According to a report on August 28 on Taiwan’s Zhongshi news website, the Taiwanese army recently held its annual“Tianma exercise” of live-fire firing, during which it also announced the new“M41A7 Itas ‘Tao’ missile launch system”, however, during the drill but a low hit rate of the situation, causing doubts. A Facebook military fan page explained that the Taiwan Army has a large inventory of“Tao”-type missiles, the shelf life is only 10 years, but most of the current storage of more than 15 years, the day of the drill are old bombs. Some retired officers also said that the shooting range scene design is wrong, unable to fully play the actual effectiveness. For the above remarks, some netizens commented, “Bad on the bad, so many reasons.”.
Taiwan’s tao-type missile missed its target and fell directly into the sea, causing a large splash, at a shooting range in Fangshan, Pingdong, Taiwan, Sunday.
The report said that on the 26th, the Taiwanese army carried out the“Tianma exercise” in Fangshan, Pingdong, and for the first time used a new platform and launch system to fire live rounds at the old-type 2A“Tao” missile, results 17 missiles were fired during the day drill, 10 hit the target, 12 hit 11 at night. Reported that because the“Tao” missile accuracy has always been high, this result surprised the military.
A Facebook military fan page posted 27, “Tianma Drill”“Tao” missile rotation, Miss Target, air bombing situation spread frequently, some people said“Taiwan Army training is insufficient, the United States sold bad missiles. Tie Wen said that in recent years, “Tianma Drill” play is temporary ammunition, this batch of ammunition has been stored for more than 15 years. The fan page said that the ammunition would be kept for so long because the Taiwanese army bought enough ammunition at one time and inevitably expired at the same time, because only a few of them would be fired during large-scale drills such as the“Han Guang Exercise”, to allow so many“Tao” missiles to be stored so far. Moreover, in recent years, the Taiwan Army’s“Aviation Special Operations Command” has switched thousands of air-launched“Tao” missiles to land-launched ones, causing infantry’s“Tao” missile inventory to explode.
According to Taiwan’s“United Daily” reported that during the“Tianma exercise”, Taiwan’s troops fired“Tao” type 2A missile in the process of a number of cases of falling into the sea. Retired military officers familiar with the TAO’s capabilities said that because the scene was designed to be too close to the target, and because the missile’s initial trajectory was so erratic, it was more difficult to hit the target as it got closer.
In response to these statements, one netizen on the island commented, “The rehearsal and training scenes are poorly designed. You can even say such words. When you’re really in a war, you still have to tell the other party that this venue isn’t good, so change the venue.”.
“There are so many excuses,” said another user on the island. “If it’s bad, it’s bad. There are so many reasons. Can such an army fight? They all laughed when they saw it. They laughed when they thought of it. Thank you for this military show.”.
Liu Shenmo, head of the Military Training Department of Taiwan’s Defense Department’s training office, admitted that some of the drills missed and some of the ammunition failed. The Defense Department will hold a review meeting next week, the latest report said. Chen Jianyi, chief of Staff of Taiwan’s army command, said that the review meeting was not aimed at punishment, but at a variety of levels, including personnel training, ammunition, weather and other impacts. He said that although the firing of the“Tao” Type 2A missile were tested, but in fact whether at close range, or miss, from the scene of the video comparison, will be presented next week review meeting.
In July this year, the Taiwanese army organized“Hanguang No. 40” live-fire drills. Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang, Deputy Director of the Ministry’s Information Bureau and a spokesman for the ministry, said at the time that the DPP authorities were using all kinds of tricks to try to give the separatist activities a “Legal” and “Legitimate” appearance, this is just self-deception. The DPP authorities deliberately used the island as a battlefield and the people as a human shield in an attempt to“Seek independence by force” and“Reject unification by force”. They were completely out of their depth, and eventually reached a dead end.