Chapter 345: New Delhi Airport
When night came again, the 1st Armored Division, which was covered with a desert camouflage net, finally removed the camouflage net, and the steel behemoths showed their hideous teeth.
Because of their slow movement in the desert area, the command had to revise the battle plan of the 2nd Armored Brigade, which led to the current armored brigade falling into a bitter battle, and they were all attracting the Indian army and creating opportunities for their own side!
Now, you are in the desert near Piwani, only two hours from New Delhi!
Forward, forward, forward!
Looking at the desert around him, the division commander Araki was excited: "Attention, we must advance to New Delhi within two hours!" Let the Indians know that we can attack their capital at any time, and we can destroy India at any time! Onward, my valiant panzers! ”
The tracks stirred the yellow sand, flying more than a meter high behind, and one after another the tanks drove out of the desert, and the sound of the rumbling engines was so pleasant.
After a whole day of recuperation, now, all the armored troops are in good spirits, New Delhi, just around the corner!
After twenty minutes of driving, leaving the desert, the vanguard of the 1st Panzer Division, almost without much effort, ran over the Indian garrison in Piwani, all the barracks were smashed and all the Indian soldiers were crushed to pulp.
Then they continued to advance, on the dirt roads in the countryside, and even directly in the paddy fields, and the torrent of steel was advancing rapidly towards New Delhi.
An hour later, one of the armored brigades in the vanguard could already see the air base in New Delhi.
It is a dual-use air base that houses the General Command of the Indian Air Force and the Western Air Command, and includes Do228 and BAe 748 transport aircraft of the 41st Flying Group of the 3rd Air Regiment, as well as An-32 transport aircraft and Il-76MD transport aircraft of the Aviation Emergency Reserve Flight Team. There are also B707 airliners and helicopters.
To the north is the air base, with several large runways, while to the south, there are civilian aviation facilities, where New Delhi's international airport is located, which has a longer runway.
At this time. More than a dozen large transport planes are slowly descending from one end of these runways, and under the long wings, four Kuznetsov HK-12MA turboprop engines, each capable of bursting out 15,000 shaft horsepower, drive a pair of four-bladed coaxial counter-rotating propellers with a diameter of 6.4 meters, with two wheels in the nose landing gear, and three groups of six wheels for each main landing gear. These tires have been lowered and are about to make contact with the track.
The vertical tail of the tail is not a common single vertical tail of transport aircraft, but a vertical vertical tail on each side, which is connected to the horizontal tail, and the rear fuselage is very flat, and you can see that there is a whole cabin door behind.
"Squeak." The main landing gear touches the ground. The sturdy hydraulic lever begins to cushion and the wheels continue to slide forward. Then, the landing gear in front also touched the ground.
The propellers began to reverse, providing forward thrust and pushing the transport aircraft to slow down rapidly, which was the Soviet long-range heavy military transport aircraft. An-22 transport aircraft, it is the largest turboprop aircraft ever built in human history, with a cargo hold volume of 640 cubic meters, which can carry surface-to-air missiles, rocket launchers, missile carriers, tanks, cars, etc., at the same time. At the back of the cockpit, there is also a cabin that can accommodate almost 30 passengers, separated from the main cargo compartment.
This is the pride of the Soviet aviation industry! Although the Il-76 has been put into use, this transport aircraft is still playing an important role, and when it invaded Afghanistan, the main transport aircraft of the Soviet Union was still the An-22.
When the transport plane stopped, the tail hatch slowly opened, revealing that inside the cabin, a large vehicle with 4 axles was already being started inside.
"Boom, boom." There was a puff of black smoke from the engine, and a Soviet man operated the car, slowly driving down from the inside of the cabin, the huge off-road tires, representing the kind of savagery and toughness, roughness and power from the Soviet Union.
Scud missiles! The Indians, who were waiting to receive it, were outside the transport plane, watching the missile truck slowly drive down, their eyes full of excitement.
With these missiles, all Pakistani planes will no longer be a threat, and the most vicious tomcats will also become dead cats!
The Scud missile launcher pressed against the door panel of the tail compartment and drove out, and the Soviets inside waved to the Indians on the ground.
"Boom!" At this moment, suddenly, there was a roar in the distance.
With the roar, an air defense position on the periphery, a triple-mounted missile launcher, was destroyed.
