Chapter 80 Aid

During the day of the 12th, the Chinese Air Force still maintained a high-pressure situation.

According to the battle report released by the Chinese Ministry of Defense on the 13th, on the 12th, the Chinese Air Force dispatched a total of 3,687 combat aircraft of various types, of which 3,124 fighter jets were carried out, with a total of more than 12,600 tons of bombs dropped, and shot down 18 Indian wars in air combat, and more than 120 were blown up on the ground, and only 27 fighter jets were lost.

Relatively speaking, this loss ratio is not low.

In the first three days of the war, the combat losses of Chinese Air Force combat aircraft were one or two percent higher, that is, 1 or two combat aircraft were lost for every 1,000 dispatch. During the war against Japan, the combat losses of Chinese Air Force were only three-thousandths, 75 percent lower than this time.

Of course, this is only the first three days of the war.

In the first three days of the war against Japan, the Chinese Air Force's combat losses rate was also more than one percent.

As the Chinese Air Force gradually seizes air supremacy and begins to focus on attacking India's air defense forces, the combat loss rate will plummetly, and it is not a big problem to control it at about three-thousandths.

Relatively speaking, the Indian Air Force did not perform badly, much better than the Japanese Air Force ten years ago.

Not to mention anything else, by the 12th, the Indian Air Force was still able to invest dozens of fighter jets in a battle and conduct more effective command. In the war against Japan ten years ago, the Chinese Air Force defeated the Japanese Air Force without any suspense in just forty hours.

It is not that the Indian Air Force has higher quality or stronger combat effectiveness, but that India's territory is more vast.

You know, India's land area is more than ten times that of Japan

In the war in 2035, the Japanese Air Force was quickly defeated. A crucial factor was that the air base was too concentrated and there were not many field airports. After the air base was destroyed, many Japanese fighter jets did not even have the chance to take off to fight.

Relatively speaking, the situation in India is much better.

Although on the first day, more than 20 major bases of the Indian Air Force suffered a devastating blow and basically lost their usefulness, India has enough field airports, and they are widely distributed and have road connections, so Indian fighters can use these field airports to continue fighting.

More importantly, the Chinese Air Force's tactical strike scope cannot be expanded to southern India.

In other words, only by using bombers can we attack air force bases and field airports in the southern end of India. The dispatch efficiency of bombers is far less than that of fighter jets, and it is used to bomb field airports, and the combat efficiency is not much higher, which is equivalent to wasting valuable strike power.

The result was that most Indian fighter jets that were launched on the 12th took off from field airports in the southern region.

Of course, this is also related to US military aid.

According to the recommendation of the US Military Advisory Group, since 2040, India has strengthened the construction of field airports and temporary air force bases, and even improved the construction level of highways, so that some highways can be temporarily opened into flight runways. In addition, civil airports have been improved so that they can be used by the Air Force during wartime. These measures have greatly improved the combat flexibility of the Indian Air Force. Not to mention, there are more than 200 civil airports in India, half of which can support fighter jet combat. If the expressways opened temporarily are included, there are about 800 sites in India that can take off and land fighter jets.

You know, there were only more than 200 venues in Japan at that time.

Even if the Chinese Air Force's strike strength has been improved, it will be difficult to blow up all airports within three days. Moreover, many airports cannot completely paralyze them through one bombing, because many field airports have the ability to repair quickly. The Indian Air Force's engineering forces can even open up a soil runway for fighter aircraft to take off and land in a very short time on the wider plains, thereby improving their ability to resist strikes.

Of course, after three days of attrition, the Indian Air Force's strength is no longer as strong as before.

It’s not that there are not enough airports, but that there are a large number of combat aircraft lost.

If the war report released by the Chinese Ministry of Defense is not watery, then by the end of the 12th, the Indian Air Force had lost nearly 800 fighter jets. Although the Indian Air Force claimed to have more than 2,000 fighter jets, in the early stages of the war, the main fighter jets were lost.

According to information released after the war, the Indian Air Force lost 168 F-44s in the first three days of the war.

If this continues, in three days, the Indian Air Force's F-44 will be consumed.

That's right, on the morning of the 12th, the Indian authorities formally sent a request to the United States, hoping that the United States could urgently provide assistance to a group of advanced fighter jets.

At that time, the Indian ambassador clearly stated that India could use assets in the United States as collateral.

Obviously, there is no legal basis.

Although the total assets of Indian companies in the United States are about $300 billion, enough to purchase hundreds of F-44s, these assets are all private enterprises and are not government property at all. The Indian government owns only about $50 billion of gold stored in the Federal Reserve and about $120 billion of foreign exchange stored in major U.S. banks. If only this money is the only one, India can purchase up to 200 F-44s.

