Posted on 05/04/2021 8:30:09 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Senior defense officials in Taiwan were coy about the country's military collaboration with Japan when quizzed on Monday about satellite imagery showing an apparent joint surveillance operation of a Chinese warship in the East China Sea.
Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told reporters that Taiwan was cooperating with a number of friendly parties but said he could not disclose information about specific departments.
On Saturday, Japan's Defense Ministry said the People's Liberation Army (PLA) frigate Binzhou had passed through the Miyako Strait into the Western Pacific the day before. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force later deployed an Abukuma-class destroyer escort and two maritime patrol aircraft as the single Chinese warship traveled north via the narrow waters between Taiwan and Yonaguni, Japan's westernmost inhabited island, which lies less than 70 miles from Taiwan's east coast.
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Ping!
Which one is more deadly? A frigate or destroyer escort?
Thank you for the ping!
In this case, the PRC frigate is the newer, deadlier ship. The JMSDF has newer and more capable ships than the DE that they dispatched to observe the ChiCom frigate.
Thanks.
You’re welcome. The ROC Navy ship is an older destroyer (former USS Kidd), but it is very capable.
good. at least someone in Japan knows the score. Taiwan cannot fall.
Oh, frigate. I don't know how to answer that.
In the RN frigates and destroyers are determined by primary mission: ASW, AAW or ASuW and not the size.
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