[Military Sub-Plane] Author: leon
In recent days, the new incidents that have occurred in the Sino-Indian border area can be said to have attracted the attention of the whole world, as a country with relatively strong military strength in the South Asian subcontinent, India has had no less friction with its neighboring countries in recent years on the issue of borders and territories, among which Pakistan, from time to time, there will be armed conflicts with the Indian army, for Pakistan, they are indeed facing greater national defense pressure in this regard.
Especially in the field of air armaments, you know, for the Pakistan Air Force, its main force is composed of the fourth-generation aircraft F-16 series and the "Dragon" fighter, in the face of the Indian Air Force's four-and-a-half-generation "Rafale" fighter and Su-30MKI as the elite armament system, at least from the perspective of mutual balance of air equipment, it is difficult for the Pakistan Air Force to occupy some substantial leading positions.
▲ Although the Su-30MKI equipped by the Indian army has not been able to have the overall reliability problem so far, the Su-30MKI has been installed by the Indian army on a certain scale, and the overall strength should not be underestimated
Therefore, for the Pakistani army, it is very necessary to enhance the country's comprehensive air defense capabilities, just in these two days, according to Pakistani media reports, the air defense forces affiliated to the Pakistani army officially put into use China's HQ-9/P air defense missiles, that is to say, for Pakistan, they are officially equipped with HQ-9 series air defense missiles, theoretically have the ability to use the missile to shoot down large air units of the enemy army.
First of all, for the HQ-9 series of anti-aircraft missiles, it is built by our country for the fourth generation fighter that does not have stealth capabilities, and the Indian army has not been equipped with a fifth-generation aircraft to evade the detection of the missile from the root, of course, as for the electronic fighter that can paralyze the enemy's radar system, India has not confirmed that the Indian army has such fighters so far.
▲ HQ-9/P air defense missile announced by Pakistan
Therefore, Pakistan is equipped with the Hongqi-9 is a very tricky thing for India, after all, the Indian army equipped with su-30MKI and Rafale fighters, in theory, HQ-9/P can be effectively responded to, not to mention the old Mirage-2000 and older MiG series fighters equipped by the Indian Air Force, not to mention that the range of HQ-9/P is greater than 100 kilometers, if the missile is deployed to the front line area, the safe range of activities of Indian fighters will be greatly reduced.
At that time, if there is a conflict between India and Pakistan in the air in the border area, the Indian Air Force will be in a very unfavorable state of air-ground joint attack, after all, so far, the main equipment of the Indian air defense force is still the old "Akash" series of air defense missiles, in addition to the range and HQ-9 series are not on a horizontal scale, the source of this technology comes from the former Soviet Sam-6 series of air defense missiles and HQ-9 itself There is a technical generation gap.
▲The Hongqi-9 series of air defense missiles adopts the dual guidance mode of inertial guidance + terminal active radar locking, which can lock multiple targets at the same time, and the comprehensive strike accuracy is high
Although the Indian army has long been aware of the existence of this problem, it has purchased S-400 air defense missiles from Russia, even if Russia claims to provide India with the first batch of S-400 air defense missiles at the end of this year, but given that the Indian army has never used such air defense systems, India may also need to "learn from Russia" to understand how this advanced air defense system should be used.
Therefore, if you count the time for the formation of effective combat effectiveness in the Indian army, then the process is probably far away, and it is still unknown whether Russia can deliver normally to India this year. It is not difficult to see that in this period of time when the S-400 purchased by India has formed an effective combat effective combat force, it will be very "sad" for India's air force fighters. It should be known that India's most elite "Akash" air defense system is only at most 80 kilometers in range.
Many models of "Akash" anti-aircraft missiles have a range of only tens of kilometers, and their air defense capabilities are very limited
That is to say, if the Indian Air Force fighter wants to face the Pakistan Air Force, it can guarantee that the Indian fighter in the defense circle of up to 80 kilometers can be protected by certain air defense. Therefore, for Pakistan, the installation of HQ-9/P may raise Pakistan's homeland air defense capabilities by a level, and Pakistan's military leaders also call the missile a strategic level weapon system, which shows that Pakistan attaches great importance to this weapon.
The Pakistani HQ-9/P may offset the advantages of many Indian troops equipped with Rafale fighters
Therefore, for Pakistan, if Pakistan can install more HQ-9 series air defense missiles in the future, then theoretically enough Hongqi-9 is enough to cover all of Pakistan's airspace to ensure Pakistan's homeland air defense security, and similarly, if Pakistan establishes China's Hongqi-9 + Hongqi-16 + Hongqi-6 series of full-range air defense system in the future through the introduction of the way. For India, in theory, unless the Indian Air Force introduces fifth-generation aircraft or electronic warfare aircraft, the Indian Air Force will have little to gain a substantial advantage over this air defense system for large air defense missiles.