It is not surprising to say that the country of Van Luo suddenly started a war against Pakistan and the railway, and it was an undeclared war, and the empire had been prepared for this for a long time, otherwise it would be impossible for Pakistan and the railway to stabilize their position after the war and give the Van Luo air force a head-on blow in the battle for air supremacy.

It's just that the big victory in the early morning is not only the credit of the Pakistani Air Force.

After the assassination of Tigara, the empire began to strengthen its military presence in Pakistan, especially the air power, which plays a decisive role in modern warfare.

By the time the war broke out, the number of "Finger-8Cs" deployed in Pakistan had increased from eight to 12.

As a result, four aircraft can be deployed in Iborg in the north, Karachi in the south and Quetta in the west, ensuring round-the-clock air patrols. Crucially, the four aircraft deployed in Quetta serve as strategic reserves, which are used to fill the holes in the two main defensive lines in the north and south.

At any one time, there are 3 Kn-8Cs patrolling the air.

The radar carried by the "Finger-8C" can detect tactical aircraft flying at high altitudes, that is, air targets with an RCS value of about 5 square meters, up to 550 kilometers, and even for low-flying tactical aircraft, the detection range will not be less than 350 kilometers.

Theoretically, the surveillance range of the Finger-8C is between 400,000 square kilometers and 1 million square kilometers.

The land area of Pakistan Railway is less than 800,000 square kilometers, and it generally shows a northeast to southwest trend, and three large early warning aircraft can be said to be more than enough. Because the length of the border with Van Luo is about 1,000 kilometers, only two "Finger-8C" planes need to be deployed in front to complete the strategic early warning mission. The third Finger-8C can be deployed in the rear to increase tactical flexibility and improve the survivability of the early warning system.

The first anomaly to be spotted was the Kn-8C patrolling over Iborg.

In the early morning of the 4th, shortly after the Van Rowe fighter carrying out the first round of assault missions took off from the base, it was detected by the "Finger-8C".

It was confirmed that the Van Roe fighter plane that had taken off far exceeded the scale of the daily training, and the commander of the "Finger-8C" immediately raised the alarm.

Subsequently, in just 15 minutes, nearly 100 Pakistani and Railway fighters in a state of combat readiness were all lifted into the air, and other Pakistani and Railway fighters also began to prepare for the attack.

In other words, Van Luo's combat planes are still organizing formations, and Pakistani fighters are ready for battle.

The key to the rapid response of the Pakistani Railway Air Force is that within the Eastern Bloc, the intelligence, communications, and command systems have long been unified. The information held by the Imperial Air Force is synchronously transmitted to the Pakistani Railway Air Force, and after entering the state of war, the Imperial Air Force can also directly issue orders to the combat units of the Pakistan Railway Air Force, so as to shorten the time used in the decision-making process, speed up the response speed of the combat units, and improve combat efficiency.

This flat command system is, in fact, one of the fruits of the third round of military reform.

Of course, it's not completely and thoroughly.

Due to the limitations of technological means, the imperial military did not think about achieving the full purpose of reform, and many military reforms involving cutting-edge technology will be postponed to the next round of military reform. Among them, there is a theater communications command system codenamed "Reflection Arc." After the system is completed, the theater commander can directly issue orders to the squad and platoon commander, and directly access the information obtained by soldiers on the frontline battlefield.

Because it is too advanced, there are too many technical thresholds to be crossed, so the development of the "reflection arc" is delayed again and again.

According to the latest plan, it would be nice to be able to come up with a sample in the year 155 of the new calendar.

Fortunately, the command system, codenamed "Microphone", now surpasses all opponents and leads by a wide margin.

In the past few years, several joint exercises have been conducted in Pakistan each year, such as the Eastern Bloc Air Force Joint Training Exercise, codenamed "Wings of Peace". It was through these exercises that the Pakistani Air Force took the lead in completing the adjustment of the command structure and integrating it into the command system of the Eastern Coalition Forces.

That's not all, though.

Before the fighter jets of Pakistan Railway took to the skies, an important event took place.

Two Detective-29Cs deployed in Basawat and Karachi took off one after another, and after about 30 minutes, they joined up with the Knuckles-8Cs deployed earlier.

These two large electronic reconnaissance planes, that is, electronic warfare planes, are the real "Mr. Key".

Because the intensity of use of large electronic warfare aircraft is far less than that of early warning aircraft, the total number of "Detective-29" series is less than 30, which is less than half of that of the "Finger-8."

As for the value, the "Detective-29C" is definitely not under the "Finger-8C".

In high-intensity air combat, electronic warfare aircraft are even more important than AWACS.

To put it bluntly, a large electronic warfare aircraft such as the "Detective-29C" can blind all enemy planes within a range of 300 kilometers when fighting with an opponent of the same level, such as the Van Luo Kingdom. If the interference range is appropriately reduced, for example, the fan surface of the interference area is reduced to 5 degrees, and the interference distance can be doubled to 600 kilometers, it will also be able to suppress electronic jamming of the enemy's large early warning aircraft.

