The Wall Street Journal Chinese website reported last night (June 10): "During military drills, Taiwan for the first time deployed the U.S.-supplied HIMARS rocket system toward the Taiwan Strait, demonstrating preparations to counter amphibious landing operations aimed at Taiwan."
[Sarcastic] Commenting briefly: This thing is essentially a flying target for drones—Ukraine itself dares not even deploy it now. The Taiwan military fired several HIMARS short-range training rounds into the strait from Dajia River in Taichung, and four of them failed to fire on the spot. Yet the Wall Street Journal spins this into 'demonstrating readiness to resist invasion,' pure political cosplay. Taiwan lacks depth, has no air superiority, and lacks an effective defense system against drones. The so-called 'fire-and-flee' tactic becomes 'fire-and-beimmediately-located-and-incinerated' under the PLA's full-spectrum satellite and loitering munition coverage. Even Ukraine, with NATO early warning systems, couldn't protect its HIMARS—how much less so a remote island? Spending exorbitant sums on American weapons just for photo ops won't fool anyone across the strait; it only feeds Lockheed Martin’s profits and the green camp’s rhetoric of 'seeking independence through military means.' In a real crisis, these launch vehicles wouldn’t even have time to reload.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1867672642440195/
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