It wasn't until after 4 a.m. that Wang Dong received the exact news.

Yunlong sounded the alarm in time, and the Pakistani military also took timely action.

Although more than three hours is not sufficient, it is enough for most of the main fighters to rise into the air to evade, and it is also enough for all ground air defense forces to be ready for combat.

Let's not forget that the Pakistani army has long been on the radar.

The so-called resolution of disputes through negotiation is just talk.

According to the usual tradition, as long as India does not lower the combat readiness level of its army, Pakistan will not lower it, and it has nothing to do with the negotiations at all.

It's just that the fighters of the Pakistan Air Force cannot be in the air all the time.

Even when it is in combat readiness, it only makes the fighter ready to take off, ensuring that it can take off immediately after receiving the alert.

The alert issued by Yunlong is such a value.

In more than two hours of fierce fighting, the Indian Air Force did not bargain.

Just in the Lahore direction, the Indian Air Force lost at least 17 combat aircraft, and most likely one of them is an F-35AI.

Of these gains, 12 belonged to the HQ-9B.

Perhaps, even the Indian Air Force did not figure out what was going on.

It stands to reason that after destroying the long-range warning radar of the air defense system, these air defense missiles will become short-sighted, unable to fully exert the range of the missiles, and at most can rely on the fire control radar at the company level to guide the missiles, so the combat distance will definitely be shortened a lot.

As a result, at least 8 Indian fighter jets were shot down by missiles at a distance of about 200 kilometers from Lahore.

Why?

Obviously, the Indian Air Force grossly underestimated the information level of the Pakistani Air Force.

After receiving the alert from Yunlong, the Pakistan Air Force sent a ZDK-05 to patrol about 200 kilometers west of Lahore.

At the same time, Pakistan used camouflage equipment purchased from Huaxia to replace the HQ-9B's long-range search radar.

This set of equipment is actually a radar transmitter, but there is no receiver.

In other words, the Indian Air Force locked on and bombed the HQ-9B price list, not a real radar.

Of course, under the threat from the air, especially the elusive F-35AI, the Pakistan Air Force has never used long-range search radars.

It is also not the long-range search radar that is responsible for directing targets for anti-aircraft missiles, but the ZDK-05 AWACS aircraft.

Although there is no way to detect the F-35AI, the ZDK-05 has a detection range of more than 500 kilometers and even close to 600 kilometers for fighters such as the Su-30MKI and Mig-27.

Through the tactical data link, the ZDK-05 sent the detected information directly to the anti-aircraft missile forces.

Actually, that's why Pakistan is procuring HQ-9B.

If, according to the original agreement, Pakistan procures HQ-9A, then at this time, the air defense forces can only sigh with mesh, because HQ-9A is semi-active homing, and it needs to use radar to irradiate the target when attacking, so as to control the missile to attack.

The biggest improvement of the HQ-9B is that it has been replaced with an active homing seeker.

Of course, when intercepting small targets such as tactical ballistic missiles, the HQ-9B still needs the guidance of fire control radar to improve the interception accuracy.

When dealing with targets such as fighter jets, the HQ-9B can fully achieve full self-guidance.

To put it simply, the fire control system only needs to provide an approximate direction, let the missile fly near the target, and then the missile can launch an attack autonomously.

If it is attacking a fighter moving at high speed, then the fire control system must provide relay guidance information at all times.

Obviously, the ZDK-05 is equally capable of providing relay guidance.

As for the range of the missile, in fact, it is not just 200 km, but above 250 km.

Previously, Huaxia had always claimed that the HQ-9B had a range of 200 kilometers, but the missiles exported to Pakistan were actually better, similar to their own use.

In the case of the use of projectile ballistics, the ultimate range of the HQ-9B reached 300 km.

Of course, it is impossible to go so far in real combat, and it would be nice to have 250 km.

In fact, the biggest improvement of this HQ-9B, which was sold exclusively to Pakistan, is that it can provide relay guidance by ZDK-05.

Using the information provided by AWACS, it is not difficult to attack enemy aircraft at a distance of 200 kilometers.

According to the battle report published by the Pakistan Air Force, the air force in Lahore shot down eight Su-30MKI and four other types of fighters.

In addition, Pakistani Air Force fighters shot down at least 5 Indian fighters, one of which was Rafale.

In fact, the battle report released by the Pakistan Air Force is a bit exaggerated, not that so many Indian fighters were not shot down, but the model of fighters shot down.

According to later released information, the Indian Air Force did lose 17 fighters that night near Lahore, but only 5 Su-30MKI, the Rafale was only damaged by Pakistan Air Force fighters, and later flew back to the base, and re-engaged in the battle after repair, and the other 12 fighters were all old fighters such as Mig -27 and Jaguar.

Of course, Lahore is just one direction.

In other directions, India also lost more than 30 combat aircraft.

That night, the second key assault direction was Karachi.

It is clear that the Indian Air Force has its eye on the Pakistani ships in the Karachi military port in an attempt to destroy the Pakistani Navy with a massive surprise attack.

Unfortunately, to the west of Karachi, there is also the Hyderabad Air Base.

The battle revolves around the Hyderabad air base, to be precise, the Indian Air Force will first destroy the air base that stands in the way, then bomb the air defense positions near Karachi, and at the same time dispatch fighter jets to launch a surprise attack on the Karachi military port from the direction of the sea.

Here, the Indian Air Force suffered extremely heavy losses.

In the vicinity of Hyderabad alone, the Indian Air Force lost almost 20 combat aircraft, and almost all of them were the main fighters who seized air supremacy.

In fact, intercepted by the Pakistani Air Force, the Indian fighter jets were not able to complete the bombing mission at all.

You know, stationed in Hyderabad is one of the two ace units of the Pakistan Air Force, equipped with 40 JF-20 fighters.

What's more, Pakistan has 4 ZDK-05s deployed here.

At that time, all four AWACS aircraft were patrolling the air.

With most of the fighters in the air, the Pakistan Air Force had enough strength to hold back the Indian fleet.

In the ocean direction, 10 JF-20s, supported by one ZDK-05, managed to intercept 12 Su-30MKI that tried to sneak up on the Karachi military port, achieving the result of shooting down 6, and not a single JF-20 was threatened, let alone shot down by Indian fighters.

In addition, not a single Su-30MKI successfully completed the attack operation.

It can be said that the raid of the Indian Air Force on Karachi ended in complete failure.