On the night of February 9th, something big happened.

About four hours after China officially declared war on India, the Pakistan National Assembly passed a war proposal submitted by the president, and the Pakistani president immediately declared war on India.

At around 10 o'clock at night, the Pakistan Air Force joined the combat operation to bomb India.[bsp;   Relatively speaking, the Pakistan Air Force is an intrinsic combat force.

After the First Indian Ocean War, Pakistan's national security environment improved significantly, especially after signing a military alliance treaty with China, Pakistan's national security was basically guaranteed. In the past decade, Pakistan greatly reduced military expenditures and focused on supporting the development of the national economy. It is also true that Pakistan ushered in the longest period of rapid development since its founding.

It was not until around 2040 that Pakistan began to gradually increase its military budget.

The reason is very simple. India's massive expansion of its arms not only poses a threat to China, but also Pakistan, and the India-Pakistan conflict still exists.

It was also after 2040 that the Pakistan Air Force began to purchase J-30 fighter jets in large quantities.

In fact, Pakistan was the first overseas country to order J-30. It was only affected by the fifth Middle East War that Egypt became the first user of J-30. Without the fifth Middle East War, Pakistan would accept the first batch of J-30s in 2038.

By the time the war broke out, the j-30 was already the main fighter of the Pakistan Air Force.

Of course, this is also related to j-30 itself.

Because it is a medium-sized fighter that emphasizes air combat capability, unlike traditional heavy air combat aircraft, the j-30 is a very affordable fighter. To put it bluntly, if you do not pursue multi-purpose performance, that is, do not purchase additional accessories to improve multi-purpose performance, the j-30 is not expensive, only about 40% higher than the j-22, while the air combat capability is several times higher. In this way, for Pakistan,

For countries that focus on strategic defense, it is a very cheap fighter. Later, Chengfei launched a multi-purpose version of the j-30, and can only emphasize multi-purpose performance according to customer needs, that is, weaken air combat capabilities. In other words, the multi-purpose version of the j-30 has also reached a very high level in control costs. From the user's perspective, a fleet of aircraft that is entirely dominated by the j-30 can be formed, and the logistics support burden is greatly reduced.

Compared with f-44, the cost advantage of j-30 is very obvious.

However, Pakistan is not a rich country. Although by 2044, Pakistan's per capita GDP had exceeded 15,000 US dollars, reaching a very high level among developing countries (at that time, the threshold for developed countries had increased by 25,000 US dollars per capita GDP). With a large total population, Pakistan's economic strength is no longer weak, but in the case of rising waters, Pakistan is still not rich, so it is impossible for national defense expenditure to go much further.

Affected by this, the Pakistan Air Force did not replace all fighter jets with the J-30.

By the time the war broke out, the Pakistan Air Force had equipped 360 J-30s, of which 240 were air-saving models and 120 were simple multi-purpose models. According to the plan formulated by the Pakistan Air Force, it would not be until 2050 that all J-30s were replaced with J-30s and formed a group of J-30s with a scale of about 800. In other words, there were more than 500 J-22 and J-22m in the Pakistan Air Force at that time, and most of them were J-22m, or J-22s with technological upgrades.

Compared with the Indian Air Force, the Pakistan Air Force has a more reasonable structure and stronger combat capabilities.

It can be said that in this war, the Pakistan Air Force is an indispensable combat force.

That night, the Pakistan Air Force carried out two large-scale strike missions, dispatching more than 1,000 aircraft in total, accounting for 25% of the total dispatch of the China-Pakistan Air Force that night, carrying out 20% of the strike missions, and reaping 23% of the results.

For the Indian Air Force, this means facing nearly three thousand fighter jets.

You should know that among these 3,000 fighter jets, at least 2,000 are fifth-generation fighter jets, while the Indian Air Force only has more than 300 fifth-generation fighter jets in total.

In addition, the Indian Air Force also has to face the strategic bombers of the Chinese Air Force.

Before the outbreak of the war, the Chinese Air Force had already begun mass-equipped H-30 bombers, which was also the first real strategic bomber of the Chinese Air Force.

Compared with h-20, the biggest change of h-30 is "large-scale".

In the initial stage, the Chinese Air Force hoped that the H-30 was an aerospace bomber with strategic strike capabilities, that is, a maximum flight altitude of more than 160 kilometers, which could penetrate at a speed of 12 Mach, or break through the enemy's strategic air defense network at a speed of 8 Mach in the ionosphere. If developed successfully, the H-30 is definitely a classic bomber and a fatal strategic threat force.

Unfortunately, this plan was dismissed soon.

