Taiwan Navy launches 'carrier killer' with 28 missiles

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Taiwan-Navy-launches-carrier-killer-with-28-missiles

by protomyth • 5 years ago

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WWWIII will be China Vs China.

jgmasters• 5 years ago

I will also suck in Japan, South & North Korea, the Phillipines, Australia and the US, resulting in great devastation for all.

robbedpeter• 5 years ago

New Zealand, too - all those billionaire bunker estates seem really optimistically placed, lately.

If you think covid shortages are bad, imagine a world without factories. The US is capable of devastating Chinese production infrastructure with conventional munitions. There's a non trivial chance we're going to live through (and die in) some apocalyptic level garbage before humanity finally shakes off the last vestiges of 20th century communism.

China has to stop with the encroachment and aggression. If the US reaches effective military production independence, China won't be allowed to take Taiwan, and the world goes tits up.

gaetgu• 5 years ago

That is how it will start, anyways. The US will almost certainly get involved, and possibly NATO if things get too dicy.

mushbino• 5 years ago

How so? No NATO countries involved in this scenario.

totalZero2• 5 years ago

The US lacks broad-based public support for new wars.

Also, if China attacks Taiwan's semiconductor facilities aggressively and destructively right at the exposition of a conflict, there will be no strong incentive for the US to get involved because its largest interest in Taiwan will have been demolished.

ksec• 5 years ago

What does the extra "W" stands for?

hulitu2• 5 years ago

For web.

HWR_143• 5 years ago

I keep thinking WWIII will start with India vs. Pakistan. And China takes on Taiwan as part of the general chaos.

Leary• 5 years ago

"carrier killer" with a 220 nm anti-ship missile. xD

WastingMyTime89• 5 years ago

Is that so funny?

As far as I know, carrier group against many modern sea skimming missiles very much is an open question. CIWS might work at least for the first few but then who knows.

merpnderp• 5 years ago

I think the joke is nothing dangerous would be allowed within that range of a carrier during war. Sneaking a corvette within 220 nm of a carrier group just isn’t reasonable.

mc322• 5 years ago

If Taiwan isn’t trying to project its military force (and it isn’t) instead of a carrier-killer corvette, why not use land based hypersonic missiles as defense against invading forces? Get some sats put up and get ready.

kcb• 5 years ago

Ocean is big land is small.

Arrath• 5 years ago

Most conflicts would start with coordinated strikes on known anti-air and anti-ship installations, unless these land based launchers are road-mobile and constantly on the move, they'll be quickly targeted.

A corvette at least has the chance to blend in with a few fishing trawlers and keep moving around to make itself harder to find and take out.

mc322• 5 years ago

The ships have to live somewhere too. They are not submarines and I think they'd be sitting ducks. Mobile launch vehicles have a better chance of surviving a first strike and retaliating. Russia will likely sell their hypersonics to those that can afford them.

Taiwan doesn't need to protect strategic overseas assets. It doesn't need to go hunt a strike group. It needs to protect itself from invasion.

unraveller• 5 years ago

When a quick scan of the headline results in a clickbait reaction we should change the title. The words Taiwan, Launches, Missiles, Kill, 28 shouldn't be that close to each other unless the terms are so well known they are parsed without the obvious desired reaction.

Taiwan Navy launches 'carrier killer' with 28 missiles

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