During the period when the founding of New China, the Kuomintang authorities who fled to the treasure island used the "giant cannon ship" assisted by the United States to block the mainland coastline. At that time, the Chinese navy had the strongest combat effectiveness, and the four old destroyers introduced from the Soviet Union. There were very few warships above a thousand tons. The surface ship mainly uses gunboat and missile boats. Although we are at a disadvantage in equipment, our commanders and fighters at all levels fully utilize their initiative, take advantage of our small firepower, relying on the tactics of covering the shore island, concealing the enemy, and hunting the boat group. With the characteristics of close combat and fast battle, the Taiwan Navy was greatly frightened and dared not harass the coast from then on.
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As the saying goes, "Thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi", the strength between the PLA Navy and the Taiwan Navy is now reversed, especially the service of the PLA aircraft carrier , which has already had the ability to seize sea control and air control from both the east and west directions. Under such circumstances, the Taiwan Navy had to begin to strengthen the combat capabilities of missile boats, intending to give full play to the advantages of missile boats' fast speed, fierce firepower and flexible maneuverability, carry out maneuver interception operations, and cooperate with the "Success" and "Kidd" class ships to create opportunities to attack the People's Liberation Army aircraft carriers. To this end, the first generation of Longjiang and Seagull missile boats, the second generation of Jinjiang and Guanghua 6 have been developed, and the third generation of stealth missile boats, the Tuojiang and Tajiang and the sixth generation of missile boats.
Longjiang-class
Recently, Taiwanese media claimed that the "Tajiang"-class patrol ship No. 2 "Fujiang" held a launch ceremony at the Longde Shipyard in Taiwan. Taiwan's "Naval Commander" General Mei Jiashu and his wife and President Zhang Zhongcheng attended the ceremony. General Mei Jiashu's wife threw a bottle for the ship. Some analysts pointed out that the ship can play an important role in the Taiwan authorities' strategic concept of "using sea to control the land" based on its excellent stealth performance and the advantages of its small hull. In addition, the ship has fierce firepower and is equipped with the "Xiongfeng III" supersonic anti-ship missile, so it was exaggerated by the media on the island to call it " aircraft carrier killer ".
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Although the "Tajiang" class is called patrol ship , it is actually the third-generation missile boat on Taiwan Island. Since its tonnage exceeds 500 tons, it is called a patrol ship, and its functions are further expanded. The "Tajiang" class is actually an improved type of the "Tujiang" class. The "Tujiang" class is a product of the development of the "Xunhai Plan" on Taiwan. It adopts the same wave-through double hull design as the People's Liberation Army's 22 missile boat , with a total length of 60 meters, a width of 14 meters, a draft of 2.3 meters, a full load displacement of 567 tons, and a crew of 41 people. Its propulsion system uses 4 MJP CSU850 systems provided by Swedish , with a power of 7935 horsepower, each hull is equipped with 2 thrusters, a maximum speed of 43 knots, and a range of 2,000 nautical miles. The main military equipment is 8 "Xiongfeng II" anti-ship missiles and 8 supersonic "Xiongfeng III" anti-ship missiles. There is also a set of three-unit torpedo tubes on both sides of the hull. air defense weapon is a " dense array " 20mm near-defense gun. At the same time, the MK-75 76mm naval gun on the bow is also high and flat. There is a helicopter deck at the stern, which can park a helicopter.
Tuojiang-class
It should be pointed out in particular that the appearance of the "Tuojiang"-class adopts a stealth appearance design, and the appearance is very simple. The facades such as turrets and masts have been invisible. The engine exhaust is pre-cooled to reduce infrared signals and visual visibility to reduce the possibility of being discovered. In addition, the ship chose the wave-passing shape, which is also conducive to maneuvering combat in the Taiwan Strait , where the hydrological conditions are relatively bad. It is said that this class of ships can run to level 7 sea conditions in large waves of 6.1 meters to 9.1 meters.
