Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 238 Mi 35
After a long wait, the Indian fleet began to maneuver northward, and quickly moved away from No. 411, which was dormant on the seabed.Judging from the tracking information over the past few hours, this fleet seems to be taking an S-shaped route along the coast. It seems that they are not sure whether they have mastered the air.

No. 411 was unable to increase its speed to catch up with the Indian fleet sailing at high speed, and could only watch them disappear.However, from the movement of this passing fleet, Marin was keenly aware that they might turn back north to attack Karachi once.In other words, it will pass in front of the submarine in the near future.If they had gone straight back to Bombay, the 411 would have had no chance, but that would have made it difficult to explain why the Indian commander took such a fancy route.Marin stared blankly at the electronic chart, guessing every possible move of his opponent.

"They may go back to Mumbai or Cochin." Deputy Captain Sun Xiangdong said aside.

"I don't think so." Marin still insisted. "If they returned to their home port from the Gulf of Oman, they could have gone further. Why did they come here?" He seemed to be asking himself.

"Maybe it is to avoid the surveillance of the US military," Sun Xiangdong said. "The other possibility is to test the response of the coastal air force. In any case, their commander is a coward."

"I think so too, it shows that they are more worried about Pakistan's air force than us."

"So we still have a chance?"

"That's right, if you calculate the difference in radius between the Sea Harrier or the Thunderbolt fighter, it's not hard to come to the conclusion that they are looking for a suitable location, so... just like the last war, wandering in the offshore sea from time to time to test. "Marin said to himself.

"The last war?" Sun Xiangdong asked. He didn't remember that the Villant had participated in actual combat before.

"At that time she was still called 'Hermes'," the captain explained, "so in essence, technology will determine tactics, so based on the short range of the aircraft, the tactics of this battleship will not be much different from 30 years ago He will bite the bullet and come back, it should be a painful decision for that cautious captain."

"30 years ago?" Sun Xiangdong stuck out his tongue. He was only 3 years old that year. "Comrade captain, what are you going to do?"

"When we get here, we lie in ambush on the bottom of the sea," he pointed to an area about 350 nautical miles south of Karachi. "I'm sure next time it won't just slip out of range of our weapons."

"This aircraft carrier is notoriously lucky." The deputy captain reminded restrainedly.Since Marin mentioned the history of this ship, he should naturally know the luck of this famous ship; as early as when participating in naval battles from April to June 1982, the Hermes was repeatedly broken through by the Argentine Air Force at that time. net, but in the end there was no major damage.Sailors have been superstitious since ancient times, and many people believe that a ship's luck is inherent.Of course, technically speaking, it is not easy for submarines to block a fleet that is erratic in the ocean, unless there is very accurate information.But now, No. 4 is almost black in both eyes.

"Luck is not a sure thing, we can wait and see."

"This matter has to be decided by the political commissar. In another hour, it will be his turn to be on duty."

"I can't wait for an hour. I'm going to find him now. You immediately make a new route according to my plan and turn around to Karachi. Also, let the torpedo cabin check the heavy torpedoes."

"Are you going to use torpedoes?" The deputy captain was a little surprised. From the perspective of range, anti-ship missiles seemed more suitable.

"Of course torpedoes are used. This is a big 2-ton ship. Hitting [-] anti-ship missiles will not even affect her speed, and it is easy to leave identifiable debris. But detonating a torpedo under the keel , the situation is different." After Marin finished speaking, he smiled strangely, and then got out of the command cabin to find the political commissar.

"Really dare to think?" The deputy captain opened his mouth wide and watched the captain disappear at the end of the aisle.

4000 kilometers away, Lin Huaisheng's virtual war is going on quietly.After the enemy exposed the main direction of attack, he has put his mobile forces and all reserves into the Darjeeling line of defense. What he can rely on is the 100-kilometer vertical defense zone of Sikkim.Of course, if the opponent rashly uses the airborne force, it will be a very risky behavior.Pasade set up the military headquarters of the 3rd Army there, which shows how much it attaches importance to.As a contested place that even a layman can find out on a map at a glance, its military value has begun to decline, because any attempt to this area is difficult to achieve suddenness.This is also the main reason why Lin Huaisheng did not take the Xiguli Corridor as the target of the first phase of capture in his original plan.

At the same time, XZ, XJ, and most of the airports in Qinghai were under partial surveillance by Lin Huaisheng. The director allowed him to call an A6I early warning aircraft and two Su-50 equipped with electronic reconnaissance equipment six hours after the exercise started. With limited reconnaissance, although the radar on the Red Fang Snow Mountain can't see everything condescendingly, it can still be detected if the other party has a large-scale mobilization.

