Chapter 89: Bombing in turn

At 1:20, forty-eight J-32bs, who were responsible for the first round of attacks, arrived at 500 kilometers south of the Indian fleet, near the Suvadiwa Atoll. Half an hour ago, four carrier-based early warning aircrafts that came out in front intercepted the telegrams sent by the Indian fleet and roughly determined the location of the Indian fleet, so the attack aircraft group did not send several fighter jets forward according to the usual tactics, but used the information provided by the early warning aircraft to launch an attack directly.

The anti-ship missile used in the first round of attacks is equipped with electromagnetic warheads, which does not require high attack accuracy.

With almost no interference, forty-eight J-32bs dropped anti-ship missiles one after another within two minutes.

When these fighters turned back and climbed to more than 5,000 meters, the Indian Navy carrier-based early warning aircraft patrolling the south of the fleet discovered the incoming fleet.

At this time, the only ones that could pose a threat to the returning j-32b aircraft fleet were the F-35m that took off after eleven o'clock.

Unfortunately, even if the f-35m sprints at full speed, it is not much faster than the j-32b flying at cruise speed, and intercepting the returning attack aircraft is of no point.

More importantly, the f-35m aircraft fleet first faces the escort fighter jets that have already rushed to the front.

Just after one twelve, the air combat began. Sixteen F-35m fights against eight J-32s. To be precise, eight J-32s sneak attacked sixteen F-35m with the support of early warning aircraft. There was no suspense. In the attack outside the visual range, the J-32 aircraft group gained thirteen results. Before the remaining three F-35m had time to lock the target, the air combat entered the fighting stage, and none of them escaped. During the entire battle, the F-35m aircraft group only launched a few fighting missiles at the last moment, and none of them hit the target.

The j-32 aircraft fleet did not retreat, but continued to approach the Indian fleet, with four of them killing the early warning aircraft towards India.

At 1:24, the anti-ship missile arrived over the Indian fleet.

Because it is equipped with electromagnetic warheads, this batch of anti-ship missiles does not have specific targets to attack, but detonates at a certain location according to pre-set procedures.

What was affected was not the escort warships that were responsible for air defense operations, but five aircraft carriers.

The US aid has installed electromagnetic shielding systems for Indian warships, but the fully enclosed escort warships are done more thoroughly. It is difficult for aircraft carriers that use open hangars to completely shield the electromagnetic fields from the outside world. In fact, this is also the main reason why the aircraft carriers built by the Chinese and US Navy after 2020 no longer use open hangars. Fortunately, Indian carrier-based aircraft have electromagnetic resistance capabilities and are not seriously damaged.

At that time, all five aircraft carriers stopped operating in aviation.

It is not the impact of electromagnetic warheads, but the nature of the incoming anti-ship missiles is not clear. If these missiles are not equipped with electromagnetic warheads, but conventional warheads, another one is very lucky to break through the fleet air defense network and hit the aircraft carrier that is undergoing aviation operations, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The biggest function of electromagnetic warheads is to greatly reduce the combat efficiency of the Indian fleet's air defense and anti-missile system.

At this time, the second batch of forty-eight J-32bs arrived and also dropped hypersonic anti-ship missiles near Suvadiva Atoll.

Because the first group of attack aircraft were anti-ship missiles launched one after another within two minutes, the electromagnetic attack will last for two minutes.

This means that even if the Indian fleet has relatively complete electromagnetic countermeasures, it will take 1:26 before the air defense and anti-missile system can be operated normally.

By this time, the second batch of anti-ship missiles dropped by J-32b had been flying for two minutes.

This time, forty-eight J-32bs were anti-ship missiles dropped almost at the same time, so the second batch of 96 anti-ship missiles will arrive at the same time.

From a time perspective, when the Indian fleet launches air defense and anti-missile operations again, the distance between the second batch of anti-ship missiles will not exceed 250 kilometers from the Indian fleet. This means that the Indian fleet only has two minutes of anti-missile combat time at most, and the long-range air defense and anti-missile system will conduct up to two rounds of interception.

It seems that the chance of intercepting anti-ship missiles is very high.

The problem is that the second batch of 96 anti-ship missiles have super low-altitude penetration throughout the entire range, with a speed of more than Mach 6 and a flight altitude of less than 20 meters. In this case, the detection distance of any active radar on anti-ship missiles will not exceed 60 kilometers, and the accuracy of the passive radar is not enough to guide anti-missile missiles to intercept. In this way, a carrier-based early warning aircraft needs to lock in anti-ship missiles and provide target information for air defense warships.

Obviously, the forward j-32 escort fighter will not give the Indian fleet such an opportunity.

At about 1:26, the southernmost carrier-based early warning aircraft of the Indian fleet was shot down by J-32. The second batch of eight F-35m were all shot down when they were fighting against J-32. Although in this round of battle, J-32 also entered the Indian fleet's air defense net and was attacked by air defense missiles, only one J-32 failed to escape in time and was hit by air defense missiles when turning and avoiding. The J-32 did not crash immediately, but lost one engine. After flying about 1,200 kilometers south, the left wing fuel tank was penetrated by shrapnel and lost one-third of its fuel, and was forced to land about 600 kilometers away from the fleet. Before dawn, the tilted rotary wing aircraft sent by the fleet found two parachuting pilots and took them back safely.

