Chapter 697: Heavy Loading

The port of Visakhapatnam, the military airfield, the barracks of the troops... Hit by Pakistan's carrier-based aviation, when the bomb fell from the sky, the sleeping Indian soldier found that he had been caught in the fire of the explosion.

Although a few days ago, the Pakistani army crossed the border in a turbulent manner and occupied Calcutta, but, after all, Kolkata is six or seven hundred kilometers away from Visakhapatnam, and if Pakistan wants to attack Visakhapatnam, it will at least have to gradually advance by the armored forces on land, so that it will definitely be discovered by the defenders along the way.

They would never have imagined that Pakistan would use its navy to attack here.

How is this possible? Anyone with a modicum of military knowledge knows that it may seem lofty to use the sea to control the land, but in fact, it is very difficult to occupy a city with the navy!

The navy has superiority in arms, but the real battle still has to be solved by fighting on land, and relying only on the ability of the navy's ships to project troops, it is simply impossible to quickly establish a position, let alone hold a position.

Like more than ten years ago, the British army, which crossed more than half the world, successfully recaptured their Falkland Islands, which mobilized almost all British merchant ships, and even cruise ships were requisitioned, welded into swimming pools as flight decks, used to take off and land helicopters, almost with the strength of the country, it can be regarded as maintaining the dignity of the original empire on which the sun never sets.

And now, Pakistan has not carried out any war mobilization, just a few landing ships, in a vain attempt to occupy Visakhapatnam? It's a dream!

Therefore, Visakhapatnam's army did not take any precautions, although the notice from the American side had arrived, and the Pakistani naval formation had sailed to a very dangerous distance, but when the news reached the headquarters. It was already off duty, and the only officer on duty stuffed the news into a pile of papers.

Now the carrier-based aircraft of Pakistan take off, constantly dropping bombs over their heads, and they wake up from their dreams. Only then did I know that the war had begun!

Under the indiscriminate bombardment of Pakistan, the coastal positions and fortifications of Visakhapatnam were all in ruins.

Four large landing ships with a displacement of up to 10,000 tons, when their own air forces turned the opposite shore into a sea of fire, the landing ships continued to move forward until they came to a shoal a few nautical miles from the coastline.

The bow of the landing ship at the nose of the landing ship opened a door. Inside, tanks and armored vehicles drove out.

They drove directly into the river, floated up, and sailed towards the shore with the help of water thrusters.

The armored vehicles are all wheeled armored vehicles of Pakistan's own production, which already have the ability to sail on the water, and this was taken into account when designing.

Due to problems with tightness. When sailing on water, the interior of the armored vehicle will seep into the sea water slightly. But at the same time, a drainage pump at the bottom was constantly pumping seawater out, and the armored vehicle, which had enough buoyancy in reserve, was advancing towards the shore at a speed of 14 knots.

Inside the car, warriors with rifles in their arms were waiting to go ashore for battle.

Originally. At the time of the Normandy landings, most of the personnel could only walk in waist-deep water, and they went ashore on foot, and many of them died on the beachhead in the short few nautical miles.

And now. The progress of equipment has made amphibious landing operations easier, and the combat vehicles with amphibious capabilities can be directly used to load the soldiers and rush ashore!

In addition to wheeled armored vehicles, there are also tanks with big bellies, these are Type 63A amphibious tanks imported from China.

It is almost impossible to make a heavy tank float from the sea, so the weight of such a tank is very light, only more than twenty tons, and at the same time, the large hull of the tank is able to generate enough buoyancy.

Compared to the main battle tank, its protection performance may be an order of magnitude worse, however, compared to wheeled armored vehicles, its combat effectiveness is even stronger!

Inside the prismatic welded turret, the tanker aims at the fortifications on the shore through an infrared imaging sight.

"Boom!" The amphibious tank, which was sailing, suddenly let out a roar, a ball of flame appeared in the muzzle, and a 105-mm grenade flew over.

The ability to fire on water is the greatest advantage of this tank!

"Boom!" The grenade flew forward for several kilometers, accurately hit a sentry post on the shore, a reinforced concrete one, and just like that, it flew.

On a wide offensive surface, Pakistan's marines are carrying out the task of crossing.

At this time, it was already five o'clock in the morning, and from the northern sea, another formation joined in.

There are not many formations, only two or three ships, but the large warship in the middle is particularly interesting, because this is also an aircraft carrier with a deck on top!

