Nah, they'd want the Aegis system at half price and/or then go and only purchase half a shipload of SM-2 missiles. Its not like they havent done it before afterall.

How many times do I have to explain that the Mk.26 launchers have been fully filled in the following fiscal years? You need to stop those BS lies.

 

And tell me that you don't like to pay half for the housing unit you like. It's basic economics. Some people preferring buying old trucks and have ability to maintain or even upgrade, and you accuse them for not willing to spend?

 

Again your limited understanding of the strategic, financial and political situation are at play, further embarrassing yourself.

 

You overly simplify the content of my words is revelation of your limited intelligence.

 

Tell me why military-industrial complex do not want to make money? The only reason of their existence is milking government defense fund.

 

And tell me how the security of Taiwan can be increased by spending? Spending ON WHAT EXACTLY? 

 

Again you are showing your racist color by false accusing Taiwan as coward. Last time I check your government didn't send out agents to collect HUMINT inside PRC, while we loses a few every year. Our leader is not the one who just went to Beijing begging for money and agreed to commie terms on military exchange program.

 

And comparing us to welfare recipient is simply absurd to the highest degree. Unlike the situation of Israel, we receive zero US military aid, and are subject to all kind of difficulty in acquisition. Since we receive nothing from our arms provider, and only request items to be paid out of our own purse, your analogy is factually false. You need to stop posting while intoxicated.

 

Last but not least, if you think we increase defense budget to 3.5% of GDP can turn the strategic bleakness, then I don't know what you are smoking, or which fantasy La-La land you are residing.  That's not every hard to do considering most of our professional and conscripts are underpaid, but all that matters is % of GDP, right? Even if the money is used on weapons and other military investments, it still doesn't change the fact that we can only sustain about two months of blockade without US/Japan intervention. Actually it could be worse if you actually spend that much, since a lot of our budget is used to guarantee two months of energy supply.

 

But, hey, in your simplistic mind, only % of GDP matters.

The "military-industrial complex" exists to provide a service, nothing more. Cut
the conspiracy theory crap.

And tell me how the security of Taiwan can be increased by spending? Spending ON WHAT EXACTLY? 

 Aircraft, Missiles, Submarines, Surface to Air missile systems, i'm sure there
are plenty of things the Republic of China could purchase to increase
their security. Assuming they don't intend to peacefully merge with the PRC in a
few years time or so.

Taiwan's electronics industry is FORMIDABLE. There is very little that they can get their hands on and cannot reverse engineer in a hurry. 

 

Taiwan's choices are constrained by politics. Bastards like Jeffrey Immelt and Jim Rogers do have an impact a decidedly negative one.

 

ASTER is  what it is. Australia KNOWS what it is. Hence  STANDARD.    

I would be surprised  if the Jericho did not show up in Taiwanese Livery.

 

The best way to defend against amphibious attack is air-power. The PRC bandits want blockade and blackmail to force a 'political solution'. Hence rockets for the short term and aircraft  carriers for the long term. Their  choices are STUPID.

     

The Taiwanese are a poor small importing island nation under siege.

 

They have to maintain a stable economic base, keep their trade partners in a hostile economic and political environment and still mount a defense. Its a juggling act.

 

What Taiwan needs to do is create a DETERRENT.

 

Italy recently  built a <cough> 'satellite launcher' <cough> that has the classic hall marks  of  a war rocket. 

 

Its  called the VEGA. When you look at it, the historic progenitor from which it descends (Polaris) is painfully obvious. Now I always thought it was suspicious that the three solid fuel stages and one liquid fueled bus(throtable motor that one) resembles the American D-5. Its offered for foreign clients to use as a satellite launcher?

 

Uhm... That is like offering a Todaro as a Disney tourist sub.

 

Just thinking out loud...

 

H.       

You could usefully spend the extra to get you up to 3.5% of GDP and beyond with ease, by just replacing and and expanding your largely old to antiquated frigate force. As Herald correctly points out you have a formidable electronics sector, but on top of that you have very competant weapons and shipbuilding sectors, and you operate some very modern French frigates which would give you ideas and technology for the design of a future ship. If political constraints mean that you can't source designs and equipment for new frigates, I think you could though as they are considered to be defensive kit, you clearly could build them yourselves.

 

The reason such an investment is important is because the greatest threat to Taiwan's survival right now is not a direct amphibious invasion, which is a very tough call for the Chinese even without America and Japan helping Taiwan, but strangulation by submarine warfare. Convoy escort missions to countering the submarine threat is likely to be dangerous and it is right that Taiwan should put it's own people on the line to do the grunt work, before asking allies to contribute. If there is something that you can't produce yourself and which you have been constrained from getting politically, such as area air defence ships and submarines, then you can rightly ask allies to contribute those assets during a confrontation.

 

However, by providing the bulk of the anti-submarine escorts you would be proving your commitment to your own defence. You might be surprised at how much more positively your allies respond to this, and how disheartening it would be for the PRC to see a key aspect of their strategy against Taiwan undermined.

 

As it is the very corvettes that you have posted here were, as at December 2010, apparently delayed due to budget constraints. See links.

 

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The Laugh-it-ups are surface ship JUNK. Buy German or Japanese hulls with British or American outfit. Best hull for the buck. The French are good at subs though. God are they good!     

 

H.

The Laugh-it-ups are surface ship JUNK. Buy German or Japanese hulls with British or American outfit. Best hull for the buck.   

 

I suspect that with all the fuss over the Frigates and with the continued rise of China, the opportunity to get hold of French submarine technology might have passed Taiwan by.