Chapter 1371: Rage
Chinese satellites immediately caught the tail flame emitted by the "Scud" missiles, and ballistic computers quickly calculated the destinations of the missiles. Subsequently, the Chinese side quickly informed the Pakistani General Staff of the relevant situation and figures. The air defense alarm was immediately sounded at the Pakistani air base, which was targeted by the "Scud" missile. Aircraft began to take shelter in caves, ground crews took cover, and anti-aircraft weapons began to deploy rapidly.
Although they can't tell whether things are true or false, they trust the ability of the Chinese side. They say that Indian missiles will fly here, and they must fly here.
At the same time, the air defense radar at the airbase was activated.
Sure enough, thirty seconds later, the radar detected the Scud missile entering the atmosphere, and the Pakistani army here finally determined that it was the target of the Indian missile.
Under the Pakistani army's desperate defense, three of the 32 "Scud" missiles of the Indian army were shot down by the Pakistani side using China's latest test product, the "Defender-1" interceptor missile.
Of the remaining 29 missiles that broke through the air defense system, 10 of them rushed to key points such as airport control towers, pilots' quarters, ammunition depots, fuel depots, and air defense positions, while the other 19 dropped anti-runway bombs at an altitude of about 1,000 meters above the ground.
After an earth-shattering explosion, Pakistan's most important airport, the Okara military airfield, was in shambles: blazing fires, billowing smoke, screams and groans everywhere......
It's just that this round of missile bombardment has a lot of thunder and little rain, and although there is a fire, a thick smoke, and a mess everywhere, there are not many valuable things that are really damaged, not to mention those planes that were hidden in caves, only a few have been affected. Only one was completely destroyed, the others were unharmed, and those important targets did not do much damage, not even the runway was lost. As soon as the missile exploded, the ground crew rushed out of the bunker and began to carry out emergency repairs, which would not take long to recover.
The Indian missile attack was ineffective except that China had told the Pakistani military in advance, giving them precious time to hide. Let the planes that were preparing expensive planes that were being towed out of the cave immediately turn back, and the planes that were already on the tarmac but did not take off entered the cave and saved the planes.
Another reason is that the error of surface-to-surface missiles at this time is too high, and you must know that the surface-to-surface missiles exported by the Soviet Union are not the best performing missiles of the Soviet Union, and they have all been manipulated by the Soviet Union. The performance is one level worse than the one they use, which is often referred to as the business version. At this time, the navigation of Soviet missiles was still a traditional inertial navigation system, and the global positioning system was not used for navigation, and the performance of the missiles sold to India was naturally worse.
The theoretical circumferential error of the "Scud" has reached 300 meters, which means that even if the missile operators are highly skilled and do not make any mistakes, it may be fired at a distance of 300 meters from the target after being fired. It may be useful for targets such as fuel depots or vulnerable targets such as fighter jets, but it is useless in the face of aircraft caves, fortified air defense positions, and pilots' quarters, just to make people start.
The last reason is that India is not rich and cannot afford too many missiles. Thirty-two missiles are said to be a lot less, but more is not enough to destroy a large front-line airfield.
While India's "Scud" missiles were still advancing in the sky. While they were still flying towards their targets, Pakistan's missile forces had already launched a counterattack. Seventy-five missile launchers received the order. Immediately drove out of their respective hiding places, and erected launch racks one by one in the mountains, in the dense forests, on the grasslands, and on the banks of the river.
These 75 missile launchers are all new weapons made in China, some of them are "Falcon Spear-4" and more are improved "Falcon Spear-5," and these latest surface-to-surface missiles were recently urgently transported from China to Pakistan, naturally in order to enhance Pakistan's self-defense capability and enhance Pakistan's counterattack capability.
With an order from the Pakistani General Staff, these ground-to-surface missile launchers quickly positioned themselves, quickly erected their launch stands, and quickly recharged and filled them.
In less than 10 minutes, one missile after another erupted into the air with orange flames. Soon, seventy-five surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 400 kilometers burst into the blue sky.
After the Indian missiles were launched, China's reconnaissance satellites quickly captured the missile's tail flames, and the ballistic computer quickly calculated the destination of the missiles, thus informing Pakistan as soon as possible, thus avoiding heavy losses and allowing the Pakistan Air Force to withstand India's first round of strikes.
