Chapter 659 659 Surprise Attack on Aircraft Carriers
The great air battle over Madagascar was an air battle in which the main thing was to seize air supremacy, and at the same time, it was also an air battle in which attack fighters attacked the enemy's important ground targets. Although in the first day of the air battle, the US military and its allies had a high battle loss ratio of Chinese fighters, but the basic balance of power on the battlefield was maintained, and the Chinese Air Force and the Navy had no intention of taking advantage of the advantage to expand into victory, because the Chinese understood that it was not difficult to gain superiority, but victory was achieved by accumulating superiority, and if it was too reckless and hasty, it might pay a lot of unnecessary losses.
Similarly, the United States and NATO also knew very well that if they wanted to overwhelm China and gain superiority or even victory, they could only invest more overwhelming forces, so the scale of the air battle skyrocketed on the second day, and hundreds of fighter planes of the US naval aviation, air force, and allied air forces were dispatched, and their ambition to seize air supremacy in the theater became even stronger.
In the face of such tremendous pressure, Zhang Juzuo, commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet, was still calm and calm, and he also had enough courage to make a dangerous attack, and he gave instructions: "Two-thirds of the air force is used to resist the attack of the US air force, and one-third of the air force seeks to directly break through the US air defense network, attack the US expeditionary fleet, and severely damage the air capability of the US military and NATO allies!" ”
The reason why they dared to make such a bold decision was because on the first day of the air battle, the Chinese air force showed its ability, and in a slightly inferior battle situation, it could beat the fighters of the US military and NATO allies, and achieved a 1:3 battle loss ratio.
Of course, Zhang Juzuo still has not given up the most important killer weapon of the Indian Ocean Fleet, that is, the submarine force. In the Mozambique Strait, the submarine activities of China's Indian Ocean Fleet are relatively difficult, first because of the shallow water, and secondly, because the US military continues to drop anti-submarine sonar and anti-submarine aircraft there, which makes Chinese submarines face great exposure risks. Therefore, some Chinese submarines chose to bypass the island of Madagascar and sail from the east side of the island to intercept the rear route of the US fleet at the southern end of the island.
Naturally, the US military is completely defenseless against this impossibility, and a considerable part of the US military's anti-submarine warfare force is guarding against the elusive Chinese submarines, especially after suffering the loss of the Chinese Navy's supersonic heavy anti-ship missiles, the US military has made great efforts to widen the anti-submarine range and improve its vigilance capability in order to prevent it from being lightly attacked by Chinese submarines again. However, when the warning ring is expanded, there is naturally a possibility of omission, and this is where the biggest advantage of Chinese submarines lies.
Moreover, if the number of anti-submarine ships and planes of the US military is insufficient, it is very likely that it will be wiped out by China's attack nuclear submarines, which can both anti-ship and air defense, and the US military has no good countermeasures for the time being, so it can only continue to strengthen anti-submarine investment.
Hundreds of warplanes on the NATO side began a desperate struggle with Chinese fighters in the Mozambique Strait and over the island of Madagascar, and in this battle, NATO dispatched more than half of its fighters than yesterday, while the number of Chinese fighters has not changed significantly, which also makes it common for two or three NATO fighters to fight around a Chinese fighter plane after the battle begins.
However, even in the face of such a disadvantage, the Chinese pilots still persevered in maneuvering with the enemy, and with a slightly superior level of equipment and their own unique tactical formations, it took a short time to slowly regain the initiative.
The main force of the US military's fighter is still the fourth-generation fighter, mixed with a small number of fourth-and-a-half-generation and fifth-generation aircraft, and this time the main force of the Chinese air force is already the fifth-generation fighter, due to the addition of the Air Force, so there are both the J-31 of the Navy and the J-11 and J-20 fighters of the Air Force in the sky. In particular, the J-11, which conducts air superiority operations, is often able to single-handedly confront many US fighters, use its unparalleled super-maneuverability to fight in and out of the fleet, and look for opportunities to knock the opponent down.
Although the disparity between the fourth-generation fighters of the US military lags behind China's fifth-generation fighters in terms of power, avionics, and weapon performance, the gap between them is not too huge, but China's experienced pilots can still find an opportunity to break a little bit and let their American counterparts learn a painful lesson.
Overall, this air battle is still inextricably wound, and Chinese fighters are still able to shoot down more US military planes and NATO fighters, but NATO is still biting Chinese fighters tightly, and there is no obvious winner. At the same time, the aircraft carrier strike group retained by Zhang Juzuo set off, and these military planes, mainly J-31 and J-7, were stealth aircraft, and the sudden dispatch made it more difficult for the US military to detect, and when the US military found out that China dispatched stealth fighters to strike at its own fleet, it was a little too late.
