Dominate South Asia

Four gas turbines are humming, driving the propellers and driving the ship forward quickly.

This is a Rajput-class destroyer, hull number D-52, Rana destroyer. This is the largest destroyer of the Indian Navy except for the aircraft carrier, and is responsible for the air defense mission of the main fleet.

The radar on the top is constantly rotating. This is an air-to-sea search radar, which will be responsible for the task of discovering sea and air targets at a long distance.

Intelligence shows that except for the several Harpoon anti-ship missiles provided by the Americans last time, they have never provided other types of anti-ship missiles. Pakistan is even less likely to obtain Exocet missiles from France. Therefore, Pakistan can only send fighters to bomb its own formation, and the most likely one they will use is the A-7 attack aircraft, which will attack with Maverick missiles.

Maverick is said to be able to attack the sea, but the range is too short. When they are not close enough to launch missiles, they are already within the killing range of the ship-borne SA-N-1 "Goa" air defense missiles. Together with the Sea Harrier, it is enough to protect the safety of the fleet.

Now, it was night, and the Pakistanis were even less likely to launch an attack, so only this Rajput-class destroyer was turning on the search radar, and the rest were sailing in silence.

As a new destroyer that was commissioned in 1982, with a full load displacement of nearly 5,000 tons and a length of nearly 150 meters, the sailors felt proud to operate such a large warship.

What does the Pakistani Navy have? There are no warships with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons! There are only patrol boats and missile boats near the water!

On the upper deck of the bridge, the radar room.

Assuming the air defense mission of the entire formation, the radar soldiers were highly alert, staring at the screen without blinking.

When a waveform suddenly appeared, he was immediately startled in his heart. Is there something wrong?

Then, the waveform disappeared. He did not ignore this waveform. At the beginning, in the Falklands War, the Shelfard ignored an echo, and as a result. It was hit by the Exocet missile carried by the Super Etendard.

Is this echo the echo of the enemy's fighter plane flying at a very low altitude and then suddenly pulling up?

"Alarm, alarm." Thinking of this, he immediately sounded the alarm: "There may be enemy planes flying at a very low altitude!"

Alarm! The sharp alarm sounded on this warship, and at the same time, the alarm was transmitted to the entire formation.

The two double-arm anti-aircraft missile launchers at the front and rear began to turn quickly, and the SA-N-1 "Goa" missile warhead aimed at the direction of the threat.

At the same time. The other two Rajput-class destroyers were also ready to launch anti-aircraft missiles, and the radar was turned on urgently. The rest of the frigates, even if they only had anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns, were on full alert and ready.

The wind and waves blew the hull, and the Indian sailors were ready.

The sea radar, anti-aircraft missile radar, and gun aiming radar were all turned on. Countless radar waves were released in the entire space.

They were waiting, waiting for the appearance of Pakistani Air Force fighters. Pakistan's style was very strong, and they actually carried out a surprise attack at night!

It was not the last time. They were ready. As long as they saw Pakistani fighters, they would open fire immediately!

The radar did not find anything. Nor did they hear the unique roar of the fighters flying over the sea.

Was it a false alarm?

The captain of the Rana looked out through the porthole of the bridge, and saw nothing except the dark night.

He was about to give an order angrily. This was a mistake, and he continued to cruise. He saw that there seemed to be a bright spot on the sea in the distance?

Bright spot! What is that? It must not be an airplane. The tail flame of a fighter is much larger than that. Moreover, the bright spot is almost on the sea. In this dark night, flying close to the sea surface is almost a suicidal act.

The bright spot was approaching rapidly, and every hair on his body stood up. It was indeed not an airplane, but a missile flying over the sea, a flying fish!

"Attention, Exocet missiles!" He shouted loudly, with fear in his voice. He saw more clearly, and the bright spots gradually became more and more, more than one missile!

The C-802 flew over the sea at a speed of 0.9 Mach, cruising at an altitude of 20 meters.

Even if the Indians found the carrier aircraft pulled up by Rick, it was very difficult to detect this missile with long-range radar. It was almost flying close to the sea surface. Due to the influence of the curvature of the earth, it was difficult for shipborne radar to detect it from a distance. Even if it was close, the Indian warship's sea search radar had already filtered it out as clutter.

If it wasn't for visual observation, there would be no trace of this missile at all!

At this time, the missiles flying in were already close to a distance of ten kilometers!

