Taiwan to deploy first of 500 planned cruise missiles that could threaten Mainland

[ErnstBlofeld]

East Asia Intel:

 

Taiwan will field its first indigenous cruise missiles by the end of the year, a Taiwanese legislator said last week.

 

 

Taipei has begun mass production of the Hsiung-feng 2E cruise missiles after acquiring “key components” needed for the missiles, and will start deploying them this year, lawmaker Lin Yu-Fang told AFP.

 

Lin, who is part of the ruling KMT party, declined to provide details but sources said at least a dozen of the cruise missiles have been produced.

 

The deployment would represent a major increase in strategic strike capability for the island that broke with mainland China’s communists in 1949 during a civil war.

 

 

Edited September 23, 2010 by Rheo
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