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Taiwan Hsiung Feng III missile enough to counteract mainland?

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The deployment of a new supersonic anti-ship missile on warships will help Taiwan counter the potential threats posed by mainland's aircraft carriers, experts have said.


The mass production of the surface-to-surface missile, Hsiung Feng ("Brave Wind") 3, is set to be completed by 2013 and the missile will be deployed as soon as technical problems of building launcher carriers are solved, the Navy said.


The deployment of the mobile HF 3 could effectively deter China's aircraft carrier, the Varyag, currently under development, local newspaper reported, citing anonymous navy officials.


The HF 3 can be deployed on land or while at sea, according to the Navy.

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Lin Yu-fang, a legislator from the ruling Kuomintang, also confirmed the prospective capabilities of the HF 3, saying that the Navy has earmarked NT$1.89 billion (US$66 million) to carry out the deployment of the missile on Taiwan's eight frigates and seven patrol ships since 2007, the year when the missile was officially unveiled by the defense ministry.


The HF 3 is designed to cruise at a maximum speed of mach 2.0, or twice the speed of sound, with a range up to 130 kilometers, AFP reported, citing military experts.


The Hsiung Feng III (HF-3) ("Brave Wind III") is the third in the Hsiung Feng series of anti-ship missiles developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST) in Taiwan. The CSIST is believed to have started a ramjet test vehicle program in 1990s, and this project was later merged with the Hsiung Feng (anti-ship missile systems) program. Very little is known about the HF-3, except that it is a Mach 2 class supersonic anti-ship missile designed to target People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) surface vessels, including its Sovremenny class destroyers. It has been speculated that the anti-ship variant is designed to outperform the Russian-made Sunburn anti-ship missile possessed by the PLAN.


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Flight testing of the definitive HF-3 prototype started in 7/2001. Operational testing and evaluation was started in late-2004 and was completed by 7/2005, onboard the PFG-1101. According to Taiwan Defense Review, the supersonic HF-3 missile will dramatically reduce the reaction time available to the target. The typical reaction time against high-subsonic anti-ship (Mach 0.85) missile like the Harpoon or HF-2, when it is detected by the target vessel's onboard radar, is about 2 minutes. An HF-3 missile, flying at just above Mach 2 at comparable sea-skimming altitude during the attack phase could cover the same distance in less than 50 seconds.


The HF-3 missile uses a rocket-ramjet propulsion system, with two side-by-side solid-propellant jettisonable strap-on rocket boosters for initial acceleration and a liquid-fueled ramjet (believed to be using JP-10 fuel) for sustained supersonic cruise. The missile features a wingless design with four strake intakes and four clipped delta control surfaces aft. The air intake design arrangement was reported to have been optimized for evasive maneuvering at terminal sea-skimming altitudes. The missile is designed to be capable of way-pointing and can be programmed to fly offset attack axes to saturate defenses. It is also capable of high-G lateral terminal "random weaving" maneuvers to evade close-in defenses.