When Yuanqing focused on strategic defense, the strike actions of the Air Force were already there. 【】

In order to weaken Japan's strategic counterattack capability to the greatest extent, the first round of offensive operations was entirely aimed at Japan's missile and nuclear weapons bases. Because Japan has a narrow land area and a large population, and most of the population is concentrated in the southern areas of Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu Island, where the climate and environment are relatively good, Japan's land-based missile launch positions are deployed in Hokkaido, and mobile ballistic missiles are deployed in the northern part of Honshu Island, where the road network is relatively dense. In response to this situation, the first round of air force strikes was concentrated in Hokkaido and the northern part of Honshu Island.

Unlike previous air strikes, the Air Force did not concentrate on the Japanese air defense system.

Mainly limited by the accommodating capacity of the command system, in order to ensure the ability to take out Japan's strategic counterattack, it is necessary to concentrate all combat forces and reduce strike actions from other areas.

To do this, the Air Force was the first to dispatch not fighters, but electronic warfare aircraft.

At 0:00, the first batch of 12DY15B subfighters arrived in the operational airspace over the Sea of Japan.

Compared with the DY14C as a tactical electronic warfare aircraft, the DY-15B's electronic warfare capability is more powerful because it uses the Y15B, which has a more powerful carrying capacity, can carry more electronic warfare equipment, and can also be equipped with more powerful suppression and jamming equipment. With standard equipment, DY15B is capable of blocking electronic jamming of air defense radars and long-range warning radars within a radius of 350 km, or suppressive jamming of radars up to 500 km away. Because the vast majority of long-range warning radars are fixedly deployed, DY15B generally completely loses the function of the enemy's radar by suppressing interference during combat, opening an air corridor for the attacking aircraft group.

A DJ15C anti-aircraft suppression fighter jet followed by the DY14B group.

As an anti-aircraft suppression fighter developed on the basis of the J14C fighter, the DJ-1, nicknamed "Thunder", replaced the phased array fire control radar with 1 large electronic jammer, completely abandoning air combat capabilities. When carrying out combat missions, in addition to carrying two self-defended combat missiles, it carries electronic warfare pods under the wings and carries six medium- and long-range anti-radiation missiles in the bomb bay. When fighting, the DJ-1 can use electronic warfare pods to carry out directional jamming of the enemy's air defense radars (mainly detection radars and fire control radars of mobile deployment air defense systems), and can also destroy the enemy's air defense radars with anti-radiation missiles, so that the enemy's air defense system becomes blind. If it carries ultra-long-range air-to-air missiles J14C, it can also attack enemy AWACS aircraft in an anti-radiation manner.

As a professional anti-aircraft suppression fighter, the DJ14C is capable of destroying the air defense systems of any country.

"Soft Bond". No sooner had the battle begun, than the ground air defense system in the northern part of the Japanese mainland suffered a devastating blow.

Subsequently. A fleet of J14C fighters arrived. Begin to carry out combat missions for air supremacy.

Limited by command capabilities. The Air Force did not bomb the Japanese ground air base.

Three groups of 72J14C fighters were divided into 6 groups, and the skies over the Sea of Japan were in full swing. Although the number of fighters put into service to the ground air is not very large. But in the case that the Japanese Air Force did not react in time. The J14C fighters guided by 6 KJ22C AWACS aircraft were enough to ensure air supremacy in the offensive phase.

Compared to J14. The J-1 mainly improved the electronics. Besides. The biggest feature of J1 is: It is equipped with an active defense system, that is, a ground laser interception system that relies on 16-level composite batteries to provide energy. The interception system is mainly used against air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles. This gives the fighter an active defense capability. As for how much of an impact this defense system will have on the tactics of air combat before being tested in real combat. No one can say.

At 0:55 the bomber group arrived.

The first to attack was the Air Force's Strategic Air Force's 24H9B bombers, which fired 288 hypersonic air-launched cruise missiles at missile positions in the Tokachidake and Asahidake mountains in Hokkaido in just two minutes. As usual, the bomber fired a missile and then turned back.

The biggest improvement over the H9B is the enhanced conventional strike capability.

Although the main task of strategic bombers is to carry cruise missiles equipped with nuclear warheads to carry out combat readiness patrol missions and pose a strategic threat to a potential enemy, strategic bombers often carry out conventional bombing missions when the possibility of a full-scale nuclear war is very small. As the Air Force's most powerful weapons delivery platform, strategic bombers have strike capabilities that far exceed those of tactical fighters. As far as the air force, which is mainly offensive, opening up and expanding the combat range of strategic bombers is an important means of enhancing combat effectiveness.

In the absence of sufficient funds to develop and purchase new bombers, improving the original bombers has become the air force's choice.

It was in this context that the H9B was born, and its biggest improvements were to increase the bomb carrying capacity by 30% and improve the fire control system, so that it could use the FL25 hypersonic air-launched cruise missile with a maximum speed of more than Mach 8 and a maximum range of more than 1,200 kilometers, which could easily break through enemy air defense systems.

