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Liu Yelou: "Old Chang, outside line interception and air control must be done. This is the job of the Air Force. But our current task is even heavier. Not only outside line air interception, but also as much support as possible for ground operations .In southern Tibet, our ground troops may be fighting at a 1:10 or even 1:20 force disadvantage."
"India's road and railway hubs in the Siliguri Corridor have long been registered," said Air Force Chief of Staff Zhang Tingfa. Can blow it up."
Chang Qiankun: "The fighter jets of the Indian Air Force are French. I don't know why they don't buy British or American ones."
Tang Hua: "Britain has not designed any normal fighter jets. The United States does not sell them, because India has received more aid from the Soviet Union in the past few years, and its relationship with the United States is somewhat alienated."
Zhang Tingfa: "Their fighter jets, Dassault's MD450 and Mystique-4, look a bit like the MiG-15."
Tang Hua: "The Dassault MD450 is relatively poor now. Although it is a jet fighter, it has a straight wing, flies slowly, and its maneuverability is not very good. Its combat effectiveness is between the F80 and F84 of the US military. However, Dassault The Mystic-4 is not bad, and there is not much difference in performance compared with MiG-15bis and MiG-17."
Liu Yelou chuckled: "The only difference is the aircraft itself. Do their fighter jets have air-to-air missiles?"
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Indian fighter jets of course do not have air-to-air missiles.Now there are only three countries that can develop air-to-air missiles: the Soviet Union, China, and the United States.These three countries are also equipped with air-to-air missiles.
China now has Thunderbolt-1 and Thunderbolt-1A, the United States has the Sidewinder series, and now the Air Force is purchasing the Sidewinder-B type, which imitates China's Thunderbolt-1 series (heavy fog) (but it is indeed true from the perspective of time).
The Soviet Union developed its own radio-command-guided medium-range air-to-air missile, the K-5.This missile is not for over-the-horizon air combat, but mainly to solve the problem of hitting high-altitude bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.The interceptor hangs K-5, and when launched from an altitude of 15000 meters, it can attack aircraft at an altitude of 25000 meters.However, the K-5 relies on the radar of the special interceptor to send correction instructions, and the accuracy of the hit is not very high. Since last year, it has intercepted the U-2 three times, but there is no successful record.
Tang Hua proposed to use semi-active radar-guided air-to-air missiles to replace the K-5, and now the two countries are thinking about how to do it.
霹雳-1和霹雳-1A就是专门的近程格斗空空导弹，沈阳生产的歼-5都可以挂2枚霹雳-1，另外改装了一部分米格-15比斯，也可以发射霹雳-1。
Because the Thunderbolt-1 is still unable to attack sideways and head-on, the guidance head can only catch the heat signal of the target only when it goes around the tail of the enemy plane, so it is not a complete change in the air combat situation.However, during the Air Force's exercises, it was found that the Thunderbolt-1 was quite useful.It is easier for a fighter jet equipped with air-to-air missiles to bite the opponent's tail. After all, it does not need to be completely aimed at the enemy plane's buttocks to fire like a machine gun, and it can still be biased by more than ten or twenty degrees.
The shooting range is also a little longer than that of the machine gun. After biting the enemy's tail, the best distance to launch the Thunderbolt-0.7 is 3 to 1 kilometers, and the distance to attack with the machine gun is 300 to 1000 meters. The two are basically complementary.
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United States, Pentagon.
"In the last month, I noticed that the CIA was sending weapons from our Far East Armory to India. Later, I found out that the CIA and the military automatically started an aid program to India. Now please tell me, the military's assistance to India How big is the scale of China’s aid plan and whether the process is controllable.”
Secretary of Defense Neil Michael Roy is not here to hold the military accountable. He has already clarified the current situation with Eisenhower. India implements military assistance.
However, while India was "invaded" by the communist country (China), it was still receiving comprehensive assistance from the communist country (Soviet Union), which is more brain-burning.
Eisenhower gave Michael Roy a very clear answer and solved this question: No matter which side India was on before, and now that India is beaten by China, it should help India.
“Our assistance to countries that have suffered aggression is based on a presidential act,” said Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “Of course, our assistance to India is undercover because India is now closer to the Soviet Union.”
"In the future, you don't have to do it secretly," Michael Roy said.
Nathan Twining: "The president intends to change his diplomatic attitude and win over India?"
"The president's attitude is roughly the same as what you describe."
Allen Dulles: "If you want to win India from the Soviet Union, it is not enough to provide military aid. You must also support a pro-American circle of influence at the top of India, and make a pro-American voice in the political circle, preferably in the It occupies an important weight in the Indian parliament. Even if we have to, we may have to change the leaders of India."
Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA, used this method when he opened his mouth. It seems that the CIA is quite familiar with this matter.
Michael Roy: "Alan, supporting pro-American forces in India is the CIA's future work. But we don't need to completely control the upper echelons of India. We don't even need to force India to completely decouple from the Soviet Union."
"Then what's the point of us wooing India?"
"We just need India not to be an enemy of the United States and the West." Michael Roy said, "India has a population of [-] million. The cost of buying India completely is very high, but if we only buy a small part of them, let India It's much easier without a complete decoupling from the West, isn't it?"
