Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 210 A Loophole

At this time, two F[-] patrol planes are alternately monitoring the Indian frigates approaching the Indian coast in the air, and reporting their positions from time to time. This is quite dangerous. This low-speed turboprop patrol plane must be careful when taking off from Bhuj Fortunately, the Indian navy and air force lacked coordination capabilities, and such a situation has never happened.

The intelligence officer at the Mesur base has drawn the positions of the two frigates on the map. Of course, this position is constantly changing. It can be seen that the two ships are traveling southward 2 nautical miles apart, like some kind of anti-submarine search.Due to the same coordination problem as India, Mesur's air force base is also unknown. At this time, the navy is sending out conventional submarines in an attempt to get close to the Galasiva; The frigate in the north blended in at the edge of the radar search range. Of course, this required superb low-altitude flying skills. It seemed that only Sami and the only J-15 here could complete such a task.When the colonel was still young, his highest record was four consecutive dispatches in one day to expel those Soviet reconnaissance planes sneaking close to the Pakistan/Afghanistan border through the mountains, but his anti-ship experience was not so complete. He once strafed the inflatable boat of the Indian pilot who fell into the water in the sea, but he has no experience in concealed approaching and launching anti-ship missiles; on land, there are always some undulating terrains that can be used, while on the sea, you must fly lower some.And under normal circumstances, the boundary radar on the warship will see fighter jets first, but fortunately, the air defense capability of the dock-type landing/transport ship itself is almost zero.

The colonel put on his anti-G suit and walked to the fighter jet, and patted a thick missile under one wing. He felt that the missile just arrived from China seemed to bring luck, otherwise it would be difficult to explain the messy attack in the morning Plan, there will be an amazing ending, of course, compared to the loss of 4 top pilots and 2 precious aircraft (another J-[-]BS ran out of fuel and fell into the sea because of avoiding the R[-] attack), such a gain There is nothing to be particularly proud of.

It’s only been 8 hours since the feint attack in the morning. During this period, the colonel hasn’t rested much. He has been studying Major General Islam’s new ideas.But the plan to attack the Galasiva, which was slow and laxly defended, seemed feasible.The colonel struggled to climb into the cabin and waited for the order to take off from his superiors.He could see that Major General Islam stood in the command tower and took a look here, then quickly avoided his gaze.All morning, the major general avoided himself on purpose.

"Captain Black Spider, get ready to take off." The major general's hoarse voice came from the radio.

"clear."

"I am very saddened by what happened to Major Hamid and I just hope you understand the significance of this attack."

"clear."

near the coast of Gurirat.

The huge dock-type landing ship Galasiwa is slowly moving southwards off Kampard Bay. Her temporary destination is the coast near Silvasa, which is closer to Mumbai and protected by S[-] missile positions. .In the morning, the Pakistani attack really frightened the Southern Naval Command, and then began to shrink the fleet off the coast of Karachi, especially those large warships with poor air defense capabilities that served as deception missions for the Army's offensive. It is obviously not good to continue taking risks. worthy.

The captain, Colonel Hanaled, has been in the bridge bridge, anxiously waiting for news from the Trisul to the northwest.After 9 o'clock in the morning, the frigate has been sending out submarine warnings, but has not found the exact location. This makes the captain very anxious. He knows that the fleet's air defense and anti-submarine capabilities are not complete. In principle, his formation should at least have 18000 anti-aircraft destroyers, but the current formation is not complete.Intelligence agencies always underestimate Pakistan's capabilities, but judging from the morning's actions, the enemy still maintains a strong strike capability.If it wasn't for the fact that the Villant was more valuable, those long-range fighters would probably run towards him.In the list of capital ships of the Indian Navy, the Galaxiva ranks third.It is conceivable that the enemy's attack target sequence list is roughly the same. Now the Vilante, which escaped unharmed, has left Cochin without a trace, and the Vikramaditya, which has the strongest combat effectiveness, is still hiding in the Bay of Bengal for training.Obviously, the enemy's eyes will fall on this [-]-ton warship that is close at hand.

"Perhaps it was a false alarm? An alarm?" Colonel Hanaled said.

"If there is a submarine, we should have thrown it away." Vice-Captain Slim said at the chart table. He has been studying the possible positions of the enemy. Vasa was close to 6 nautical miles, and Pakistan's conventional submarines were not that fast.

"But planes flying from Karachi may breach our air defense network."

The deputy captain bowed his head and said nothing, he knew it was true.The air defense capability of the Talwar-class frigate is not outstanding, and in fact the anti-submarine capability is so-so. The outstanding capability of this kind of ship lies in the 8 club missiles with a long attack distance. Air-submarine attack.

