The first round of the offensive failed, but the Indian Air Force did not give up.

Half an hour later, the Indian Air Force launched a second offensive.

In fact, this has also been arranged a long time ago, otherwise with the organizational ability of the Indian Air Force, it will definitely be impossible to put the second batch of air forces into operation within half an hour.

In fact, after the fighter takes off, it takes more than half an hour to fly to the combat zone.

This time, the main force is still the F-16E, but the number reaches 24.

Opposite, the Pakistan Air Force is 8 JF-20s.

The four JF-20s that intercepted the F-16E group before, although there were still enough missiles, consumed too much fuel when intercepting and evading, so after successfully stopping the Indian Air Force group, they all turned back and handed over the air defense task to the eight JF-20s that took off urgently.

In fact, this is also the last batch of JF-20s that the Pakistani communist army was able to dispatch in this direction.

Although there are still 4 JF-20s, these fighters must remain to cover the ZDK-05, after all, AWACS aircraft are the core strength of the entire air defense system.

8 against 24, the advantage is clearly in the hands of the Indian Air Force.

In addition, at least eight of the 24 F-16Es were on escort duty, and eight dropped bombs during the flight.

That is, there are 16 F-16Es just for the front cover, which are divided into two formations, front and rear.

The battle still starts from beyond the line of sight.

Similar to the previous round of air combat, the F-16E was limited by the range of the AIM-120A and was not able to fire first, but the Indian pilots learned their lesson and evaded it in advance, and did not miss the best time to avoid the SD-10C in order to complete the guidance work.

It's just that 3 F-16Es were still shot down by SD-10C.

Immediately after that, the fight entered the fighting phase.

This was the first dogfights between the two sides since the start of the war.

In all previous battles, the distance was tens of kilometers, and the performance of the radar and missiles was determined by the performance of the radar and the missile.

In the beginning, the JF-20 fleet had a clear advantage.

Why?

There are a lot of them.

8 against 5, almost two against one.

In addition, almost all of the JF-20s of the Pakistan Air Force are of the air superiority type, and only those 20 anti-aircraft suppression fighters are configured according to the multi-purpose type.

That is, these JF-20s are optimized for air supremacy.

To put it simply, it is actually to minimize unnecessary equipment and reduce the air of the fighter, so as to improve the maneuverability of the fighter.

In fact, this is also a choice that has no choice.

Because Russia refuses to provide engines to Pakistan, all JF-20s exported to Pakistan are equipped with S-10s produced in China.

Of course, the J-10D of Huaxia also uses the S-10.

In order to open up the Pakistani market and to take care of the special needs of Pakistan, these JF-20s use the latest S-10B.

Theoretically, the afterburner thrust of such an engine can reach 144 kN.

In the third generation of high-thrust engines, it is already not low.

The problem is that the weight of the JF-20 is no less than that.

Equipped with an active phased array radar, as well as numerous electronic equipment, the JF-20 weighed 14 tons in air combat with 4 missiles and half fuel.

That is, even with the S-10B, the JF-20 barely has a thrust-to-weight ratio in air combat.

This performance is not excellent among fighters of the same generation.

In fact, even the J-10A is not comparable.

Of course, compared to the earlier F-16A, the gap is even further.

Fortunately, the same is true for the F-16E of the Indian Air Force.

Although the F-16 was the first fighter designed according to the theory of energy maneuverability, and has always been known for its maneuverability, and its agility even surpassed that of the F-15, the development of the F-16C/D, the large amount of equipment added has made this fighter extremely clumsy.

In fact, the later F-16 was a multi-role fighter and was no longer an air superiority fighter.

The same goes for the F-16E/F sold to India.

In addition, India's purchase of the F-16E/F is intended to replace medium attack aircraft such as the Mig-27 and "Jaguar", not to replace air supremacy fighters.

These F-16E/F are all multi-purpose models.

In theory, the F-16E/F still has strong air combat capabilities, but in practice, it is not very good.

The most typical is actually the two protective fuel tanks on the back.

The conformal fuel tank is able to significantly increase the range of the fighter without seriously reducing the flight qualities, but it will definitely reduce the maneuverability of the fighter.

To put it bluntly, the dead weight of the structure alone is several hundred kilograms.

At the beginning, when Pakistan purchased the JF-20, it also proposed that Huaxia could design a conformal fuel tank to improve the range of the fighter.

However, after comprehensive consideration, the Pakistan Air Force finally abandoned this request.

Quite simply, with a conformal fuel tank, the maneuverability of the JF-20 will become even worse, and the resulting increase in range of several hundred kilometers will have little real combat significance.

Compared to the JF-20, the Indian Air Force's F-16E/F is more bulky.

In addition, the F-16E/F are operating in Pakistani airspace, and the Indian Air Force does not have a few tankers, so it has to leave more fuel for the return home.

Even in an air combat configuration, the thrust-to-weight ratio of the F-16E/F is 0.9 when retaining two-thirds of the fuel in the aircraft.

Of course, modern combat air combat is more about competing with the performance of combat missiles.

The JF-20 uses the PL-10A, while the F-16E uses the AIM-9X.

These two missiles can be said to be equal in terms of performance.

The AIM-9X is lighter, while the PL-10A is a little more destructive.

Clearly, the number of fighters remains crucial.

In just a few minutes, the JF-20 fleet shot down 3 F-16Es.

It's just that the situation has changed at this time.

Eight F-16Es of the second echelon arrived.

Because the fighters of the two sides are entangled, and the Indian Air Force does not have AWACS aircraft to direct the air battle in the rear, these Indian fighters did not attack with AIM-120A dozens of kilometers away, after all, it is easy to injure their own people by mistake and directly enter the combat distance.

At this point, the warring sides became 8 to 10.

The gap is not very significant, but half of the JF-20s have already used up at least one combat missile, and two have run out of combat missiles.

Obviously, this is also the disadvantage of the JF-20, which usually can carry only 2 combat missiles.

It's just that the Pakistani pilots did not retreat and could not retreat.

With an 8-10 lineup, there is no need to retreat.

In fact, Pakistani pilots are more confident.

Why?

If you are fighting on your own soil, even if you are shot down, as long as you successfully eject and parachute, you can be rescued by your own personnel without worrying about being captured by the enemy.

Obviously, Indian pilots do not have such confidence.

At this time, the eight F-16E/Fs responsible for the attack were already approaching.

It's just that 8 JF-17s of the Pakistan Air Force also arrived at this time.

Although the JF-17 is not an opponent of the F-16E/F, and even the F-16C/D cannot be beaten, the JF-17 in the air supremacy is not much of a problem against the F-16E/F on bombing missions.

The point is that the JF-17 only needs to force these F-16E/Fs to drop their bombs and missiles in advance, and does not need to engage them.

Intercepted by JF-17s, eight F-16E/Fs were forced to turn to evade.

At this point, the second offensive of the Indian Air Force ended in failure.