After dawn, the battle continued.

As predicted by Wang Dong and others, the Indian army focused on air supremacy, and the Pakistani Air Force began to fight to defend its airspace.

At breakfast, Wang Dong learned from Yunlong that the Indian parliament held an emergency meeting last night and secretly passed a resolution on the war against Pakistan, and authorized the Indian prime minister to take necessary actions, including war, to make Pakistan pay the price for the explosion in Jammu.

In addition, India did not declare war on Pakistan.

It was not until the morning of July 8 that the Indian authorities released information that they were fighting back in self-defense, not against Pakistan.

Of course, counterattacks and sneak attacks are just lip service.

In fact, in the night fighting, especially the second round of counterattacks carried out by Pakistan, the Indian army's operational deployment has been disrupted.

According to the original plan, the Indian army was supposed to launch a ground offensive immediately after the raid on the first night.

It is a pity that the combat units participating in the ground offensive were all bombed with precision and suffered heavy losses, and there was no way to launch an offensive as planned.

On the same day, the Indian authorities also claimed that there was a certain major power behind the scenes supporting Pakistan and providing military intelligence to Pakistan.

Naturally, there is no need to say much about who this big country is.

India's accusations are not groundless.

Quite simply, in the second round of counterattacks, Pakistan's cruise missiles hit very accurately, almost without missing a shot.

Without strong intelligence support, will Pakistan be able to get those cruise missiles to hit their targets accurately?

What's more, the target of the strike was the Indian ground forces, which had entered the attack position only a few days earlier, and it was obviously impossible for Pakistan to have so much intelligence in such a short period of time.

In fact, this also proves that this was a premeditated war operation.

Why?

Just one day after the attack, will the Indian army be able to complete its operational deployment within a day?

Obviously, with the state of the Indian army, not to mention a day, even if it takes a week, it may not be able to complete the preparations before the offensive.

Take the ace unit of the Indian army, for example, it takes at least 24 hours to complete combat readiness.

And that's just home defense.

If it is an offensive combat operation, the ace units of the Indian army need at least 72 hours of preparation time, and the ordinary troops need a week to 10 days of preparation time.

Without preparing in advance, how could the Indian army have planned to launch an offensive less than two days after the incident?

So, why should the Indian army prepare for war in advance?

Could it be that the Indian authorities are aware of what is coming?

However, the situation in Pakistan is similar.

Pakistan was still able to launch a counterattack immediately after a surprise attack, and even with the intelligence provided by Huaxia, it would take a lot of time to prepare.

That is, Pakistan apparently received intelligence a few days in advance to prepare the troops, for example, by allowing the missile units to enter positions in advance.

Of course, this can also be seen as a normal deployment of the Pakistani army.

Why?

When the Indian army began to prepare for war, Pakistan must have received the news and will respond to raise the combat readiness level of its troops.

In any case, the Indian army failed to launch a ground offensive as planned.

After the sneak attack on Pakistan, the Indian army had to re-compete with the Pakistani air force for air supremacy in preparation for a ground offensive.

Is it that easy?

In the morning, the two sides engaged in the first large-scale organized air battle around Lahore.

The Pakistan Air Force dispatched nearly 40 JF-20s in three batches to meet the Indian Air Force's 24 Su-30MKI, as well as an unknown number of F-35AIs.

In the first round, 12 JF-20s played against 24 Su-30MKI.

Although the Indian army had a numerical advantage, the battle turned out to be one-sided, with 12 JF-20s winning an almost overwhelming victory.

2 to 11 exchanging ratio!

AWACS aircraft were dispatched from both sides, the ZDK-05 for Pakistan and the "Fercon" for India.

Although the latter is a large early warning aircraft, in terms of detection range and command capability, it is inferior to a medium-sized early warning aircraft with a much smaller tonnage.

Commanding 24 Su-30MKI at the same time is really a bit difficult for "Fercon".

To this end, the Indian army adopted a typical air combat tactic, that is, a two-plane formation, with only the long plane under command and the wingman fighting in tandem with the fighters.

In this way, the superiority of the Indian army in terms of strength does not exist.

Why?

The degree of digitization of the Su-30MKI is not very high, although the pilot of the long plane can give orders to the wingman pilot through the formation communication system, but he cannot directly send air information to the wingman, so he cannot guide the wingman to attack, and the wingman has to search for targets on his own.

If fighters are needed to search for targets on their own, why do you need AWACS?

Besides, the passive phased array radar of the Su-30MKI does not perform well, even if the detection range is not too close, the tracking and locking distances are too short.

In fact, in the face of the JF-20, the radar of the Su-30MKI cannot even detect at long distances.

Why?

The JF-20 uses stealth paint, and it is the same paint as the J-20, and its RCS value is less than 1 square meter, which is much lower than the normal value of the third-generation aircraft.

This RCS value is enough to shorten the detection range of the Su-30MKI to less than 200 kilometers.

In fact, it is precisely in order to keep this secret that the JF-20s of the Pakistan Air Force are all deployed at air bases in the west, and have rarely been active in the east before.

In addition, there are parts of the JF-20 that are not sprayed with stealth paint.

As a result, the Indian Air Force miscalculated the RCS value of the JF-20 and did not know how good the stealth performance of this fighter was.

The Pakistan Air Force has only 12 JF-20s, which is also related to the command capability of the ZDK-05.

In fact, at that time there were still 4 JF-20s in the air, but they did not participate in the battle, but in the vicinity of the ZDK-05, serving as cover missions.

As a result, the ZDK-05 could only command 12 JF-20 operations.

In addition, the detection range of the ZDK-05 against the Su-30MKI is up to 600 kilometers.

That is, before the Su-30MKI entered the battlefield, the ZDK-05 found out, and immediately sent the relevant information to the JF-20 fleet.

On the side of the Indian Air Force, on the contrary, "Fercon" did not detect the JF-20 fleet in time.

You must know that the detection range of "Ferkang" against air targets with an RCS value of less than 1 square meter is only 400 kilometers at most.

A difference of 200 kilometers is enough to determine the outcome of an air battle.

Quite simply, by the time the JF-20 was discovered by "Ferkang", the Pakistani fighters had already occupied an advantageous position, and the Indian fighters were very passive.

Fall back?

Apparently impossible, it was Indian fighters who came to find trouble.

What's more, there are much fewer of each other.

At that time, Pakistani fighters also used a two-plane formation, and it was a dense formation, so "Ferkang" initially identified only 6 fighters.

Interestingly, "Fercon" did not even judge that it was a JF-20.

Based on the smaller RCS values, "Fercon" identified them as six JF-17 fighters of the third batch.