Nathan Twining and the chiefs of staff of several services looked at each other for a minute.If the Secretary of Defense's view was Eisenhower's view, the decision was almost irrevocable.But will it work?
"The thing we are most worried about now is that limited military aid may not help India defeat China," Army Chief of Staff Liman Remnitzer said of his own opinion, "or worse, India will be defeated by China on the ground and suffer There will be an extremely serious domestic political and military crisis in battered India."
Michael Roy: "It couldn't have been a better result."
Chapter 231, this is caring for the mentally retarded
Michael Roy instructed the military's aid to India to shift from secret to open, but in fact the military aid did not increase immediately.
Because from the day the United States publicly "supported India", military aid to India has changed from free to charged.
However, India is willing to buy weapons and ammunition from the United States at market prices.After India and the Soviet Union approached, they did not immediately unify their own weapons from miscellaneous brands to Soviet weapons. India bought very few Soviet weapons, but bought a large number of Soviet factory equipment, regardless of free charges.
From 1947 to 1948, India and Pakistan fought an India-Pakistan war, which was ceased under the mandatory request of the United Nations.In the next few years, India purchased a large number of weapons and equipment from Britain, France and the United States. By 1955, India felt that its sea, land and air equipment was sufficient.When the Soviet Union posted that it was making good friends with India, Nehru felt that he could start farming first, plant two five-year plans, and after domestic industrial production was established, he would have time to update his country's weapons.
However, what happened in 1959 was a bit beyond Nehru's expectations, which is also the reason for his hesitation and vacillating attitude.
So now the United States has offered to give India part of the free military aid plus large-scale arms sales, which still suits India's appetite.
"Mr. Prime Minister, whether it is free military aid or arms sales, it is the help and support of the United States to India. In the field of fighting against Chinese aggression, we stand on the same position."
U.S. Ambassador to India Ellsworth Bunker held closed-door talks with Nehru, and both sides spoke very bluntly.
"Mr. Prime Minister, the arms sale means openness. In this way, the whole world knows that the United States provides India with the weapons necessary for national defense at this sensitive moment, which is equivalent to the United States making a statement of support for India. Another reason is that complex equipment All arms sales need to send engineers and instructors to train the officers and soldiers of the receiving country. In the future, the United States can send professional military personnel to train you instead of contractors, which will be more convenient and efficient.”
Nehru: "The support we need is not only military equipment, we also hope that the United States and India can conduct official military exchanges, such as military exercises. If it is a joint exercise with India in the name of NATO, that would be even better."
Bunker: "That's a very good suggestion, and I'll pass it on to the President."
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"When will our aircraft carrier be delivered?"
After talking with Ambassador Bunker, Nehru summoned Defense Minister Krishna Menon and asked him about the specific situation.
"The 'Vikrant' is still being refitted and refitted in the UK. It will go to sea for sea trials at the end of this year, and our crew will arrive in India in the first half of 1961," Menon replied. How useful is a war with China, Mr Prime Minister."
Nehru: "So, to defeat China, what weapon do we most need?"
"Spirit, the spirit is most needed," Menon said, "India needs the unity of the whole country to resist foreign humiliation, the spirit of declaring war on a powerful country, and the spirit of the army's fearless fighting. As long as there is spirit, there is no enemy that cannot be defeated of."
Nehru frowned at what Menon said about the chicken soup, but that was all Menon could say.
Because he, the Minister of Defense, has no military background at all.
The secretary of defense in the United States is also a civilian, but in most cases, the president chooses someone from his team who has military experience.On the Indian side, Menon University majored in history and theology. After graduation, he worked as a lawyer and an editor, and then entered politics. Then he was pulled from India by Nehru to become the Minister of Defense.
During his tenure as Minister of Defense, Menon's biggest achievement was to promote the establishment of India's state-run military-industrial complex, and to abolish the Indian army's backward officer hereditary system and change it to a military academy-military rank promotion system.This had a profound impact on the Indian Army for decades to come.But at this moment, he has just put forward his reform ideas, and has not completed these two things.
Nehru: "What do the army generals think about India going to war with China?"
Menon sighed: "This is exactly why I emphasized the need to be spiritual."
The Indian General Staff proposed that 10 people and 200 aircraft must be assembled in eastern India before they can launch an attack on China.The General Staff conducted a deduction based on the assumption that 1 Chinese troops would be stationed in southern Tibet, and 2 people might be sent in later. The conclusion is that the Chinese troops in the two places must be driven out if the scale reaches 10.
During the deduction and demonstration, the various services of the Indian army played football with each other. The Indian Air Force stated that the army must compress forward and attack the core defense line that shakes China before the air force can be dispatched, otherwise the air force will not be able to pass through the fire net of Chinese air defense missiles.The army stated that the air force must repeatedly cover and attack China's positions in the mountains before the army can launch a large-scale offensive, otherwise it will lose its teeth like the United Nations army on the Korean peninsula.
——India's General Staff and the chiefs of the armed forces are indeed not stupid. They know what happened in the world a few years ago.
But they were a little too predictive of the enemy's tolerance. In fact, up to now, there are no anti-aircraft missiles in southern Tibet. The anti-aircraft missile system will not be in place until the road is repaired.