The PLA's expectations for the Madagascar campaign were realistic from the beginning, not seeking to land on the island before the American army, but to drain every drop of blood of the American army on this island. In terms of strategic demands, China and the United States are fundamentally different, the United States wants to occupy Madagascar, so as to play an important auxiliary role in breaking through the corner of the southwest Indian Ocean, while China needs to continue to trap the US military here, and as for the belonging of Madagascar, it is not as strong as the US military.

Therefore, after the PLA landed in Madagascar, it immediately began to deploy V4 short-range ballistic missiles and Guardian-3 long-range rocket artillery, and many cruisers and destroyers of the Navy were also cruising in the open sea, preparing to launch a Long Sword cruise missile attack on the landing targets of the US military.

In the coastal plain south of Diego Suarez, the missile battalion of the Second Artillery Corps lined up the missile launchers, and after the launch order was given, these proud missiles flew into the sky with white tail smoke. After 16 V4 missiles rushed out of the atmosphere at high speed, they flew a short distance to re-enter the atmosphere, and the opponent Americans were not useless, and their early warning satellites had also discovered in advance that the Chinese had used ballistic missiles, which was also the first time that ballistic missiles were used since the start of the war.

According to the range inference, these are short-range ballistic missiles without nuclear warheads, and the Americans are slightly relieved, but it is clear that the targets of these missiles are a series of landing bases established by the US military landing on the southern tip of Madagascar Island, as well as the port of Tuliara, and the Chinese's purpose is very clear, that is, to destroy the landing capability of the US military and make it difficult for the US military to occupy the island of Madagascar.

Connell, commander of the US fleet, immediately reacted and ordered the US fleet to carry out air defense and anti-missile operations in response to the landing operation, and the Aegis ship equipped with the Standard-3 itself is an important platform for the US sea-based anti-missile, although the V4 missile is the world's premier short-range ballistic missile, and its performance is not the same as that of the Take-off Gross B and the early Dongfeng missile, but the US Standard-3 is also particularly outstanding in its own plane, and its interception and strike capabilities for ballistic missiles are quite eye-catching.

The four US Aegis ships launched more than 50 standard missiles, and the interception rate of these standard missiles was also quite good, at about 69%, and only 5 missiles successfully penetrated the defense and hit the set target. But even so, the V4 missiles, which have always had an amazing hit rate, all hit important facilities of the US military, and a newly established barracks was attacked by two missiles, causing more than 200 casualties, the vast majority of which were Marines; The port of Tuliara was hit by a missile, several ships were damaged, and dozens of people were killed, but fortunately, the port's operational capacity was not particularly affected; An airfield was destroyed, but the US military has not yet stationed planes here, so it did not cause much damage, but it was difficult for the US military to use it for a while.

Chinese The 16 ballistic missiles were worth a lot of money, but they did not cause the enemy unimaginable losses, and the Americans also felt that the anti-missile operation was quite successful, and the US Department of Defense and the White House were even ready to write about this "victory." It's just that the cost of the V4 missile is definitely not as high as the Americans imagined.

Since 10 years ago, the V4 missile has replaced the short-range ballistic missiles of the Dongfeng family and has become the main short-range tactical weapon of the Second Artillery Corps, and its models have also developed from the initial model to V4B, V4C, V4D and other models, the basic model V4A has a range of 300 km, V4B has a range of 500 km, V4C is 800 km, and V4D is 1000 km. Because the manufacturing process is not complicated and the technology is mature, the V4 series missiles can be manufactured and put into service on a large scale. This missile is also the largest missile in the Second Artillery Corps, with more than 5,000 V4 series missiles in service with the Second Artillery Corps.

If you calculate an economic account, the cost of a single V4 missile is 1.6 million yuan, equivalent to 400,000 US dollars, and the standard -3 missile, which has not been in service for a long time, even if the cost is diluted by mass production, the cost is as high as 8 million US dollars, that is to say, the price of a standard missile to intercept V4 is 20 times that of V4, in order to intercept 16 V4, the Americans have played more than 400 million US dollars in one breath, although the success rate of interception is very high, but it is impossible for the Americans not to suffer from pain in the future.

In fact, the Hongqi-19 and Hongqi-26 used by China to intercept ballistic missiles are not cheap, and the cost is more than 4 million new yuan, but they are much cheaper than the cost of the United States. In fact, this problem was recognized by some American logistics military scientists at the beginning of the war, and some argued that although the United States has stronger industrial manufacturing capabilities than China (are you sure this is not a gold in your face?). But no matter what China produces, the cost is much cheaper than that of the United States, and the final result is that China may consume more, but in fact it is the United States itself that suffers more.

