The "High Efficiency Wave Piercing Catamaran" Taiwan's Navy future Littoral Combat Ship solution under the Hsun Hai program was first unveiled during the TADTE 2013 defense exhibition in August 2013. The "High Efficiency Wave Piercing Catamaran" Taiwan's Navy future Littoral Combat Ship solution under the Hsun Hai program was first unveiled during the TADTE 2013 defense exhibition in August 2013.Taiwan is a modern industrial nation with access to economic materials from around the world and they have a population of 23 million yet they float a pathetically small navy and have a mediocre sized army.
The 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 with The United Kingdom is occurring now. The British who then had two or three million fewer population ——compared to Taiwan now——had the largest, most powerful navy in the world and they also fielded a large army to fight Napoleon.
Taiwan does not seem very seriously concerned with defending themselves. I reckon they don’t feel a need to when they have Uncle Sugar to step in and do the bleeding for them.
HF-3 missile has a Mach 2 speed?
The US still depends on the slow Harpoon. When will we get a supersonic Anti ship capability? Maybe we could buy some from them?