Within five minutes, forty-five "Privet", or "Earth" tactical ballistic missiles, were launched one after another.

In the skies over South Asia, missile early warning satellites belonging to the United States, Russia and China were the first to discover the ballistic missiles that took off.

The US missile early warning satellite belongs to the "space-based infrared system," which consists of four satellites in geosynchronous orbit, two satellites in large elliptical orbit, and 24 satellites in low earth orbit. When Privett was launched, a total of one satellite in geosynchronous orbit, one satellite in large elliptical orbit, and two satellites in low Earth orbit were over South Asia, and the alarm was raised at the same time. Because it was a missile launched by India, US intelligence did not send infrared and visible photos taken by the early warning satellite to India.

Russia's missile early warning satellite, a large elliptical orbit satellite launched at the beginning of this century, quickly sent back to the Russian Strategic Air Defense Command. Because the war is thousands of miles away, India has not heeded Russia's advice, and Pakistan is not an ally of Russia, so the Russian Strategic Air Defense Command decided to wait and see the situation in South Asia with an attitude of watching the excitement after the alarm was lifted.

China's missile early warning satellite is a geosynchronous orbit satellite positioned over the equator at 80 degrees east longitude, mainly monitoring South Asia and the Indian Ocean region. Immediately after the Indian missile lifted off, infrared detectors on early warning satellites detected infrared radiation from the tail flame of the missile's ascent phase. After positioning, the high-resolution digital camera on the satellite begins tracking and shooting, and automatically sends the target image back to the ground command center. Combined with multiple pictures, the computer in the command center can calculate the trajectory of the missile within 40 seconds to 1 minute and determine the target of the missile.

Missiles are not airplanes and cannot be recovered after launch.

Before the Indian missile left the atmosphere, the United States, Russia and China knew that war had broken out.

Information is transmitted much faster than the flight speed of a missile.

In less than five minutes, the Pakistani General Staff received a missile alert, and the Pakistani air base, which was targeted by Indian missiles, immediately sounded the air defense alarm. At this time, forty-five "Privet" missiles had just entered the descent trajectory.

Four minutes before the missile hits, the air defense radar at the airbase is activated. It took only fifteen seconds for the radar to detect the missile entering the atmosphere. Two minutes before the missile hit, the long-range anti-aircraft missile took to the air and rushed at the ballistic missile that was diving down at a speed of Mach four. In the blink of an eye, fourteen "Privet" were shot down by "Hongqi 2000" anti-aircraft missiles.

Thirty-one "Privet" broke through the air defense system, dropping anti-runway submunitions at an altitude of about one and a half thousand meters from the ground. At this time, the warplanes in the five air bases had been lifted into the air, and the ground crews had also entered the anti-aircraft shelters.

The earth shook rhythmically.

Anti-runway submunitions are not very powerful. Only shallow craters with a diameter of no more than two meters can be blown up on the runway. Relatively. It is much more difficult to repair a hundred shallow pits than one large one. Other than that. Anti-runway submunitions can also destroy open-ground fighters. with logistical support equipment. But it is difficult to deal with the fighters parked in the interior of the hangar. and the threat posed by bunkers and ground-based armament.

After the rain of bullets. The first to appear on the ground was the ground engineering troops of the air base.

There was definitely a part of the anti-runway submunitions that did not explode. There is a place where the fuse is malfunctioning. If there is land, it will be set to a delayed explosion mode. When repairing the damaged runway. It is also necessary to clear those that do not have explosive ground submunitions.

The engineers were methodically busy. The Indian Air Force ground-based missile assault failed to inflict much damage on the airfield.

The most severely damaged was at the Ocala Air Base in the south-west of Lahore. Eight missiles landed. In total, more than 300 anti-runway submunitions were scattered. About 15 per cent of the ground submunitions did not explode. Even so. Of the 3,500-metre-long runway, another 1,500-metre-long stretch has not been damaged. Enough for tactical fighters to take off and land normally.

Because the take-off distance of air defense fighters is between 300 and 500 meters, when attacking the runway of an airfield with missiles, the distance between the missile aiming points is generally 300 meters. This will not only reduce the consumption of missiles, but also achieve the goal of paralyzing air bases. Of course, the prerequisite is that the circumferential error of the missile is zero.

The circumferential error of "Privet" at the maximum range reached two hundred and fifty meters. Regardless of whether or not you can hit a runway with a width of only a few tens of meters, even if you can hit it, the distance between the hit points will not necessarily be 300 meters, it may be 800 meters, or it may coincide completely.

One "Privet" can carry only forty-two anti-runway submunitions, which can be dispersed at a distance of no more than ten meters and cover a circular area with a radius of thirty-two meters. If the circumferential error of the missile exceeds thirty-five meters, it is difficult to pose a threat to the runway. Even if the runway is hit, it will only destroy a section about 70 meters long.

From the above, it can be concluded that if you want to hit the runway once, you have to use nine "Privits". To ensure the destruction of the runway at Ocala airbase, it was necessary to hit the runway eleven times, and a total of ninety-nine "Privets" were spent. To destroy the runways of five air bases, it will take 495 "Privets"! The Indian Air Force launched only forty-five "Privets" in total.

When the "Privet" was introduced, it was outdated in performance and was not suitable for striking tactical targets.

