China News Service, May 30th. According to Taiwan's "United Daily News", the Taiwan military recently conducted "navy and air force missile shooting training" at the Jiupeng Base in Pingtung. The "Gong III" air defense missile failed to hit the target on the first day, but due to the third reading of the special budget for sea and air combat power, Taiwan's defense department made a special "replenishment test" and asked the "Gong III" to shoot one more, and finally "induction hit" "; The "Patriot" missile unit of the Taiwan Air Force was on standby for 3 days and planned to shoot the "Ai II" air defense missile.
The Taiwan Air Force Command said yesterday that in this live-fire shooting training, "Gong III" has completed the shooting training in line with the shooting sequence; for the "Ai II" shooting training, due to the cable breakage when the target was released by the target aircraft, and due to factors such as thunderstorms, No shooting was carried out that day, but shooting training was completed in conjunction with the preparation day on the 27th, and the relevant situation was normal.
The Taiwan Air Force launched the "Tiangong-1" air defense missile at Jiupeng Base.
Taiwan "United Daily News" map
Taiwan's defense department recently announced the live "navy and air force missile shooting training" carried out at Jiupeng Base from the 24th to 26th of this month, including the naval sea-based, land-based "Xiong Er" and "Xiong San" anti-ship missiles; Type air defense missiles, "Tiangong 3", "Tiangong 1", Air Force Mirage Mica missiles and other live launches.
The defense department claims that the drill hit nearly 98 percent of the time.
However, it is understood that on the first day of the exercise, after the Navy implemented the "Yuji" and "Yongsan" anti-ship missiles to hit the target ship, followed by the bombing of sea targets and precision missile shooting by the Air Force, many situations occurred, including "Tiangong", "Patriot" land-launched sparrows, land-launched "Jianyi", Mirage Mica, IDF "Tianjian-2" missiles, and laser-guided bombs were not all fired or successfully thrown.
The first subject on the first day of the exercise was the "Tiangong III" live ammunition shooting. This equipment was prepared to be invested in a special budget to increase production by means of naval and air combat power. The troops entered the Jiupeng base for shooting training for the first time, and they missed the target. ; The second subject is "Love II" shooting, but under the attention of the American technical representative on the scene, it did not shoot at all.
In addition, the original plan was to mount 2,000 pounds of laser-guided bombs on the F-16 to attack the decommissioned Jinjiang ship. Due to weather factors, it did not take off. Only 12 IDF fighters took turns to attack with 2,000 pounds of general-purpose bombs. It was not sunk, but was blown up with the assistance of naval frogmen.
For the remaining two days of the exercise, F-16 and IDF fighter jets dropped bombs in the sea area without targets, which spread widely, making it difficult to judge the effectiveness of the training.
The Taiwan Air Force Command explained on the 29th that the fighter jets bombed and shot the target ship. Except for the thunderstorm weather at the base, the rest took off normally to perform the mission. On the first day, only the IDF fighter jets took off from Tainan and Qingquangang, which severely damaged the target ship and could not be towed away from the target. In the sea area, the frogmen carried out blasting to ensure the safety of the channel, and then used the coordinates of the sunken ship to carry out a simulated attack, and the impact points were all within the target coordinates.
It was confirmed that the Taiwan Air Force claimed yesterday that the "Ai Er" was also successfully fired on the "Supplementary Test" day, but it did not say whether the two types of bombs hit the target.