Chapter 486: Paralyzing the North Island
When the local war in Southeast Asia began, thus attracting the attention of all countries in the world, the 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron in Oceania also launched an offensive against the North Island in the early hours of the morning.
Thanks to the efforts of satellites, reconnaissance planes, and ground intelligence personnel, most of the military deployments in the North Island have been mastered by the command of the First Carrier Formation.
Just after the wee hours of the morning, the aircraft carrier Jeju, cruising in the eastern part of Hawker Bay, was brightly lit, and there were absolutely no ships within a radius of 30 nautical miles except for its own frigate.
Immediately, after O'Neill's order, I saw the air overlord waiting on the deck start to take off in pairs with a graceful attitude, and quickly formed a formation in the air, and rushed towards the middle of the North Island in the west.
In the past two days, the officers and men of the First Aircraft Carrier Squadron have not been idle, except for the complete blockade of the airspace and communications on the North Island in the early morning of the 2nd, and the other foreigners were given two days to leave here, and the rest of the people who really did not want to leave could not be managed, and the opportunity was given to you, and it was the people of your own country who refused to take you back, and as for the purpose of your stay, they did not bother to pay attention to it at all.
Anyway, even if they stay, most of them are safe, and as long as they are not close to the vicinity of military targets, the missiles are unlikely to hurt them.
The South Island has basically completed the transfer to the 1st Marine Brigade, except for the 203 and 204 ships that were sent to the west coast of the South Island to defend the possible Australian Navy and Air Force, the rest of the cruisers Kota Kinabalu, Seogwipo, and 101, 102, 103, and 104 Sea Hawk-class destroyers have also been deployed to Wellington, North Island, and the western part of North Island, beside Jeju Island. Now only two destroyers, 201 and 202, remain.
In the face of absolutely clear reconnaissance results, there was no threat to the Jeju at all within hundreds or even thousands of nautical miles in the surrounding area. However, O'Neill still put two frigates on the side of the aircraft carrier for backup.
The fighter had just taken to the skies. On the west shore of Hawke's Bay, the city of Napier sounded a piercing air raid siren, and then several cities and military bases throughout the North Island were continuously prepared for defense.
Thanks to the fact that the fighter group of the first aircraft carrier group did not hit ground targets in the past two days, the radar of the New Zealand government army in the North Island was not killed, otherwise it was obviously impossible for them to find the fighter group taking off in the dark night sky.
The carrier-based aircraft group was divided into two routes, and when the southern route group went straight to the air base east of Wellington, the northern route group took out the radar station, anti-aircraft gun positions and several other military targets here in just a few dives of Napier, which was not strong in defense, and the northern route group did not hesitate to pounce on the key protected city of Auckland.
However, the southern fleet did not wait long. Less than two minutes after flying over the North Island, this group of excited young men saw a dense group of fighters flying over their fighter radar. Suddenly, they screamed excitedly and locked on their targets, and then one after another Seagull air-to-air missiles pounced on each other like a grim reaper.
Although the New Zealand-Australia coalition forces know that the gap between the weapons and equipment performance of the two sides is too large, this is the limit of what they can use, and they have gathered all the combat aircraft that they can muster. Plus the F-18 knocked out from Australia, etc. Nearly 110 planes of various types were gathered in order to use the number to win this air battle.
The southern line group had just finished firing the Seagull air-to-air missiles, and suddenly a dense group of small red dots appeared on the radar again, and the fighter sirens suddenly sounded, but dozens of anti-aircraft missiles were launched from the ground.
It's just that although these missiles are no problem for fighters from other countries, they are obviously not enough in the face of the air supremacy with a limit speed of more than Mach 6. The fighter group just flew in the direction of Wellington at a normal cruise speed of Mach 4.2, and the dozens of surface-to-air missiles disappeared completely. Didn't even touch the ass of the air overlord.
At this time, the Seagull air-to-air missiles, which were faster than fighter jets, had already found their own targets. Before they could use their tricks, they turned them into beautiful and brilliant fireworks in the air, mixed with small white umbrella flowers, fluttering towards the ground.
Knowing that the enemy was invincible, they had to take to the air to meet the enemy because of the order, but they were also the same as their predecessors, and before they could find out where the enemy plane was, they received the piercing alarm of the fighter jet being locked.
The vast majority of fighter pilots hesitated for a moment, and then bounced and escaped directly before the missile hit them, only a few pilots from Australia who flew F-35 fighters, trying to get out of the lock with speed and skill, but in the end they found that all their efforts were still in vain, even if they were controlling one of the most traveling fighters in the world except for the air supremacy at this time, they still could not escape the fate of being hit by seagulls, and they did not even have a chance to escape.
