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<\/i><\/p>\nMultiple media sources on the island said that the\u201cSeahorse\u201d multiple rocket system (hereinafter referred to as the\u201cSeahorse\u201d system) procured by the Taiwanese military from the United States is expected to carry out its first live-fire test in Taiwan next week at the nine Peng bases of the Taiwanese military.<\/p>\n
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The\u201cSeahorse\u201d multiple rocket system procured by the Taiwanese army from the United States was transported by pallets to the Jiupeng base in Pingtung. Photo: Taiwan Media<\/p>\n
According to a report by Taiwan’s\u201cUnited Daily News,\u201d the Taiwan Army has issued a shooting circular indicating that on May 12, a\u201cGround weapons shooting\u201d will be conducted in Taiwan’s Pingtung, Manchuria, and Jiupeng areas, the highest elevation is 20,000 feet. No specific weapons were mentioned, but the report quoted social media sources as saying that the\u201cSeahorse\u201d system had been installed at jiupeng.<\/p>\n
The Hong Kong ta Kung Pao quoted Taiwanese media as saying that the Jiupeng base is located in Pingtung County Manzhou in the southeast of the island. It faces the Pacific Ocean to the east and covers an area of about 4,000 hectares, it is a military base under the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology of Taiwan’s Defence Ministry and is considered the best armed in the region. The base was officially opened in 1975, both missile research and development and training functions, high confidentiality, is the Taiwan military 3 major\u201cMysterious Unit\u201d one of the people inside all need to\u201cLock the phone.<\/p>\n
Taiwan’s military budgeted nt $32.5 billion, 23.547 million to purchase 29 systems from the in the name of the\u201cThunder Project,\u201d according to Taiwan’s Wind Media.<\/p>\n
Taiwan’s ETtoday News Cloud quoted a relevant report from Taiwan’s military as saying that the arms purchase also includes 84 Atacms tactical area missiles, 2 sets of training simulators, and ancillary equipment.<\/p>\n
The first 11 sets of the\u201cSeahorse\u201d system were secretly shipped to Taiwan in October last year, according to reports in Taiwan media such as\u201cChina time news\u201d and\u201cLiberty Times.\u201d The 58th Artillery Command of the 10th Regiment of the Taiwanese army received equipment for training. In addition, the first 16 ATACMS tactical area missiles were delivered to Taiwan on January 7.<\/p>\n
Taiwan’s central news agency quoted local academics as saying the ATACMS, which have a range of 300km, would give the military the ability to carry out a\u201cCounter-attack from the source\u201d. Because the use of the tactical regional missile involves\u201cDefensive operations against Binhai\u201d, the Taiwanese newspaper said, a joint operational mechanism would be discussed by the island’s navy and army.<\/p>\n
It is noteworthy that the United States and the Philippines recently launched in Manila, 2025, \u201cSide by side\u201d joint military exercises. In an interview with Chinanews.com, pundit song zhongping said that the Taiwanese military is now conducting the first live-fire test of the\u201cSeahorse\u201d system at its Pingdong base in the north of Bashi Channel and southeast of the island, it is co-ordinating us-philippine military exercises and demonstrating its alleged ability to\u201cControl the sea lanes of the Bashi Channel Strait (A Balintang Channel name for China, Taiwan and Babuyan Chan.) and block the first island chain\u201d.<\/p>\n
Song zhongping believes that the\u201cSeahorse\u201d system plus ATACMS tactical regional missiles can reach a range of 300 kilometers and may have a certain impact on the situation in the Taiwan Strait. \u201cBut the battlefield situation is not a single type of weapons and equipment, but system combat capability, the Taiwanese army is precisely the lack of this capability.\u201d. He said that if a conflict did break out in the Taiwan Strait, the\u201cSeahorse\u201d system might have been destroyed before it could be operationally effective.<\/p>\n
Regarding the Taiwanese military’s confirmation of the installation of 11\u201cSeahorse\u201d systems, Zhang Xiaogang, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence, warned the DPP authorities that\u201cBuying any weapon is fragile and will lead to self-destruction\u201d. Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, has also stressed that\u201cLeaning on the United States\u201d will only\u201cHarm Taiwan,\u201d and\u201cSeeking independence with military force\u201d is a dead end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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