Taiwan deploys anti-Chinese missile defense system

Taipei - 28 in May, local media reported that Taiwan first deployed cruise missiles capable of hitting key military bases on the southeast coast of mainland China.

Taiwanese "Hsiung feng" 2 (Brave Wind) with a radius of 480 km has been put into mass production and put into service, Liberty Times reported, citing an unnamed military source. The project, code-named "Chichun" (Dive Hawk), the military spent about 1,02 billion dollars. The Ministry of Defense refused to comment on this information.

Taiwanese experts believe that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has more than 1600 missiles aimed at the island.
"To a certain degree, weapon can serve as a deterrent, "says Kevin Cheng, editor-in-chief of the Taipei office of Asia-Pacific Defense Magazine." "In the event of war in the Taiwan Strait, missiles can be used to destroy airports and other PLA military bases." Hsiung feng 2E missiles are aimed at China.

Song Jaw Wen, a member of an expert group invited by the military to the Taiwan National Defense Report - 2011, said it was the first time cruise missiles were aimed at China.

Tensions in the Taiwan Strait eased with Ma Ying-jeou, a member of the China-friendly Kuomintang party, coming to power in 2008, in the wake of increasing trade ties and attracting Chinese tourists. In January, Ma was reelected for his second and last four-year term.

However, China is still not abandoning the possibility of using force against the island in its passionate desire to return Taiwan.

Three weeks earlier, the Defense News publication reported that the Taiwan Navy had adopted a new supersonic anti-ship missile Hsiung Feng III. The rocket replenished the range of weapons of several types of ships as part of the Taiwan Navy. As expected, the Hsiung Feng III will receive eight Oliver Hazard Perry frigates and seven patrol boats, the class of which is not specified.

In general, the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan intends to spend on the purchase of missiles Hsiung Feng III 11,89 billion Taiwan dollars (413 million US dollars). The new missiles can reach speeds of up to two Mach numbers (2,3 thousands of kilometers per hour) and hit targets at a distance of up to 80 miles (about 148 kilometers). Adoption of new ammunition is carried out against the backdrop of strengthening the military power of China.

Earlier it was reported that Taiwan in the 2012 year intends to begin construction of a new corvette, which will be handed over to the Navy in 2014 year. New ships will be built using the technology of stealth and will be armed with anti-ship cruise missiles Hsiung Feng II and Hsiung Feng III. According to Deputy Minister of Defense of Taiwan Lin Yupao (lin - Yu-pao), the construction of ships will be a response to the strengthening of the Chinese Navy.

At present, China is carrying out repairs and modernization of the heavy aircraft carrier “Shi Lan” (formerly “Varyag”), built according to the 1143.6 project and purchased from Ukraine in 1998 year. Reliable information on the progress of work has not yet been made public. Previously, some experts suggested that the ship’s sea trials could begin in the 2011 year. The Ministry of Defense of China intends to develop a series of its own aircraft carriers based on Varyag.

Comments

[Vanek]

In the event of a military conflict, they (missiles) will do little to help. In China, the army is most of all Taiwan.

[YARY]

He said the first war of China will be for Taiwan.
And this can be called a reference point.

[Alexander Romanov]

Ardent, reference point Syria. Taivan will wait, not drown.

[Vanek]

Quote: Alexander Romanov

Syria reference point

And judging by the news, the countdown will not wait long.

[Alexander Romanov]

I suppose 8-9 June will begin.

[Vanek]

Quote: Alexander Romanov

I suppose

Let's hope this is just an assumption.

[755962]

Hsiung Feng III can reach speeds of up to two Mach numbers (2,3 thousand kilometers per hour) and hit targets at ranges up to 150 km.

[Alexander Romanov]

This is real, loot in the wind. If China wants to, then taiwan will be taken in hand-to-hand combat.

[Dmitriy69]

Missile defense has recently become a kind of fashionable bauble, so Taiwan fell for it.

[Skiff]

I did not see a word about missile defense in the article, it is written about anti-ship missiles and new ships.

[Oleg777]

If the whales want, they will put their hands on their elbows in jo.u you know who will do it .... but about, this is just one of the stages in building the American missile defense system, that's all.

[tronin.maxim]

In all parts of the world, conflicts begin to flare up and many have nuclear weapons. This is the situation that is beneficial to the United States. So it can come out of the crisis and at the same time weaken and destroy many countries. But I think the American plan will fail. The situation in the world is changing very quickly and the United States does not keep up. What the United States is doing now is an illusion. But the end is near.

[Committee]

The end of what? The white population of the planet? (if so, then the whole planet)

[Odessa]

The news is out of the ordinary. Taiwan sent lionfish toward China, with a link to a secret source that even the Taiwan Ministry of Defense does not dare to comment on it, the evil Taiwanese special forces stockpiled inflatable boats made in China to carry out sabotage in the rear of the alleged enemy, and in the bag only Vietnamese , a mighty 34 size, and the Chinese holding on to their belly sloping wallow with laughter on the floor, Taiwan comes ..... .

[kontrzasada20]

China does not differ in that adventurism and that arrogance like America (always with a small letter), he takes what he ... rather, even so, he counts on what is too tough for him. Here is Taiwan, he expects to digest, in fact, or probably, sooner or later digest.
But China will not quarrel with America over Taiwan.

[scrack]

I immediately remembered a song about the Chinese landing - Yellow faces whirl over the city

[vorobey]

Brave wind (in kind, why should he be afraid?)
Diving hawk
then there will probably be a brave cockroach and an evil spider.

Yes. East is a delicate matter.

[mpanichkin]

Ehhh what naive they are! No Taiwan missile defense can help against China.

[Oleg777]

The whales will not trample on Taiwan without understanding until a policeman with a big club is behind him