China Air Force, the backbone of the counterattack against Vietnam

China Air Force, the backbone of the counterattack against Vietnam

The operational principles formulated by the Central Military Commission for the Air Force in 1979 are as follows: the enemy needs neither me nor me, and is fully prepared to patrol the border areas to prepare for war; The task is to strengthen patrol vigilance in the border areas between China and Vietnam, and be ready to annihilate the invading enemy at any time. Generally speaking, they do not go abroad to fight, and actively prepare to support the ground forces to fight.

From the start of the war in February 17 to March 16, all our troops were withdrawn to China, and the Air Force * * * dispatched 3 13 1 batch of 8,500 patrol guards. The Vietnamese Air Force was frightened by the powerful momentum of the PLA Air Force and did not dare to go out three days before the war. Although it took off late, its combat aircraft never flew over the combat area of our ground troops. Air superiority in the theater has always been in the hands of the PLA Air Force.

At the same time, the reconnaissance aviation has repeatedly dispatched Detective -6 to take photos of Vietnamese military targets and provide information for ground troops; 375 transport planes and helicopters were dispatched to transport more than 680 sorties of personnel and combat materials, with more than 9,600 personnel and 1.400 tons of materials.

Since the PLA Air Force has always been bombed by aviation units, it is impossible to talk about air-ground coordinated operations, although plans were made and coordination was organized before the war.

As for why the combat aviation units did not directly enter the battle, the official statement is to strategically avoid the escalation of the war, but more people are concerned about the conservative operational concept, the weak combat effectiveness of the air force, and the lack of experience in large-scale air-ground coordinated operations.

In fact, the air force has the opportunity to show, for example:

1 On the evening of March 8th, 2008, the 1st Squadron Leader of the Independent Brigade of Wuxu Airport Aviation 18 Division flew the 歼 6A plane and intercepted an IL- 14 transport plane of the Vietnamese Air Force under the guidance of Ningming Airport Command. At that time, the pilot of the command post gave the wrong course to turn to meet the enemy, and the guidance position was unfavorable, which led to the pilot failing to find the enemy plane in time. Although the pilot later found the enemy plane three times, he asked to fire because of technical failure.

2. On February 20th, from 8: 00 a.m. to 10, the divisions of the 42nd Army124th Division, which mainly attacked Gaoping, successively captured the main peaks of 490 highland and 526 highland, forming a threatening situation, and then received instructions from their superiors. The aviation is preparing to bomb Gaoping and Nafei to support the division's battle. So the troops stopped attacking at 1 1 and set up a cloth board in front to indicate the target to the air force. By 13, the air force has not been dispatched, and the division will continue to attack after asking for instructions.