How? Is it the Pakistan Air Force that is coming to sneak attack? There are no air raid sirens, and there is no roar of planes?
"Boom!" There was another explosion, and a machine-gun bunker had been destroyed.
In the roar after roar, the perimeter protection was overturned.
All the Indians are nervous, oops, this is the ground forces, it is the tanks that are attacking!
The shaking of the ground can be felt, the fire coming from the muzzle of the gun in the distance can be seen, it is clear that it is the ground forces.
Who is it? Could it be Pakistanis? Haven't they been routed by their own side?
No one answered their questions, and they were greeted only by the fire of tank guns, 120-mm grenades, which destroyed one fortification after another, and then the tracks were already crushed.
Burkhari's eyes were firmly fixed on the sights, and he could see everything around clearly from the night vision goggles, his armored brigade was ordered to take the air base here, and at the same time, it was also the only paramilitary force here, and the rest of the armored forces went straight to New Delhi.
His tank had already destroyed six or seven military targets, and it was already on the runway, and when he saw the big guy on the runway, Burkhari suddenly drooled with excitement.
What is that? A large four-axle off-road vehicle, a long body, a thick cockpit at the front, at first glance it looks like a Soviet vehicle, what is this for? You can guess with your toes, ballistic missile launchers!
I didn't expect that the Soviets would dare to secretly sell such a thing to India!
"Plug it!" Burkhari commanded over the radio.
Several tanks drove up and surrounded the launcher that was preparing to escape, and the Soviets on the car saw that they could not drive the launcher away, jumped down and tried to escape, and the tank's machine gun had already fired a string of bullets around him.
The Soviets had no choice but to raise their hands.
At this moment, the propeller of the transport plane accelerated and rotated, and when the tail hatch slowly closed, the transport plane was about to accelerate, and it seemed that it wanted to escape!
If you want to run, it's not that easy!
"Grenade, hit the runway ahead!" Burke Harry shouted.
"Boom, boom!" The guns of the two tanks burst into flames, and three hundred meters in front of the transport planes, two bright lights appeared, concrete flew in all directions, and a large crater was blown up.
The transport plane had to brake suddenly, and just stopped in front of the big pothole. Although it can take off and land at front-line airstrips, no matter how simple it is, a runway with a large pothole will definitely not be able to take off forcibly.
Pakistani soldiers on the M113 infantry fighting vehicle, quickly descended, surrounded the plane.
On several other runways, the same thing was happening, only one An-22 took off with its own Scud missile launcher that it had not yet unloaded, and the rest were all stolen.
Burke Harry got off the tank and strode towards the missile car, he jumped on it and looked at the top of the missile car, a missile more than ten meters long, just staying there, with the Russian logo on it, it was R-300 Elbrus!
Needless to say, these must have been provided to India by the Soviet Union in order to attack its own air base, and the Soviet Union did not launch it itself, but let India launch it, which is also enough damage!
At this moment, there were already shouts of victory from the side of the control tower, the remaining personnel of the Indian Air Force had surrendered there, and the entire New Delhi Air Base had fallen into the hands of Pakistan!
Unlike the Army, they have not fought face-to-face, and now, when a dozen tanks surround them, with black barrels facing them, if they do not surrender, they will only be killed.
So, they had no choice.
Moreover, here are all squadrons of transport aircraft, which belong to the logistics department, and there is no bloody nature against the enemy.
An armored brigade of Pakistan's armored division captured the New Delhi air base, while the rest of the entire armored division was advancing rapidly towards New Delhi.
New Delhi is in chaos.
"Where did this damn army come from?" General Mehta asked, "Aren't the Pakistanis surrounded by us?" ”
"Is it Pakistan's rapid reaction force? They took a transport plane, arrived at our airport, and then took control of our airport? Another staff officer said.
In the Kashmir Valley, Pakistan did just that, taking a transport plane, forcibly landing at the airport, and then taking control of the airport.
If that's the case, it's not terrible, after all, Pakistan has limited transport planes, and they can't transport heavy equipment at the same time, and only a few hundred infantry can be calmly wiped out by their own side.
In Srinagar, Pakistan grabbed their tanks and then went on the offensive, and they had no heavy equipment.
There is very little information, they only know that the airport has been charged by Pakistan, how it was controlled, and how many Pakistanis there are, they don't know it.
There was panic in everyone's hearts, and they knew how empty New Delhi was now. (To be continued......)