Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 224 T84
"One last question I would like to ask is how long it will take for this war to end," the Prime Minister asked.This has been the same question he asked at the end of the meeting for three consecutive days.

"One month, at most one and a half months," Singer replied flippantly.

"I suddenly feel a little emotional..." Prime Minister Kahan choked up, "The India that Prime Minister Nehru promised to the people to dominate the world is not too far away from us." Kahan couldn't help himself. As the leader of the BJP, he seldom quotes Nehru or even Gandhi in public, but today, he was clearly agitated.

"Allow me to add," the intelligence chief ventured to interject at this emotional moment, "that if the Chinese want to do something, they are clearly too late. Soon we will be free from Pakistan."

"No, we can't take it lightly." Singer said, he was a little dissatisfied that Charmain took his lines in front of the Prime Minister, but Charmain always spoke his mind.

"Anything new from them?" The Prime Minister turned to Chandra.

"There are some. They announced the list of captives, a total of 20 people. I guess they will not detain the captives for too long, and they may return them to us soon."

"Playing these insidious little tricks shows that they are at the end of their skills. If they really wanted to make a big deal, they would not engage in such sneaky tricks. Besides, I have some good news for you." Singer interrupted The Minister of Foreign Affairs said slightly disappointing words.

"The newly arrived French aircraft and long-range tactical air-to-surface missiles have formed combat effectiveness. Given that the enemy on the western front has completely lost its early warning capabilities, I think the first batch of aircraft can be deployed in the direction of China. It can attack their airfields, bridges, Command creates a huge deterrent."

"Yes, I have every confidence that the military can do a good job," the Prime Minister said, wiping away tears.

A brutal war is still raging in central Pakistan. The hot weather at the end of July made the soldiers of the 7th Armored Regiment exhausted, but they still had high morale.Counting from the early morning assault, they have been fighting for 19 hours, crossed 17 kilometers of the enemy's front line, and destroyed a large number of enemy weapons and equipment. Now, they have finally successfully completed most of the tasks, bringing Pakistan's strategic The troops were stopped.

Battalion Commander Azarid is buried in his command vehicle to receive the information from the drone. Due to the start of frontal combat, the strong electromagnetic interference has been transferred to the other side of the battlefield. Now they can completely receive the information sent by the drone .From the flat-panel display, he could see the location of a Pakistani missile-launching vehicle that the drone had spotted not long ago.In theory, it is impossible for the enemy's speed to get ahead of him.For him, there is no suspense in winning the battle itself. Now the most difficult part of the whole war is how to carefully castrate Pakistan's nuclear capabilities. He knows that the eyes of all major powers are now here.The mobile transportation of Shaheen II is generally carried out in the central mountainous area, but Israel has provided first-hand information to India.Each nuclear bomb contains at least 20 kilograms of high-purity plutonium, and both Israel and the United States hope that they will end up in the hands of extremist organizations in the melee.

At present, those missiles have been intercepted in the mountains, and the drones have roughly locked in a range of hundreds of kilometers. The search work is being carried out by the air force, and the final task of this battalion is to repel all the Pakistani troops who came to respond. .

In the sky, fighter jets are carefully searching the entire mountainous area, while Azarid's tank troops have already occupied the favorable terrain on both sides of the last road, waiting for the enemy who is caught in the net.

"Lieutenant Colonel, the last platoon is out of contact," said the radio operator.

"Maybe it's a signal problem." Azarid said nonchalantly, he didn't believe that the four T4s would encounter any accidents behind the enemy.

"Sir, the latest news is that there are more than a dozen T84 tanks heading south in Multan, less than 12 kilometers away from us."

"Hehe, they must be anxious to rescue those missiles."

Azared said confidently that a few hours ago, he used a roundabout tactic to destroy all the T84s moving north along the highway. Now his fuel is not enough for a large-scale maneuver, so he can't use the same trick. Repeatedly, we can only wait for work on both sides of the road.However, he is confident that even so, it is enough to repel the invading Pakistan Army.Enemy tanks were always maneuvering along the roads, which made him think that the commander of the Pakistani armored forces was only mediocre.

Looking from a distance, a huge cloud of smoke and dust rose from the end of the road, which indicated that the enemy was approaching.They always drove too fast, maybe their commander thought they could escape the air attack, but right now, they crashed into the muzzle of Lieutenant Colonel Azarid so recklessly.

A Su-30MKI flew across the sky, and she made a dive towards the T84 on the road.The plane was out of ammunition, but his actions still frightened the T84 tank company on the road, and more than a dozen tanks suddenly became chaotic and turned around one after another.This scene was seen by Azarid.He saw the barrels of the enemy guns flailing about in terror, which meant that their attention was drawn to the planes in the sky.

