Come on they are ashm do you really think they would have a chance of launching this against PLAN ships? These missiles will be taken out in the first few hours of conflict.
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It's basically a no-brainer in their(American and Taiwanese) situation.
mobile ashm launchers can be moved around after the missiles are fired, the taiwanese military has even openly stated that mobile launchers can adopt "hit-and-run" tactics and generally has a greater survival rate compared to fixed sites. as for indigenous missiles (the hf-2 and hf-3) they suffer from a low production rate due to a variety of issues so purchasing the harpoons will be a great force multiplier for the taiwanese navy.
so i just checked as of 2019 there are only 50 hf-2 missiles in service, while an additional 36 upgraded hf-2 is currently under production and will all enter service by 2023. as for hf-3 missiles all hf-3 missiles are ship-based currently and there are no land-based version of the hf-3 missile currently in development.
Wing Loong attack drones are nemesis of mobile anti ship launchers. We saw how devastating Turkish attack drones were in Syria, Libya, Azerbaijan.
Unproven against significant air defenses.
Drones themselves are highly vulnerable.
i.e. it may very well be just as doable, or may not.
Ahhh yes you just motivated me to dig up one of my oldest posts on this forum lol:
"Here are the other systems the us is planning to sell to taiwan:
U.S. Pushes Large Arms Sale to Taiwan, Including Jet Missiles That Can Hit China
So basically: US is going to sell a billion-dollar arms package to Taiwan including the following 7 weapons:
1. MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance variant (confirmed)
2. Land-based Harpoon AShM (confirmed)
3. HIMARS (confirmed)
4. AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER (confirmed)
5. an unspecified type of naval mine (confirmed)
6. M109A6 Paladin (very possible)
7. ??? (don't know) [recently some less-credible Taiwanese media outlets are saying that the 7th weapon is the Abrams tank, however what variant exactly is going to be sold is still unknown]"
The highlighted 2 are the 2 sales that has already taken place: 36 sets of Harpoons (with more coming in the future) and an undisclosed number of himars systems
i wont be that confident if i were u. ill argue based on facts not chest-thumping arrogance.
J-16 and J-16D be wiping out Taiwan air defense left and right after J-20 takes air superiority. If you don't have air superiority in modern warfare you are in big trouble.
taiwan is said (by domestic media) to have one of the densest air defenses in the world.
i wonder how pave paws fare against chinese aircraft?? there is one us-military operated pave paws radar that is located in taiwan and it is said to be able to detect pla rocket launches as far as xinjiang and tibet.