Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 595

The officer glanced at Singer, who motioned for him to continue.

"Our army's tank units and artillery in the northern mountains have been strongly reinforced. The enemy has lost their superiority in weapon technology in this area. In the past few battles, General Meneam's army has successfully smashed the The enemy's attack has been overcome, and Leh's defenses are now solid, and soon the mountain tank troops will be put into battle."

This report came from a special team within the Ministry of National Defense, and was revised by Singer himself, trying to remove those parts that may increase the prime minister's pain, and focusing on using a different perspective to re-depict the unfavorable parts of the battlefield.It sounds like the army's defense line has shrunk to Leh after victory after victory.The Air Force may regain air supremacy after losing more than half of its aircraft.

"International assistance is expected to continue to increase throughout January. The enemy has fallen into unprecedented international isolation..."

"Okay!" Kahan waved his hand, "Talk about the enemy's latest battlefield situation. I know that the enemy is not far from New Delhi. Charman's analysis report said that the enemy army may enter the hinterland of our country from the western plain. "

"Yes. The enemy has indeed launched a blind and unsustainable offensive in the direction of Punjab, and has broken through the defenses of the 9th Division, whose vanguard this morning has been held west of the border by General Spanga's troops, They launched several offensives in a row, resulting in countless casualties, but they were unable to cross the border."

"So General Spanga's troops are still very reliable?"

Kahan said slightly relieved.

"Yes, the enemy secretly prepared for several months to attack, but we easily blocked it. Should we stop the peace talks with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? I don't think there is any need to talk to the Chinese at this moment. Chandra's servile virtue , will only fuel the enemy's ambitions. After we win a few battles, the peace talks will be more assured." Singer interjected at the right time.

"What, you have a new plan?" Kahan quickly noticed that Singer seemed to be pointing something. Singer always behaved particularly arrogant when he had cards in his hand.

"Yes, the enemy's blind arrogance made them make huge mistakes on the battlefield, and now is a golden opportunity."

"Really? I've always felt that we wasted too much time waiting for the Chinese to make a mistake and talk about it," Kahan said.

"The Chinese's solitary army went deep, completely neglecting the two wings, and there were our heavy troops in the north and south directions, and in front of them were Spanga's troops. We only need to cut them in the middle, and we can kill them in one fell swoop..."

"Think about it and do it. I hope you can win this time, and if you fail..." The Prime Minister paused, "Remember, I will not consider moving the government to any place other than New Delhi. I will Standing behind the India Gate, waiting for their tanks to run over me."

Obviously, although the Prime Minister has become numb to Singh's various counterattack plans, he still has some hopes for victory.

"Prime Minister. This time it will not be messed up. I know for sure that they are only deploying Pakistani troops on the flank. Our army still has a huge psychological advantage against these enemies."

"I believe that our army can continue to perform miracles. It is time to stop the massive invasion of the Communist Party of China. I believe that every Indian soldier will know that there is no retreat."

"Should we stop the diplomatic negotiations?" Singer continued to test.

"I have agreed to open the air bases and airspace to the US Air Force, but at the last minute, they backed down. I regret to tell the US ambassador that if India falls, this is only the beginning of the destruction of the free world."

Kahan didn't take the words of the Minister of Defense, but started talking to himself. Obviously, the current situation triggered some feelings in him, which made his thoughts divorced from the real part, and he began to feel sorry for himself.The doctor behind him made a gesture to Singer, indicating that the prime minister was starting to lose his mind and the conversation could not continue, so Singer resigned and retreated outside.Even a military strategist with a half bucket of water like Singer knows at this moment that the huge weakness exposed by the enemy must be grasped, otherwise there will be no chance.

Wang Zhenbei was sitting in the command vehicle, waiting for the final order. The enemy in front was unfolding step by step, and he also needed time to wait for his artillery to be in place.From time to time there was the sound of fighter jets whizzing by in the air. The air force's tactical strikes against the enemy were proceeding smoothly, and the targets of the strikes were moving more and more eastward.It is said that the Air Force has developed a new method of suppressing the enemy's air defense network. It is believed that the enemy's air defense positions will be found and destroyed one by one soon.

