hey (i know about taiwan’s navy)
I don't think there's a defined answer with the TK-4 yet, but currently, ROCAF is looking to buy over 100
Also, TK-3 production will end either this year or next as TK-4 production picks up.
HF-2E and HF-2 actually have nothing to do with each other!
Production of HF-2 and HF-3 in their original configurations will end this year as Taiwan starts building improved variants of HF-2s and HF-3Es.
Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan says that the Ministry of National Defense can sign Letters for Offer and Acceptance for US Foreign Military Sale items even if there is no budget.
LOAs for the M109A7 howitzer, TOW 2B, and Javelin ATGM are all set to expire on March 15.
The Taiwan Navy commissioned Tuo Chiang-class corvette ROCS Tan Chiang (PCG-627) on 3/11.
The ship is named after the Danda River in central Taiwan and is the first Flight II Tuo Chiang-class corvette, which carries more HF-3 anti-ship missiles.
The Second World War? The Gulf War? Kosovo?
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator
Taiwan also unilaterally adheres to the NPT, among other international treaties
There’s nothing Taiwan can achieve with nuclear weapons that we cannot achieve with conventional means.
Especially when you consider that Taiwan's demand for Harpoons is going to go up by quite a bit when the Littoral Combat Command gets stood up in July and the Harpoon launch vehicles comes to Taiwan
I think the peacetime value is quite high, it makes it easier for Taiwan to replenish our own stocks (time, money, so on), drives down overall cost for everyone, and stems the Taiwanese defense brain drain
We're not building TLAMs let's manage expectations
Not LRASMs, but there's no reason the NCSIST cannot build Harpoons and JDAM kits
Open production lines in Taiwan for certain munitions
it has not
That's not Old World-style irredentism. Words mean things
We have the right not to be part of a country we don't want to be part of.
Also, we don't bomb kids. We also didn't renovate the Port of Haifa.
No, it's mostly Chinese actions.
You can't simultaneously pretend that China is a superpower but that it also lacks agency.
Taiwan says US has not approached it about weapons transfers to Middle East reut.rs/40SAu4z
I want you to realize that Chinese people are people who can act on their own and have agency.
You said that everything is the "westerners" fault. Not you know, the people who have been running China for 13-14 years.
SPLC, ACLU
Congratulations!
It's pretty racist to suggest that we can't do anything on our own, Chinese people can't do anything on their own, and we're just puppets for "Westerners."
I grew up in China, received a local Chinese education, was a member of the Young Pioneers. I know China better than you.
You can't even point out Anfu Road on a map.
Saying "we want to continue to be not a part of the PRC" is not starting a war.
American national identity, say what you want about it, does not really care about irredentist politics.
You should support wars of national liberation.
Being vaguely "anti-war" is cowardice.