When the Detective-29C was designed, the Imperial Air Force was aimed at the Manman Air Force and the Nuland Air Force, and tactical performance indicators were proposed based on the imaginary enemy.

The Imperial Air Force was mainly targeting the Nuland Air Force's E-3 "Watchtower" large AWACS aircraft.

The Van Rowe Air Force has several "watchtowers".

In the year 140 of the new calendar, that is, two years after the E-3A was installed in the Nuland Air Force, the Van Rowe Air Force obtained an E-3A by virtue of good relations. According to the plan at that time, Van Luo Guo would spend NZ$3 billion to purchase eight E-3As in the next 10 years to build two sets of air warning and command systems.

It's a pity that Van Luo Guo is a typical eye-to-eye and high-handedness.

Just a few months later, the Nuland Air Force leased to the Van Rowe Air Force to test the use of the E-3A crashed, not only did the AWACS plane completely burn out, but the more than 20 crew members on board were not spared. The point is that the E-3A is under the name of the Nuland Air Force, and the crew members who died in the crash include 13 officers and soldiers of the Nuland Air Force, one of whom is also the nephew of the Texas Senator and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

At that time, the E-3A was sent to Van Luo for a test flight in order to sell this large early warning aircraft and help arms dealers get sky-high orders.

This incident directly led to the resignation of Nuland's chief of staff and defense secretary.

It was later found out that the cause of the crash was that the support personnel of the Van Luo Air Force added one-third less hydraulic oil and passed it off as waste oil when they were doing maintenance, which caused the pipeline of the hydraulic system to be blocked, and the pressure required for the work was not reached, which made the hydraulic mechanism controlling the rudder surface unable to work normally, and finally caused the E-3A to crash due to the failure of the main aerodynamic rudder surface during the emergency landing.

Crucially, the hydraulic fluid was sold to scrap buyers for 15,000 kilopees, or less than $1,000.

For a few hundred New Zealand dollars, causing the E-3A to crash worth nearly 300 million New Zealand dollars, I am afraid that only the Van Rowe Air Force can do it.

Although the main personnel involved in the incident were severely punished, and the leading officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison, the repercussions of the incident continued until 147 AH.

It was only in this year that the Nuland administration approved the contract for the export of E-3 to Van Roe.

This is exactly 7 years later than originally planned!

It's just that it is no longer the E-3A that is exported, but the E-3B with improved signal processing capabilities, to be precise, the export model of the E-3B. Compared with the Nuland Air Force's E-3B, the E-3BI exported to Van Roe retains a complete air detection capability, with only 2 sets of data communication equipment reduced, voice communication channels added, and a special air crew officer's rest capsule added to accommodate the special requirements of the Van Rowe Air Force.

The reason is also very simple: the main combat aircraft of the Van Rowe Air Force, except for the F-15 and F-16 series, which were introduced after the new calendar 140, other combat aircraft are not equipped with data links, and the commander still issues combat orders through voice communication equipment.

In addition, the Van Rowe Air Force has no arrangements for adding datalink equipment to other combat aircraft.

If anything, the Van Rowe Air Force has not had a tradition of upgrading active combat aircraft.

In fact, this is also the "norm".

Almost all the weapons and equipment exported to Van Luo needed to be improved before they could be used by Van Roe's army.

Taking the army's main battle tank as an example, the "Arjun 1" developed by Van Luo Guo actually uses a diesel engine, and it has been reduced by a circle, reducing the combat weight to 44 tons of M1. The main reason for the "shrinkage" is that almost all the traffic capacity of the highway bridges in the country is less than 45 tons, and the weight of the main battle tank must be controlled within 45 tons, otherwise there is no way to carry out battlefield maneuvers.

As a result, the protection performance of "Arjun 1" is not even comparable to the second-generation M60A3!

By the time of the Arjun 2, the Van Rowe Army had released its weight indicators, raised it to the level of the M1A1, and used a 120-mm smoothbore gun imported from the Republic of Nuland. The problem was that the Van Rowe Army insisted on diesel engines, and finally chose the power system developed by the Kingdom of Bran for the Challenger, and insisted on producing it locally. As a result, because the performance indicators of the domestic powertrain have not met the requirements, the "Arjun 2" is still only more than 10 prototypes after nearly 10 years of development, and no one knows when it will be mass-produced.

Of course, the Van Rowe Air Force is no better.

After acquiring the F-16A/B, the Van Rowe Air Force could have introduced the F-16C/D, and could even buy production lines to produce them locally. It's a pity that I don't know which tendon went wrong, the Van Rowe Air Force insisted on using domestic light fighters, and also asked for cheaper than F-16A / B, that is, smaller fighters, so they abandoned the F-16 engine used in F-100 / B, and instead chose the F-404 engine used by F/A-18A/B as LCA, that is, the power of "advanced light fighter". After several years of development, this fighter has not even produced all the drawings!

