.A moment of hesitation made more than 20 Indian soldiers on "Felcon" missed the opportunity to escape.

The cruel facts of the Second Korean War and the East China Sea War prove that as a high-value strategic goal, there is no guarantee of the safety of early warning aircraft. After the war, China and the United States developed escape systems for early warning aircraft, and India and other countries also made improvements to existing early warning aircraft.

In just thirty seconds, the crew of "Felcon" can escape.

In other words, if the captain of "Felcon" did not hesitate again, there would be at least thirty seconds of escape time. When he found out that the four fighters were not F-35b, but J-25, it was too late to let all crew members enter the escape pole, and only two pilots could eject and escape.

The attack came suddenly, and when the first pl-12e was hit, "Felcon" didn't even have time to issue an alarm.

Immediately afterwards, the next three pl-12e blown "Felcon" into several pieces.

Before the disintegration, "Felcon" only issued an incomplete battle alarm.

In fact, this alarm is no longer important. More than 100 tons of early warning aircraft exploded and disintegrated in the air, and the dazzling flames generated when dozens of tons of aviation fuel exploded were visible more than 100 kilometers away. At that time, twelve su-30mkis were about forty kilometers east of the early warning aircraft.

In addition, the air defense radar at Port Blair also detected the situation when "Felcon" was hit by a missile.

The battle alarm sounded, and the problem was that there was no other intelligence except for "Felcon" reporting four fighters flying west two minutes ago.

Could it be that the Chinese Navy has only dispatched four fighter jets? Obviously it is impossible.

All the heavy responsibilities were on the ground air defense radar, but they were useless. If the ground air defense radar could detect Chinese fighter jets, "Felcon" would not have been injured.

For a moment, every Indian pilot in the air was in danger.

At less than 4:30, all twelve su-30mkis activated the fire control radar.

Although the su-30mki is also equipped with phased array radar and is quite advanced when it is in service, it is only at the level of the early century and is a passive phased array radar. Its detection ability is far less than that of the advanced radars of the same era, let alone comparable to that of the radars on the fourth-generation fighter jets.

As a fighter that has long been behind, the su-30mki is definitely not a match for the j-25.

At this time, Imai Rimura also received news that the Indian Air Force's early warning aircraft had been shot down and that Chinese fighter jets had arrived near Port Blair.

The first thing Imai Tatsumura did was not to ask the F-35b to search for Chinese fighter jets, but to order the supply to stop and let the fleet start anchoring and leave the port immediately.

Staying in the harbor is definitely a dead end.

If the supply operation is not stopped immediately, even if the warship is not hit by an anti-ship missile, as long as the port is attacked and the supply equipment is bombed, it will be in great trouble.

More importantly, only by stopping resupply operations can more fighter jets be launched.

If air defense operations are needed, the supply operations must be stopped first so that the air defense warship can start radar and launch air defense missiles.

When supplying, the electronic equipment on the battleship must be turned off, let alone launching air defense missiles.

Although all ten warships of the Joint Fleet were anchored, and fuel supply was carried out through special ships and did not reach the dock. Therefore, after anchoring, it could be turned by its own power, and it would not take too much time, but Port Blair itself is not a large military port. The area inside the port is very narrow, and the waterways for large warships to navigate are also very narrow, so it is impossible for the warships to quickly leave the port after anchoring.

No matter how fast it is, it will take twenty minutes before the first warship can leave Port Blair.

Is there twenty minutes left for the Joint Fleet?

Imai Tatsumura did not dare to hold any hope, so after ordering to stop supply, he asked the F-35b left on the aircraft carrier to prepare to take off.

Perhaps, these fighter jets are not much helpful for air defense operations, but at least they can leave the warship in time.

In order to minimize the losses, Imai Tatsumura also issued a lift-off order to all carrier-based helicopters, but they had to wait until the supply ships left before they could take off.

In a moment, thousands of officers and soldiers in the joint fleet were mobilized.

At this time, on the air battlefield, the Indian Air Force's su-30mki had been attacked.

Because "Felcon" was shot down, zy-1 turned westward. After discovering the radar signal sent by Su-30mki, the air combat guide on the early warning aircraft did not change the working mode of the radar. He only sent the enemy situation to the twelve j-25s on standby on the east of Port Blair through the directional communication system. Although the four j-25s that attacked "Felcon" at this time were closer to the su-30mki fleet, the distance to zy-1 exceeded the maximum working distance of the directional communication equipment, so the early warning aircraft could not guide these four fighters.

After receiving the order, four of the twelve j-25s quickly turned and locked the twelve su-30mkis in five seconds.

Next, there was an air massacre.

After locking the target, the four J-25s fired a pl-12e to six targets in a cross-attack manner, and then continued to approach the target.

At this time, twelve su-30mkis were also flying eastward.

Among these fighters, eight fire-controlled radars are searching for the east airspace, and four are searching for the northeast direction, and they all work at maximum power.

Unfortunately, even so, su-30mki still failed to find j-25 more than a hundred kilometers away.

With the performance of the su-30mki passive phased array radar, the detection distance of the j-25 will not exceed 60 kilometers. When conducting ultra-visual air combat, the j-25 will never fly so close. In other words, before the su-30mki discovered the j-25, it was hit by a missile.

