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It’s about time. Make those ChiComs think twice before attacking Taiwan.
Aye.
If they can retaliate in kind to any chinese missile attack, then it might make them think things over. Losing the fruits of 25 years of reforms would be a high price to pay for them.
[quote=“Mr He”]Aye.
If they can retaliate in kind to any Chinese missile attack, then it might make them think things over. Losing the fruits of 25 years of reforms would be a high price to pay for them.[/quote]
A pleasant thought Mr. He, but there’s not enough gunpowder in Taiwan to do anything near that. I like it though:
A. They can’t say shit
B. Dropping a few thousand pounds of HE into an invasion assembly point subsequent to a dalu first strike could throw a few stones into their bai fan
Negatives:
C: Big brother west is not likely to be pleased
Having 2 arrows is better than having none.
Yup, US will not like it, but well… Taiwan will hardly start a war anyways.
The Janes’ story was unattributed and has been categorically denied by the defence ministry. Janes is usually pretty reliable, though, but then again, they nearly always attribute their stories.
Taiwan tried to develop the sky horse system a few years back, but US stopped it.
Read here for details.
10 missiles are better than none, but a far cry from the 500-1000 which would be a really credible deterrent.
Hey, I think it’d be a good idea to increase the deterrent effect. I wouldn’t want Mainland to make a major miscalculation of the chances of success. An effective deterrent would make that scenario less likely.
Kenenth
[quote=“KenTaiwan98”]Hey, I think it’d be a good idea to increase the deterrent effect. I wouldn’t want Mainland to make a major miscalculation of the chances of success. An effective deterrent would make that scenario less likely.
Kenenth[/quote]
I agree completely. While all of us would like to see Taiwan’s money better spent on education and infrastructure development, Taiwan has a real threat 100 miles away and missiles that could reach deep into Chinese territory would definately make them thing twice, as would further enhancing Taiwan’s defensive capabilities and modernizing its military service system. Looking at the U.S. reserve system for soldiers who have finished their mandatory service would be a good model to draw from.
Maybe more money ought to be spent teaching the ROC military to effectively throw down their rifles, raise their hands above their heads and shout, “I surrender.”
Not sure how to take this, but it doesn’t seem appropriate coming from a moderator.
Why teach them to be French?
150 with nukes? I betcha Taiwan has the skills and ability. If Iran can do it, Taiwan can do it.
Why teach them to be French?[/quote]
Well…they’re always talking about how great their culture and cuisine are…and they also have a long history of getting their asses kicked in wartime. Sounds like they’re already half-way there. 
For sale: French military rifles, never fired, only dropped once.
Dang! ludahai beat me to it. 
When I lived in Taiwan, I knew a couple of air force guys. One was retired, the other was still serving. They both said that there were rumors (and they stressed that they were just remors) that the Chungshan Institute had been working on air to surface and surface to surface cruise missile technologies and that they were receiving some help from Americans, thought not from the US government.
There are really only a couple of good reasons for Taiwan to develop cruise missiles. The first would be to put craters in Fujian air fields to slow down the number of sortes the mainlanders can launch against Taiwan. The more important targets would be the major nodes in the power grids in the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas. There is absolutely no excess electricity capacity on the mainland. I know guys working in factories around Shanghai and Suzhou who are saying that they have at least two days of planned blackouts every week. They also have unscheduled blackouts. This is in the spring. It will get a lot worse in the summer. Down south in Dongguan, we have at least one day of planned power loss per week. We don’t have so many unscheduled blackouts down here because the local governments aren’t as image conscious as the folks up in Shanghai; they actually try to get everybody to cooperate on power consumption and if they know supply is going to be tight, they’ll warn everybody ahead of time. Not so up in Shanghai. They are really worried about their image, so they are often afraid of warning factories that they may lose power. They’d rather risk it than schedule rolling blackouts.
Most of China’s industrial growth is happening in the Yangtze and Pearl River deltas. Both the Taiwanese and the mainlanders know that for the next few years, power supply and the integrity of the grids in these two areas will be poor. All it would take for Taiwan to severely hurt the mainland’s economy (and indirectly, Taiwan’s) is to knock down half a dozen power plants around Shanghai and half a dozen power plants in the Pearl River delta area. Power plants can’t be built overnight. If Taiwan could develop cruise missiles with enough range to hit these two areas, they could seriously fuck up China’s economy.
For sale: French military rifles, never fired, only dropped once.
Dang! ludahai beat me to it. 
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Sorry, but it WAS too easy…
Good.
I’m not a fan of miltarisation at all, but I tend to bend my ideological rules for Taiwan.
I love discussion about weapons woowee
Anybody got more info on these missiles? Like are they in development stages already? How are they able to do so with pressure from America? etc etc
[quote=“jj_frap”]Good.
I’m not a fan of miltarisation at all, but I tend to bend my ideological rules for Taiwan.[/quote]
Hehehe… glad to know TI’ers are just as unprincipled as the next guy.
[quote=“zeugmite”][quote=“jj_frap”]Good.
I’m not a fan of miltarisation at all, but I tend to bend my ideological rules for Taiwan.[/quote]
Hehehe… glad to know TIers are just as unprincipled as the next guy.[/quote]
Well, considering the real military threat Taiwan constantly lives under, can you blame one for wishing Taiwan to bolster its defenses?