However, the E-3BI does significantly enhance the combat capabilities of the Van Rowe Air Force.

By the time of the war, the Van Rowe Air Force had acquired six E-3BIs, and the other two had been assembled and ready for delivery after testing.

In addition, the Nuland Air Force has deployed 4 more advanced E-3Cs in Van Roe Country.

In fact, these E-3Cs were originally planned to be sold to the Kingdom of Bran, but the export contract was not approved by the authorities in Newland because of the obstruction of the Bran Empire and the inability of the Royal Bran Air Force to provide corresponding guarantees that the personnel of the Bran Air Force were prohibited from contacting and using the E-3Cs.

As a result, all 10 E-3Cs produced were handed over to the Nuland Air Force.

Compared with the E-3B, the E-3C mainly enhances electromagnetic countermeasures, that is, anti-jamming performance, and adds several sets of communication equipment to contact ground command.

Four Nuland Air Force E-3Cs are deployed in the southern part of Van Roe and are primarily tasked with monitoring the Diego base.

The main threat is the 6 E-3BIs.

In fact, this is also the key reason why the Imperial Air Force sent four additional "Detective-29C" to Pakistan.

In the ensuing battle, the two "Detective-29C" made the two E-3BIs dispatched by the Van Rowe Air Force blind, and they failed to play their due role throughout the whole process.

By the time the Van Rowe Air Force reacted and urgently dispatched two additional E-3BIs, the air battle had entered the final stage.

With the assistance of the "Finger-8C" and "Detective-29C," more than 100 fighters of the Pakistani Air Force not only withstood nearly 1,000 fighters of the Van Luo Air Force, but also shot down 86 enemy planes in about two hours of fighting, without losing a single of them.

Of course, "no loss" is actually a propaganda word.

In the air battle in the early hours of the same day, at least 11 fighters of the Pakistani Air Force were shot down by Van Roe Air Force fighters in the air battle, and 17 fighters crashed or were scrapped after returning home, and a total of 22 pilots were killed or missing in the battle.

Compared with the results achieved, the losses of the Pakistani Air Force were completely acceptable.

According to the battle report provided by the Pakistani Air Force, of the 86 enemy planes shot down, at least 34 were F-15A/Bs and 28 were F-16A/Bs. The point is, there are still dozens of results that cannot be confirmed. Those enemy planes were all medium-range air-to-air missiles used by Pakistani fighters, shot down from a visual distance, and all of them crashed into the territory of Van Luo country, and there was no way to collect evidence, only the unilateral testimony of the pilots.

However, the most important thing is actually to crush the first round of raids by the Van Rowe Air Force!

The Van Roe Air Force dispatched nearly 1,000 combat planes, and it certainly intends to completely destroy the Pakistani Air Force and air defense system through the first round of air strikes, seize air supremacy on the battlefield, and then destroy the border defense line of Pakistan and Railway through air strikes, and then assist the ground troops in attacking Pakistan and Railway.

According to this set of tactics, Van Luo's army was able to grasp the initiative on the battlefield throughout the process.

As long as it advances quickly, it is expected to be able to fight the capital of the Pakistan Railway, Iborg, and the number one port city of Karachi, even before the reinforcements of the Liangxia Empire arrive.

From a strategic point of view, the capture of these two cities is basically a sure victory.

The key, of course, is the first round of air assaults.

Otherwise, the Van Rowe Air Force would not have dispatched more than half of its combat aircraft in one go!

It is a pity that under the strong resistance of the Pakistani Air Force, especially after the F-15A/B and F-16A/B groups that came forward to seize air supremacy were defeated, the attack aircraft groups that followed behind lost cover and almost all of them dropped their bombs in advance after being intercepted by Pakistani air fighters.

The few groups of planes that were not afraid of death were also shot down by Pakistani fighters before entering Pakistani airspace.

Here, there is another very crucial factor.

In September, the Pakistani Air Force acquired 1,500 KK-12A medium-range air-to-air missiles, and also improved the "Zhan-10AP", mainly by updating the software system of the fire control radar and installing datalink equipment, thereby gaining the ability to use the KK-12A.

The Imperial Air Force's "Battle-10" series of fighters is also making similar improvements.

That is, with the KK-12A with advanced performance, the "Zhan-10AP" of Pakistan Railway can defeat the more powerful F-15A/B in air combat. You must know that the KK-12A can intercept fighters at a distance of 60 kilometers, while the AIM-7F "Sparrow" missiles used by the F-15A/B often do not have an interception distance of 30 kilometers. What's more, the F-15A/B fleet was subjected to electromagnetic suppression throughout the entire process.

In fact, many attack planes of the Van Rowe Air Force gave up their assault operations after being suppressed by electromagnetism and unable to obtain accurate battlefield information.

Don't look at the technical and tactical ability of the Van Luo pilot, but in the face of life and death decisions, it is very shrewd.

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