"Launch the missile. Then charge the enemy." He gave the briefing order.

The gunner pressed the laser launch button, and the funnel-shaped guiding beam was silently thrown at the Pakistani tanks at the front of the queue. Those tanks 2 kilometers away were still desperately turning left and right to avoid the aircraft in the sky, and they had no real threat. aware.These redundant movements slowed down the tanks and loosened the formation.

In an instant, the Pakistani tanks at the front of the line were overwhelmed by a huge explosion, followed by several behind. The reactive armor on the T84 turret is not effective against the tandem shaped charge warhead of this missile. Most of the tanks hit were penetrated, and only a few survived, but it was inevitable that the observation equipment on the surface would be destroyed.

The Indian tanks that succeeded in one blow jumped out of the bunker one after another.Most of these tanks did not complete the loading of the second round of armor-piercing shells, but the commanders immediately responded correctly and began to impact the blinded enemy with maximum speed.Azarid knows very well how a tanker who has not undergone strict training behaves after being suddenly attacked.Excessive nervousness will leave the commander's mind blank, and he may not know who is shooting at him.Excessive adrenaline will cause the gunner's hands to tremble, and such a hyperactive state is not suitable for aiming at bouncing targets.What he has to do now is not to give the enemy time to breathe, and kill them all in one go.

The reversing Pakistani T84 tank began to fire back. Sure enough, as Azared expected, none of the hastily fired shells hit.Action-to-action shooting is the moment to test the true level of a gunner. He knows that every gunner of the White Tiger Division will not let himself down.

The ineffective counterattack of the remaining 8 Pakistani tanks ended, and the ammunition loading of the rushing Indian tanks was gradually completed.The line of sight of the Indian gunners had already aimed at the enemy tanks that were reversing at a low speed, and only waited for the deviation of the firing line after reloading to shift into place.

A T90 speeding on the bumpy road opened fire first, and accurately hit the Pakistani command vehicle hiding behind. The shells drilled into the vehicle body from under the turret, and the tank quickly burned.The rest of the Indian tanks also began to fire. The superiority in the number of Indian tanks made the remaining T84s have no chance to fight back. The whole battle only took 3 minutes to end.Azarid secretly calculated in his heart that his tank unit had achieved an excellent record of 18 to 30 in less than 0 hours, and this did not include the missile positions and various vehicles he destroyed.He even felt that General Spanga's plan was still too conservative. If he had enough fuel, he could even fight all the way to Multan and turn the Second Army's headquarters upside down.

A light blue fighter jet flew past the battlefield, and the pilot was not interested in taking a look at the situation below, because he had more important things to do.The Indian fighter jet is now in stable level flight, using radar to map the ground.All intelligence pointed to Pakistan's 4 Shaheen II missile launchers somewhere down there, but they suddenly disappeared.

"Shark, have you found it?" the early warning aircraft asked.

"Not yet," replied Colonel Dabrini.

"Their retreat has been cut off, it should be below. Continue to search."

"clear."

This single-seat Rafale fighter jet had just arrived in India. The headquarters believed that such an advanced and expensive fighter jet must be more suitable for the task of finding and destroying Pakistan's mobile nuclear force, so it immediately put it into battle.However, the colonel is very clear that the passive phased array radar of this aircraft is not suitable for searching the ground, and it is quite dangerous to fly at such a low altitude in an area where air dominance has not yet been fully determined.He guessed that there would be at least one mobile anti-aircraft battalion near these tactical nuclear weapons.

"Baobao, I need you to pay attention to my surroundings with 12 points of energy, and don't let an enemy fighter jet sneak over, understand?" The colonel finished speaking to the early warning aircraft, and looked down at the huge display. Obviously, the radar will not automatically recognize it, but the sharpened image can still be easily recognized by the eyes. After all, the chassis of those 8X8s and the missiles on them are all huge.

"Shark, there is an enemy plane approaching at 3 o'clock, lower than you. The distance is 12 kilometers."

Dabrini turned his head and saw nothing. Pakistani aircraft are usually small in size, and if they approach close to the ground, they are even more difficult to spot at this distance.

"It's odd he didn't use the radar."

"Maybe it's an attack plane that broke into the transition. It can be confirmed that it is a Thunder fighter jet and must be intercepted."

"clear."

For Colonel Dabrini, air combat is obviously more meaningful than searching the ground. Not long ago, he suffered a loss in the air on the Chinese border, and he is now eager to get his face back before the end of the war.Now all aspiring Indian pilots are secretly competing. Many people are staring at Colonel Dabrini's newly promoted rank and his record of zero sorties.

(End of this chapter)