As a result, when the second batch of anti-ship missiles approached, all the early warning aircraft of the Indian fleet were on the north side of the fleet.

The anti-missile combat time left for the Indian fleet is only thirty seconds, and the interception distance is about 60 kilometers, and the long-range air defense system has only one chance.

At that time, to the south of the fleet, there was only one cruiser and three destroyers in front of it.

Although the four warships adjusted their routes in time and gave way to the fire-controlled illumination radars in the rear to play a role, the four warships can intercept up to twenty-eight targets at the same time, and the coming was ninety-six anti-ship missiles. Even if the interception efficiency reached 100%, sixty-eight anti-ship missiles could successfully penetrate.

When the last anti-missile interception is entered, the Indian warships have no chance of winning.

With only the "Ram" short-range air defense missiles and "intensive array" rapid-fire guns, Indian warships are unable to effectively intercept anti-ship missiles with a speed of more than Mach 6. Not to mention, when these anti-ship missiles enter the end of the ballistic, that is, about twenty kilometers away from the target, they will throw away the ram engine, and the warhead will fly the final range by inertia under the control of a small vector rocket engine. That is to say, before entering the attack range of the warship's last anti-missile interception system, the target cross-section of the anti-ship missile will be reduced by more than four-fifths.

There is no doubt that intercepting warheads is much more difficult than intercepting missiles.

The first fourteen anti-ship missiles that successfully penetrated were concentratedly attacked four escort warships, and at least thirteen exploded after hitting the warships.

The other anti-ship missiles did not attack the four escort warships, nor did they attack the "Verat" aircraft carrier behind them. Instead, they continued to break north and attacked the escort warships in other aircraft carrier battle groups according to the pre-set procedures, and achieved good results.

At the end of this round of attack, only the northernmost "Vichenia" aircraft carrier battle group was not severely damaged.

According to the combat records of the Indian Navy and the operational reports of the task force, there were a total of forty-five escort warships in the Indian fleet at that time, and on average, each aircraft carrier battle group had an air defense cruiser, a multi-purpose destroyer, three air defense destroyers and four ocean frigates. In this round of strikes, at least four cruisers, eleven destroyers and eight frigates were hit by missiles and lost their combat capabilities.

However, none of the aircraft carriers were shot.

The reason is very simple. In the preset attack program of anti-ship missiles, aircraft carriers are not listed as attack targets at all, because there is no need for this.

While the Indian fleet was conducting air defense and anti-missile operations, the battle for air supremacy also entered a white-hot stage.

In addition to the first eight J-32s participating in the battle, the remaining eight J-32 and thirty-two J-32bs carrying out air control missions were successively put into battle at around 1:27. Even J-32bs carrying out the second round of attack missions also joined the air combat after dropping anti-ship missiles, and jointly fought against more than 100 F-35m. The main battlefield of air combat is on the south side of the Indian fleet.

It is undeniable that the Indian fighter fleet has a numerical advantage.

But the problem is that it is difficult for India's carrier-based early warning aircraft to discover j-32 and j-32b with particularly outstanding stealth capabilities in time, while carrier-based early warning aircraft supporting Chinese fighters can easily find f-35m, providing information support for fighters, so the number cannot determine the victory or defeat of the air battle.

Within the first three minutes, the j-32 and j-32b aircraft group shot down more than forty f-35m.

As the j-32b aircraft group that completed the attack mission joined the battle, the numerical advantage fell into the hands of Chinese fighters.

Of course, at this time, air combat also entered the fighting stage.

In front of j-32, f-35m has no performance advantages. For example, j-32 can perform high-difficulty maneuvering with fifteen g overload, while the maximum maneuvering overload of f-35m is only nine g. Even in front of j-32b, f-35m does not have many performance advantages that can be praised. For example, the maximum maneuvering overload of j-32b can reach twelve g, and there is not much difference from j-32 in terms of acceleration, climbing and hovering. The main difference between the two fighters is in the air combat system, that is, j-32 has more complete electronic equipment.

The battle was almost one-sided, and the f-35m aircraft group quickly lost its ability to fight against the j-32 and j-32b aircraft group.

At 1:33, the third group of J-32b aircraft fleet that circled to the east of the Indian fleet finally arrived, and as planned, they first attacked the northernmost aircraft carrier battle group "Vichinia".

It was not until this time that the j-32b aircraft group suffered the first loss in the attack operation.

When breaking through the fleet's air defense network, three j-32bs were shot down by air defense missiles one after another, and two of the pilots failed to eject in time to escape.

However, this is the only skill for the USS Vincenia aircraft carrier battle group.

As the j-32b aircraft group successively dropped anti-ship guided bombs and first attacked the escort warships, Indian warships had to concentrate their efforts to intercept incoming ammunition.

By this time, the fate of the Indian fleet could no longer be changed.

Chapter 89: Bombing in turn
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