able to hold on." The current top commander here, Colonel Huck, the commander of the US Army's ** Brigade, said. At this time, on his uniform

There is no more glamour, now it is just one word, dirty.

"We are allied forces. Our air forces have just cooperated well once. This time we have to continue to cooperate. In fact, we can only defeat them once. The rest of you are still the main force because of their ***.

The eight thousand people we can come over are actually our limit. To alleviate the situation here, we still have to rely on your Atlantic Fleet. Didn't they say anything about supporting you?" The 1st Armored Division is still about 60% strong at this time.

Although the combat power of Europa caused tens of thousands of casualties, if the assistance from the energy group had not arrived at this moment, their ammunition would probably be in trouble. So what Zhang Xiucai said, he was already a member of this batch of reinforcements.

Commander.

"Although the Atlantic Fleet came with the army, I don't think their main target is us. It would be good if we can get up to 10,000 reinforcements." He can also predict their future situation. Now

But this is not the time when they are wealthy, and it will be very difficult to transport this army.

"The things above are beyond our control. My mission here is to help you defend. This time we brought some 127mm artillery. The number is not very large, only 35, and the shells only have two bases. Here

You are more familiar with the terrain, so you should take command." Although the 1st Armored Division has heavy firepower, these 127mm artillery may not have much effect, but now most of the Europa charges are based on human forces, and those 155

Millimeter or even larger-caliber artillery is not very effective at the moment. Besides, they don’t have many artillery shells. Of course, those shells have to stay and wait for the enemy tanks and so on. At this time, these small-caliber artillery

It's a timely help.

"Great, in fact, there are a lot of artillery shells for the two bases. Look, these Europa troops are going crazy. Now they want to take action against us before the arrival of the Atlantic Fleet, and they don't care at all.

For the casualties on our side, we can kill several of them with our artillery shells, and almost none of them miss." The US military commander said excitedly. Now he is very happy to give more bullets to people like him.

Just now, we have given them one million rounds of ammunition and some other things. To be honest, this is also the largest transportation capacity of the energy group. After all, I don’t know what the situation is in Corsica, at least that

We need to get more anti-aircraft missiles on the border.

While these two people were still talking, an artillery shell exploded not far from them. Several American soldiers went straight to the sky. They hadn't even eaten yet, because the food had just been received from the soldiers of the Energy Group.

past.

"It's the Reims main battle tank." Zhang Xiu knew a little about Spain's main weapons. Then several people fell down. The most important thing finally arrived. Looking over, hundreds of tanks were about to rush forward.

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The Land tank was specially designed for the Spanish Army. It is actually a reduced version of the Leopard 2 tank. It has considerable firepower, mobility and protection. It is 6t lighter than the Leopard 2 and meets the requirements of the 50-ton class. The main features of this tank

The cost of components is low and the development cycle is short. The chassis of this vehicle can be used to develop armored rescue vehicles, engineering vehicles and bridge erecting vehicles.

In early 2004, the Spanish Army proposed the need to equip about 400 to 800 new 50-ton main battle tanks to replace and supplement the old tanks currently in service. For this reason, many manufacturers submitted bids, and the final four models to choose from were the Federal Republic of Germany tanks.

Rolls-Maffei's Land Tank, the French Ground Weapons Industry Group's improved OF40 tank, and finally the Lance main battle tank entered their sights. There are only less than 700 vehicles in total, and there are more than a hundred in front of you.
To be continued...