Taiwan Buying Harpoon missles

[Tiger]

Harpoons For Taiwan

September 6, 2008: Taiwan is buying 60 Harpoon (AGM-84D) anti-ship
missiles, for $1.5 million each. These will be used on twelve P-3C
maritime patrol aircraft. The 1,200 pound Harpoon has a 487 pound
warhead and a range of 220 kilometers. It approaches the target low, at
about 860 kilometers an hour. GPS gets the missile to the general
vicinity of the target, then radar takes over to identify and hit the
target. The Harpoon has successful combat experience going back two
decades. Most Chinese warships (corvettes and frigates) are small enough
to be destroyed by one Harpoon.

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htproc/articles/20080906.aspx

[Aurelius]

Tiger pisze:
> Harpoons For Taiwan
>
> September 6, 2008: Taiwan is buying 60 Harpoon (AGM-84D) anti-ship
> missiles, for $1.5 million each. These will be used on twelve P-3C
> maritime patrol aircraft. The 1,200 pound Harpoon has a 487 pound
> warhead and a range of 220 kilometers. It approaches the target low, at
> about 860 kilometers an hour. GPS gets the missile to the general
> vicinity of the target, then radar takes over to identify and hit the
> target. The Harpoon has successful combat experience going back two
> decades. Most Chinese warships (corvettes and frigates) are small enough
> to be destroyed by one Harpoon.
>
> http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htproc/articles/20080906.aspx

Very good!

[hcobb]

Bush has lifted the freeze on arms sales to Taiwan?

Well there's $12 billion more that he won't send them.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-missiles28-2008aug28,0,590025.story
The Harpoon missile deal is in addition to a $12-billion arms package
sought for Taiwan that has been stalled for years.

-HJC

[David E. Powell]

On Sep 10, 3:13*pm, hcobb > wrote:
> Bush has lifted the freeze on arms sales to Taiwan?

We should. They are a country, and the ones I have met have been cool
people. They also have Democracy going.

They're not going to storm the PRC or anything, and they deserve a
decent defense.

Taiwan is also huge in the semiconductor and electronics business. A
safe military balance helps keep the global economy going OK.
(Ironically, that's something even the PRC should probably be into.)

> Well there's $12 billion more that he won't send them.
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-missiles28-20...
> The Harpoon missile deal is in addition to a $12-billion arms package
> sought for Taiwan that has been stalled for years.
>
> -HJC