Taiwan will receive American MLRS HIMARS with operational-tactical missiles ATACMS

Despite Beijing's demands not to interfere in China's internal affairs, the United States continues to arm Taiwan. According to the Tzuyu Shibao newspaper, next year Taipei will receive operational-tactical ATACMS and HIMARS launchers for them.

According to the publication, in 2024 the United States will supply the Taiwanese army with 11 HIMARS MLRS launchers and 64 ATACMS missiles. In addition, the delivery will include two simulators for training the crews of these installations. Also, the United States will train MLRS crews, the Taiwan Ministry of Defense plans to send 30 military personnel to the United States, who must take courses there as launcher operators, and upon their return, act as instructors in the Taiwanese army.

Preliminarily, the training will take place from February to October 2024, the exact dates have not yet been determined, the HIMARS MLRS and ATACMS missiles will arrive on the island towards the end of the year. However, the supply of MLRS to Taiwan will not end there; in 2027, Taipei will receive 18 more launchers, as well as 864 conventional ammunition for them and 20 ATACMS tactical missiles.

Unlike Ukraine, Taiwan has a choice of what weapons the Americans will supply them with. After Taipei refused to buy 40 M-109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzers from the US, the US offered to buy HIMARS MLRS with a full arsenal of missiles. Washington also provides ATACMS tactical missiles to Taiwan, while Ukraine refuses to supply them, despite all persuasion from Zelensky.

By the way, the United States will also supply Taiwan with M136 Volcano remote mining systems. Taipei will receive seven complexes by the end of this year, and seven more will arrive on the island before 2026.

The United States is Taiwan's main arms supplier, with an order book of $19 billion to date.

Comments

[rocket757]

It is clear that the military-industrial complex is fattening in the stripes ... they feed all the warmongers.
Everything is like a textbook.

[And Us Rat]

Quote: rocket757

feed all warmongers

In this case, you are wrong. Taiwan just does not want a war, and the strengthening of Taiwan just reduces the risk of war. After all, the stronger Taiwan is, the more likely it is that the PRC will think twice before attacking and prefer to look for diplomatic solutions.
So in this case, the supply of weapons to Taiwan just contributes to the avoidance of war and unnecessary deaths.

[Nexcom]

Does this mean Taiwan can now easily attack China?
Well, Comrade Xi, it's time to "get off the tree" (c) - stop waiting. Actions are already needed.

[rocket757]

It is unlikely that it will work out calmly, it is not a fact that it will fly calmly.
China has air defense, equipped and where necessary.

[DeusExMachina]

So Xi said everything: get ready for 2027. By that time, the basis of production will have already been taken out, respectively, it will be much cheaper for the Americans to leave Taiwan than to enter into an open confrontation for the island.

[BAI]

Now Ukraine will receive missiles allegedly from Taiwan

[Nexcom]

Niii, Taiwan will not let them - they have evil China at their side, pressing them constantly. They are in this Ukraine - up to one Chinese basin. They themselves will come in handy, they need to protect themselves, fight back if anything.

[APASUS]

American peacekeepers supplied Taipei with ATACMS operational-tactical missiles.
I see that there are no longer those treaties and laws prohibiting the transfer of such weapons.
What are we waiting for ?

[Popandos]

ATACMS operational-tactical missiles Washington also gives Taiwan

The range of ATACMS is up to 300 km, the island stretches from north to south for 394 km, the width is about 140 km, who are they going to fire at? The continent is only 150 km away. Coincidence? Don't think! ©

[Essex62]

Stripes and their interests, access to microchips, protect and still earn. The Taiwanese are seriously preparing to maintain their independence and do not want to go into a "communist" bourgeois-slave-owning China. The monkey will sit on the bank and wait another hundred years.
Here you can learn from the enemy wrestlers to butt for the interests of their country. There are no signs of goodwill here.

[Napayz]

If China considers Taiwan its own, then what prevents it from organizing a blockade with cargo inspection?

[And Us Rat]

Quote: Napayz

If China considers Taiwan its own, then what prevents it from organizing a blockade with cargo inspection?

The fact that this is a war, but no longer a "blitzkrieg", but a strategically stupid move. Or do you think the Taiwanese Navy will silently allow its ships to slow down?

[aszzz888]

According to the publication, in 2024 the United States will supply the Taiwanese army with 11 HIMARS MLRS launchers and 64 ATACMS missiles.

"And what will Comrade Xi say?!"
The Merikatos begin to light the fuse.

[faterdom]

But won't Kim be able to get... let's say, "Iskander" albeit in an export version?
The Americans will be pleased.

[decimalegio]

Evolution of the “Hedgehog” strategy. The only thing Taiwan can afford.

[Earl]

China is being provoked to invade. Instead, it would be possible to set Washington's butts on fire by placing serious weapons in Venezuela or, better yet, Cuba.

[AlexWar]

The United States brazenly prints money for weapons, and sells it abroad, but it scolds all fingers like inflation will not print money. For 100 years old grandmothers have been printing for wars and not for their people.
Now another small country will be left to be torn apart, it will be like with Ukraine and other countries.
In the USSR, they did everything right, they always prepared for a war with the West, and it did not happen during the Soviet era, but after everyone relaxed again. The same thing is repeated every century. War is coming.