Dominate South Asia

Originally, the home port of the Viraat was Mumbai, but since Mumbai suffered an air strike by Pakistan, which caused damage to the nuclear reactor, a large amount of nuclear leakage and nuclear radiation, Mumbai is about to become an empty city.

The west coast of India is no longer safe and may be attacked by Pakistani aircraft carriers with carrier-based aviation forces at any time. In this case, the Indian Navy has to choose to transfer the aircraft carrier force to the east coast.

In the east of India, Visakhapatnam is a good port for the Indian aircraft carrier formation to be stationed, but the rebels in the Hyderabad state always jump out to make trouble from time to time, and sometimes even come to Visakhapatnam to make trouble, launch a few 107 rockets, and then run away before the security forces arrive.

In order to deal with this situation, the Indians had to put the aircraft carrier in the relatively safe port of Kolkata. Anyway, it has been a few years since the last enclave incident, and it has been relatively calm since then. In addition, the shipbuilding industry here is also very developed, and it is more convenient to repair.

Now, Kolkata, which lacks strategic depth, has been forcibly attacked by the Pakistani army! The Indian naval forces are now thinking about preserving their strength and rushing out of the Kolkata port!

Unfortunately, this warship uses a steam turbine, and it is not so easy to start!

Back then, when the navy of the island country came, the warships of the Beiyang Fleet were still slowly igniting and burning boilers, and were completely in a passive position. Now, the Indian Navy is the same.

The two Parsons steam turbines with a total power of 57Mw drive the Viraat aircraft carrier, which can allow the aircraft carrier to reach a speed of 28 knots, although this aircraft carrier is equipped with vertical take-off and landing Sea Harrier fighters. However, vertical take-off and landing consumes too much fuel, so the main form is still short-distance take-off and landing. In short-distance take-off and landing, the speed of the aircraft carrier itself is also very important, which can allow carrier-based aircraft to save more fuel when taking off and landing.

Now, the aircraft carrier has been moored in the port for half a month, and the boiler has been turned off. The water in the boiler is heated to drive the warship again. Although it is no longer the coal-burning boiler, it has been changed to heavy oil. The time is still very long. Without a few hours of preheating, the aircraft carrier cannot be driven at all.

This is also the reason why the UK is vigorously promoting the gas turbine of warships. If the Viraat uses a gas turbine, it can sail at full speed in a few minutes after starting, without a long preheating process.

In addition to the Viraat aircraft carrier, there is also a Rajput-class destroyer and a pride of the Indian Navy. The Delhi-class destroyer they made by themselves!

In later generations, India's Delhi-class destroyer can be described as a dystocia. India has its own great power dream. Since 1977, the 15th shipbuilding plan has been approved to build three new generation destroyers. Construction officially started in 1982. They selected the Soviet Kashin-class missile destroyer as a blueprint, that is, their own Rajput-class as a template. Many Soviet personnel participated in the design of this warship. The detailed design was completed in 1986, and the construction of the first ship began in November 1987. It is expected that the first warship will be commissioned in 1992.

However, the Indian Navy has high hopes for this warship. During the construction process, new requirements were constantly put forward, resulting in the shipbuilding unit often having to repeatedly rebuild the completed ship section, and it was tossed more than 30 times! As a result, although the keel of the first ship of Project 15, Delhi, was laid as early as 1992, it was not launched until 1995 and commissioned in 1997. Moreover, a fire broke out during the construction process.

Now, the construction of this warship is progressing quite fast. Under the strong stimulation of the Pakistani Navy, India will never be willing to accept its failure. It can rely on Pakistan's war reparations and put these weapons and equipment into service as soon as possible! Therefore, the first warship was commissioned in 1992 according to the original plan. After more than a year, the various weapon systems on it have been run-in. It can be said that this warship is the trump card of the Indian Navy.

Now, after receiving the news, the two warships also started. Although many naval officers are still on the shore, the captain who hurriedly boarded the ship decided to leave and set sail.

Stay here and wait to be captured by the Pakistani army? You can't give it to the Pakistani Navy for nothing! Drive these two warships to Visakhapatnam in the south!

Compared with the slow-moving Viraat, these two destroyers are much faster because they all use gas turbines!

Four DT-59 gas turbine engines are roaring, outputting 60,000 horsepower of powerful power, enough to make this destroyer reach a high speed of more than 30 knots!

After leaving the dock, the two warships with only a small number of crew members were moving quickly. As long as they were at sea, it would be difficult for Pakistani fighters to find them, and they would be safe!