In line with the psychology that causing trouble to others is to reduce trouble for oneself, the US fleet also launched a batch of Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Chinese landing site, and the US cruisers and destroyers all have the ability to launch Tomahawks, which fired 60 Tomahawks at the Chinese at one time, which is much more arrogant than the previous Chinese use of V4.

However, after all, Tomahawks are not the same nature as V4, and the interception difficulty of cruise missiles is still simpler than that of ballistic missiles, and China's PLA training to fight cruise missiles is like drinking water, in the face of a large number of Tomahawks by the US military, the Chinese air defense forces deployed in advance are not in a hurry, including warships on the water, have intercepted Tomahawks.

The main weapons for intercepting cruise missiles include Hongqi-16 medium-range anti-aircraft missiles, Hongqi-17 battlefield anti-aircraft missiles, MIFV Vulcan artillery air defense combat vehicles, etc., there is no Tomahawk that flies more than the speed of sound, and it cannot fly too low on land, so it has naturally become the target of China's various air defense weapons, and the land-based and sea-based Hongqi-16 launched missiles one after another to intercept cruise missiles in the air, and Hongqi-17 also fired continuously. Under the centralized guidance of the air defense radar, the 30mm Gatling cannon also grabbed the incoming cruise missiles.

With the help of a multi-layered air defense system, the Chinese PLA achieved an interception success rate of 83%, although some cruise missiles also managed to penetrate the defense, causing certain losses, but the losses were not unacceptable.

At the beginning of the landing operation, China and the United States tacitly agreed that they did not dispatch tactical planes to attack the enemy, but all of them dispatched ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and other weapons, which also shows that both sides actually attach sufficient importance to their opponents, and they are worried that if they launch an air war, the scale will continue to rise, and eventually cause greater losses. In the recent naval battle, it was still a little unacceptable to lose more than 60 fighters in one go, because after all, it was no longer the World War II period, and the United States was able to build 200,000 military aircraft. The complexity of the production of fighter jets is no longer comparable to that of propeller machines of the past.

According to the estimates of the US military, under the condition that the production capacity is now fully opened, the United States can manufacture 4,000 to 5,000 military aircraft a year, which is naturally a rather alarming number, but the resources invested will also be quite terrible and huge, and in order to maintain such production capacity, it is necessary to maintain sufficient resources to import. But the more important problem is that such production capacity needs to be adjusted for a period of time before it can burst out, and now the US military can still use those planes before the war, and there will be fewer if some are destroyed.

China's situation is also roughly similar, the number of military aircraft that China can manufacture a year is between 5,000 and 6,000, and the production of fighter planes has basically been five generations, except for a small number of four-and-a-half-generation fighters still need to be produced, Black Hawk, Weilong, and Falcon have basically become the main models of production. Although the wartime production state has begun, the maximum production energy will not burst out until mid-2002, not to mention that the formation of combat power is not only equipment, but also personnel and training are very important.

In any case, at the beginning of the battle for Madagascar, both sides deliberately used missiles instead of fighter jets, which led to a situation in which "missiles fought each other". In order to hinder the landing of the opposing troops, the two sides mainly invested V4 missiles, Long Sword missiles, Tomahawk missiles, Guardian rocket artillery, M270 rocket artillery and other long-range weapons to continuously launch fire attacks on the other side, while at the same time each side operated a thick and dense air defense network to defend against these missiles and rockets from the enemy.

In this process, the two sides used a variety of missile attack tactics and staggered attacks in time to disperse the opponent's interceptive firepower. or the use of electromagnetic interference to disrupt the normal launch and homing of the opponent's missiles; Or the same target can perform a second substitution relay attack one after the other. So much so that this missile fight can later be called a textbook case of standard missile attack, telling people how to attack each other's ground targets with missiles.

It is also in this unstable situation that the ground forces of the two countries have basically completed the build-up on land, and it is obvious that the ground troops are not happy to continue to see this situation in which a big firecracker may fall from the sky at any time to blow themselves up, and there is almost a tacit understanding, the 57th Marine Division of the 57th Marine Corps of the Chinese PLA and the 4th Infantry Division of the US Army began mobile operations, one from north to south and the other from south to north, and began to seek to break through the enemy in order to completely control the island of Madagascar.

As for the Malagasy people, the real owners of this land, they seemed to sink unusually at this time, and after the Malagasy government condemned both sides, and then exhorted the people not to go out to join in the fun, and then there was no sound. Probably they also know that at this time, it is impossible for the two countries to withdraw from Madagascar, and they can only watch China and the United States fighting on the soil of other countries. This is also the sorrow of weak and small countries.