Chapter 633 633 Strategy in the Indian Ocean Theater of Operations

"Our allies can no longer support it, the Chinese are hoarding heavy troops in the northeast of the subcontinent, and the population there is clearly being incited to commit to a strong country at least the same skin color as itself, and the Indian side lacks the ability to stop this trend, India is losing ground on the eastern and western fronts, half a million Indian soldiers are being driven by the Chinese and Pakistanis in Kashmir like sheep there, and the Chinese have only dispatched three divisions before and after, we can only guess pessimistically, Even if India mobilized five million brown-skinned soldiers, they could only be driven away like sheep by the Chinese. At this time, if the warriors of the United States do not show up there to support our allies in the strongest way, then the Indian Ocean theater may face complete disintegration! US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spoke forcefully to Bush Jr.'s cabinet members.

However, at such a critical time, Rumsfeld's impolite and racist remarks still did not particularly satisfy the colored people present, such as Susan Rice, Bush Jr.'s security adviser, although this coffee-skinned strong woman is not Indian, but she is very angry about making remarks that highlight her skin color. However, Rice cannot accuse Rumsfeld at this time, after all, there are more important issues to be resolved at this time.

Bush Jr. has been much more silent than before the outbreak of the war, the progress of the Chinese in the subcontinent is faster than all American strategic scholars and military experts imagined, and what makes the US military even more stressful is that China has not used more than 100,000 troops on the eastern and western fronts, and this is only one-twentieth of the Chinese army, conservatively estimated that China can recruit at least 5 million qualified soldiers, China has cultivated a huge reserve force for more than ten years, as long as there is a need for war, They can appear on the battlefield.

"Has China begun their war mobilization?" Bush Jr. asked, it can be seen that even if he is extremely tough, he does not dare to despise China as an opponent in the slightest.

"According to our observations, China has not begun a full-scale war mobilization, but some of the higher-level reserve forces have been called up and reorganized into regular armies, mainly land forces, which suggests that China seems to have great ambitions to carry out a larger strike against India." The director of the CIA reported.

Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said at this time: "I agree with His Excellency the Minister of Defense, now support for India is an urgent matter, if it drags on any longer, more Chinese troops will pass through Kashmir from the Pakistan Railway and continue to reach the Indian mainland, if the rapid progress of the Chinese army is concerned, they are really likely to destroy India in three months, but unfortunately it seems unthinkable to us, and the Chinese are confidently completing it." ”

Powell sighed and said: "Actually, we shouldn't have much hope for the Indian army, the Japanese also made them suffer a lot during World War II, according to me, the Indian army can only fight a good war, fight with a relatively powerful army, and do some second-line war work, but when it comes to facing a strong enemy and fighting a more difficult hard battle, it can only be blind." ”

Bush Jr. clapped his hands and said: "Well, no matter what, we cannot give up India, a hard-won ally, even if the Indians are not good at fighting, but as long as nearly a billion people provide them with weapons, they may become a threat to the Chinese." Our support for India must be accelerated! The Fifth Fleet should start to move outward from the Persian Gulf, even if there are Chinese guards there, but if you want to stop the Chinese's military action, you can only give them a bigger blow, and the aircraft carrier battle group we sent from the Atlantic also needs to converge with the Fifth Fleet to form a stronger deterrent to the Chinese fleet. ”

Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: "In fact, the Fifth Fleet is comparable in size to the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet detachment in Gwadar, and our main goal should be to strike the Chinese home port in Gwadar and try to prevent the Chinese Navy from gaining more support anchorages near the Persian Gulf." ”

Powell said worriedly: "Middle Eastern countries have seen the outbreak of a major war, and several small Middle Eastern countries, including Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman, have made it clear that they want to move our and Chinese military bases out of their countries to completely get out of the war." ”

Bush Jr. snorted and said: "I'm afraid it's too late to make such a decision, and the Fifth Fleet will not move its nest." ”

He then added: "It's just that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait are a little uncertain about their intentions, and this is extremely detrimental to the development of our war operations. ”

