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Taiwan gains supersonic missiles
The Courier Mail ^ | 12apr05

Posted on 04/11/2005 3:18:25 PM PDT by Paul_Denton

Taiwan gains supersonic missiles

12apr05

TAIWAN plans to mass produce supersonic anti-ship missiles to beef up the island's defence capabilities against China, following successful test firings of the weaponry, a report said yesterday.

The Defence Ministry next year would set aside a budget for mass production of the Hsiung Feng III missile, which is expected to make its debut during the 2006 "Han Kuang 22" exercise, the Chinese-language China Times said.

Given its speed and capability of flying at low altitude, the missile would be difficult to intercept, it said.

The Hsiung Feng III has a range of up to 150km.

Once equipped, the island will be one of the few countries in the world to be armed with supersonic anti-ship missiles.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armsbuildup; china; freechina; miltech; roc; taiwan
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To: Strategerist
[ I don't know, I don't know how ANYTHING can stop the gigantic, slow-moving, slab-sided, visible on radar from several galaxies away, container ships full of PRC troops that people were soiling their undies in fear of on a thread this morning. ]

LoL.....

21 posted on 04/11/2005 4:55:16 PM PDT by hosepipe (This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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To: Euro-American Scum

I wonder if there's a parallel between what happened when Pakistan and India were rattling the sabers. India was told conflict was not good for business investment. In a sense the Chinese are rotting from within. Only time will tell if Western investment in China has sown the seeds of destruction. And whose destruction it causes.


22 posted on 04/11/2005 5:06:08 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Paul_Denton
If we can't defend against the Sunburn

Where did you get that idea? The Sunburn aren't any more of a problem for a CBG than a supersonic jet. The thing we have going for us, that the ChiCom merchant ships don't is an integrated fighting system like Aegis. Our CAP/AWACs see's the launch platform way before they can even launch. That is the key to beating cruise missiles, early warning. Between the SM-2 the ESSM and CIWS sunburns have a hard time reaching their targets.
23 posted on 04/11/2005 5:26:29 PM PDT by ProudVet77 (It's boogitty boogitty boogitty season!)
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To: Euro-American Scum
China can afford to pay a heavy price in blood

The price would be the loss of their economic progress. They will collapse and will split into at least two sovereign states, possibly four.

24 posted on 04/11/2005 5:32:37 PM PDT by RightWhale (50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
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To: Paul_Denton

Good news!


25 posted on 04/11/2005 5:36:26 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: Paul_Denton

can we buy some from them???


26 posted on 04/11/2005 5:36:54 PM PDT by logic ("All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing......")
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To: hillary's_fat_a**

Excellent!
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The exact word I was going to use.

Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

George Washington, First Annual Message, January 8, 1790
To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

Theodore Roosevelt
You never have trouble if you are prepared for it.


27 posted on 04/11/2005 6:09:51 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/foundingoftheunitedstates.htm)
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To: reagan_fanatic

They could and would throw away half their army and not care. To China, people are a resoruce to be used and exploited and thrown away if they want.


28 posted on 04/11/2005 6:52:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: meatloaf
I wonder if there's a parallel between what happened when Pakistan and India were rattling the sabers. India was told conflict was not good for business investment.

India was and remains a democracy, with a long tradition in that form of government. China is not, and hasn't been for over half a century. I'm sure those divergent orientations color the perceptions of both sides.

Only time will tell if Western investment in China has sown the seeds of destruction. And whose destruction it causes.

That's the acid test. Has US investment "westernized" the Chicoms, or have our resources -- in the form of cash from the trade deficit and capital investment -- played much the same role as surplus US scrap iron sales to Japan did in the 1920s and 30s. Whose destruction? Good question. Ours or theirs.

29 posted on 04/11/2005 7:14:12 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: telebob

30 posted on 04/11/2005 8:41:15 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: Paul_Denton

Good, they'll need them.


31 posted on 04/11/2005 9:00:42 PM PDT by mazack
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Let the Japanese get a few of them, too, while they're at it.

Tell me you don't think the Japanese already have them (or some variant thereof) hidden away. They probably have Hello Kitty stickers on them.
32 posted on 04/11/2005 9:05:00 PM PDT by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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To: Paul_Denton
The Carter Administration should have never sold out Free China in place of Red China.

'Carter and the Communists', an overview

33 posted on 04/11/2005 11:57:08 PM PDT by M. Espinola
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To: M. Espinola
The Carter Administration should have never sold out Free China in place of Red China.

Carter is the WORST PRESIDENT EVER along with Klintoon.

34 posted on 04/12/2005 12:12:09 AM PDT by Paul_Denton (Get the UN out of the US and US out of the UN!)
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To: RightWhale

I see you are paying close attention 24. Very wise analysis.

What do the Red Chinese call Nuclear Warfare?

Population control....


35 posted on 04/12/2005 12:20:46 AM PDT by Revolutionary
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To: Strategerist
and it's ALWAYS a painstaking, time-consuming process.

For the side that laid the mines too... Taiwan does trade with China you know.

36 posted on 04/12/2005 6:31:53 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: meatloaf; All

Plus the fact that there is a growing religous movement within China. Time will tell.


37 posted on 04/12/2005 6:35:40 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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