In the night sky at this time, except for the air supremacy and the Yunying reconnaissance plane belonging to the first aircraft carrier group, there was no other flying machine, and even the night bird would never be able to fly to this altitude of the fighter.
The young men of the southern front group did not have the heart to pity those failed colleagues, since they had taken off, they were their enemies, and they did not choose to leave for half a year, which meant that they were not worthy of their own sympathy.
The young men pressed their fighter control sticks one after another, and the fighter group was collectively reduced to a height of more than 10,000 meters, although there are basically few fighters at a height of more than 30,000 meters, but the sight distance above is not as clear as when it is more than 10,000 meters.
"Rub Rub ......"
As soon as the group of planes was lowered and just arrived over the city of Wellington, the dense anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns on the ground opened fire, and hundreds of tracer shells or ordinary artillery shells and rockets were fired from electromagnetic anti-aircraft guns and ordinary anti-aircraft guns, aiming directly at the southern line group that was getting lower and lower above their heads, forcing the southern line group not to dare to lower its own altitude.
Some of the projectiles of anti-aircraft artillery are non-contact explosions, which will explode in the vicinity of fighter jets, so that the fighter in the air will be injured by shrapnel and achieve the purpose of killing.
However, the boys of the southern line group did not let them get their wish, the group just dived, and then quickly pulled up, and then saw that in the rain of anti-aircraft shells, one after another "Stinger" missiles flew out of the ground, but although their speed was not slow, the speed of the air supremacy was faster.
The fighter pilots who originally deliberately drew out this group of antiaircraft guns quickly pulled up again, and then one after another the Exocan missiles were launched, and as for the "Stinger" missiles that were launched, no one paid attention to them at all, because at this time they still maintained a normal cruise speed of Mach 4.2, not to mention that the effective range of the "Stinger" could not even reach 10,000 meters, but they were already in the air at an altitude of more than 20,000 meters at this time.
In addition to testing the deployment of anti-aircraft artillery on the ground, what they just did was also guarding against other ground-to-air missiles, and as for the "Stinger," it was indeed not within their scope of consideration. This thing is okay against helicopter gunships or low-altitude slow-flying fighters, but it has no merit in front of the air supremacy.
Perhaps it was fearing that the southern front group would drop bombs at low altitude to destroy important military targets in the city, or perhaps in order to warn this group of "invaders", the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground resolutely opened fire, but in this way it also revealed their detailed location.
Although reconnaissance planes, satellites, and even ground intelligence personnel have provided accurate locations, even if there is an electronic map in the dark night sky, they are afraid of making a mistake again, so there is a temptation.
Facts have proved that their temptation is really unnecessary, whether it is the reconnaissance plane, the satellite, or the intelligence personnel on the ground, the information transmitted is accurate, and they can attack boldly in the night without worrying about harming innocent civilians.
When the air-launched Exoces missiles killed the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground in pieces, not a minute had passed, but the ground missiles carried by the fighters this time were not too many, after all, they had just fought with the opponent's air force before.
More than half of the fighters had run out of missiles except for the cannons, and at the order of the squadron leader, the group began to return to the aircraft carrier in the form of a squadron to continue loading.
This night was destined to be the world of the air force of the First Aircraft Carrier Formation, and most of the carrier-based planes made two or three sorties by dawn, and none of them made one sortie at all.
With such frequent sorties, the military facilities on the North Island were also devastated, all radar stations, air defense positions, missile positions, substations, communication stations, and slightly larger army concentration points were all cleared, and the Ministry of National Defense building, many military and related buildings, were blown up into the sky by the Exoces.
This time, because all the fighters of the Air Force were basically killed, the military airfield escaped, but the military airfield without fighter planes was equivalent to an ornament for the former New Zealand Defense Force.
After most of the night's attack, more than 300 sorties were carried in total, and in addition to the Seagull air-to-air missiles carried on the first trip, all the followers carried Exocs surface-to-ground missiles.
Under the bombardment of thousands of missiles, just one night later, the electricity, communications, and air defense on the North Island have been completely paralyzed, although the people's livelihood system has also been greatly affected by this, but Gao Jinxian can't manage so much, who let these be his enemies. As for the specific results, in addition to their own statistics, the casualties also need to be passed on by the intelligence officers in the North Island. (To be continued......)