When Pakistan's 75 "Falcon-5" missiles were launched, US reconnaissance satellites also caught the tail flames of these missiles for the first time, and the computers calculated the targets of these missiles for the first time. It's just that because Pakistan has launched more missiles, the United States has taken a little more than a dozen seconds to calculate compared to China.
For missiles with a flight time of more than five minutes, an extra ten seconds is nothing and can be ignored, but the Indian military still has time to prepare for evasion and defense, at least there is time for important people in the target area (such as commanders, pilots, experts, etc.) to run into bunkers and hide.
However, the relationship between the United States and India is different from the relationship between China and Pakistan, and the relationship between China and Pakistan is one of cold lips and mutual dependence, and it is a sincere attempt to help the Pakistani side, and the blow to Pakistan is equivalent to suffering a blow to itself, and when it receives an Indian missile attack on an important target of the Pakistani side, it naturally faithfully handed over the relevant information and data to the Pakistani General Staff as soon as possible, and proposed its own proposals to the other side.
The relationship between the United States and India is a relationship between exploitation and exploitation, and the United States only hopes that India will be cannon fodder, but it only hopes that India will be pinched to the death with China and its allies, and the worse India will be beaten at the beginning of the war, the better, in that case, India will be ashamed and courageous, and will fight hard with China. Of course, India can't be beaten down by Pakistan, in that case, it will frighten India: "If you can't even beat Pakistan, how can you make trouble with China?" Let's just sit down and do your own thing. ”
There are indeed some difficulties in grasping this degree, which is enough for the Yankees to ponder for a long time, although they have rich experience in pit people.
Therefore, after the US side obtained the relevant numbers of missiles launched by Pakistan, it did not hand them over to India as soon as possible, but submitted them to the top level of the US Department of Defense for a decision. After the senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense decided to hand over the data to the Indian side, the Indian military studied and verified the data provided by the US side, and then transmitted it to the headquarters of the participating troops below.
Because the Indian side does not believe in the US side very much, they also know very well that the US side does not sincerely help itself, but only uses itself as thugs and cannon fodder.
It was precisely because both India and the United States had misgivings that they had delayed a lot of time, and by the time the Indian army's front-line command received the news, the missiles launched by the Pakistani side had already flown over their heads, and their own radars had already captured the Pakistani radar, and the information provided by the United States became an afterthought.
Of course, the information provided by the US side is not useless, at least it has helped the Indian side verify the accuracy of its radar detection.
By this time, the Indian front-line troops were in disarray, the commanders were shocked, and the Indian troops in the areas where they were hit were terrified. The Chinese-made "Falcon Spear-5" surface-to-surface missile uses a solid-fuel rocket engine, and it can also separate the warhead from the missile body at the end of the trajectory.
Besides, India now does not have the ability to intercept missiles at all, and they have only two ways to deal with such missiles, one is to hide and the other is to run. To hide is to hide in a thickly protected bunker, as long as the prayer works and the missile does not hit the bunker directly, their hope of survival is still great. If you run, you can run as far as you can, as long as you escape the missile's killing radius, your life will basically be saved.
As for what anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, the chances of hitting a Chinese missile are basically zero.
However, it takes time to hide or escape, and when the missile is already in sight, it is too late to take a rocket, not to mention that there is nothing to do on two legs.
Seventy-five missiles fired by Pakistan attacked three tactical targets, one of which was a front-line air base, a large military camp with an air defense command center.
Almost all of the 30 missiles launched at the assault air base hit their targets, blowing up large craters with a diameter of two meters and a depth of one meter on the runway, penetrating the non-reinforced hangars, destroying the warplanes inside, and destroying the infrastructure and logistical equipment of the airport, such as the collapse of a pilot's dormitory, the detonation of a distant fuel depot, and the overturning of fuel trucks on the airport......
Twenty missiles used in raids on barracks razed the target barracks, destroyed barracks and other infrastructure, blew up ordinary vehicles, and pierced the top armor of tanks and armoured combat vehicles.
The remaining twenty-five missiles were all "Hayabusa-5", and all of them were used against the air force headquarters closest to the front line, enveloping every one of them in flames.
In addition to the fighters that had already taken off from the frontline air base, at least 61 other warplanes were destroyed on the ground. The runway could no longer take off and land, the command and navigation systems were scrap metal, and the Air Force suffered heavy losses.
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