Cornell, the commander of the US fleet, naturally retains the escort force of the fleet, and it is also the most advanced F-24 fighter of the US Navy, but in terms of quantity, it is still a little thinner than the fleet of hundreds of Chinese military aircraft that Zhang Juzuo intentionally did.
The J-31 fighter relied on its numerical superiority to fight fiercely with the slightly stronger F-24, this batch of F-24 was newly assigned to the aircraft carrier, obviously these American pilots are not familiar with their most advanced fighters, and China's J-31 has been used for several years, and Chinese pilots are very aware of what kind of benefits these fighters have, what kind of attack they are good at.
Another problem that cannot be ignored is that when the US military fleet discovered the stealth aircraft group of China's sneak attack, these stealth planes were already less than 80 kilometers away from the US fleet's defense circle, and the stealth performance coupled with the deliberate low-altitude flight close to the sea level made it very difficult for them to be detected, even if the US military was equipped with anti-stealth radar, it still took a lot of effort to know their location.
Stealth fighters are unable to carry heavy anti-ship missiles, which also greatly reduces their attack radius. However, even if the range is shortened, it will not affect their attack on the US fleet, and many J-7s have launched a number of anti-ship missiles at two US aircraft carriers after breaking through a certain distance.
"Our Aegis! Deal with all your might, and you can't let the aircraft carrier get a little damage! Cornell's face was red, he was anxious by the war situation, he did leave one hand to guard against the sneak attack of the Chinese, but did not expect that the Chinese invested no less force than the Americans, so that on the main battlefield their aviation dragged the US fighters, while the other aviation took advantage of the situation to break into the US fleet air defense circle.
The U.S. Aegis ships are trying to use the Aegis system to lock on to those fighters in the sky, but the Chinese air force is also prepared, and the two modified J-7 magazines are equipped with two high-power jammers, so that even if the U.S. radar can know that there is an enemy's storage, it is also extremely difficult to lock the enemy, and after the launched Standard-2 missile flies into the sky, it realizes that it may have hit a false target.
The F-24 naturally knows that the primary target of their attack is these J-7s, and the U.S. military is also equipped with a certain number of such models, and naval pilots are well aware of how threatening these planes that are not flying fast and appear bulky in the air to the fleet on the sea. With a bomb load of 8 tons and a large number of bomb compartments, these attack aircraft are able to carry not very heavy anti-ship missiles to attack ships, and even anti-radiation missiles can sometimes cause great damage to the fleet. And this time, the threat of the Qiang-7 to the US fleet may be even greater, because the warheads of many anti-ship missiles have been replaced with vacuum implosion warheads, which can gnaw a big hole as long as they hit the ship, increasing the speed of the ship's sinking.
The F-24's malicious attempt against the J-7 can also be felt by the Falcon fighters who do not need to be escorted, and the J-31 has launched a strong entanglement operation against the F-24, which may not immediately shoot them down, but it also constantly harass them and creates opportunities for attacking the enemy fleet with their own attack aircraft.
In such a fight, the F-24's AIM-9X is still weaker in the face of the J-31's PL-10, although the AIM-9X has the ability to attack in the so-called omnidirection, but the PL-10 has a stronger maneuverable overload, and has better anti-jamming capabilities, and more importantly, this missile has a longer attack range.
And in the short time that the Falcon fighter dragged the F-24, the Qiang-7, like a thief, had already slashed his hunting knife on the head of the American fleet. Even though two J-7s were shot down by the U.S. warships that swore to resist to the death using anti-aircraft missiles and phalanxes, the more careful J-7s launched a terrifying attack on the U.S. fleet by firing guided weapons from about forty or fifty kilometers away.
The targets of the anti-ship missile attack are concentrated on the three aircraft carriers of the US military, but the vacuum implosion bombs in these anti-ship missiles are limited, only a few of them, after all, this super weapon is also quite expensive, and the navy does not have much to squander, and only uses it at such a critical moment.
The USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier first tasted the "sweetness", in fact, the aircraft carrier had launched phalanx shells and ram missiles, and successfully shot down an anti-ship missile, but this anti-ship missile was unfortunately not a vacuum implosion bomb, and the real vacuum implosion bomb then hit the stern part of the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier, and a black hole appeared in front of people's eyes with the vibration, and then after a simple tremor, before anyone else could react, a huge gap had appeared in the original stern part, this hit position is relatively high, did not hit the waterline part, slightly lower than the flight deck, but a black hole swallowed these parts, so that the aircraft carrier counterweight has a big problem, the aircraft carrier immediately began to tilt forward, and the fighters, operation vehicles and personnel parked on the aircraft carrier that have not yet taken off have slid down to the sea!