The navy yesterday demonstrated its ability to stop the enemy from penetrating the capital city through the Tamsui River in a drill simu-lating the interception of enemy ships by high-speed missile boats at the river's mouth.
Four domestically-built Seagull-class missile boats were sent in the drill to intercept two invading Chinese ships at the mouth of Tamsui River using locally-developed Hsiung Feng-I anti-ship missiles.
The maneuver yesterday took place from the base of a squadron of the navy's Fast Attack Boat Group, which is located near the famous tourist spot of Tamsui's Fishermen's pier.
The Fast Attack Boat Group, headquartered in Kaohsiung's Tsoying, deployed a squadron of Seagull-class missile boats, around 11 in all, on the Tamsui River to defend against invading enemy ships.
The group is comprised of more than 50 Seagull-class missile boats, known as Fast Attack Boats (FABs). It is the navy's main fast-strike force.
These Seagull-class missile boats were built locally in the late 1970s and early 1980s with money donated from the public.
The donations were given for the cause of supporting the military against the termination of military aid from the US following the break-off of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1979.
Each of the Seagull-class ships is equipped with two Hsiung Feng-I anti-ship missiles developed by the Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST). The Hsiung Feng-I missile has a range of 40km.
Also yesterday on the same occasion, the navy opened to the press for the first time in two decades its radar and communication command, which is also home to the Tamsui squadron of Seagull missile boats.
At the command, the navy made public a set of mobile radar systems developed by the CSIST.
It was the first time that the new equipment had been introduced in detail to the public.
An official with the command, who declined to be identified, said the systems will become the navy's final hope in the face of missile attacks from China.
"These systems can survive against electro-magnetic pulse [EMP] attacks by China. As all fixed radar and communication systems can be rendered useless by EMP attacks, the mobile systems will survive," the official said.
The official declined to explain, however, how the newly-developed mobile radar systems are able to survive EMP attacks.
For the military, a potential EMP attack from China has become a serious concern in recent years. No effective defense has yet been developed against such an attack.
The CS/MPS-2001 mobile radar systems that the navy demonstrated to the press yesterday mark one of the preparations that the military is making against possible total paralysis of the C4ISR (command, control, communication, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) system from EMP attack.
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