.In the early morning...before, an urgent telegram was sent to the combat command center.

Now, Mu Haoyang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It was not a message from the Second Ministry about the Joint Fleet, but half an hour ago, the Indian Army shelled the Pakistani defensive position near the Siachen Glacier. Five minutes before sending the telegram, Indian ground troops crossed the ceasefire line and entered the Pakistani actual control area.

Although India has not declared war on Pakistan, the war has broken out.

In the telegram, Huang Zhibo clearly mentioned that Mu Haoyang could launch a preemptive strike without worrying about the means of attack. Although it still did not explain whether it was borrowed from Thailand, Huang Zhibo's meaning was very clear. When necessary, the aircraft fleet could fly over Thai airspace.

When the senior commander circulated the telegram, Ma Mingtao went to turn on the TV.

Several TV stations are reporting on the battle situation in Kashmir, but the news of the Indian Army's attack has not spread yet, and most TV stations have characterized it as a military conflict.

The Indian army did not invest much force, and the scale of the attack was not large, and the battle was concentrated near the Siachen Glacier.

What the ground war looks like has nothing to do with Mu Haoyang for the time being. India's military purpose is limited, and the scale of the offensive is naturally limited.

"If you use Thailand, how can you avoid being discovered by the Thai authorities?"

"It is impossible not to be discovered." Yang Yufang replied very simply, "The aircraft fleet is too large. Even if it can avoid air defense radars at ultra-low altitudes, it will alarm the residents of the villages and towns along the way. It won't take long before the Thai authorities will know that it was our fighter jets flying over its airspace. Perhaps, when the aircraft fleet returns, the Thai Air Force will take action and at least send a few fighter jets to the Isthmus of Kra."

"According to the satellite map, set up a route that avoids villages and towns."

Yang Yufang shook his head and said that he could not do it, because the Kra Isthmus is one of the rare plains on the Malay Peninsula and the villages are very dense.

"No matter what, at least we must ensure that the aircraft will not be intercepted when it returns."

"In this case, it will only forcefully interfere with Thailand's military communication system, paralyzing the Thai military's communication network, making it impossible for the Thai Air Force to respond quickly."

"How many fighter jets need to be used?"

"Just targeting the area where the fleet passes, two electronic fighters are enough."

"Then let's go and arrange it, and start interference before the fleet arrives, and continue until the fleet returns."

Yang Yufang frowned and said, "Do this..."

"Just just interference, don't let electronic fighters enter the strike range of the Thai Air Force air defense force, and you cannot use weapons even if you are attacked."

Yang Yufang didn't ask any more questions and immediately arranged an electronic warplane.

Because the aircraft carrier must start interference before entering Thai airspace, electronic warplanes must take off first.

The one who performs the electronic interference task is the j-15b carrying the electronic interference pod.

Although during the development, both the Air Force and the Navy proposed that the basic models can perform electronic warfare tasks after carrying electronic warfare pods, without additional improvements, or even replacement of the control software of the fire control system, when performing electronic warfare tasks, j-22 and j-25 can only plug in electronic warfare pods, and their stealth capabilities are greatly reduced. The actual combat value is not great. They will only be used when mastering absolute air supremacy.

Affected by this, the Navy put forward similar requirements for j-15b.

Because j-15b is not a stealth fighter, the plug-in electronic warfare pods are definitely more practical than j-25. In addition, j-15b is all improved on the initial model of j-15a, that is, j-155, and the procurement and maintenance costs are much lower than j-25. When performing electronic warfare missions, j-15b, as a heavy fighter, also has more advantages than j-25.

In terms of carrier-based aviation, j-15b is also much more than j-25.

Affected by these factors, in practical applications, as long as there is j-15b, the aviation commander will not let the j-25 perform electronic warfare missions.

Like j-25, j-15b has only two-seater type and no single-seater type.

Although half of the j-15a are single-seat, in actual use, Navy Aviation found that two-seat fighter jets have advantages over single-seat models in any case. After the main purpose is changed from idle control to strike, the advantages of the two-seat models are more obvious. Therefore, when the j-15a is changed to j-15b, all single-seat models are sent to the sun, and the front fuselage structure is modified, all of which are two-seat models.

In this way, any J-15b can perform electronic warfare missions after being hung on an electronic warfare pod.

However, when performing electronic warfare missions, the pilot behind needs to be replaced with electronic warfare officers.

Fortunately, the pilots of each carrier-based aviation wing have one-third of the redundancy and have eight electronic warfare officers, which is enough to ensure the completion of high-intensity electronic warfare missions.

...After five minutes, two j-15bs carrying out electronic warfare missions took off from the "Yellow River".

Although Mu Haoyang still did not receive news from the Second Division at this time, it was delayed until... 15 minutes before the electronic warfare plane took off, which would definitely delay the subsequent strike operation. The electronic warfare plane took off ten minutes in advance, and even if the joint fleet did not enter Port Blair, it could still be allowed to return.

…At 15 minutes, the confidentiality telephone of the combat command center rang.

Ma Mingtao rushed over, grabbed the microphone and listened for a while, nodded to Mu Haoyang, with a very firm expression without any hesitation.

