Chapter 685: Made in the Ganges
The Strait of Malacca is known as the "crossroads of the Pacific and Indian Oceans", and it is difficult for the world to find a geographical situation as blessed by Malacca.
Thanks to the sacred cow, thanks to the movement of the earth's crust, it appeared not far from India, so that it can be as readily available as it is now.
As long as control of the Strait of Malacca is obtained, it will be able to connect the southern part of the General Movement, the northern part of the Indian Ocean, and the South Asian subcontinent to the Andaman Islands and the Strait of Malacca, and completely control the world's busiest shipping route.
It can enter and exit the South China Sea and connect to the Pacific Ocean; Retreat could easily choke the entrance to the strait, ensure that the Indian mainland would not be attacked from the South China Sea, and could destroy the oil and trade transportation of the eastern countries at any time, severely damage its economy, and quickly weaken its ability to support war.
At that time, India will be ridiculously proud of the entire Indian Ocean and will truly become a world power that deters the two continents of Asia and Africa.
But the premise for realizing the dream is to seize Singapore's Changi Naval Base.
The Changi base, which opened a few years ago, not only takes into account Singapore's own operational needs, but also builds the largest floating dock for its ally the United States, as well as the world's most advanced fully automated underground warehouse to store US military supplies.
The base can not only accept aircraft carriers for recuperation, but also the number of US warships entering the port every year will not be less than 100, which can be called the best and largest military support in the South China Sea after the US military withdraws from Subic Bay!
However, the Indian Navy, which had been in trouble all the way and had to rush to the United States with a lot of hardship, was equipped with technical equipment that was at least a whole generation behind the US Navy.
The predecessor of the "Virat" was the "Athletic" aircraft carrier, which began service in Britain half a century ago, with a full load displacement of only 28,700 tons, and it carried 12 British "Harrier" vertical take-off and landing fighters and seven MK2 anti-submarine helicopters in peacetime, with limited combat capability. And the old-fashioned close defense system, the combat power is even more pitiful.
Correspondingly, the US Navy's Ticonderoga-class missile cruiser at the Changi base and a large number of US Harpoon anti-ship missiles in underground warehouses are located. In addition, it will face an air threat of about 100 F-15, F-16, and F-18 fighters.
It stands to reason that with such a huge disparity in strength, the Indians would not have the courage to come to the door to kick the hall even if they were drunk with the water of the Ganges River and smeared with too much divine oil, but because of the sinking of all the US aircraft carriers, it greatly stimulated the Indians' great power ambitions.
Not to mention the "space logistics"!
Now almost all Indians firmly believe that the chairman of "Space Logistics" wrapped in Indian-style Baotou cloth is definitely an Indian, and can only be an Indian! Otherwise, how can we have such advanced and sharp advanced equipment?
Moreover, after the collapse of the US aircraft carrier group, the US air power was suppressed by air and space fighters at the same time, and did not dare to take off at all. Under such circumstances, the Harrier fighter could land smoothly at Changi Base and then take over the whole of Singapore.
Ah San is always happy, and extremely happy, but he didn't estimate at least two things.
The first is that Huaxia, Shenmeng, and the United States have reached a consensus at lightning speed that they will work together to build a new world order. The consequence of this is that the League of God and the United States have lifted the state of war, and at the same time, they have also lifted the suppression of the American armed forces. Under these circumstances, it would be unwise to challenge a hedgehog-like land base with an aging aircraft carrier formation.
But India did not back down, because they firmly believed that they would be helped by "cosmic logistics", and at the same time, because of the great victory of the Divine Alliance, they had a contempt for the combat power of the US military in their hearts. And the corresponding thing is a high level of morale and confidence.
If the Arabs can succeed, why can't we, India?
What's more, we still have "cosmic logistics"!
An inexplicable sense of pride filled the formation, and everyone began to become arrogant, waiting to enter the Changi Naval Base and arrogantly accept the groveling surrender of the Americans and Singaporeans......
Another point that the Indians overlooked, and would never have imagined, was the power of Tianmen in Southeast Asia.
Although Tianmen only controls the local underground forces, these forces often control the real forces that are much larger than their own. Once needed, it can make a huge difference, unimaginable, and it is impossible to prevent!
To make matters worse, since Tianmen Butterfly Island assisted the Chinese in holding the South China Sea, Ao Ping, the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and Ao Jing, the Dragon King of the South China Sea, have shifted their activities to the Indian Ocean to concentrate on protecting the Chinese ships on the route. It's so good to die, the future sphere of influence imagined by the Indians actually completely coincides with the Dragon King couple!
This is the real death.
Therefore, the tragedy of the Indians was doomed from the beginning.