He looked at his watch, the time was 10:80 in the morning, and the order to prepare for the attack had not yet come.So he continued to study the enemy's disposition on the map.The enemy in front of him consists of an armored division, a mechanized brigade, and some messy border troops.Tanks outnumber themselves.The main force is about 30 Challenger II tanks and 90 T100S, and there are 150 to 72 T90 in the rest, and about 55 T6 improved models in a regiment.The main artillery has about 70 towed artillery battalions, near the road with a depth of [-] kilometers.The Kaiser artillery system was discovered, but unfortunately it has been maneuvering, and the air force has not been able to effectively attack it.

Various pre-combat reconnaissance efforts were underway.Thanks to the Air Force, a large number of drones launched have been able to fly over the enemy's head to collect intelligence, while the enemy's drones can hardly fly over.Although the loss rate is still high, as of the last 2 hours, only 25% of the drones can be successfully recovered.But the war is imminent, such a loss is completely acceptable to him.In particular, the data link of the drone can transmit data back in real time. Whether it can come back has little effect on the reconnaissance effect, and the Air Force also deliberately lost some drones to expose the vitality of the enemy's air defense. Many enemies have been cleaned up in the morning. independent air defense system.

"Is there any news from the headquarters?"

"Mr. Lin reminded us that the air force's deployment will continue for some time, so let's not be impatient. The Pakistani divisions on the other flanks are being deployed, and they will consume part of the supplies to strengthen the flank defenses."

"I am most worried about them. If the enemy's assault force gets behind them, the consequences will be disastrous."

"The enemy in Lahore is not strong. On the Eastern Highway in the morning, the rocket artillery reimbursed an army of about 4000 people. It is said that it may create a record in the history of war. There are many enemies in Jammu, but they lack tanks and should be able to block them. .”

"The combat effectiveness of the Pakistan Army cannot be judged by common sense. It should be prepared for the worst."

Just when Wang Zhenbei expressed his views of distrust, the main force of Pakistan's First Armored Division had just arrived at the designated area and was about to confront the enemies of Sialkot. The shelling was extremely fierce.They were not given any warning of possible shelling, and intelligence indicated that the enemy artillery was only armed with 122mm guns.Apparently the enemy threw in long-range fire.

Younis, the deputy division commander in charge of operations, hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat to avoid the shelling, but the enemy's shelling was very accurate and still destroyed some of his equipment.

Lin Huaisheng immediately got the news that the enemy in the north used superior artillery. He realized that the enemy in Jammu must come down. The enemy should have cooperated with the enemy in Lahore and launched a counterattack at the same time, but now it seems that Lahore There is not much strength to fight back together.He has been worried about the hundreds of thousands of enemies in the north, so he left Yahini's tank troops in this direction in advance, preparing to seize Sialkot and close the enemy's passage into Punjab. It seems that Meneyam finally saw After clearing the situation, we are ready to act first.

The Indian mountain strike force in Kashmir has relatively few tanks, and the artillery is more powerful. Moreover, unlike the artillery battle in Leh, the enemies in this area have a high altitude advantage, and the artillery also has a certain range advantage.

UAV reconnaissance shows that the Indian Army north of Sialkot has begun to gather, and their artillery is hiding in farther areas. It can be found through artillery radar that these long-range artillery positions are scattered and have been in maneuvering. The location of each successive shelling was different.Each rapid shooting lasted less than 5 minutes, and a total of about 155 rounds of 200mm shells fell. According to the estimated scale of the battalion level, it is possible to shoot half the base number, which is 24 rounds, and leave after firing these ammunition.It seems that it is very close to the combat mode of the AS90 mobile artillery that appeared not long ago, as reported by the Northern Front.The enemy appeared to observe through observation posts on the forward commanding heights of Sialkot, and then called in artillery.

Lin Huaisheng felt that it was necessary to first pull out the nail wedged into the side of Sialkot, broaden the offensive front, and at the same time try the attacking ability of Pakistan's First Armored Division.Of course, first of all, he ordered Yahini's tank battalion to turn around to the southeast of the city to hide, and then he ordered the bomber units on standby to devote all their efforts to the air strike on Sialkot, and they must not be allowed to organize a counterattack.