It was not until this distance that the "orange peel group" tracking and guidance radar of the SA-N-1 "Goa" air defense missile finally locked onto the low-flying target. This air defense missile is a Soviet all-weather short-range ship-to-air missile weapon system, mainly used for fleet air defense to deal with various aircraft invading at medium and low altitudes at subsonic and supersonic speeds. Its prototype is the SA-3 surface-to-air missile used on land.

In later actual combat, this missile had a mediocre performance and made no achievements until it shot down an F-117, which made it famous.

Now, this missile is finally starting to exert its power. The missile operator quickly locked the target and prepared to launch it in a double-shot salvo. The hit probability of this method is more than 90%, which is enough to intercept the anti-ship missiles flying from the opposite side.

However, at this moment, the target on the opposite side dropped again!

According to the predetermined procedure, the C-802 missile dropped to a height of 5 meters above the sea surface!

5 meters! The height of the waves is two or three meters. This height is almost dancing on the top of the waves!

The "Orange Peel Group" tracking and guidance radar tried its best to finally find the missile again from the clutter of the waves, and then began to lock the target.

At this time, the missile has approached a distance of five kilometers, which is quite dangerous.

On the twin-mounted launch arm, the fire flashed, and two SA-N-1 air defense missiles broke away from the launch arm one after another and rushed towards the target. The launch arm returned to its position and began to load the second missile.

However, the loading speed is very slow. More and more bright spots appeared on the screen of the "Orange Peel Group" tracking and guidance radar. There were dozens of missiles flying from the opposite side!

Two missiles quickly rushed towards their targets. As long as they were close to the opponent's missiles, more than 3,000 fragments would be released, enough to blow the opponent's missiles into slag!

At this moment, the missiles on the opposite side began to maneuver at high speed.

First to the left, then to the right, the trajectory of the missiles became a big S shape.

The final snake-shaped maneuver!

Originally, it was very difficult to lock the anti-ship missiles flying over the sea. Even if the missiles on the opposite side flew steadily, it was enough to keep the air defense missiles on the ship busy for a while. Now, this kind of anti-ship missiles are flying over the sea with high maneuvers. Suddenly, the "Orange Peel Group" tracking and guidance radar lost the target information again.

The two anti-aircraft missiles fired also became rockets because the radar lost the target, and did not play the role of interception, but the missiles continued to fly quickly!

The ADGM-630 6-barrel 30mm close-in defense gun on the side began to make the final defense.

In the medium range, it relies on ship-borne anti-aircraft missiles, and in this close range, it can only rely on rapid-fire guns.

The Soviet Union has always advocated firepower, and for the last layer of defense, it used dense rain of bullets!

This is a Gatling principle artillery, 30mm caliber, as long as a hit, it will make a big hole in the anti-ship missile. And its firing rate is as high as 3,000 rounds per minute. When it starts, with the buzzing sound of electric current, dense rain of bullets, overwhelming, covering all ranges!

This is their last chance! The rain of bullets from the close-in defense guns all poured in the direction of the missiles, forming a rain of death. Any anti-ship missile that wants to break through this layer of rain of bullets will be ruthlessly hit!

The flying missile continued to make serpentine maneuvers, but under the attack of the two close-in defense guns, the missile was suddenly hit by a shell and fell into the sea!

Although they may not be sure of defending against supersonic anti-ship missiles, they can still shoot down subsonic anti-ship missiles!

However, although the sailors of the Lana shot down this missile, they did not cheer, because the second anti-ship missile had already flown over!

This missile flew closer! Because they were only concerned with intercepting the first missile, they did not take the second missile into consideration at all! Now, the opponent has entered the final attack phase!

The captain on the bridge can even see the increasingly large outline with the naked eye!

The 6-barrel 30mm close-in defense gun continued to roar and fired a barrage of bullets, but in just a few seconds, the buzzing sound of the close-in defense gun suddenly weakened, and there was no flame at the muzzle.

Two thousand rounds of ammunition are not enough for one minute of shooting! Now, all the shells inside have been used up and must be reloaded!

It's too late!

The 165kg semi-armor-piercing warhead penetrated the Lana above the waterline. The C-802 anti-ship missile was enough to penetrate the steel plate with reinforced ribs. Unless it was a battleship, it could easily tear open the side of any active ship.

When the warhead kissed the steel plate of the ship, the huge collision sound was amplified in the cabin inside the destroyer. This roar was the death knell for the warship!

"Boom!" Along with the unburned fuel, the anti-ship missile exploded after drilling into the hull. In the fierce flames, a large hole was blown open on the side of the entire hull, and seawater began to pour in. (To be continued ~^~)