Chapter 9: The Fearsome Satellite

  The warriors on the vehicle immediately began to act after receiving the command. Each warrior was busy setting up anti-aircraft radar and air defense devices beside the vehicle. Familiar and unfamiliar faces ran past Cheng Feng's eyes one by one.

  Cheng Feng couldn't help but think of the brothers who had fallen at 581 high ground just a few hours ago, with whom he had fought side by side. Just a few hours ago, they were all together, laughing and chatting, stirring the big pot with their spoons, calling each other "instructor" in the military camp and "big brother" outside of it.

  But now? Many of them are no longer here, these were 17- and 18-year-old kids who had just come of age. They were in the prime of their youth, at an age when they should have been enjoying life, work, and love, but for the return of this piece of land over 90,000 square kilometers, they left behind their youth, blood, and lives here.

  As soldiers, they never hesitated for a moment when shedding blood and sacrificing their lives, which is in line with the standard of a soldier. It's hard to make someone who has not experienced war understand what it's like; this feeling can't be described in words.

  War is like that, and the battlefield is also like that. It has its own rules. This monster of war has always been a devourer of life, love, family, and all the machinery of human existence. To defeat it, you can only be stronger than it in front of it, and only by persisting to the end will you not be swallowed up and crushed by it.

  "Two enemy aircraft, altitude 1500, distance 30 kilometers, speed 450, preparing to engage." The voice came through Cheng Feng's earpiece from the forward air controller.

  Cheng Feng redirected his thoughts back to the battlefield, in the command vehicle, he was receiving data from the anti-aircraft radar collection system, while comparing these data with the data from the infantry fighting vehicle's radar data system.

  Two black dots flashed on the screen, rushing towards him, and the enemy identification system showed that it was an Indian armed helicopter. The fast-moving target adopted ultra-low altitude flight, but did not escape the tank's radar system.

  The new type of vehicle-mounted radar has strong target recognition capabilities and can identify any moving targets above 10 meters and below 15,000 meters.

  But even if they escaped, it didn't matter, because about 200 kilometers behind Cheng Feng and his troops, an airborne early warning aircraft was monitoring the area at all times. Any movement would not escape its attention, and as soon as there was any movement, target data would be quickly transmitted to the forward command post. The tanks and armored vehicles connected to the forward command post would also transmit the data to Cheng Feng and other commanders in real-time.

  Of course, their actions in this area will also be known to the Indian army. This is modern warfare. No matter how good the camouflage facilities are, they cannot achieve absolute concealment under the surveillance of modern satellites and ground radar, as well as early warning aircraft. Whether it's day or night, every movement of troops will be detected clearly.

  If it weren't for the fact that we destroyed India's reconnaissance satellite with our suicidal satellite before the war, I'm afraid their every move would be clearly visible to the enemy.

  The Indian military has a huge gap with us in space technology, and so far, we can easily shoot down any country's military satellite with outer space guides.

  Or use our space station to release jamming waves, or even use ground-based laser weapon stations to shoot down any satellite flying over the battlefield, interfering with the enemy's satellite communications and coordination, which is what the Indian military has done.

  If it weren't for the central government's restraint, this would just be a war of equal scale, with the goal of only recovering Doklam. We could have launched a space-based asymmetric warfare, utilizing our own mature and leading space technology to easily take down more than 90% of India's satellites, including all military and civilian ones.

  Cheng Feng knows that, until today, except for the xx country's satellite which can hover on the edge of our battlefield, there is no Indian military satellite visible in this vast area. As for the xx country's satellite, we let it hover nearby intentionally, because we need to use it as a proof of our army's attack on the Indian army, and tell the world from their third-party perspective what kind of army they are.

  Our strategic goal is not to wipe out India, but to recover our lost territory. Of course, things within the war zone will not allow them to intervene, and they have followed the rules of reconnaissance areas that we agreed on in advance very well, daring only to conduct reconnaissance and aerial photography within the areas designated by us, and we also deliberately let the xx country's satellite roam in these areas.

  Modern warfare is no longer about scouts scouting, grabbing tongues, sending people to ambush, or setting up artillery observation posts. All data on the enemy's activities will be automatically updated as the enemy moves. All follow-up regional information will be downloaded in advance from satellites to tanks and armored vehicles, or displayed on internal displays of tanks, or displayed on that 5-inch display on the chest.

  All information, including the location of one's own troops, artillery positions, land aviation positions, and current air force activities in this area, is available, except for the Second Artillery's mobile forces, which are top secret. In addition, information about nearby friendly forces, such as their equipment, personnel numbers, and even the number of medical supplies they have on hand, can also be obtained.

  Through the data chain of the group army, all artillery and strike weapons under the group army will make corresponding attack preparations. For the security and support of the troops in the front area of the group army, updates will be made at any time. The on-site commander is only responsible for coordinating the use of weapons and frequency, deploying and following up on specific operational attacks.

  The latest e-system can not only be operated on site by the commander, but also if the commander is injured, sacrificed or disconnected from the system, the upper-level system will automatically guide the local drones and weapons to calculate the appropriate amount of attack and launch an attack on the incoming target until it is destroyed.

  This is the essence of modern electronic warfare, which is why the vanguard doesn't need Cheng Feng to report back, they clearly know the offensive posture and position of Cheng Feng and his team.

  A series of data was rapidly updating on the screen, and it turned out that the helicopters of the Group Army Aviation did not perform escort tasks in their own region because the Western troops were not advancing smoothly. The main efforts of the Front Command and Aviation were concentrated over there, which meant that they and the tank regiment had to deal with the Indian military armed helicopters alone.

  However, Hero Eight won't be afraid of this. Although he has no actual experience in fighting armed helicopters, Chengfeng thinks that as long as they coordinate skillfully and find the enemy's weakness, taking it down is not a problem.

  Cheng Fengli issued orders to Tank Company and the three rows of ground-to-air defenses through the headset.