Outgoing Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday inaugurated two new ships to Taiwan’s navy. The corvettes are two of the first domestic corvettes with stealth capabilities designed to threaten large ships, including aircraft carriers.
Two warships ROCS Ann Chan and rocks one chance teeth 5th and 6th Corvette inside Tuo Chan The class will be built for the Taiwanese Navy by Longde Shipbuilding Company using designs from the National Sun Yat-sen University of Science and Technology. The first ship of the class, commissioned in 2014, was slightly smaller and less sophisticated than subsequent production ships.
This photo released by Taiwan’s Presidential Office shows Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen inspecting the commissioning of two new naval vessels at Su’ao Port in northern Taiwan on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (Taiwan Presidential Office, AP communication)
will be shipped to Tuo Chan class Its catamaran hull and wave-penetrating shape greatly reduce its radar signal, making it appear no different from a fishing vessel to enemy ships.
Corvettes are far better armed than most fishing vessels, with both anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, as well as 76 mm guns and Phalanx melee weapon system (CIWS) – A distinctive capsule-head automatic cannon that protects U.S. warships from enemy planes, drones, and missiles.
of Tuo Chan This class of corvettes is designed to work closely with fixed and mobile coastal defense systems, in line with Taiwan’s transition to a “Littoral Combat Command” strategy, and is designed to work closely with fixed and mobile coastal defense systems, rather than as previously assumed. This will force the intruders to fight fiercely at every corner. Invading forces could be intercepted at sea.
Tsai praised the superior quality of the new ship and the domestic defense industry that made it possible. Lung Teh Shipbuilding has signed a contract to deliver five more vessels. Tuo ChanA later class of Corvettes whose first models showed impressive performance.
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“The completion of this entire flight of six indigenous vessels ahead of schedule, with more planned in the future, demonstrates that Taiwan is serious about strengthening indigenous defenses and protecting its territorial waters. “It shows,” she declared.
“Over the past few years, we have firmly implemented national defense independence. Each time a Taiwanese-made ship is named, launched and delivered, it becomes faster and faster,” she said. . Said.
Tsai recalled this month. was launched 2 domestic frigates, ROCS cloud forest and rocks Taipei. these ChiayiThe 4,000-ton class frigate is the largest ship in Taiwan’s coast guard fleet.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen gives a speech at a National Day celebration in front of the Presidential Palace in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 10, 2023 (AP Photo/Chiang Ing-ying)
“These achievements have proven time and time again Taiwan’s ability to build its own ships and our determination to defend democracy and freedom,” she said.
Associated Press (AP) report On Wednesday, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said that in addition to the usual “gray zone” harassment of Taiwan by Chinese fighters and bombers, as well as several recent tense encounters involving surface ships, He announced that he was concerned that the former vice president would be targeted. And his successor, William Lai Chinte, was selected through some kind of kidnapping or assassination attempt.
“Recent Taiwanese media reports have shown satellite images of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army training range, including a model of the area around the Taipei Presidential Palace,” the Associated Press noted.