The aircraft carrier Virat of the Indians! The proud aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy, and at the same time the largest displacement of the Indian Navy, has been captured by Pakistan in Kolkata.

Pakistan did not carry those Sea Harrier fighters with vertical take-off and landing, it was just a chicken rib existence, and at this time, the deck of this warship was full of army helicopter gunships!

Although the displacement of this warship has reached 30,000 tons, there is no catapult, it is still a jumping deck, the Pakistan Navy lacks the take-off and landing capability of the jumping deck, and it does not intend to use this warship as an aircraft carrier for fixed-wing carrier-based aircraft, and now, this aircraft carrier has another use, that is, an amphibious assault ship!

Dozens of Pakistani helicopter gunships, loaded from Kolkata, were transported here directly to take part in the fighting in Visakhapatnam.

With the sound of buzzing, one after another helicopter gunships began to take off and fly towards the shore, and their arrival would give strong support to the landing force.

The sky is Pakistan's, and with air supremacy, helicopter gunships can calmly carry out support operations on the ground!

However, at this time, the landing force was only a few thousand people, and if it was only these people to capture Visakhapatnam, it seemed that it would be less effective, especially after the Indians found that even this important port had been captured by Pakistan, and the Indians would definitely counterattack in a big way.

Only with the arrival of heavy troops will this army be able to completely and firmly grasp it!

Driving from land? The heavily armed troops traveled hundreds of kilometers all the way, and all of them were Indian territory, and even the victorious Mhammad would not have formulated such a battle plan.

However, Pakistan's heavy troops can still arrive in time, because Pakistan has a piece of equipment that makes Americans envy and vomit blood, a ground-effect wing aircraft nicknamed the Caspian Sea Monster!

After Mhammad's arrangement, Shostakovich got the design drawings of the Caspian Sea monster from the Soviet Union, and hired some of the Soviet scientists, after all, in the economic transformation of the Soviet Union, this military product with no special value has been cut down, and these people came to Pakistan with a love for model development and started a new development.

Pakistan's industrial base may not be as good as that of the Soviet Union, but Pakistan's industrial potential is very huge, and it has access to various advanced technologies from the Western world, so the progress of this project is very rapid.

At this time, these large monsters in the port of Kolkata, which look like airplanes and stay in the sea, are loaded with soldiers and main battle tanks.

These WIG aircraft are the ultimate version of the Caspian Sea monster imitated by Pakistan, with a take-off weight of more than 700 tons of large WIG aircraft, more than 100 meters long, and a spacious cabin in the middle, which can be stuffed into eight Pakistani self-produced Type 90 or Leopard 2 main battle tanks, and in the front, there are eight TF41 turbofan engines, and the powerful air flow generated by the turbofan engine forms a power cushion under the wing to enhance the ground effect, which is the core technology of the Soviet Union's WIG wing, power enhancement technology!

Through the air cushion generated by these turbofan engines, this aircraft, which is similar to the load of a ship, can reach the speed of the aircraft! With a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour, you can reach Visakhapatnam in an hour!

At this time, four such Caspian monsters are loading the most powerful tank units of the Pakistani Army, and four, in one wave, will be able to transport more than thirty main battle tanks in the past! And a round-trip of two hours, plus the time of loading and unloading, this one day, at least four trips, transported more than 100 main battle tanks!

More than a hundred main battle tanks, the size of a tank brigade! If you rely on transport planes, one sortie, up to two main battle tanks! For the Gulf War, the United States transported heavy equipment from the distant mainland of the United States and Europe after traveling for a month by ship.

"Loaded and ready to take off!" In the cockpit in front, the pilot heard the captain's voice.

"Roger." The pilot turned on various switches in front of him, and in the screeching sound, the eight TF-41 turbofan engines in front of him roared, and the tail spewed out a stream of air, and the entire aircraft began to accelerate forward on the sea surface.

Dozens of seconds later, I only felt that the entire aircraft was light, and it had automatically left the sea! After breaking free from the resistance of the water, the speed of this aircraft began to continue to increase, and soon it reached a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour, almost close to the surface of the sea, and drove like a lightning speed.

In the engine room, the heavily armed Pakistani armored troops were closing their eyes and recuperating, and the tanks that were firmly fixed were also shaking slightly with the fuselage.

The battle on the front line has begun, and their sortie will deal the greatest blow to the defenders of India! (To be continued.) )