"If they have 10 attack planes going up, can we hold them off?" the colonel continued, as if asking himself.

"They don't have so many planes, do they? They only found two in the morning."

The colonel didn't speak. He picked up the binoculars and looked towards the northwest. He could see the blurred outline and flickering lights of the Trisur in the distance. Obviously, if the enemy took off a few planes, they would definitely break through there.But his defense ability is really stretched.

"I don't know why they suddenly became stronger," the deputy captain said with a shrug. "We always thought that we maintained a tacit agreement not to attack each other with the enemies in the south."

"It's just that their weapons didn't arrive. Now that the Pakistanis have Su-30s, it's definitely bad news for us."

"If you don't count the submarines, it's the worst news."

"Report to the captain, Puna's fighter jets have already taken off."

Hanaled put down the binoculars and glanced at his watch. Those MiG-21s could only stay nearby for a few minutes when they flew here, and the enemy's border radar along the coast would see it, so it wouldn't do much.

"Maybe they're not interested in us. The formation they attacked Cochin passed us in the morning and didn't take action."

"It's better to be careful, hitting a big ship is good for their political propaganda, so we may well be in their sights by now."

"What should we do if the Chinese dispatch the Flying Leopard Squadron at the Shamsi base?"

The captain snorted contemptuously, obviously dissatisfied with the deputy captain's pretended naive question. "It goes without saying that we are bound to face catastrophe. But the Chinese should not act rashly for the time being."

"They can say that those planes were operated by Pakistani pilots. Such an excuse is not difficult to find, so this possibility cannot be ruled out. In war, what is impossible?" said the deputy captain.

"So it's hard for me to understand that the Naval Staff would agree to let the Army lead the war. Instead of taking away the Navy's MiG-29 fighter jets, it would make us dangle under the enemy's nose at great risk to attract their attention Power. It is really a misguided behavior."

"However, we can more or less attract a few of their infantry divisions and stick them firmly in Karachi." Slim said lightly.

The captain continued to shake his head, apparently disagreeing with the deputy captain: "After the war, all the credit will belong to the army, not our navy. Have you ever thought about this? Our efforts will be forgotten by history , instead people will say that we did nothing in the course of the war. If you study the Army's plan, you will see how sinister the plan is."

"Captain, report from the Trisul. In the direction of 300, we found a formation of enemy planes. There are dozens of them. They are flying towards us."

"Dozens?" The colonel was a little unbelievable. He knew that there were only "dozens" of aircraft available to Pakistan in the entire south.

The communicator paused for a while, obviously waiting for a new report from the Trisul. So far, the Galasiva's own sea/air search radar has not found any targets.

"The target disappeared. It may be the electronic jamming of Trisul by a patrol plane in the northwest direction. For several hours, one of them has been following us in the air."

Colonel Hanaled gradually let go of his suspicions.In the distance, the coastline of Maharasht can already be seen.Now the enemy shouldn't be able to play any tricks, right?
Three MiG-3s flew over the warship in a neat triangular formation, as if they were participating in a review. These planes would probably drive that nasty F21 away.

"The situation will be better when destroyer D61 joins our formation." The captain raised his head and said, the protection of these planes is nothing to him, but he thinks that at least today, his warship will be fine today.

At about the same time, Sami's single plane was approaching the Kempard Bay in Gujarat at an ultra-low altitude. A few minutes ago, the F27 patrol plane used jamming equipment to conduct a short-term jamming of the sea and air search radar of the enemy frigate on the periphery. The jamming continued until The appearance of the enemy MiG-10 stopped it, which allowed Sami's J-[-]B fighter jets to break through the enemy's not very strict air defense network.Galasiva's own air defense capabilities are not worth mentioning, but the Russian-made radar on the Talwar class is not easy to deal with.

Launching anti-ship missiles is no stranger to him, in fact, it is more calm than launching air-to-air missiles. He doesn't know how much damage two Eagle Strike missiles can cause to an 2-ton warship. According to the original plan, two planes must launch the attack, but the wingman pilot Abbas has no experience in sea attack training (Sami himself experienced), so the final stage exited the attack plan.

The colonel hesitated to turn on the radar power, and searched in the general direction.This is much easier than searching for a 50 ton tank on the ground.The radar immediately established a track, and the old man predicted that the big ship was about 30 nautical miles away.The ship was traveling parallel to the south about 10 nautical miles away from another anti-aircraft frigate, and the frigate should have seen itself by now, but it was too late.Sammy pulled up a little.The radar warning equipment can show that the pulse of the search radar on the enemy frigate is appearing repeatedly, but the illumination radar of the SA-N-[-] is not aimed at itself.He still has time to speed up to extend the distance out of range and release some chaff interference to delay the opponent's fire control response.
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