Taiwan mistakenly fires missile towards China

[Hamza913]

What a “carrier killer”
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TAIWAN NEW SUPER POWER! WATCH OUT AMERICA!

On a more serious note, I do hope that they realize China can squash them, right?

 

[grey boy 2]

I watched from the TVB news, the admiral explained why its not able to sink a fishing boat
He explained that the missile was design to penetrate well armored "high value" target, with something like a delay explosive warhead, it went right through the fishing boat instead before the missiles explose

 

[Jlaw]

I watched from the TVB news, the admiral explained why its not able to sink a fishing boat
He explained that the missile was design to penetrate well armored "high value" target, with something like a delay explosive warhead, it went right through the fishing boat instead before the missiles explose

nah, the tech was imported from india? or maybe its made in taiwan?

 

[TaiShang]

nah, the tech was imported from india? or maybe its made in taiwan?

It is developed by Taiwan; the first generation was introduced in the mid-70s. They say certain specifications were then derived from an Israeli system.

Has nothing to do with India.

 

[thesolar65]

All kinds of missiles that ends with "g" behaves that way.

 

[Piotr]

Maybe it’s patriotic military man from Taiwan Province who made this missile “mistakenly” hit fishing boat from Taiwan Province to publicly humiliate “Ms.” Tsai Ing-wen. Military man from Taiwan Province are not dumb. They can die in case of Mainland’s Responsibility to Protect operation in Taiwan Strait, so they work against “Ms.” Tsai Ing-wen. I don’t think they want to risk their lives for that "cute" "woman".

 

[xunzi]

Today I read military expert's analysis, this missile attack is more than a mistake. Fire a missile is different with fire a gun bullet carelessly. Missile launch has a full procedure. Tsai Yin-wen intend to probe China's reaction. The probe fiercely remind us: the civil war has not end. Strait west must prepare carefully for any provacation at any time.

It is not a simple accident. Someone in within the ROC army high rank is going against procedure here for whatever reasons. That person will be find out and punish.

 

[XiaoYaoZi]

澎湖岛外打渔船，一片汪洋都不现

 

[grey boy 2]

Authorities on the island say petty officer who fired missile was unsupervised at the time, and he set weapon to ‘attack’ mode
The navy said seven officers including the petty officer who fired the missile, and navy commander Huang Shu-kuang would be disciplined.
Asked why the boat did not break into pieces after the penetration, Mei said the missile would not explode until it hit its set target.
The Hsiung Feng III, with a range of about 300km, was developed to counter threats from Beijing, which has warned that it would attack the island should it declare independence.

Lu Li-shih, a retired naval captain, questioned how such a misfire could have happended. A launch requires at least three procedures to fire a missile, including a key to switch the trigger.

“While we have repeatedly stressed that the two sides must maintain peaceful development of relations under the political basis of the 1992 consensus, I think an incident like this is very serious,” Zhang said in Beijing. “The Taiwanese side must explain to us what was going on in a responsible manner.”
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/poli...-launches-investigation-deadly-navy-anti-ship

 

[yantong1980]

Lol, that thing are not rifle or pistols, need such procedures to activating the system and launch missiles. More like failed provocation or .... something wrong with 'people' inside that boat.

 

[Mista]

What a joke. It requires a series of steps, protocol, number of men and passcode to activate a missile system. How is it possible to 'accidentally' shoot a missile? Even North Korea don't make that kind of mistake. Can you imagine NK 'accidentally' fire a nuke towards South Korea or the US?

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

What a joke. It requires a series of steps, protocol, number of men and passcode to activate a missile system. How is it possible to 'accidentally' shoot a missile? Even North Korea don't make that kind of mistake. Can you imagine NK 'accidentally' fire a nuke towards South Korea or the US?

Good observation.

 

[C130]

What a “carrier killer”
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the missile is designed to explode inside warships. a 1+tonne missle flying at mach 2+ would cut through that boat like warm butter before exploding


just look at this video of the carrier killer missile in action

 

[ahojunk]

"Chinese Missile Nearly Fired in Response"
I am thankful that China's military has good discipline. Otherwise, the world will have another major crisis.
We already have enough sh*t happening elsewhere, don't need another one.

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Taiwan has notified mainland's TAO of missile blunder: MAC
The China Post news staff
July 2, 2016, 12:10 am TWN

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC, 行政院大陸委員會), responding to Taiwan's Navy's accidental launching of a missile, notified mainland China's Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO, 國台辦) of the mishap on Friday.

The blunder resulted in a Taiwanese fishing boat skipper's death, three injured but recovering crewmen, and a penetrated Kaohsiung-registered fishing vessel.

The government has attempted to handle the situation through the existing communications method with mainland China, the MAC stressed, according to the Central News Agency.

In a press statement, the MAC said that the council had received information of the case in the first instance. The government had also responded by setting up a national security mechanism to handle the situation.

"The Defense Ministry has explained the details of the situation," the statement read, explaining that the matter was an "accident" due to "mishandling" on military personnel's part.

Apart from alerting the TAO, the MAC also gave the green light for Taiwan's semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF, 海基會) to notify its Chinese counterpart, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS, 海協會).

The council reiterated that the government continues to uphold its determination to protect peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

"We believe that the situation at hand especially highlights the importance of a cross-strait communications mechanism," the statement read.

Chinese Missile Nearly Fired in Response

According to Next Magazine (壹週刊), an unnamed naval officer overseeing radar operations revealed that a surface-to-surface missile situated across the Taiwan Strait in mainland China had nearly been activated after Taiwan's naval blunder.

The officer stated that mainland Chinese radar signals cover most of Taiwan, and when the Hsiung Feng III supersonic missile was fired, China's radar scans picked up it.

Radar scans from the naval base in Zuoying also picked up the abnormal activity in the Fujian province area, though it was almost five seconds after Taiwan's mistakenly launched missile landed in Taiwan's waters did the Chinese radar signal return to normal, the magazine reported.

Sources believe that the Chinese had put the brakes on launching its own missiles since Taiwan's missile failed to cross the Taiwan Strait's median line.

 

[Mista]

How did it hit the fishing boat though? Coincidentally? Or it was already aimed as a practice target and 'accidentally' fire?