Taiwan Army’s “Hanguang No. 35” military exercise was launched recently. On the first day of the exercise, the 542nd Armored Brigade of the Taiwan Army’s Sixth Army stationed in Hukou Township, Hsinchu County, had an accident. A medium-sized tactical wheelbarrow accidentally hit an abandoned post, injuring 15 people. Some comments pointed out that this exercise was a political show by the Taiwan authorities, and it was also an election sign for Tsai Ing-wen, but the reality is that Tsai Ing-wen caught a bad hand and even played the wrong move.
The picture shows Taiwanese military fighter jets participating in the exercise
QUESTION
Direct news: The media on the island are paying close attention to the "Hanguang No. 35" exercise. In your opinion, how is the overall performance of the Taiwan Army?
ANSWER
Special Commentator Wu Jian: First of all, from the exercise area, the Taiwan military moved heavily to Huadong, indicating that they no longer regard the east coast of the island as the "big rear", and recognize that the mainland PLA has the ability to project long-range troops or even attack Taiwan. Its traditional strategic plan for "Western resistance to East resistance, long-term waiting for change" has failed, and it has to adopt a mobile defense model to implement "the island-wide response."
However, in terms of campaign tactics, the Taiwan Army has more confidence because various new weapons are in place. Far-fire weapons such as Thunder-2000 are frequently unveiled, indicating that the Taiwan Army wants to extend the past "Bandshore Decisive Win" into "Bandshore Decisive Win", in order to eliminate the main force of the attacking army in the further coastal stage. The beachhead is only used as the last line of defense to annihilate sporadic enemies.
Observation The direction of the "Han Guang" exercise is to engage in a continuous confrontation between day and night with "all staff and all equipment, local live ammunition", focusing on base defense, combat power preservation, joint air defense , joint anti-logining and other courses. In fact, it echoes the general strategic requirement of the Tsai administration's "defense and heavy deterrence".
Because the word "heavy layer" not only refers to preventing opponents from gathering in layers and stages, and launching amphibious operations on Taiwan, but also requires the Taiwan military to integrate shore-based sea-based air defense, anti-ship, attack land and even near-shore mine laying capabilities, and promote firepower through a joint combat system.
But any strategy must have a boundary. The Taiwan authorities have not yet explained the key content of "heavy layer deterrence" - "Binhai decisive victory". How far is the "Binhai"? Is it the middle line of the Taiwan Strait, the west coast of the Taiwan Strait, or how many nautical miles outside the sea of Taitung ? If this basic value is not clear, Taiwan’s military establishment lacks direction. Although the Taiwan military in "Han Guang" has fully opened fire, there are many difficulties in their "coastal decisive battle".
Putting aside their navy and air force, please look at the Taiwan Army in the exercise. Except for a few artillery fingers, the long-range strike weapons of grassroots troops are not strong at all, and they lack information command. Even if there are weapons that can be used, they may not be able to cross the horizon to search and intercept and continuously track the target.
In other words, "Han Guang-35" once again exposed that the Taiwan Army had not built a complete battlefield image, and thus allocated it to various command levels and combat units, discover and identify targets within the effective time, and be able to continuously track them. It can be said that the strategic guidance of chaos, the pursuit of rapid military organization reform, and the refusal to effectively integrate weapons and equipment eventually made the Taiwan army a "silver gun tip".
Completed the performance improvement F-16V numbered 6811, officially debuted in training for the first time. After completing the harpoon missile mount and replenishment, the post-burner ignited to show the performance of short-field takeoff.
QUESTION
direct news: The "Hanguang" exercise once again showed off the take-off and landing of the combat-ready lane fighter jet, and the F-16V that completed the modification of the United States appeared for the first time. Tsai Ing-wen took a photo with the pilot. What kind of information does this reveal?
ANSWER
Special Commentator Wu Jian: In fact, this is a demonstration to the mainland. Don’t your warships and planes often circle Taiwan? I have the F-16V modified by the United States to help me not only detect a long distance, but also carry anti-ship missiles. It can take off from the combat readiness route , so I am not afraid of you. The posture is quite straight, but after careful consideration, it is not the case.
Let me explain to you first. This year is 40 years since the Taiwan Expressway was opened to traffic. They reserved six combat preparation roads at the beginning of their design. From north to south, Taoyuan Zhongli , Changhua Flowerbed, Chiayi Minxiong, and Madou, Rende and Luzhu all in Tainan. At present, except Luzhu and Zhongli, the other four combat preparation roads are still in use.
From the Taiwan military's combat readiness process, it is necessary to install a light rack and a mobile interception network to clean foreign objects on the road, guide landing, "heat refueling", "potential mount", and ensure takeoff, etc. Generally speaking, aircraft that are ready to land will generally take a short-field landing with a sharp turn of 2G, with the interval between each aircraft controlled at two minutes. After landing, small helicopters are alert and large transport aircraft are supplied. After each aircraft refuels and hangs up the bullets, they take off urgently at one minute intervals to maintain combat effectiveness.
If you want to talk about this combat preparation, it was the US military advisory group that suggested to Taiwan that the purpose was to get rid of its dependence on military bases. But the problem is that if the combat readiness lane is activated, most of the Taiwan military's airports are damaged by missile attacks. Interestingly, the opponent can effectively paralyze more than 20 Taiwan Air Force airports, so why not destroy these four combat readiness lanes at the same time. Moreover, the combat readiness lane is almost unprepared, and can be achieved by using air attacks or special forces attacks. From this perspective, the take-off and landing of the combat readiness road is to put it bluntly, it is still a "show".
Source: Shenzhen Radio and Television Direct News, Author: Wu Jian
