Taiwanese Army: Counter Chinese military with missile launches
・Counterattack against increased Chinese military activities with ‘Thunder 2000’
・Taiwan plans to deploy cruise missiles in the future
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Taiwan develops multiple rocket:
The Chinese military is increasing its activities around Taiwan.
Taiwan’s military has decided to increase the number of missile firing exercises.
On April 9, a closed-door exercise was held at a base facing the southern Pacific Ocean.
Photographed by NHK reporting team:
Sixty live rounds were fired in succession from three vehicle-mounted devices.
An NHK reporting team filmed the scene.
Multiple launch rocket “Rainou 2000”:
Taiwan’s independently developed multiple rocket “Rainou 2000”
“Rainou 2000” has already been deployed to the Army.
It was developed at the Nakayama Science Institute, based on the US military’s M270 self-propelled multiple rocket.
1. MLRS was developed to deter Warsaw Pact forces.
2. From the beginning, thunderbolts were intended to attack landing craft.
Live ammunition training implementation cycle:
The launch on the 9th was the first training based on this policy.
1. Until now, the Taiwanese military has only conducted live-fire training at specific times.
2. We have decided to increase the number of training sessions starting this year.
Taiwanese authorities’ asymmetric strategy:
Use mobile equipment to counter an enemy with overwhelming military power.
In order to deter China’s use of force, Taiwan is working to improve its precision strike capabilities.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240409/k10014417081000.html
Taiwan : to deploy Hsiung Sheng cruise missile in 2024
RoCA officer told Janes on 6 April.
Taiwan has developed Hsiung Feng IIE, Hsiung Sheng, and Ching Tien LACMs
capable of striking key Chinese cities such as Beijing as well as Wuhan, Shanghai, and Qingdao,
as part of its plan to improve air and sea combat capabilities.
RoCA to deploy a long-range variant :
Taiwan is planning to deploy a long-range variant of Hsiung Feng II land-attack cruise missile (LACM) called Hsiung Sheng in 2024,
The missile :Hsiung Sheng
– which went into production in 2022 –
It can strike at a maximum range of 1,200 km at a speed of Mach 0.85,
making it capable of hitting the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s(PLA’s)
1.Eastern Theater Command bases in Xiamen, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou;
2.Southern Theater Command bases in Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, and Wuhan.
The missile procurement:
Part of a TWD484 billion (USD15.05 billion) ‘special budget’ allocated by Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND)
to acquire ‘advanced’ military weapons between 2022 and 2026.
In 2022 the MND set aside:
nearly TWD17 billion from this ‘special budget’ to procure 131 Hsiung Sheng missiles by 2025.
The missile is developed :
by the island’s state-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST).
Hsiung Sheng features two types of warheads:
– high-explosive (HE) and fragmentation –
which can be aimed at command posts, bunkers, and airbase runways,
the MND said in a parliamentary report in 2022.
The missile is likely equipped with an imaging infrared (IIR) seeker and a GPS‐aided inertial navigation system (INS).