The guy who wanted to take advantage of other people's fights to steal a little benefit suddenly found that he had become a victim...... Is this to blame the United States for turning too fast? Or should you blame yourself for having a greedy heart that you shouldn't have?
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Less than 100 kilometers west of Singapore, there is a nice island in the strait called "Banana Island". Now, the aircraft carrier group is moored in the waters west of the island.
The Indian fleet made another move that the whole world could not understand: it demanded that the US forces at the Changi base surrender unconditionally to India, and that "all military facilities be closed and stopped pending reception by the Indian Navy."
With the revelations of Singapore and the US military on the Internet, the world immediately became lively.
Even if the United States suffered heavy losses in the war with the Divine Alliance, it would not be an existence that a mere India could provoke! What kind of medicine did the three people take wrong, and they actually made such an unbelievable move?
Is it true that the United States is already in a state of collapse?
Especially now that the United States and China are so close that they are almost becoming de facto allies, India is now coming to "recruit" the United States...... Did you really drink too much water from the Ganges?
Could it be that the United States missile-can't hit the Arabs, so do you really think that even India won't dare to hit it?
What exactly are the Indians mad?
Of course, the turmoil in the world did not affect the firm faith of the Assan. When repeated urging was fruitless and only the US military made fun of them, the Indian commander, who was embarrassed and angry, took off all the "Harrier" fighters and, following the example of the United States, launched more than 30 ground-attack missiles at the target.
Fighting ensued.
Of the original 12 "Harriers", there are only eight of them left because they crashed and dismantled for parts, but it is this air force that has also given the Indian commanders incomparable confidence -- how dare the Americans face our great Indian Navy when they are lying on the ground and being beaten by the Alliance!
But the results turned out to be unexpected.
The result is not surprising - this refers to normal people all over the world.
The vast majority of land-attack missiles were intercepted, but the few that were not intercepted were not the fault of the US military. Rather, it's because even the Indians themselves don't know where they flew......
Eight "Harrier", except for one that rushed into the sea during takeoff, the rest of the fighters all became the results of the US F-15!
Two P3-C anti-submarine patrol planes took off from the Changi base and began to circle around the Indian fleet, and the sonar buoys that were constantly dropped discovered the Indian Russian-made 863 "Kilo" class submarine hidden underwater. And once the submarine is positioned by the other side, its fate can be imagined.
At the same time, warplanes from Singapore and the US army began to appear in the sky.
Harpoon anti-ship missiles flew from land to sea, and their targets were the Indian fleet. Especially after the devastating blow of the Divine Alliance, the US military seems to have vented all its resentment and anger on the Indians.
They took the same missile saturation attack!
But India is not a divine alliance, and they have not received any weapon support from "space logistics", especially the kind of multi-purpose small missiles called "Comet", so they have to accept the baptism of bullet rain.
The Calcutta, India's pride and the only destroyer ship of the "Indian Aegis," tried its best to stop dozens of "Harpoons," but was hit by several "Harpoons" and sank to the bottom of the sea in less than a minute. Since then, the Indian fleet has lost its most effective air defense warship, just like a panicked Indian woman, inevitably ravaged one by one by the "bus villains" of US missiles and fighter planes.
Maybe it's to get out of the bad spirit, maybe it's India's actions that really anger the United States, maybe it's both. In short, twenty minutes later, there was only one lone Indian aircraft carrier "Virat" floating in the ocean west of Banana Island.
It was an unrepresentative battle of the air and sea. Because aircraft carriers have always been in the first sequence of strikes, but the poor and pathetic strength of the Indian army's carrier-based aircraft makes this aircraft carrier the only aircraft carrier in history that has not been hit after the entire fleet has sunk!
This is a miracle in the history of world naval warfare, and it is a shame that the Indian Navy can never erase.
Can an aircraft carrier, having lost carrier-based aircraft and escort ships, be able to withstand the attack of anti-ship missiles and air fighters with a few anti-submarine helicopters and a pitifully weak close-in defense system?
Therefore, the commander of the Indian army gave the order to surrender very shamefully. The essence of "non-violent non-cooperation" shines again in Malacca at this moment!
However, the Americans still mercilessly sank the aircraft carrier "Virat", and they also used aerial bombs, which are untechnical but extremely shocking and ornamental.
Is this a tribute to the 12 U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups?
And the "Virat", a long-overdue old ship, together with its more than 1,300 crew members, has finally become the underwater landscape of Malacca, and at the same time, it has also become a great hidden danger in the channel of the strait.
Probably, this is the best that India can do to influence shipping in the straits!
But sadly, in the post-war liquidation, India also had to shoulder the responsibility of dredging the entire Strait of Malacca shipping lane, which can really be described as a loss of wife and soldiers.
It seems that the brains of the three will always just want to soak in the water of the Ganges, and they will never want to be sober......