The H9B group hit the Japanese ballistic missile silos.

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Before the bomb was finalized, Japan was at the Tokachido and Asahidake Mountain catapult bases in Hokkaido. Because the X11 missile has a launch mass of more than 250:, it cannot be deployed on a mobile projectile, but can only be deployed in an underground silo.

The deployment of ballistic missiles in silos is not unusual.

The first-generation strategic ballistic missiles of the five nuclear powers were deployed in underground silos. Although the survivability of underground silos is very limited, their advantages are also relatively obvious, for example, in the case of limited guidance technology, the accuracy of ballistic missiles deployed in underground silos is much higher than that of mobile missiles and submarine-launched missiles. Because the missile silo is definitely the target of the opponent, the missile silo is not only very firmly built, but there must also be a lot of false targets nearby. In actual combat applications, fixedly deployed ballistic missiles are used to undertake rotational strike missions to avoid being destroyed when the enemy carries out a strategic counterattack.

Japan did not have the opportunity to carry out a round attack, and its fixed-deployment ballistic missiles became the target of the Republican Air Force.

In the absence of being able to distinguish between real and false targets, the Air Force adopted the tactic of "one-pot end" and destroyed them regardless of whether they were real or false. It is precisely in this way that 288 hypersonic air-launched cruise missiles with a unit price of up to 50 million were used at one time. In order to ensure the incapacitation of Japanese ballistic missiles, an average of every 3 cruise missiles hit one target!

In the battle against the enemy's nuclear power, the Air Force cannot afford to make any mistakes.

Although the Republic's "National Strategic System" is capable of intercepting at least 150 targets at the same time, and the probability of shooting down each target is at least 3 times, the enemy's missiles still have a C1%% chance of breaking through the interception system and landing on the Republic itself. If only conventional missiles are a threat that is not very great. A single strategic ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead can destroy a large city with a population of more than one million. That means that at least a million citizens of the Republic will fall victim to war because of the loss of the Air Force.

The Air Force cannot take on this responsibility, and no one can do it.

When the H9B group launched missiles, the J15C group, which was responsible for the key bombing mission, entered Japanese airspace.

The 4J15C flew to Hokkaido in two batches, and used the 1-kilogram ground-penetrating bomb it carried to carry out supplementary bombing of the missile silo that had just been attacked by cruise missiles, destroying the Japanese strategic missile launch command center; The other group turned to the northern part of Japan's main island of Honshu and bombed the mobile missile launch depot in the mountainous area of Mt. Iwate with 000-kilogram bombs, destroying the Japanese strategic counterattack command center.

As a result, 2 squadrons of J14C fighters on air supremacy missions turned to escort the J15C fleet.

There is no way to use the J15C combat to carry out key bombing missions.

According to information provided by the Military Intelligence Agency, Japan's missile silos were deployed 35 meters underground, covered with reinforced concrete up to 15 meters thick and reinforced armor steel plates thick to 15 meters. The FL25 air-launched cruise missile has a maximum penetration depth of only 35 meters, and a penetration depth of less than 0 meters to reinforced concrete. In other words, even if the FL25 hits the missile silo very accurately, it will not be able to completely destroy it. To this end, it is necessary to use more powerful ground-penetrating munitions to carry out supplementary bombardment of missile silos to ensure their complete destruction.

The LT26 1C00-gram ground-penetrating bomb carried by the J15C fighter is specifically aimed at Japanese missile silos and underground command posts. Although the weight is not very large, much smaller than the previous ground-penetrating bombs, after the use of the extended missile body and the multi-stage tandem special warhead, the maximum penetration capacity of sand and soil has reached an astonishing 120 meters, the penetration capacity of reinforced concrete is more than meters, and even can easily blow through steel plates as thick as meters.

During the attack, the LT26 first threw a front warhead filled with 150 kg of special explosives at a distance of about 50 meters from the ground, and blew up a channel on the ground at a depth of more than 50 meters; Subsequently, under the control of the delay-time fuze, the main warhead is thrown forward, blasting through the reinforced reinforced concrete; Before hitting the target, throw the rear warhead, which blows through the steel plate; Inside the target, the attack warhead set at the rear will be detonated.

Regarding the formulation of the charge of LT26, it has always been the top secret that other countries want to obtain.

Ballistic missile silos are the highest objects of protection, and bombs capable of destroying silos, will certainly be able to destroy

At 11:15, the second batch of J-15C fighters arrived.

After determining that Japan's missile silos and mobile missile caverns had been destroyed, the second batch of J15Cs began to carry out extended strike missions, attacking all military targets and industrial facilities related to nuclear weapons and missile weapons with the standoff munitions they carried.

On the question of whether it is necessary to expand the scope of the attack, Xiang Linghui has always been undecided. After Wang Yuanqing made the decision, Xiang Linghui issued a combat order to the Air Force. Since the purpose of the bombing campaign was to destroy Japan's nuclear capabilities, it was necessary to include military and industrial targets related to them.

It was only by this time that strategic bombing really began!