India chose the "Privet" as the first assault force, probably because it was worried that this kind of tactical ballistic missile, which uses a liquid-fueled rocket engine, will need to be prepared for several hours before launch, and will have a range of only 250 kilometers, will be difficult to exert its might in the subsequent battles, and will be surrounded and suppressed by the Pakistan Air Force.

The Pakistani Air Force immediately launched a counterattack, targeting not Indian missile launch positions.

Before the Privit landed, five missile brigades equipped with Abu Dali-2 tactical ballistic missiles were deployed in the northwestern region of Pakistan and received orders.

Within five minutes, one and a half million missile launchers entered the launch positions.

In less than 10 minutes, 150 missiles with a range of 350 kilometers and capable of carrying 1,000 kilograms of warheads, with a circumferential error of less than 100 meters at the maximum range, jumped into the blue sky.

Relying on advanced US reconnaissance satellites, India was alerted before the Abu Dali-2 missile took off.

It's just that India's air defense forces face more difficult challenges.

The "Abdali-2" missile uses a solid-fuel rocket engine, which not only has a short preparation time, but also separates the warhead from the missile body at the end of the trajectory. Whether it is the "turquoise" anti-missile early warning radar imported from Israel or the search radar of the "Antey-2500" air defense system purchased from Russia, it is difficult to detect a much smaller warhead in a timely manner, and it is even more difficult for an anti-missile missile to hit a warhead that is only one-tenth the size of the "Privet."

One hundred and fifty Abdali-2 missiles hit 10 tactical targets, including five air bases, three large military camps, and two air defense command centers.

For different targets, the "Abdali-2" ballistic missile uses different warheads.

The assault on the airbase missiles were loaded with forty-eight multi-purpose submunitions weighing twelve kilograms each. Each submunition can not only blow up a crater with a diameter of three meters and a depth of half a meter on the runway, but also blow through an unreinforced hangar, damaging the warplanes inside, or blowing up the airport's infrastructure and logistics equipment, such as fuel depots, fuel trucks, etc.

The missiles against the barracks were loaded with one hundred and twenty anti-personnel / armor submunitions weighing four kilograms each. Each bullet has a radius of 15 meters, and can also destroy infrastructure such as barracks, blow up ordinary vehicles, and blow through the top armor of tanks and armored combat vehicles.

Missiles against air defense command centers are equipped with high-explosive warheads weighing up to 1,000 kilograms and are capable of easily destroying various non-reinforced structures within a radius of 150 meters.

In the face of the rain of bullets falling from the sky, the well-equipped Indian air defense forces could only look into the sky and sigh.

In two minutes, the Indian air defense forces shot down only fourteen warheads.

When the smoke cleared, only the runway of the five Indian air bases attacked was still able to accommodate fighter planes to take off but could not land, and at least 120 combat planes were destroyed on the ground. Fortunately, these combat aircraft are relatively backward Mi G-21 and Mi G-23, and the main fighters of the Indian Air Force take off before the missiles arrive.

The three barracks were dealt even more severe blows, with the exception of the armoured brigade deployed in the north-western barracks of Amritsar that left early and entered offensive positions, and the Indian troops in the other two barracks were dealt a heavy blow. Hundreds of Indian Army officers and soldiers were blown to pieces by a rain of bullets falling from the sky without knowing what was happening; Dozens of tanks, more armored vehicles, and hundreds of military vehicles were devastated.

The air defense command center, located near Bertankot and Moga, was more fortunate. Both air defense command centers are built in reinforced underground bunkers, and the "Abdali-2" missiles do not have ground-penetrating warheads, and the high-explosive warheads can only destroy the ground facilities of the air defense centers, but cannot threaten the command personnel in the bunkers.

In less than half an hour, each of the warring sides threw a heavy punch.

It's just that the effect is completely different.

Before the battle began, Santos was rushing to the strategic command center just after the press conference of the interim prime minister of India.

The veteran was dumbfounded when he saw the satellite photos provided by the United States of Pakistan's air base after the attack.

His first reaction was that the American reconnaissance satellite was out of order.

Obviously, this is just wishful thinking. Can US spy satellites identify license plate numbers, but they can't see the damage to Pakistan's air base?

In the first round of the meeting, India lost very completely.

The war has just begun, and it doesn't matter if you lose a round. The important thing is that if the sharpness is frustrated and the morale is damaged, how can you fight in the future?

As you can see from the expressions on the faces of the officers in the strategic command center, this result has an impact on everyone.

The pace of the war will not stop and will not end there.

Combat aircraft of the air forces of both sides have taken off, and air battles are about to break out. If it can beat the Pakistan Air Force, India still has a chance to make a comeback.

Of course, Pakistan's missile forces must be taken out and Pakistan's forward air bases must be destroyed.

Two thorny problems, two problems that had to be solved.

Santos did not intervene in the command, after all, when he was still a soldier, he was just a small soldier, not a commander.

In the opinion of the commander of the Indian Air Force, Admiral Howard, the situation at this time is not optimistic at all. Air aviation has come out of the nest, air battles are about to begin, and only tactical ballistic missiles can still be used against Pakistan's missile forces and forward air bases.

The second missile assault, will it receive better results?

Damn it*

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