According to the National Army’s planning, two prototypes of the Yun Bao wheeled combat vehicle are expected to be completed in 2023 with prototypes and related evaluations. The picture shows the 584th Brigade performing the eight wheeled armor vehicle return maneuver on the 15th. (Photo source: Military News Agency)
A media report on the 7th, the country-made 30 mm training ammunition stability is not enough. In response, the Ministry of National Defense responded that all meet the original ammunition quality requirements. In addition, due to the Chinese Communist authorities in recent years to promote the modernization of military forces has led to tensions, the Ministry of Defense think tank, the National Institute of Defense Security 7 said that submarines have asymmetric combat advantages, can effectively achieve strategic deterrence, in the next 10 years submarine warfare will become the Indo-Pacific countries to enhance the defense of autonomous weapons.
2023 complete cloud leopard wheeled combat vehicle verification mortar vehicle depending on the timing of the construction project
Comprehensive Central News Agency and the Liberty Times reported that the Ministry of National Defense planning, codenamed “Cheetah Project” of the cloud leopard armor wheeled combat vehicles, will be able to carry the same caliber of Taiwan‘s main combat vehicle 105 cm chariot gun, not only high power, but also suitable for Taiwan’s terrain, the future will gradually replace the M41 light combat vehicles.
It is reported that although this case has been planned for a long Time, it has not appeared in the military budget, but the future will still be considered as a battle training needs to wait for the opportunity to build the project.
According to the National Army’s planning, two prototypes of the Yun Bao wheeled combat vehicle are expected to be completed in 2023 and related evaluations. These two prototypes use the 105mm “M68A2” low recoil combat vehicle gun, and in the future, the military will plan to seek technology transfer, state-made gun barrels and turrets, in the hope of achieving low rifling pressure and low recoil requirements.
In addition, the Army and Military Police have acquired a total of 305 “CM34” Yun Bao eight-wheeled infantry combat vehicles in order to meet the needs of combat training, which are equipped with 30 machine guns with a range of 2,000 meters, not only both powerful and accurate, but also can carry out limited anti-aircraft operations, belonging to the Army’s joint battalion, the military police key It is a key part of the combat capability of the Army’s joint battalions and military police. However, the military has procured all the artillery shells used in this combat vehicle from the U.S., so it is hoped that the future can meet the demand for homemade.
In addition, there are media reports, the Bureau of Armaments homemade 30 mm training ammunition stability is not enough, so that the Army, CAS are not satisfied, and because the test equipment is not available, resulting in the Bureau of Armaments to the Army, CAS to borrow CM-34 armoured combat vehicles for testing were rejected.
The military also responded to a media report on the 7th that “the Armament Bureau’s homemade 30mm training ammunition is not stable enough for the Army and CAS to shoot”.
The military news agency reported that the content of the report deviates from the facts, as for the 30mm machine gun ammunition, are in accordance with the planning process to carry out research and development, testing, and called on the country to continue to support the determination to build military readiness and promote national defense autonomy.
The Ministry of National Defense also said that in 2019, the first phase of technology transfer cooperation for 30mm artillery ammunition has been implemented, and the assembly and testing have been completed in normal conditions, meeting the quality requirements of the original ammunition; the second phase of homemade operations are also in line with the planning schedule, and the initial operational evaluation is expected to be completed by the end of 2021.
Finally, the Ministry of National Defense stressed that the case in the early stages of research and development has been purchased by the production center to test the chain gun, without the need to transfer to the Army or the Chinese Academy of Sciences to borrow the gun tube situation, so the media reports are clearly inconsistent with the facts.
Adequate power to the National Defense Institute: the next 10 years submarine will become the self-defense weapon of the Indo-Pacific countries
The Defense Security Research Institute said that submarines have the advantage of asymmetric combat, and in the next 10 years submarine warfare will become a powerful tool for India and the Pacific countries to enhance their defense autonomy. The picture shows a diagram of submarine ship. (Photo credit: DVIDS/Wikipedia)
In the 21st issue of the “Defense Security Fortnightly” published on January 29, 2012, Zhou Yue, a researcher at the Institute of Strategic Resources, analyzed the importance of submarines under the title of “Observations on Submarine Force Integration in Northeast Asia”.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense’s “2020 China Military Strength Report,” the number of Chinese submarines is expected to remain at 65 to 70 in the next 10 years, and as the Chinese military continues to modernize its submarines, the Chinese side continues to strengthen its long-range projection operations, and through anti-ship missiles, mines, submarine-launched torpedoes, and other capabilities, the Chinese side is able to target the Chinese enemy in the adjacent waters. The Chinese military continues to enhance its long-range projection operations and through the power of anti-ship missiles, mines, and submarine-launched torpedoes, it poses a more lethal threat to adversaries approaching China’s adjacent waters.
In addition, China continues to reclaim land and build military bases on islands and reefs in the South China Sea, and Chinese aircraft carrier formations have repeatedly crossed the Miyako Strait and conducted military operations in the South China Sea.
In the trend study, Zhou Yue emphasized that “submarine warfare will become a powerful tool for Indo-Pacific countries to enhance their defense autonomy in the next 10 years”. For small regional countries with limited manpower and budget, the acquisition of a significant number of submarines can control important waters and waterways, and even be able to carry out mines, ambushes and attacks on land targets, which can effectively achieve strategic deterrence and protect the country’s neighborhood.
Zhou Yue said that based on security threats, countries in the South China Sea region attach great importance to the warfare power and strategic value of submarines, resulting in the relative number of submarines in the region and the speed of preparation and construction is increasing, and Japan in the “defense plan outline” also set, from 2010, the submarine force to gradually increase from 16 to 22 ships, so as to counter China’s maritime military expansion.
In the 2019-2020 “Indo-Pacific Underwater Submarine Force Construction Watch”, Zhou Yue said that Taiwan’s national construction of submarines will begin in November 2020 to demonstrate its determination to defend itself and its strong will to protect its sovereignty, and is expected to become an army in 2025.
Under the framework of the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy, there is a trend of increasing actions to concretize regional security through multilateral joint military exercises with countries sharing the same values, strategies and security threats. For example, the Malabar military exercise, which India refused to invite Australia to participate in due to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, will be repeated in 2020 to counter China’s growing military expansion in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea. “, as well as the first Japan-US-France 3-nation joint military exercises to be held in 2021.
Zhou Yue believes that these joint military exercises are not only to accumulate their own experience in joint warfare, another purpose is to consolidate and deepen the partnership to contain China’s maritime dominance.
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