Source: Global Times
According to Taiwan’s “Central News Agency” report on January 16, a medium-range radar station in Kaohsiung’s Shoushan area that can monitor the Strait waters 50 nautical miles southwest of Taiwan Island was rarely exposed for the first time.
According to reports, the radar station is affiliated to the Second Squadron of the Taiwan Military’s Marine Surveillance and Reconnaissance Command. It can intensively grasp and identify targets to achieve the purpose of joint surveillance and early warning. It is one of the important radar stations for monitoring the waters in southwestern Taiwan.
Shoushan Radar Station Director said that this radar station can monitor about 50 nautical miles of waters southwest of Taiwan. Therefore, if there are ships or aircraft passing through the area west of the central line of the strait, the radar station will cooperate with radar stations in the south and outer islands to track the route. To master.
Taiwanese media said that in recent years, the People's Liberation Army has sent fighter planes and warships on long sea voyages around Taiwan from time to time, passing through the central line of the Taiwan Strait. Radar stations scattered across Taiwan are the "eyes" of the Taiwan military forces, closely monitoring and detecting developments 24 hours a day.
According to the Taiwan military, Shoushan is 365 meters above sea level. It has military purposes such as observation, communication, and firepower. It is located between Zuoying and Kaohsiung ports. It can overlook and suppress the entry and exit channels and beaches where enemies may land, and It is at the corner of Fengshan Mountain and Renmei Terrace, and can control important military and civilian facilities such as Kaohsiung City, Xiaogang Airport, oil refineries, and petrochemical industries.
The Taiwan military currently deploys 127mm coastal defense guns and 105mm howitzers in Shoushan to use firepower to block the sea. It also deploys anti-aircraft missiles such as "Stinger" and "Little Oak".
reported that during the Anti-Japanese War, in 1937, in order to advance into Southeast Asia, the Japanese army established the Kaohsiung Third-Class Fortress, transformed Banten Port into the Zuoying Navy military port, and established the Kaohsiung Fortress Headquarters in Shoushan, which was later upgraded to a first-class fortress as the war situation progressed. Fortresses such as Kaohsiung were the sea and air transfer station for the Japanese army's southward march. Therefore, the defense focus was placed on Kaohsiung, and 21 airports, artillery positions, and tunnel strongholds were built with Shoushan as the core. The area is of great strategic and historical value.
