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Upmedia reports that Taiwan will begin the development of an air-launched variant of the HF-3 supersonic anti-ship missile.

The weapon will be carried by the indigenous IDF fighter and around $314 million has been allocated for the project which will be called Hsiung Chih. This will be Taiwan’s first anti-ship missile that can be fired from land, sea and air.

While the missile will be externally the same as the ship-borne variant, it will undergo weight reductions so that it can be within 950kg. This will place a limit on the amount of fuel and reduce the range to 120km.

Development is expected to take five years and a small number will be produced after the missile clears its initial test flights.


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Taiwan's military has publicly confirmed for the first time the existence of the "Yun Feng" (Cloud Peak) medium-range surface-to-surface missile, which has been under development since the 1990s.

Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) mentioned the missile during a joint hearing of the Legislative Yuan's Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee and Finance Committee on a proposed special budget of NT$240 billion to boost Taiwan's missile arsenal.

Asked about the development and capabilities of the Yun Feng missile by opposition KMT lawmaker Johnny Chiang (江啟臣), Chiu was unwilling to reveal any details, saying only that the military is still "working on it."

It was the first time the Ministry of National Defense publicly acknowledged the existence of the missile, which is said to have a range of up to 1,500 kilometers.

The Yun Feng missile has reportedly been under development since the 1990s and is designed to strike land-based targets inside China, according to local and foreign media reports.

Capable of hitting strategic targets such as airports, harbors and command centers in inland China, the Yun Feng missile is a key part of Taiwan's asymmetric warfare plan to erode China's combat capabilities, said Su Tzu-Yun(蘇紫雲), a senior researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research.

Su said the Chinese military's biggest threat to Taiwan is its air force, and having the ability to attack China's air bases and disrupt its planned sorties in a conflict would substantially boost Taiwan's ability to defend itself.

Local media speculated last year that the Yun Feng missile was tested in April 2020, but the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan's state-owned weapon systems development institution, refused to comment on the reports.

Though Chiang asked about the Yun Feng missile at the hearing, it is not covered under the proposed NT$240 billion special budget but rather under a secret military budget.

The NT$240 billion budget would go to the development and production of other missiles. About 64 percent would be allocated to anti-ship missiles, 18 percent to anti-air missiles and 18 percent to other types of missiles.

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Taiwan military confirms 'Yun Feng' missile's existence - Focus Taiwan

Taiwan's military has publicly confirmed for the first time the existence of the "Yun Feng" (Cloud Peak) medium-range surface-to-surface missile, which has been under development since the 1990s.
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Taiwan’s XTR-102 remote weapon station will enter service on Donying island off the coast of China in 2021.

The Republic of China Army intends to put six sets into service. The XTR-102 is armed with twin-barrel T-75 20 mm revolver cannons. Each set will come with two weapon stations, one electro-optical unit and one control console. The XTR-102 is also deployed by the Navy at Wuqiu, Kinmen.

According to the national defense scenario and different environments of Taiwan and its outer islands, the system includes two configurations - position-fixed and ship-based models, integrated with electric optical imagery identification, target tracking, fire control, fire concentration, and accurate servo motors. It ensures the system ability of providing "fast, fierce, aggressive, precision" firepower and the efficiency of decreasing casualty and highly promotes the jointed killing capability of defense systems.

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Does anyone have any information on the status of the Sea Oryx and it's land based counterpart?
 
Anderman said:
looks like somebody told the taiwnese that a missle that nobody knows that it is there has no deterence function,,,
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That's basically what Dr. Strangelove said to the Soviet ambassador about having a doomsday-weapon and not telling anyone about it.

IMO it's high time for the Taiwanese military to publicly unveil the missile.
 
Defense Updates has just put out a video about the HF-2E:


On August 16, an article by United Daily News (UDN) revealed that the Taiwanese Air Force had executed a drill earlier on the same day, involving the launch of an indigenous Hsiung Feng or HF-IIE surface-to-surface cruise missile.
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Accompanying the report were images that the newspaper described as depicting the HF-2E missile. According to UDN, the missile remained airborne for several hours after its launch from Jiupeng military base in Pingtung County.
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The missile, purportedly in active service within the Taiwanese military for more than a decade, has remained concealed from the public eye throughout this period.
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In this video, Defense Updates analyzes how Taiwan’s secretive Hsiung Feng-IIE missile could thwart attempts of Chinese invasion ?
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Since this missile has been in production since 2011 and given the PRC's growing aggression towards Taiwan what are the odds that Taiwan now has thousands of the HF-2E?
 

First exposure of Taiwan's secret HF-2E Missile during launch exercise | Defense News August 2023 Global Security army industry | Defense Security global news industry army year 2023 | Archive News year

Taiwan's United Daily News (UDN) recently unveiled images and video clips allegedly showcasing the Hsiung Feng IIE (HF-2E) land-attack cruise missile. This missile, which has been in the Taiwanese military's arsenal for over a decade, has remained shrouded in secrecy, never being publicly displayed.
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