The eastern sky was getting brighter and brighter. Two destroyers split the waves on the sea and moved forward quickly, leaving two splashes behind.

On the Delhi-class destroyer, the RAWL-02 air search radar was rotating. For them, the biggest threat was the Pakistani Air Force!

The destroyer's captain, Pruvil Das, walked back and forth in the bridge, looking at the sea in the distance from time to time.

Their warships would still be in danger if they had not left the strike range of the fighter jets at the Chittagong air base!

The screen of the air radar was constantly refreshing. The radar operator had just calmed down when he saw two bright spots on it.

"Two planes were found, at an altitude of 8,000 and a distance of 230."

Due to the curvature of the earth, it is difficult for warships to detect low-altitude fighters, but they are not so afraid of targets flying at high altitudes. It is precisely because the opponent is flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters that they can be found more than 200 kilometers away.

"Prepare the SAM-7 air defense missiles. If the opponent enters our air defense circle, launch them immediately!" said Pruvel.

As the most powerful warship produced in India, this warship has regional air defense capabilities. The SAM-7 air defense missiles equipped on the warship have a range of 25 kilometers!

Of course, he also knew in his heart that if the fighter jets coming here are really mounted for sea attacks, they can definitely carry Eagle Strike series anti-ship missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers. The air defense missiles on their warships are just to kill the incoming missiles.

Although there are two 3S-90 single-arm launchers at the bow and stern, since the SAM-7 is a semi-active radar-guided missile, it needs continuous wave radar illumination throughout the process. Therefore, they cannot guide the second SAM-7 missile before the previous missile hits the target, and the actual performance is greatly reduced.

Just when Pruville was thinking about using the SAM-7 and AK630 six-barrel machine gun to entertain the other party, he heard the radar operator's surprised shout: "One hundred and sixty kilometers, they launched a missile!"

One hundred and sixty kilometers! Even China's C-802 missile has a range that far! What kind of missile is this? The two smaller signals separated from the target signal are so clear!

"The target speed continues to increase, it has exceeded the speed of Mach 2, and it is expected to arrive in four minutes!" The radar operator's shout was trembling.

This is a supersonic anti-ship missile!

Indians, try Pakistan's feast! In the sky, Rick, wearing an oxygen mask, was full of excitement.

At dawn, we received a message from the early warning aircraft that two warships had moved out of the Kolkata port, and Rick and his wingman took off immediately.

Originally, if these warships stayed in the Kolkata port honestly and waited for their own army personnel to receive them, it would be fine. If they dared to come out, they would be resolutely eliminated!

Moreover, in order to give the Indians the greatest deterrence, Rick and his wingman mounted their latest developed anti-sea attack weapon, the Eagle Strike-91-A heavy supersonic anti-ship missile!

This missile has been tested at the shooting range. One can destroy a 10,000-ton cruiser. Now, it was originally intended to deal with the Indian aircraft carrier. However, the aircraft carrier did not come out, and the two destroyers were also good targets!

When Rick pressed the launch button, he clearly felt the fuselage shake, and then the Eagle Strike-91 anti-ship missile fell from the rack.

One second after falling, the four solid rocket engines surrounding the tail ignited, and flames shot out from the tail. At the same time, the wings opened automatically.

In the goggles, Rick was also excited to see the blazing tail flame. This big guy is powerful enough!

The rocket engine further accelerated the missile to Mach 2. The baffles of the four air inlets opened, and the airflow compressed by the fast missile directly entered the ramjet engine.

The fuel of the rocket engine had just been burned, and the ramjet engine took over the relay!

After the ramjet engine was ignited, the missile continued to accelerate. The titanium alloy shell of the front part rubbed violently with the air, and the temperature rose to several hundred degrees.

2.5 Mach, 3 Mach, 3.5 Mach! At such a hypersonic speed, at an altitude of 5,000 meters, the missile was flying fast.

The range of the missile is related to the altitude. At this altitude, the range of the missile exceeds 250 kilometers, and if it keeps flying over the sea, the range will be reduced to less than 150 kilometers.

If it was to attack the US warships with the Aegis system, it might have to fly at sea, but now, to attack the Indian warships, it had to be so ostentatious and domineering!

The missiles were still flying at high altitudes, and the speed had exceeded Mach 3.5. The naval officers and soldiers in the two Indian warships looked ashen. (To be continued ~^~)