The J-11BS and J-16 fighters took off in groups to attack the enemy's technical weapons on the periphery, while the Flying Leopard fighters that took off at the same time bypassed the city and searched for the enemy artillery hiding behind.

The Flying Leopard formation was led by the regiment leader Zhang Chengyan, and quickly flew towards the enemy's artillery area detected by the artillery radar. The expeditionary force had rockets with a very long range. , this is not a problem.

The three Flying Leopards flew in a terrain-following mode, and the formation flew zigzagging towards the target area according to the route optimized by the mission computer to avoid the enemy's radar search.

Song Ning is carrying out a new hard strike mode against the enemy's air defense network. Unlike the previous method of focusing on destroying missile units, this time he uses cruise missiles and long-range anti-radiation missiles to focus on destroying the long-range warning radar behind the enemy's defense line.The situation on the battlefield shows that the damage to some nodes of the long-range radar network is better than the hard attack on the field air defense system. This will make it impossible for the concealed standby fire control radar on the enemy's battlefield to effectively control the start-up time, and once these positions are at a loss , or the boot time is too long, it is easy to lead to disaster.

Zhang Chengyan watched the mountains on both sides recede. According to the radar measurement and digital map instructions, he flew smoothly. The digital map indicated that a turn must be made ahead. The width of the canyon is sufficient, but there are some ups and downs.Once the movement is a little slow, the navigation device in the terrain tracking mode will issue a warning sound in due course to remind you.

He reminded the following Flying Leopards that the enemy's artillery might be accompanied by anti-aircraft weapons, so they flew as far away as possible, so that if they found the enemy's anti-aircraft weapons, they would have time to respond.

In this war, the Flying Leopard fighter-bombers were not as popular as the J-10 fighter jets, but they are more suitable for missions in mountainous areas.Each plane carries 3.5 tons of bombs and auxiliary fuel tanks. Flying in valleys is not suitable for all planes.The high-altitude J-10 fleet can only attack, and they are ready to attack the enemy's air defense firepower at any time.

When the distance from the detected artillery position was less than 15 kilometers, the Flying Leopard radar alarm detected the enemy battlefield surveillance radar ahead, and the alarm was displayed as a brand-new model-Light Sword 2000 short-range defense system, and the distance was ominous.

Zhang Chengyan was in a narrow area, and the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower should be at a commanding height at the end of the valley. He couldn't continue to fly over to hit the enemy, so he immediately pulled up the plane to attract the attention of the enemy's radar. He hoped that he hadn't entered the range yet.During the lifting period, the irradiation radar has been unable to track stably, and it seems to be worse than the Russian-made Doyle system.

After a few long seconds, Zhang Chengyan thought that nothing would happen, but white smoke spewed out from the top of the mountain in the distance, and the visual distance was 5 to 8 kilometers.Apparently the enemy fired missiles at a great distance.Rolling away with bombs to get away, he ordered the rest of the fighters to follow the "plan" to find and destroy the enemy. He could almost feel that the reaction time of this missile was longer than that of the Doyle M1.Avoiding radar in mountainous areas does not seem to be difficult.He reminded his wingman that the enemy's launchers could be seen completely.

The so-called "predetermined plan" refers to the counterattack strategy of multiple aircraft when they encounter an isolated short-range air defense system. The fire control radars of these systems generally follow the launcher and rotate horizontally at a certain speed, so they cannot take into account 360° ° airspace (although its surveillance radar can see targets within 360°), the whole program is extremely simple, divided into two parts: attracting and striking.

The second Flying Leopard who followed immediately obtained the approximate position of the target based on the data link information. He flew across the canyon at a lower altitude, close to the ground, avoiding the surveillance radar at a high place, while the third Flying Leopard Also pulling up and flying in the opposite direction to the lead plane, such a hasty movement really attracted the attention of the enemy's radar.

These lightweight air defense systems that can be deployed on mountaintops are often claimed to have multi-target strike capability, but this actually means that multiple targets are within the extremely narrow beam of their irradiation radar.Sometimes, this shortcoming can be compensated by the rapid horizontal rotation of the radar, but when the opponent adopts a strategy of double-handedness, mistakes are bound to occur.

Song Ning has proposed to all air force pilots who perform tactical support that they must implement a strike plan when encountering a short-range system.

(End of this chapter)