Of course, for the Indian Air Force, two hundred F-44s are also very good.

For the Indian Air Force, the most needed fighters are fighters, not pilots. Because they are fighting on the local inside, about two-thirds of pilots can return to the troops safely after being shot down and fly the fighter again. These pilots will become more experienced due to the experience of being shot down.

On the same day, the US president approved a contract to sell arms to India.

Because it is a normal procurement and India has always been a major customer of American arms dealers, it does not need to be reviewed by Congress, and the presidential decree is enough.

According to the deployment, the US military will directly hand over ready-made F-44 fighter jets to India.

What India has to do is to send the pilots to Digo Garcia. These fighters will be flew to Digo Garcia by US pilots, and then flew back to the country by Indian pilots. In addition, the transport planes transporting Indian pilots will also transport a batch of air-to-air ammunition when they return.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a strong protest, condemning the United States for clearly violating international norms and blatantly selling arms to India in a state of war to provoke China's endurance. China will retain all rights to sanctions and will take sanctions actions based on the impact.

However, China's protests have not worked at all.

That night, the first batch of Indian pilots arrived in Digo Garcia, and then forty-eight F-44s from the US Air Force also arrived in Digo Garcia.

In the early morning of the 13th, Indian pilots flew the fighter jets back to India.

In view of the active actions of the United States, the Indian ambassador once again proposed on the night of the 12th, hoping that the United States could urgently provide a batch of other weapons and equipment, including the army's main combat equipment, the navy's anti-submarine patrol aircraft and carrier-based fighter aircraft, the air force's transport aircraft and large early warning aircraft, etc.

Of course, this is not a cash transaction, and India does not have that much money at all.

Even if the US president does not object, it needs to be supported by Congress because it involves free military aid. All the US president can do is to ask the US military to ship the equipment needed by India when submitting a bill to Congress so that it can deport immediately after approval by Congress.

The transfer center is still Digo Garcia.

Starting from the early morning of the 13th, the US military used strategic transport aircraft to send a large number of main combat equipment to Digo Garcia and dispatched rapid transport ships. As long as Congress passes the aid bill submitted by the president, rapid transport ships can deliver these equipment to Indian ports in two days.

Of course, the premise is that the Indian fleet is still operating at sea within these two days.

If the Indian fleet is defeated by the task force, India will lose its control of the sea, and the Chinese navy will surely immediately block India and intercept ships heading to India. Unless the United States is determined to fight World War III at this time, it will leave the transport ships in Digo Garcia.

On the night of the 12th, Mu Haoyang received a telegram from Zhou Yusheng.

The telegram clearly mentioned that the US military has begun to mobilize, not war mobilization, but to concentrate equipment and send it to Digo Garcia by strategic transport planes. Therefore, the United States is likely to make a decision to provide India with free military aid within two to three days. To this end, Huang Hanlin has issued the highest instruction that the Navy must prevent the United States from providing India with main combat equipment at all costs.

Zhou Yusheng also mentioned in the telegram that he had ordered two attack nuclear submarines of the Western Indian Ocean Fleet to head south to the vicinity of Digo Garcia, in other words, if the fleet cannot seize sea control before this and strategically blockade against India, it will have to ambush US ships with attack nuclear submarines.

what does that mean?

Without Zhou Yushengming's words, Mu Haoyang knew that as long as American ships were sunk on the high seas, the United States would have enough reason to declare war on China.

Perhaps, the United States will not take this step rashly, but the possibility of the United States joining the war will be greatly increased.

If there is no absolute need, Mu Haoyang definitely does not want to bring the United States into this time, and he does not want to fight with the United States before defeating India.

That is, he must kill the Indian fleet within the next four to five days

The problem is, this is not easy.

After careful consideration, Mu Haoyang ordered the fleet to turn to a 270-degree course at around 0:00 a.m. on the 13th, and sailed westward at a speed of 33 knots.

At that time, the task force had already carried out its first fuel supply operation.

At this speed, the twelve frigates could sail 4,000 nautical miles, that is, there would be no need for fuel recharge in the next two and a half days.

Mu Haoyang is very clear that whether he can prevent the strategic situation from deteriorating is extremely critical in the next two to three days.

It can be said that if he can kill the Indian fleet within two to three days, it may even have an impact on the US Congress, causing it to veto the Indian aid bill.

Of course, Mu Haoyang also knew that the position of the US president would definitely have an impact on the combat operations of the Indian fleet.

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