With the launch of A50I, the red team began to exert large-scale electronic interference.This was an expected move, but Lin Huaisheng found that although all the battlefields were not adjacent to each other, the enemy's electronic interference did not miss the easternmost Jabuwa Airport.This made him suspicious again, but most of his cards have already been played, all the troops are still on the way, now is not the time to regret.

"Send the mobile radar unit to all predetermined directions to make up for the blind spots of the long-range radar. Especially the low-altitude part." He immediately issued a new order.He has some legal low-altitude radars with better anti-interference ability, which can well defend against the breakthrough of helicopters or drones.

"The red team is airborne." Lao Ding immediately sounded the alarm.

"where?"

"Around Jabwa, 5 minutes ago. There is a fierce battle at the moment. 15 seconds ago, the communication was interrupted."

"How could there be no warning for such a large transfer?"

"I guess it's from Burma. Their plane flew over the Gaoligong Mountains?"

Lin Huaisheng froze there, he found that he had been fooled by his plan.He was actually the first to put forward the bold plan of airborne across the Hengduan Mountains, but Xu Jingzhe has been noncommittal about this plan that violates international norms. In the end, Lin Huaisheng himself lost the confidence to propose this plan again and again.

"Damn it, did they settle the diplomacy?" he muttered to himself.

"I don't know, but this exercise doesn't include diplomacy." Old Ding replied, was Lin Huaisheng, who is not very fond of food, asking himself.

Over the next two hours, control of the Jabwa airport finally changed hands.The desperate attack of the Red Air Force made Lin Huaisheng's plan to send fighter jets to destroy the airport failed.Subsequently, Lin Huaisheng mobilized nearby ground troops to counterattack, but the air force of the red side exerted force again.The scale of its investment in the air force is at least four times that of the Eastern Indian Air Force controlled by Lin Huaisheng, and it has firmly grasped the air supremacy in one fell swoop.

The director department did not give Lin Huaisheng special attention. Given that the background of the play was set as the Indian Air Force was deeply trapped on the Western Front, since the beginning of the exercise, he has only received very little supplementation. The only areas where he can secure air supremacy are Tezpur and A section of the Sigurd Corridor, the latter is completely guaranteed by the S300 system, and the red side does not seem to be in a hurry to do something with this surface-to-air missile system.

"They drove our artillery out of range." There was bad news. The long-range howitzers sent to attack the runway were destroyed by preemptive fire due to poor mobility and taking too long to deploy.Moreover, the red airborne troops were not lightly armed. Their mobility and firepower were close to that of ordinary infantry in airborne chariots. The reserve troops around Jabuwa could not resist and retreated one after another.

"So there is a division here," Lin Huaisheng smiled wryly. There used to be a division fully equipped with infantry fighting vehicles, but now this division is in Kashmir.Right now, he can only use the exhausted air maneuver tactics to send Losang Zhaxi's special forces into the battle to seize the airport.For the time being, he doesn't know what the red team will use Jabuwa's runway to unload, but he knows that as time goes by, the red team's strength will become stronger and stronger, and finally become unshakable.As a battalion-level special operations force, Luosang Zhaxi cannot resist for too long.

"How long will it take for the armored forces assembled by Tespur to rush over?"

"The highway is currently open, it is estimated that it will take 7 hours." A staff officer said. "But now there is only one battalion of tank units."

"As long as they don't have armored forces, one battalion is enough." Lin Huaisheng said that the advantage he can currently rely on is the transportation capacity of the C17 transport aircraft.The red side's Il-76 is obviously unable to ship the heavy 99G tanks to the front line, and at least I already have a battalion of T90s.However, the road transfer is too time-consuming.He estimated that within 7 hours, the red team would be able to deploy some anti-tank weapons around Jabwa, which may be assault guns equipped with 105mm artillery or infantry fighting vehicles equipped with anti-tank missiles.

The real war is still going on in the scorching heat.

Abad established a second line of defense in the mountains, waiting for the Indian tank soldiers to rush up.Only two of his chariots remained, and the remaining three were either destroyed or abandoned due to malfunctions.Now, all the members are sitting outside the car, hoping that the Air Force will come to support again.But in the end, before the sun set, what was waiting was a Mi-2 armed helicopter of the Indian Army. The helicopter roared over the hill and appeared in front of everyone. Its strange appearance stunned the people behind the bunker.

Abad heard that Indian aircraft can only carry out white light reconnaissance during the day, and as long as their own vehicles are not moving, they cannot see them.

The Mi 35 flew around the mountain and then flew away, as if it had applied for the saying that as long as it doesn’t move, it can’t be seen.Abad watched the roaring helicopter fly out of his sight, and finally couldn't even hear the sound.

(End of this chapter)