The corvette will be the leader of a new class designed exclusively to approach the target without being easily identified by radars and attack the enemy. In the video, published a few hours ago, the corvette is compared to the American ship USS Independence.
The new ship is part of a program from 800 million dollars to build between seven and eleven corvettes designed primarily as a carrier killer to protect China's future aircraft carriers (four of the five planned carriers are under construction). The Chinese, in fact, consider the new corvettes as real threats to the fleet.
The 'Tuo Jiang' is 60 meters long. It is 14 meters wide, with a range of 2.000 nautical miles. With a crew of 41 elements, the ship will be equipped with anti-ship missiles (with ability to attack land targets) Hsiung Feng II and Hsiung Feng III.
The new corvettes will give the Taiwan Navy the ability to attack. In fact, the ships acquired by the United States to date have a limited anti-submarine capacity, while the resources, however, reduced for large-scale rearmament, would not allow the acquisition of upper-class vessels. This is why Taiwan has for years decided to develop and build its own defensive and offensive apparatus at home.
Just a few weeks ago, the US Senate and Congress approved a bill to sell four frigates of the 'Oliver Hazard Perry' class in Taiwan, despite objections from Beijing.
The Taiwan Navy is now composed of six 'La Fayette' class frigates (Kang Ding class), eight 'Knox' class frigates (Chi Yang class), eight frigates based on the 'Perry' class (Cheng Kung class) project, four 'Kidd' class destroyer (Kee Lung class) and two Dutch Zwaardvis class (Hai Lung class) submarines.
Franco Iacch