Since the su-30mki did not turn, the j-25 did not start the fire control radar again.

At 4:34, the missile warning aircraft of the su-30mki sounded.

When two missiles were cross-attacked, the probability of the su-30mki being shot down was as high as 99%.

You should know that the maneuverability of the pl-12e is based on the new generation of fighters, that is, the maximum overload of the target is twelve g. According to the hit rate of 80%, the maximum overload of the missile must be 2.5 times the target, that is, thirty g must be thirty g, and the actual design indicators have redundancy of 50 to 80%. The maximum maneuverage overload of the pl-12e is 50 g, and when attacking a target with a maximum overload of 9 g, the hit rate is as high as 95%. The maximum maneuverage overload of the su-30mki is only seven g, which is a lot worse than j-11. Even if calculated based on nine g, the survival probability is less than 0.5% when attacking two missiles.

In statistics, low probability events are equal to impossible events.

In just fifteen seconds, none of the twelve su-30mkis were spared and all were shot down by pl-12e.

Now, the problem fell into the hands of Imai Tatsumura.

Although the Chinese Navy's attack aircraft group has not arrived yet, at least the Indian Air Force's air defense radar has not been discovered, the Chinese fleet has sent fighter jets, and must have sent attack aircraft.

For Torimura Imai, the biggest problem is how to discover the attack aircraft fleet of the Chinese Navy.

At 4:35, he received a message from the Air Defense Command Center that all Su-30mkis were shot down, and the mig-29 that had returned to the airport would take as fast as fifteen minutes before they could be launched. There were no Indian fighter jets in the air, so the approaching threat could not be discovered.

At this time, a cruiser and a destroyer had already finished their supply operations.

Imai Tatsumura did not hesitate and immediately ordered the two warships to activate the air defense radar and leave the port.

The problem is that the air defense radar on the warship can only detect sea-grabbing targets within forty kilometers, and can't detect attack aircraft groups hundreds of kilometers away.

Imai Tatsumura had no choice but to let the f-35b that was launched to activate the radar and search the east airspace.

At 4:37, zy-1 intercepted radar signals from four F-35bs.

Although at this time, Japanese fighter pilots were smarter, only letting a quarter of the fighter start the radar, while other fighters kept radio silent and did not reveal their whereabouts, these four F-35bs were long aircraft of their respective teams, with relatively large distances.

Based on this, the guide on the zy-1 made a correct judgment: there are more than four F-35bs in the air, and there must be more enemy aircraft.

Because the j-25 has eliminated the su-30mki fleet and has not intercepted the radar signals of other Indian fighters, the early warning aircraft has adjusted the working mode of the radar and actively searched the f-35b fleet to provide more accurate guidance information for the j-25.

Of course, the zy-1's guide did not forget another thing: let the eight j-25s who did not participate in the war divide into four formations and go to intercept the four f-35bs whose whereabouts were exposed.

Now, f-35b's passive detection system discovered zy-1.

In the rear, the Indian Air Force's air defense system and the passive detection systems on two Japanese warships also intercepted the radar signals sent by the zy-1.

The Chinese Navy dispatched carrier-based early warning aircraft, and must have dispatched an attack aircraft group.

According to standard attack tactics, the Chinese Navy's attack aircraft group will definitely launch an attack within fifteen minutes after the start of the air combat.

"Felcon" was shot down before 4:30, so the attack will arrive before 4:45.

The last few minutes left for the Joint Fleet.

Under the guidance of the air defense warship, the f-35b fleet did not turn, but flew towards the zy-1.

The Japanese Navy's air defense tactics are also very simple: shooting down the zy-1, forcing Chinese fighter jets to fly over Port Blair for tactical reconnaissance. If the Indian Air Force's air defense system can play a role, it can shoot down the invading fighter jets. If the early warning aircraft cannot be shot down in time, Chinese fighter jets will not need to enter the interception area of ​​the air defense system, and will not be able to effectively prevent the Chinese Navy's attack.

At this time, f-35b and zy-1 are about 300 kilometers.

At this distance, zy-1 cannot detect f-35b, and can only guide fighter jets to intercept according to the radar signal sent by f-35b.

However, after two minutes, the distance was shortened to 250 kilometers, and you could find f-35b at zy-1.

At this time, the f-35b can detect zy-1 at most with fire control radar, but cannot find the closer j-25, and it is even more impossible to find the eight j-25s that have participated in the war.

At 4:39, under the guidance of zy-1, eight J-25s facing the f-35b were activated on the fire control radar.

Half a minute later, eighty kilometers northwest of the f-35b, four j-25s that attacked "Felcon" had increased their speed to Mach 2.

Because the distance between f-35b and zy-1 has not been shortened to the maximum range of aim-120d, zy-1 did not turn evasion, and the four j-25s that provided direct cover for it did not participate in the battle.

At 4:41, when the distance from the f-35b fleet was shortened to 200 kilometers, the two zy-1s turned south.

At this time, the eight J-25s facing the F-35b had already locked the target with fire control radar, and it was confirmed that it was not four enemy aircraft, but sixteen.
Chapter completed!