Rice said: "The Saudi Arabian royal family has recently made frequent contacts with China, and I am afraid that the Chinese have made great efforts to accept Saudi Arabia as their ally, or at least a quasi-ally." Moreover, the Saudi royal family, such as Prince Sultan, and other figures are hardcore pro-China factions, and they are constantly working hard to bring Saudi Arabia closer to China. The UAE is actually more biased towards us, and our diplomatic power is constantly working to win the UAE as an ally if it goes well. The more troublesome is Kuwait, Kuwait has suffered a Iraqi annihilation before, and now Babylon is in their north, if Kuwait makes any moves against China, Babylon controlled by China will immediately take military action against Kuwait, so we can only prepare for the worst and count Kuwait on the side of the Chinese. ”

At present, the war is only confined to the Indian Ocean region and the vicinity of the Middle East, but it is already a myriad of things, involving the different interests and demands of many countries, and with Bush Jr.'s IQ, it is already a bit difficult. He pondered, or said simply: "In short, the main line of the Indian Ocean theater should be repeatedly clarified, that is, to open the route from the Cape of Good Hope to India, and remove the influence of the Chinese in the Arabian Sea region, and in the next step we will open the Suez channel from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, so as to completely control the Middle East, and help India, as long as the Middle East and the Indian Ocean can be completely held in our hands, the oil resources that the Chinese rely on will be cut off by us." Moreover, our energy strategy can be guaranteed as it should be. ”

Under the guidance of such strategic thinking, the USS Johnstinis, the current flagship of the US Fifth Fleet, set sail from Bahrain, gave up the threat to the Babylonian Republic on the back, and began to force its way into the Strait of Hormuz, preparing to break out of the substantial blockade of the Persian Gulf by China's Indian Ocean Fleet.

A large number of F-14 Tomcats and F-18 Hornets have taken off and landed on the US aircraft carriers, and the fifth-generation stealth Tomcat F-24 Snowcat, the product of the US military's NATF program, has begun to be deployed on the aircraft carrier, but the USS Johnstennis aircraft carrier has not yet caught up with the rearmament, so the main fighter equipped is still the fourth-generation fighter.

Originally, the U.S. military relied on the most relied on attack aircraft from China's A-11 defenders, but because this technology was also mastered by China, and its key vertical take-off and landing engine was exported by China rather than technology transfer, the United States did not manufacture an A-11 after China stopped exporting this engine to the United States in the second half of the nineties. Although scientific geniuses such as Kirk were involved in the imitation of the A-11 engine, they were unsuccessful, and the United States could only regret abandoning this type of naval attack aircraft that they were very satisfied with.

However, even so, the US military still has more than 500 A-11 attack planes, equipped with many aircraft carriers and even amphibious assault ships, and the Americans have never given up the development of vertical take-off and landing large-load attack aircraft similar to the A-11.

As China's most important strategic fulcrum in the Indian Ocean, the Gwadar naval base is capable of mooring more than three aircraft carriers of more than 100,000 tons, 20 capital ships of 10,000 tons, and 50 capital ships of 8,000 tons. At the same time, on the north side of Gwadar, China has built four 3,000-meter-long military runways, as well as large underground bunker hangars that can accommodate 600 fighter jets.

For the Americans, the Gwadar base is a thorn in their side and an indispensable target. In order to deal a devastating blow to Gwadar, the US military not only dispatched its naval aviation, but also air force fighters stationed in the Middle East and even Europe also participated in the attack on Gwadar; considering that several countries in the Middle East have no intention of allowing the US military force to continue to exist, the US military will land directly in India after striking Gwadar, and the Indian army will provide logistical support for the US fighters.

Thus, the first act of the naval battle in the Indian Ocean, which shocked the world, began with a fierce battle between hundreds of Chinese and American warplanes in the Arabian Sea.

The first wave of U.S. attacks were F-22 Raptor fighters from Europe, whose main role was to escort follow-up strike fighters and weaken the air defense of the Chinese and Pakistanis as much as possible. The shore-based aviation units and anti-aircraft missile units of the Chinese naval aviation fought back against the US fighters, and the main opponent of the F-22 was the navy's fourth-and-a-half-generation fighter J-16, that is, the Chinese fighter of the Su-35.

As a fourth-and-a-half-generation fighter, although the Su-35 is not invisible, its outstanding maneuverability is not inferior to that of ordinary fifth-generation fighters, coupled with the cooperation of ground-based anti-stealth radar, so the appearance of the US F-22 did not directly suppress the Chinese naval aviation, and the two sides still launched a wonderful competition in the air.

Eight U.S. F-22s played against 10 Chinese J-16s, and the two sides competed in BVR and dogfighting.