é?i Loan s? th? lo?i phi d?n ch?ng phi d?n Patriot

éi Loan s? th? lo?i phi d?n ch?ng phi d?n Patriot


A Patriot II Plus (PAC-2) missile blasts off from an ROC Army base in Chiupeng, Pingtung County. The three missiles fired during Wednesday's drill were the first tested outside the United States. According to the ROC military, the targets - a missile launched from east Taiwan and a pilotless drone - were successfully intercepted. Taiwan took delivery of the Patriots in 1997, and three batteries equipped with the missiles are deployed in the Taipei area.

Taiwan gets OK to test-fire Patriots, countering China
STAFF WRITER, WITH AP
Taiwan has obtained permission from the US to test-fire US-built Patriot missiles on the island, defense officials said yesterday.
It will be the first time that the missiles will be tested outside the US.
The Patriots, designed to intercept incoming missiles, are an important part of Taiwan's defense against China's Dongfeng-31 -- a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach as far as the western US.
``We already have permission from the US to test the PAC-2 next year. All we have to do is sort out the details,'' said a military spokesman who spoke on con***ion of anonymity.
He did not say when the US gave its permission.
Taiwan's military has acquired 200 PAC-2 missiles, upgraded versions of the Patriots used by US forces during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Taiwan wants to buy six batteries of the PAC-3 -- the improved version of the PAC-2 -- from the US, to deploy in central and southern Taiwan.
The PAC-3 advanced missile is a "hit-and-kill" version of older anti-missile Patriots fired at Iraqi Scuds in the 1991 Gulf War.
Taiwan has test fired the Patriot missiles in the US, but the military wants to observe how they work in Taiwan's subtropical climate.
Defense minister Wu Shih-wen (ҐоҐ@Ôе) last week confirmed Taiwan's plans to test the Patriot missiles in an effort to bolster defense capabilities against the Dongfeng-31.
Yesterday, Wu verified reports in the Chinese-language media that China will test-fire the Dongfeng-31 missiles in the near future.
It would be China's fifth test of the missile and the flight path would likely be from the northern Shanxi region toward China's northwestern Xinjiang region, a local newspaper quoted Taiwanese security officials as saying.
Wu told legislators that Taiwan is able to monitor the missile test. Wu also called the Dongfeng missiles the ``greatest threat'' to Taiwan's national security.




Taiwan missile test-fires increase tensions

(06/21/2001) (chinadaily.com.cn)




Taiwan's testing of US-made Patriot missiles Wednesday morning will only sharpen tense relations across Taiwan Straits, Chinese experts and military analysts have warned. Taiwan test-fired three US-made Patriot missiles, which the island bought from the United States, for the first time Wednesday at a military base of the island's Pingdong region. Purchases and deployments of advanced weapons by the authorities in Taiwan threatens to jeopardize reunification of China, experts told Xinhua News Agency. According to Xinhua, this is the first time the Patriot missiles have been test-fired outside the United States and the first time the Taiwanese military has fired missiles of this kind. The three missiles intercepted a target plane and a target missile. The test-firing will continue Thursday and Friday, and on June 26. The Taiwan authorities' recent purchase of advanced weapons for potential use against the Chinese mainland have revealed that they oppose the reunification of China, said Yu Keli, deputy director of the Institute of Taiwan Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Yu warned that Taiwan should realize test-firing of missiles will only put the island in a more precarious position. It is absurd for the Taiwanese authorities to provoke the Chinese mainland with its small arsenal of advanced weapons, said Luo Yuan, research fellow with the Department of Strategy Studies under the Academy of Military Sciences of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Asked to comment on Taiwan's Patriot test-firing on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said China opposes sales of advanced weapons to Taiwan.






éi Loan s? th? lo?i phi d?n ch?ng phi d?n Patriot

éI B?C.- Bỏo chớ éi B?c hụm Th? Ba loan tin trong lỳc Trung Qu?c m? cỏc cu?c t?p tr?n ngang qua eo bi?n éi Loan thỡ éi Loan s? cho b?n th? phi d?n Patriot do Hoa K? ch? t?o vo ngy Th? Tu, t?c cựng vo th?i gian cu?c t?p tr?n c?a Hoa L?c di?n ra.

Ngu?n tin quõn s? trỏnh xỏc nh?n th?i di?m phi d?n khai h?a, nhung lo?i phi d?n ny nh?m m?c dớch ngan ch?n cỏc lo?i phi d?n t? xa phúng t?i. Cỏc gi?i ch?c quõn s? tru?c dõy dó thụng bỏo h? cú ý d?nh b?n th? Patriot vo thỏng ny v c? quy?t r?ng th?i di?m th? b?n trựng ngy ch? khụng c? ý khiờu khớch Hoa L?c.

Quõn d?i éi Loan c?nh bỏo cỏc lo?i tu bố hay mỏy bay trỏnh xa vựng dụng nam duyờn h?i vo sỏng Th? Tu t?i ngy Th? sỏu trong th?i gian b?n th? ny, nhung theo bỏo United Daily News thỡ thu?ng dõn khụng nh?n du?c s? bỏo d?ng no d?c bi?t v? v? ny.

Cỏc t? bỏo khỏc cho hay m?t ti?u don dúng ? can c? Pingtung dó du?c l?nh s?n sng khai h?a Patriot, cựng lỳc Hoa L?c ti?n hnh cu?c t?p tr?n ? vựng bi?n phớa éụng Nam duyờn h?i t?nh Phỳc Ki?n, d?i di?n éi Loan. Cu?c t?p tr?n cú c? vi?c thao du?t ti?n chi?m éi Loan.

Phỏt ngụn viờn B? Qu?c Phũng l Huang Shuey-sheng cho bi?t m?i chu?n b? cho vi?c khai h?a phi d?n Patriot dó ti?n hnh ờm th?m.

éi Loan dó s? h?u 200 phi d?n lo?i Patriot, th? m?i du?c c?i thi?n nhi?u so v?i cỏc phi d?n cựng lo?i dó b? mang ti?ng ngan ch?n h?t cỏc m?c tiờu trong cu?c Chi?n Tranh Vựng V?nh nam 1991. Cỏc lo?i phi d?n ny dó du?c b? trớ chung quanh éi B?c nhung dõy l l?n d?u tiờn du?c khai h?a th? trờn d?t éi Loan.

Hoa Th?nh é?n khụng cú quan h? ngo?i giao chớnh th?c v?i éi Loan nhung dó nhi?u l?n kh?ng d?nh cỏc s? cam k?t bỏn cho d?o ny cỏc lo?i vừ khớ c?n thi?t d? phũng th?.

B?c Kinh t? lõu dó xem éi Loan ch? l m?t t?nh ly khai v mu?n tỏi th?ng nh?t, b?ng vừ l?c n?u c?n.

éi Loan dang tỡm cỏch xõy d?ng h? th?ng phũng th? b?ng phi d?n d?a trờn lu?n c? Hoa L?c nay dó s? cú t?i kho?ng 800 phi d?n hu?ng vo d?o ny trong vũng m?t th?p ni?n

MILOU




éu?c s?a ch?a b?i - lekien on 21/06/2001 16:20:27