Chapter 1413 The Subtle Bay of Bengal
“Where is the Indo-Pakistani war heading now.” Defense Minister Dennis Healy inquired, he was just a minister, it was impossible for him to find the latest intelligence himself, the intelligence had to be collected by civil servants before it came back to him.
“The land side is still on the same trend as before, if there’s any bright spot, it’s that the Indian Navy is doing pretty well this time.” Alan Wilson replied, “The carrier formation blockading the coast of East Pakistan in the Bay of Bengal was very successful. And the operations in the west were even more unexpected.”
Alan Wilson then gave the Prime Minister and the Minister an update on the situation that had just been received.
The Indian Navy had sent a special formation to Arabia. In addition to a tanker for logistical support, there were two anti-submarine frigates and three diminutive Mosquito class missile boats.
Their mission was to use the still relatively new Soviet ss-n-2 Styx anti-ship missiles in a direct attack on Karachi Harbor, where the main Pakistani naval force was located. This new naval warfare weapon, purchased from the Soviet Union, was not only to be used by the Indians to attack ships in the harbor, but they were also going to bombard the oil depots in Karachi Harbor in passing.
The controversy over the ability of anti-ship missiles to target and attack land targets is still huge. Even the Soviet Union, the designing and producing country, had not thought of a similar attempt.
But the Indians were determined to give it a try and launched Operation Trident. Throughout the day, the formation was deployed 400 kilometers from the enemy’s coast to avoid detection by Pakistani air force aircraft.
It was not until nightfall that the ships began a 300-kilometer dash to approach Karachi Harbor from the south unnoticed.
But at this time, the ship’s radar suddenly picked up a suspected enemy target. After confirming that it was supposed to be a Pakistani Navy patrol warship, a Mosquito class turned northwest and fired a ss-n-2 anti-ship missile.
The Pakistani warship under attack, and the ship’s air defense radar did detect the incoming missile, but mistook it for an attack launched only by the IAF. As the ship’s main guns and anti-aircraft guns failed to intercept the missile, the large plutonium crashed directly into the right side of the ship. The ensuing explosion also destroyed the ship’s power system, causing it to lose power immediately.
The ship’s communications officer sent a distress signal in a panic, not only misreporting his location, but also continuing to attribute the attack to IAF aircraft. Before the Pakistani Navy’s rescue team could find them, the Indians fired a second ss-n-2 missile, sending it to the bottom of the ocean for good.
After creating an epochal battle with a small force, this how not so powerful Indian naval formation decided to ride the wave of victory and continue to expand the results.
The Indian naval formation moved closer to Karachi harbor. A second Mosquito class speedboat came forward and attacked a new target they had found.
It was the freighter Venus Challenger, which was carrying arms and ammunition for the Pakistan Navy, and the destroyer Raja Khan, which was escorting it. The former had suffered a large explosion after being focused by a single Plutonium and had sunk quickly. The latter also struggled to the surface as it lost power after taking one of these missiles.
The two missile boats, already considered highly decorated, anchored twenty kilometers off Karachi for the final assault, fired the remaining two ss-n-2 missiles toward the oil depot that the radar had barely locked onto.
The first of these went off-target quickly, but the second managed to hit the oil depot. The ensuing explosion destroyed the entire tank and the Pakistani Navy’s large quantity of fuel was declared lost, with fire and smoke billowing out far enough to be seen by Indian naval officers and men who hadn’t yet left.
Having successfully attacked the fuel depot, the Indian Navy raiding formation had retreated from enemy waters. Before leaving, the third Mosquito class attacked a radar-detected minesweeper with another. With only one missile, the Indians sent her into the water. Because of the speed of the sinking, the ship’s communicator did not even have time to send a distress telegram.
Thus against a formation of three missile boats carrying anti-ship missiles, the battle was won against two destroyers, a minesweeper, a transport ship, and a large oil depot ashore.
This era of the Middle East War broke out just this once when Israel was just founded, there was no Suez Canal War Britain and France took Israel to practice, resulting in Israel stuck in the memory of that one less dominant war just after the founding of the country, so the Middle East War Egyptian Navy sank Israeli destroyers in the war does not exist.
The free world still believes that the construction of missile boats of the Soviet Union, just poor countries Navy, as for the British made a number of missile boats sold to Egypt, is nothing more than fancy used to fool the Egyptian things, is not just a catamaran it, shipbuilding countries that will not build?
“Surprisingly, there is such a big result? Is the war report published by India, is not the public opinion operation out of the war?” Defense Minister Dennis Healey was shocked, naval battles can still be fought this way?
I have to say that the Indian Navy’s brainchild, on the hostile enemy achieved such a big battle results, can be very amazing, even the British Defense Secretary heard can not believe.
