Mr T
Senior Member
Umm, you do realise that the majority of ethnic Han people that use this forum aren't actually Chinese citizens, so would therefore be "foreigners" as well, right? The clue is in the fact that this is an English-language site.
Taiwan Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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Umm, you do realise that the majority of ethnic Han people that use this forum aren't actually Chinese citizens, so would therefore be "foreigners" as well, right? The clue is in the fact that this is an English-language site.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Ummm, you do realize that's the lamest point you could possibly try to bring up, right? I can tell by your reply that his post got you confused; and you're the only foreigner I'm talking about. The clue is that you're the only one who responded, so who else needs to be involved?
PS. I'm a geneticist. Han Chinese are never foreigners to me regardless of what passport they hold. Even when they are anti-China, they are not foreigners, just traitors and lowlifes. Blood always trumps paper.
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TAIPEI - Taiwan reported 22 new coronavirus cases on Sunday (April 19), almost all of the sailors who had been on a friendly visit of Taiwanese navy ships to the small Pacific island state of Palau last month.
Taiwan has to date been relatively successful at controlling the coronavirus due to early prevention and detection, and last week celebrated three days in which no new cases were reported.
But on Saturday, Taiwan said that three cadets who had been part of the mission to Palau, one of only 15 countries to maintain formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, had been infected, and that 700 sailors were being quarantined and tested.
The 21 sailors whose positive tests the government announced on Sunday bring the total cases in the navy to 24.
Speaking at a news conference, Taiwan Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said the cases had so far only been discovered on one of the three ships that had visited Palau, but that further investigations were needed before they could say where exactly the sailors had contracted the virus.
Navy deputy commander Mei Chia-shu gave a deep bow in an expression of apology at the same news conference for the infections and not properly carrying out prevention measures.
"We will exert all efforts to look after our infected personnel and care for their family members," he said.
The sailors had all disembarked on Wednesday upon arriving back in Taiwan. The ships had docked at Palau from March 12 to 15.
Palau President Tommy Remengesau told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that his country of 20,000 people had not had a single case of the coronavirus and that he was going to close borders to keep the virus out.
Palau has received help from Taiwan to fight the virus, including testing suspected cases and receiving face masks from Taiwan.
Taiwan's presidential office said on Saturday that President Tsai Ing-wen had been at the ceremony to welcome back the ships but had only waved to the sailors from the shore and had not been exposed to the risk of infection.
These are the first coronavirus cases reported in Taiwan's military.
The new cases bring Taiwan's total to 420, six of whom have died.
Taiwan has to date been relatively successful at controlling the coronavirus due to early prevention and detection, and last week celebrated three days in which no new cases were reported.
But on Saturday, Taiwan said that three cadets who had been part of the mission to Palau, one of only 15 countries to maintain formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, had been infected, and that 700 sailors were being quarantined and tested.
The 21 sailors whose positive tests the government announced on Sunday bring the total cases in the navy to 24.
Speaking at a news conference, Taiwan Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said the cases had so far only been discovered on one of the three ships that had visited Palau, but that further investigations were needed before they could say where exactly the sailors had contracted the virus.
Navy deputy commander Mei Chia-shu gave a deep bow in an expression of apology at the same news conference for the infections and not properly carrying out prevention measures.
"We will exert all efforts to look after our infected personnel and care for their family members," he said.
The sailors had all disembarked on Wednesday upon arriving back in Taiwan. The ships had docked at Palau from March 12 to 15.
Palau President Tommy Remengesau told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that his country of 20,000 people had not had a single case of the coronavirus and that he was going to close borders to keep the virus out.
Palau has received help from Taiwan to fight the virus, including testing suspected cases and receiving face masks from Taiwan.
Taiwan's presidential office said on Saturday that President Tsai Ing-wen had been at the ceremony to welcome back the ships but had only waved to the sailors from the shore and had not been exposed to the risk of infection.
These are the first coronavirus cases reported in Taiwan's military.
The new cases bring Taiwan's total to 420, six of whom have died.
On 17 April Taiwan's Lungteh Shipbuilding held a keel-laying ceremony for the third and fourth 'rapid minelayers' on order for the Republic of China Navy (RoCN).
The announcement by the Ministry of National Defense (MND) in Taipei comes after work on the first ship of the class, the designation of which has yet to be disclosed, began on 24 May 2019, with the keel being laid on 14 November of that same year.
That ship is expected to the delivered in 2021. Work on the second one is also under way at the company's facilities in Yilan County. Only four of these vessels are known to have been ordered by the RoCN.
According to computer generated-imagery released by the RoCN, each of these minelayers will be 41 m long, 8.8 m wide, have a hull draught of 1.7 m, and a full-load displacement of 347 tonnes. Each of the vessels will be capable of reaching a top speed of 14 kt, have a range of 2,000 n miles, and be armed with a T75 20 mm cannon and two T74 7.62 mm machine guns.
The announcement by the Ministry of National Defense (MND) in Taipei comes after work on the first ship of the class, the designation of which has yet to be disclosed, began on 24 May 2019, with the keel being laid on 14 November of that same year.
That ship is expected to the delivered in 2021. Work on the second one is also under way at the company's facilities in Yilan County. Only four of these vessels are known to have been ordered by the RoCN.
According to computer generated-imagery released by the RoCN, each of these minelayers will be 41 m long, 8.8 m wide, have a hull draught of 1.7 m, and a full-load displacement of 347 tonnes. Each of the vessels will be capable of reaching a top speed of 14 kt, have a range of 2,000 n miles, and be armed with a T75 20 mm cannon and two T74 7.62 mm machine guns.
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A total of 108 vehicles will be delivered. Specs are supposed to be similar to the M1A2 SEP but without the DU armor package. Instead there will be a commercial armor package that supposedly will offer a comparable level of protection. And there is no word regarding whether there will be DU ammunition as well.
Skywatcher
Captain
What a half measure.
If Taipei wants a modern MBT force, then they'll need at least two divisions (to account for attrition and air/artillery strikes during operations).
Jura The idiot
General
the source appears to be
Lungteh Shipbuilding lays keel for RoCN’s third and fourth ‘rapid minelayers’
22 April 2020
Aug 18, 2019