"Old Yang"

Yang Yufang didn't ask much, picked up the in-ship communication phone number placed at hand, first gave orders to Yan Yingbo, then transferred to the fleet communication channel, and gave orders to Hu Cunxin. When Yang Yufang put down the microphone, Mu Haoyang looked at the wall clock on the wall, less than fifteen seconds.

At this time, Ma Mingtao came over.

"How about it?"

"The joint fleet has entered Port Blair, the satellite has taken infrared photos, the warship has turned off its power system, and the arrival time is about two hours."

"Can you confirm?"

"The heat generated by the power system will not dissipate immediately, but will gradually decay according to the ambient temperature, and the radiation intensity is proportional to time, so it can..."

Mu Haoyang pressed his hand and said, "No need to explain, just be sure."

Ma Mingtao smiled and said nothing. As a commander, Mu Haoyang needed the result, not the process of obtaining the result.

Because before the electronic warfare aircraft took off, the aircraft carrier battle group had dispersed, and the two aircraft carriers sailing side by side turned to the windward direction, after Yang Yu's orders were issued, the two J-25s were mounted on catapults, and other fighters were on standby in the takeoff area in turn.

…At 16 pm, the Yellow River took the lead in ejecting two j-25s at ten seconds intervals.

Five seconds after the first j-25 took off from the Yellow River, the takeoff operation on the Yangtze River also began, and two j-25s rose into the night sky.

By nineteen minutes, all twenty j-25s dispatched by the two aircraft carriers were launched.

After forming two formations, these fighters did not fly to the destination immediately, but hovered about twenty kilometers west of the fleet and stood on standby.

It was not the j-15b that followed the j-25 to launch, but two zj-1 carrier-based early warning aircraft.

On the two aircraft carriers, there are four ZJ-1s each. Even if two aircraft are dispatched to support offensive operations, there are still enough early warning aircraft for fleet air defense.

The original shape of the zj-1 is the yak-44 carrier-based early warning aircraft developed by the former Soviet Union for the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Ulyanovsk".

The yak-44 is very similar to the e-2c and is a small tactical early warning aircraft. It has limited command capabilities and is in most cases a simple early warning aircraft, that is, it can only rely on the fleet air defense command center or the ground combat command center to command large aircraft groups to command operations.

This shortcoming greatly reduces the value of early warning aircraft.

When developing the zj-1, the Chinese Navy did not follow the rules, but only absorbed useful things on the yak-44, and most of the systems were redesigned. For example, it adopted a domestic turboprop engine, and the fuselage and wings were heavily lightweight composite materials, a brand new solid-state phased array radar, multi-channel combat command system, automated information processing system, directional communication system, etc.

Of course, there are also many new technologies that are expected to be useless.

The most representative one is the integrated phased array radar developed by the Navy, that is, according to the basic structure of the aircraft, the driver-type antenna is replaced with radar antennas directly installed on the fuselage and wings, thereby greatly improving the flight performance of the early warning aircraft.

Because the technical difficulty is too great, zj-1 finally got on the "big disc".

Unlike the radar radome of the kj-2000, the radar antenna of the zj-1 is installed on the central axis of the radome and rotates at a speed of fifteen weeks per minute.

The biggest advantage of doing this is that it can accommodate larger antenna arrays with a smaller radome and increase the detection distance.

Although the structure is a little more complex, increasing the total weight of the radar system by hundreds of kilograms, it is definitely worth it on a carrier-based early warning aircraft with extremely strict size requirements.

Because of the use of radar technology after 2020, the performance of zj-1 exceeds that of e-2d.

Compared with the latest e-2e of the US military, zj-1 is not much worse.

It is precisely with the zj-1 that the "Yangtze River" class can be regarded as a truly offensive aircraft carrier. Without carrier-based early warning aircraft, any aircraft carrier can only operate in the offshore and under the cover of shore-based aviation forces. Relying solely on early warning helicopters or air defense radars on warships, it cannot cope with high-intensity aerial strikes.

In order to carry carrier-based early warning aircraft, the two aircraft carriers were delayed for more than a year before they were put into service, which was definitely worth the price.

After the zj-1 was lifted off, it flew straight west, without waiting for the j-15b to take off later. Because the cruise speed of the early warning aircraft was relatively slow, it needed to be dispatched in advance.

Subsequently, the cross j-25 caught up with zj-1 and provided direct cover for it.

…Twenty-two, the first batch of j-15bs were connected to the drag slider of the catapult, and then ejected into the air.

In the next ten minutes, four electromagnetic catapults on the two aircraft carriers completed the catapult mission of fifteen each with maximum efficiency.

To be precise, it saved a minute.

…Twenty-nine minutes, after the last four j-15bs were launched, the attack aircraft group turned westward. The aircraft group did not form formation over the fleet, but was preparing to form formation during the flight.

Because it is necessary to fly over the Isthmus of Kra at an ultra-low altitude, there is no need to form a large aircraft group before entering the Indian Ocean.

Watching the last batch of j-15bs go away, Mu Haoyang looked at the wall clock again.
Chapter completed!