Dominate South Asia

When a navy camouflage truck carrying a long missile drove through Tiananmen Square during the National Day parade in 1984, the foreign guests on board stood up immediately, looked at the missile, and shouted loudly: "Flying Fish, Flying Fish, Chinese Flying Fish!"

This missile is very similar in appearance to the famous Flying Fish missile in the Falklands War, which is enough to excite the foreign guests. However, some people doubt the combat performance of this missile. After all, just hitting a target cannot explain anything. It must be able to achieve results in actual combat.

The first victory of the Chinese Flying Fish was achieved by the Pakistani Air Force.

This missile is inexpensive, and after negotiations, China has exported a production line in Pakistan, allowing Pakistan to mass-produce this anti-ship missile.

Therefore, the Pakistani Air Force can use this missile in large quantities. This time, 30 missiles were launched in the attack!

Flying close to the sea surface, it is difficult to be detected by ship-borne radar. When it is at the end, it performs serpentine maneuvers, which makes it more difficult to be intercepted. The ship-borne SA-N-1 "Goa" air defense missiles cannot effectively intercept it. Only the 6-barrel 30mm rapid-fire guns for close defense can intercept dense rain of bullets by visual aiming.

When all these missiles flew over, less than half of them could be accurately intercepted, and the remaining missiles all pierced into the belly of the Indian warship.

At the beginning, a Exocet missile killed the Sheffield destroyer. This was related to the fact that the superstructure of the British warship was built with aluminum at that time. The explosion caused a fire, which caused the low melting point aluminum to burn. Now, India's warships are all made in the Soviet Union, and the berths where soldiers sleep are all hard iron lumps. They cannot be ignited. Therefore, after the nearly 5,000-ton "Rajput" class destroyer Rana was hit by a C-802 missile, although a large hole was blown under the waterline, after the emergency rescue by the sailors, the damaged watertight door was closed and the seawater inside was discharged, the ship tilted a little. But it can still sail, and it is ready to leave the formation and return to Mumbai for repairs.

In order to protect the aircraft carrier, the other two warships of the same class, the Rajput, bravely sailed to the side of the aircraft carrier and blocked the missiles with its hull. As a result, it was hit by two anti-ship missiles and seawater poured in instantly. The captain ordered a rescue for a night. But the warship could not be saved.

The other Ranjit was unscathed.

The rest of the frigates in the formation, such as the Nilgiri-class frigates of the Indian Navy. This is the British 12M general-purpose frigate, also known as the Leander-class frigate. This type of frigate, which India is authorized to produce, has no anti-aircraft missiles installed at all. Facing the attack of the C-802 missile, it has no power to fight back.

One of them was hit directly by a missile in the ammunition compartment, and a huge explosion occurred. The entire hull was broken into two pieces. The sailors struggled to rescue for more than ten minutes, but the frigate still sank.

This night was the most depressing night for the Indian Navy. Their huge naval fleet was attacked by flying missiles, and four of them sank. Twelve were seriously injured.

When the sun rose again in the east, Major General Ravi Rikje looked at the latest reported loss data and his face was ashen.

Pakistanis! The Pakistanis launched a sneak attack last night! They used anti-ship missiles!

The only lucky thing is that their two aircraft carriers are still intact, and they still have dozens of Sea Harrier carrier-based aircraft. They can continue to fight!

The air defense radar is constantly rotating, scanning the surrounding situation. As long as we don't leave, Pakistan's fighters will definitely come again!

The four escorting Sea Harrier fighters are flying 150 kilometers away from the formation. If the Pakistani Air Force comes again, they will intercept it as soon as possible!

Today's waves are smaller than yesterday. Indian pilots are driving Sea Harriers, constantly scanning the sea and sky in the distance with their eyes. At the same time, the "Blue Fox" radar at the front of the nose is also constantly scanning the sea and sky.

This radar is a development of the "wave" radar equipped on Westland's "Lynx" carrier-based helicopter. As a development model of this helicopter radar, it is very simple and has only 4 operating modes: search mode; air-to-air attack mode; air-to-surface attack mode; aperture mode. It does not have pulse Doppler function at all and cannot detect signals in complex echoes. However, it mainly flies over the sea, where the clutter on the sea surface is much simpler than that on land. Moreover, this radar is compact, light and cheap, so it is used as the airborne radar of the Sea Harrier.

Rather than trusting this radar, it is better to trust your own eyes. Indian pilots can also find targets 20 kilometers away in a clear sky by visual observation.

North of Karachi.