“I think the Americans will confirm the news.” Alan Wilson replied, the U.S. task force has crossed the Strait of Malacca to arrive in the Bay of Bengal, of course, followed by the Soviet Union’s Eighth Sub Fleet based in Jakarta, two guided-missile cruisers, two guided-missile destroyers, four guided-missile frigates, and as for the submarines, people did not float up, and the British forces in Malaya detected signals, but it was impossible to determine how much was down there.
As for the Soviet fleet that had already crossed the Tsushima Strait, the fleet dominated by three guided-missile destroyers, I believe that the U.S. base in Okinawa should be aware of the movement, in the end, to where.
At this time the Soviet fleet has already achieved the main weapon missileization, fully capable of sinking or heavily damaging the American aircraft carriers in the first place.
I don’t know if Washington has noticed now that the Indian battle report has been released, but the Styx is the first generation of Soviet anti-ship missiles, and the anti-ship missiles carried by the Soviet Red Navy are no longer of this type.
The waters of the Bay of Bengal, which cannot be described as small, are not really a very desirable site for an aircraft carrier formation, but on the contrary are very suitable for the Soviet missile fleet.
The Prime Minister, as well as the two Cabinet Ministers, were still immersed in the results of the missile boat’s battle with the smallest, when Foreign Minister Patrick suddenly spoke up and inquired, “Sir, it seems that Pamela’s shipyard builds missile boats, and sells quite a few of them to Egypt, there is such a thing, isn’t there?”
“Yes, honorable minister, the poor country’s navy, well, not a lot of ridicule by other people.” Alan Wilson had a tone of wanting to pretend and must be restrained, this time after the Indo-Pakistani war, I believe that the sales of missile boats will be opened a lot.
Of course he understood what Foreign Secretary Patrick’s question meant, and directly answered, “Malaya’s fleet does lag a little behind, but there is one thing that is absolutely not a problem, and that is the fleet’s protection, after all, battleships are completely dependent on armor protection.”
My Great Britain is still current or notable, is by no means a later generation of generals than tanks more than the existence of the fact that a few decades later, although many people say that Russia’s corruption is serious military spending can be implemented how much is still not certain.
But you look at Britain, France and Germany, to know that the military spending of these three countries are in fact and Russia on a level, in a look at the size of the army of the three European powers, corrupt Russia raised nearly a million troops, hundreds of third-generation aircraft, thousands of tanks and six thousand nuclear bombs.
And the three European powers of the same size of the military spending, do not know at all what is reflected, if the United States of America’s eight hundred billion dollars of military spending can still say that millions of Cao Gong. Britain, France and Germany’s military spending do not know where to go.
Service new airplanes? Launching battleships? Anyway, Greece has raised the same size army for six billion dollars in military spending. Wouldn’t Greece have to hang Turkey and beat it up if it had sixty billion dollars in military spending to squander?
This situation just goes unnoticed in the blinding light of $800 billion in US military spending, and the US military industry is good for something.
After this raid, half the fuel in the Karachi area was wiped out. Not only were the navy’s ships having trouble getting out, but even the air force planes at the nearby airports were experiencing fuel shortages. This, coupled with the huge loss of the harbor itself, made Pakistan’s foreign trade suffer tremendously as well.
The Indian Navy took the opportunity to take control of the entire Pakistani coast and made it mandatory for all merchant ships to pass through a route that it had fortified itself in order to get inside the Karachi harbor.
For the use of the two strategic transport aircraft landing in Sikkim, the cabinet is not without differences, Allen Wilson faced with this issue, then explained, now Pakistan and India have officially declared war, before the safe route from West Pakistan to Nepal is no longer safe, that is to say, these two strategic transport aircraft and the soldiers on it no longer exist in the possibility of a safe return.
On the contrary, the Nepalese border is still considered safe, and it can’t be said that there is no danger at all in reaching Sikkim, but the success rate is still quite high.
At the same time when the British side is discussing, Washington side also received the intelligence analysis of this new sea battle and knew the causes and consequences.
A time the atmosphere of the White House is very subtle, for three missile boats to the Pakistani Navy dare not go out of the harbor, of course, is shocking, if it is a usual time, this will become the Pentagon a research topic, but at this time there is such a war case?
To know that the U.S. task force has entered the Bay of Bengal, and behind the task force, followed by the Soviet Red Navy’s eighth division fleet, India can use missile boats to clean up the Pakistani Navy, is followed by the task force behind the guided-missile cruisers, guided-missile destroyers is not a threat at all? How can this be possible.
When the Pentagon conveyed the news to the 74th Task Force in the Bay of Bengal, the entire task force command level was silent. The calm sea was not easy to look at, not only they, also received the news of the Soviet Red Navy also thought a lot.
At one time, belonging to the two world’s strongest countries in the navy, in the Bay of Bengal waters, as if the whole atmosphere of the Bay of Bengal is extremely delicate.