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In 2010, Taiwan announced that it would invest 24.98 billion NT$ (853.4 million US dollars) to build 12 ships of this class. However, after the "Tuojiang" class was put into service, many problems were exposed, such as insufficient buoyancy and excessive vibration during navigation, and the ship type, external size and hull materials needed to be modified. The Taiwan Navy believes that the ship's mission function is relatively single and is not suitable for mass production.Therefore, the "Tajiang" class has made great improvements, with the ship's length increasing from 60.4 meters to 65 meters, the side width increasing from 14 meters to 14.8 meters, the ship's height increasing from 6 meters to 6.2 meters, and the full load displacement of 685 tons. As the powertrain remains unchanged, the maximum range drops to 30 knots. The Tajiang class has added a tower rear mast, which is equipped with a self-developed single-sided rotating X-band phased array radar on the island. The detection distance is 70 kilometers to 80 kilometers, mainly providing target guidance for the 16 "Sea Sword 2" air defense missiles on the ship.
Tajiang class
Compared with the "Tuojiang" class, the number of "Tajiang" class missiles has increased by 12. In addition to the above 16 "Sea Sword II" air defense missiles, there are 4 "Xiongfeng III" supersonic anti-ship missiles and 8 "Xiongfeng II" subsonic anti-ship missiles, but the layout method is hard to describe. The purpose of the Taiwan Navy's mixed-mountain "Xiongfeng II" and "Xiongfeng III" missiles is nothing more than using saturated firepower attacks with "fast and slow" to penetrate the People's Liberation Army's air defense network and carry out a devastating blow to important targets such as aircraft carriers. However, today when the mainland has completely seized air supremacy, relying solely on a "intensive array" cannot deal with the threat from the attack of the air missile . Therefore, the Tajiang class is equipped with 16 "Sea Sword 2" air defense missiles. The missile prototype was developed on the medium-range air-to-air missile "Tian Jian 2" air-to-air missile with a range of about 40 kilometers. It was boasted by the media on the island as the " J-20 killer". However, the missile performance improved from the air-to-air missile is actually very average.
haijian 2
The layout of this air defense system on the "Tajiang" level does not use common vertical launches or rotary launchers to launch, but uses a rare tilt-type fixed device to launch, and its layout is almost exactly the same as that of anti-ship missile . In other words, in an emergency, "Sea Sword 2" cannot aim the missile at the approximate position of the incoming missile in advance. In this way, "Sea Sword 2" must make an air turn after taking off to aim at the target, which will undoubtedly greatly reduce the range and maneuverability of the missile, and at the same time increase the reaction time. What is even more embarrassing is that in order to solve the exhaust emission problem when the ship missile is launched, the "Tajiang" class simply and roughly has two huge portholes on both sides of the ship's side to serve as exhaust flue ducts. That is to say, the porthole must be opened before launching, which will undoubtedly destroy the ship's stealth appearance and be captured by the opponent.
Missile layout method
Although the island boasts that the extended-range "Xiongfeng III" supersonic anti-ship missile has a range of 300 kilometers, the firepower of the 12 anti-ship missiles is also greater than that of some European destroyers. However, the Tajiang class is equipped with a sea-based search radar with a search distance of only a few dozen kilometers, and even the basic "Xiongfeng III" missile cannot be guided. Therefore, there is a common problem with this class of ships and missile boats on Taiwan Island, which can only be used as missile launch platforms, and the guidance task is handed over to the "Dacheng Guantong" command system of the Taiwan Navy. However, these C4IR systems will definitely be the PLA’s key targets during wartime, and these missile boats will also become key "helming" targets. Whether they can leave the port will still be different. In today's situation in the Taiwan Strait, the initiative is no longer on the Taiwan side. Even the seemingly "high-end" "Tajiang"-class missile boat cannot reverse the situation. It can only be the "last stubbornness" of the Taiwan authorities' navy.
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