An E-2 early warning aircraft cruises back and forth here, followed by an EC-130H electronic jammer, and on both sides, two F-16 fighters escort on the left and right.

From here, the situation on the sea surface can be monitored. The Indian aircraft carrier formation more than 200 kilometers away is completely under the surveillance of the E-2 early warning aircraft.

The Indians were beaten last night, but they didn't know to retreat immediately! Now, our Tomcat fleet has completed preparations for another attack, and the other five Tomcat fighters have also completed improvements to their fire control systems and can be equipped with C-802 missiles.

After several hours of hard work, at dawn, these ten Tomcat fighters once again became anti-sea attack mounts. Each fighter was equipped with four C-802 missiles, two Phoenix missiles, two Sparrows and two Sidewinders.

In addition to having a strong anti-sea attack capability, it also retains air combat capabilities. This is the charm of heavy fighters.

After the early warning aircraft checked the sea surface, the Pakistani Air Force was dispatched again.

Flying over the northern land, when entering the sea, they lowered their altitude again. Under the command of the early warning aircraft, they circled to the west for dozens of kilometers to avoid the patrolling Sea Harrier fighters of the Indians.

If you want to have sea control, you need to have air control. Therefore, aircraft carriers are a must for a strong navy. If there are no fighters, you can only rely on air defense missiles to passively counterattack. With carrier-based aircraft, you can defend against the enemy. And if you want to have air control, you first need information rights.

India's small aircraft carrier can only take off and land Sea Harrier carrier-based aircraft. It has no air early warning means at all, and it is difficult to detect fighters flying close to the ground. This shortcoming made the British Navy suffer enough in the Falklands War. If Argentina had modern third-generation fighters, the outcome of the Falklands War might have changed.

Bypassing these four Sea Harrier carrier-based aircraft, the formation continued to fly.

"Attention, distance 120, prepare to pull up, jammer support." The E-2 early warning aircraft's instructions came from the headset.

"Received, pull up!" Rick responded on the radio.

Following Rick's order, ten Tomcat fighters turned on the thrust in unison, swept their wings to the minimum, leaped up to more than a thousand meters in the air, and then dived down. The radar officer in the rear cabin had already relied on the airborne radar to skillfully lock the opponent's warships.

This time, there is no need to use data links for transmission and distribution. The few remaining Indian warships will usher in their final fate in this round of attacks.

The only thing that the Indian Navy could detect was the remaining sea-to-air search radar on the Ranjit, but when the Rick pulled up, the entire fleet was subject to strong electromagnetic interference.

The radar screen was covered with snowflakes, and when the anti-interference measures were activated and the screen became clear again, nothing was found.

Electromagnetic power, information power! Only with these can you win! The tactics of the Indian army are completely backward!

Now, Pakistan's technology is not advanced enough. If the information of the early warning aircraft can be directly imported into the fighter through the data link to provide the launch data for the C-802 missile, then the Tomcat fighter does not need to pull up and lock, but only needs to continue to fly level and launch missiles.

Pulling back to low altitude, each fighter fired the four C-802 missiles it carried. When the missiles were detached from the rack, the entire fighter felt lighter.

Looking at the sea outside the cockpit, Rick continued to give orders: "Team 1, kill the patrolling Sea Harriers!"

"Understood." After receiving Rick's order, pilot Sarad said, and took his wingman, turned and flew towards the four Sea Harriers.

"Prepare the Sparrow missiles." At this time, the four Sea Harrier fighters were divided into two double-plane formations, flying in the north of the ship formation, and they were not at all alert to the coming danger.

"132, why don't we use the Phoenix?" The voice of the wingman pilot came from the headset.

"The backward Sea Harrier fighters of the Indians are not as valuable as our Phoenix." Sarad said: "Execute the order!"

The APG-71 radar scanned the sky in the distance, and the distance between the two sides was rapidly closing. Through the data link, the radar information of the leader was synchronously displayed on the screen of the wingman.

At a distance of 30 kilometers, two Tomcat fighters suddenly pulled up from low altitude, climbed high, and accelerated!

The range of the missile depends on the altitude and speed of the carrier aircraft. The higher the altitude, the smaller the air resistance, the greater the speed, and the greater the initial speed after the launch.

When the two fighters climbed higher, they were immediately discovered by the radar on the Ranjit in the difficult electromagnetic interference. Unfortunately, they only discovered it and could not notify it at all, and the communication was interfered even more severely.

The four Sea Harrier fighters were still flying in the form of two double-plane formations, and they had no idea that two Sparrow missiles were already flying towards them! (To be continued ~^~)