There are three main reasons: one is that the technical difficulty is too high, the second is that there is no similar combat demand, and the third is that the combat environment has undergone tremendous changes.

Technically, it is mainly because the development of an integrated pulse rush engine is too difficult.

Even by 2045, the technology in this area could not make a breakthrough. If traditional ramjets were used, even if tactical indicators could be achieved, that is, a cruise flight speed of Mach 8, combat radius of more than 12,000 kilometers, the take-off weight of the h-30 would exceed 600 tons, and it would only carry nuclear bombs and perform strategic bombing tasks. If it could only be used to perform strategic bombing tasks, the Chinese Air Force would not be as good as investing in the development of a hypersonic strategic cruise missile with a range of 12,000 kilometers, because in nuclear war, the survival rate of strategic bombers is very low. Even if they are not shot down by the enemy, when they return to the country, they are afraid that all air bases will be destroyed by the enemy's nuclear weapons and there is no chance to perform a second bombing mission. In this way, for strategic weapons that can only be used once, hypersonic cruise missiles are obviously much more cost-effective than strategic bombers.

In terms of tactical demand, the main thing is to completely destroy nuclear weapons, making strategic bombing meaningless.

After the complete destruction of nuclear weapons, all strategic strike platforms, including strategic bombers, lost their value. China and the United States have made improvements to the strategic strike platforms, such as converting strategic nuclear submarines into cruise missile nuclear submarines, and converting strategic ballistic missiles into tactical ballistic missiles carrying conventional warheads. As for strategic bombers, even if they are retained, their main task is not to carry nuclear bombs to perform bombing tasks, but to carry conventional ammunition to combat. In this way, strategic bombers must not only have a high enough range, but also have a large enough load, or a load-weight ratio, that is, the ratio of the load capacity to takeoff weight to improve combat efficiency. Obviously, for a bomber with a takeoff weight of 600 tons but can only carry five tons of bombs, it is obviously inefficient.

In terms of combat environment, the main thing is the impact of particle storms.

When all satellites are paralyzed and are filled with space garbage in low-Earth orbit, any kind of aerospace plane loses its value. Even if the risk of being hit by space garbage can be reduced by lowering the flight orbit, space garbage will fall into the atmosphere at any time, posing a threat to all aircraft flying at high altitudes. For bombers flying at an altitude of 160 kilometers above the ground, they are very susceptible to space garbage hit. More importantly, hypersonic bombers find it difficult to detect approaching space garbage in time, and cannot avoid it.

Affected by this, the h-30 has become a more traditional bomber.

In 2044, before the mass production of the H-30, the Chinese Ministry of Defense released some relevant data, namely, the maximum flight speed of this type of bomber is only Mach 4, the maximum flight altitude is 30 kilometers, the maximum take-off weight is 160 tons, and the maximum bomb load is 34 tons. When the aircraft is full of oil, it can carry 20 tons of bombs, and the combat radius can reach 8,600 kilometers along the high-high-high combat profile; if only 12 tons of bombs are carried and a secondary fuel tank is carried with one bomb bay, the maximum combat radius can reach 12,000 kilometers.

Obviously, the performance indicators of h-30 are not low.

What is even more commendable is that while ensuring flight indicators, the h-30 has relatively outstanding stealth capability. It can even be said to be the combat aircraft with the best stealth capability in the Chinese Air Force. Its radar reflection cross-section is lower than that of the j-30. After the flight altitude exceeds 28 kilometers, it can effectively utilize the charged ions on the top of the same temperature strata to reduce the probability of passive radar discovery.

More importantly, the H-30 is a typical strategic bomber targeting large-scale conventional warfare.

To put it simply, the h-30 is a bomber that can be purchased in large quantities during wartime and can be affordable. Its main mission is to perform conventional bombing missions and attack those strategic goals that are closely protected outside the combat radius of fighter jets.

When the war broke out, the Chinese Air Force had already received twenty-four H-30s and formed the first H-30 fleet.

On the night of February 9, all of these H-30s were dispatched to bomb several highly suspected nuclear-related targets in southern India, dropping more than 1,000 tons of bombs.

You should know that before the Chinese Navy seized sea control, only the H-30 could hit the strategic goals of southern India.

Although the overall outage momentum of h-30 is not very large, it undertakes the most important task.

Of course, in addition to the H-30, the Chinese Air Force has more than 200 H-20bs, and dispatched more than 100 times that night, focusing on bombing several controllable fusion nuclear power plants in India. Although these targets are not within Mu Haoyang's plan, they can minimize India's war potential. In addition, arranging the H-20b fleet to participate in the war will not have an impact on other strike operations.
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