Republic of China Navy

[Skullknight]

I'm only covering a few of the ships that are in the ROCN. These are all of ROCN ships being operated by ROCN, not the same design operated somewhere else. There are many pictures and they are slow loading; be patient.


Hai Ou fast attack missile craft (of Israeli design)

http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/103/021.jpg
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/103/031.jpg


Kuang Hua-VI fast attack missile craft (indigenous, very new)

http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/07/011.jpg
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/07/021.jpg
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/07/031.jpg


Ching Chiang class fast attack missile craft (indigenous, new)

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/taiwan/images/pic_13101.jpg
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/05/02.jpg


Kang Ding frigate (French design - La Fayette)

http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/02/011.jpg
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/02/031.jpg
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/02/021.jpg


Cheng Kung frigate (American - Perry class)

http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/01/011.jpg
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/01/031.jpg


Chi Yang frigate (American - Knox class)

http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/03/01.jpg
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/navy/04/03/021.jpg

[iflu]

GOD!!! UN Navy?????????

[ZeroPositive]

excellent photos, I don't see a lot of Taiwanese photos at times.

[xjym2002]

Good post. Please keep'em coming.

[Skullknight]

Republic of China Air Force

IDF

http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/air/ch/partner/wing/mq/history.files/18.jpg
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/air/ch/partner/wing/mq/history.files/08.jpg
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/air/ch/wpn_display/newAge/idf/images/idf1.jpg

http://www.mnd.gov.tw/division/~defense/mil/air/ch/animation_display/fly_tech/index.htm

^ Video of Mirage, IDF, and F-16 ^

[Moledet]

What IDF you are talking about? India's defense forces or Israel's defense forces?

[wyrm_142]

IDF = Indigenous defense fighter

[J-10]

IDF = Indigenous defense fighter

This IDF program mainly cooperate with General Dynamics. So it looks like F-16. Many electric-system and parts were supplied from US Industries except engine. Turvo fan engine was developped with Gallet, from Business jet transporter engine TFE731. Less power is weakpoint of
this plane. Production amount was planned as 256, Production has been reduced to 130 after orders were placed for the F-16 and Mirage 2000-5.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/idf-aidc.jpg

[GrimmyRX]

And people say that the PRC copies a lot of stuff. rofl

[epc]

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Caption:
TAMSHUI, TAIWAN: Five home-made missile boats patrol near the naval base of Tamshui, Taipei county, 13 January 2004. Taiwan Defense Ministry arranged a demonstration to show their combat skills to the journalists for the coming Chinese Lunar New Year on 22 January. AFP PHOTO/Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/***** Images)

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TAMSHUI, TAIWAN: Two navy soldiers guard a home-made missile boat at the naval base of Tamshui, Taipei county, 13 January 2004. Taiwan Defense Ministry arranged a demonstration to show their combat skills to the journalists for the coming Chinese Lunar New Year on 22 January. AFP PHOTO/Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
TAMSHUI, TAIWAN: Navy soldiers patrol on home-made missile boats near the naval base of Tamshui, Taipei county, 13 January 2004. Taiwan Defense Ministry arranged a demonstration to show their combat skills to the journalists for the coming Chinese Lunar New Year on 22 January. AFP PHOTO/Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
TAMSHUI, TAIWAN: Navy soldiers stand by on home-made missile boats at the naval base of Tamshui, Taipei county, 13 January 2004. Taiwan Defense Ministry arranged a demonstration to show their combat skills to the journalists for the coming Chinese Lunar New Year on 22 January. AFP PHOTO/Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
TSAOYING, TAIWAN: Navy officer and soldiers salute from a home-made missile boat duriing a commissioning ceremony at Tsaoying naval base in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, 01 October, 2003. The 170-ton vessel can carried four Hsiungfeng II ship-to-ship missile and the navy plans to build 30 such missile boats under the "Kuanghwa Six Project." AFP PHOTO/Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
TSAOYING, TAIWAN: Navy officer and soldiers salute from a home-made missile boat during a commissioning ceremony at Tsaoying naval base in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, 01 October, 2003. The 170-ton vessel can carried four Hsiungfeng II ship-to-ship missile and the navy plans to build 30 such missile boats under the "Kuanghwa Six Project." AFP PHOTO/Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
Navy officers and soldiers salute duriing a commissioning ceremony at Tsaoying naval base in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, 01 October, 2003. The 170-ton vessel can carry four Hsiungfeng II ship-to-ship missiles and the navy plans to build 30 such missile boats under the "Kuanghwa Six Project." AFP PHOTO/Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
A Standard surface-to-air missile is launched from a Perry-class frigate of Taiwan navy at a mock enemy target in the island's biggest ever wargame held in Litzechien, northeastern Ilan county, 04 September 2003. At least 6,000 soldiers participated in the drill codenamed "Han Kuang 19" (Han Glory) presided over by President Chen Shui-bian. AFP PHOTO/Sam YEH
(Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
A Taiwan Navy officer looks at a model of a US-made Rolling Airframe Missile System, provided by Raytheon, during the Taipei Aerospace Technology Exhibition at the World Trade Center, 14 August 2003. More then 300 booths from around the world are here for the four-day exhibition. AFP PHOTO/Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
PINGTUNG, TAIWAN: Photo obtained from Taiwanese navy 14 October 2003 shows a warship is blasted by a torpedo during a military exercise in Pingtung, southern Taiwan, 08 October 2003. The exercise was held to test navy''s weapon system. AFP PHOTO/TAIWAN NAVY (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
SUAO, TAIWAN: Two Taiwan naval crew members stand guard next to big guns on the Perry-class frigate "Yueh Fei" during a naval fleet training mission off the island near Suao, 23 May 2004. Rival China vowed to "crush" any independence attempts before Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's overtures to Beijing in his inaugural speech, 20 May 2004. Meanwhile leading defence journal Jane's Defence Weekly said 23 May that two multi-billion USD arms deals to supply submarines and destroyers to Taiwan were mired in political and financial troubles. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK LIN (Photo credit should read PATRICK LIN/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
SUAO, TAIWAN: Taiwanese naval crew stand guard next to the Chapparal Forward Area Air Defense System (FAADS) on board the logistic support vessel "Wu Yi" during a naval fleet training mission off the island near Suao, 23 May 2004. Rival China vowed to "crush" any independence attempts before Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's overtures to Beijing in his inaugural speech 20 May 2004. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK LIN (Photo credit should read PATRICK LIN/AFP/***** Images)

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Caption:
SUAO, TAIWAN: A Taiwan naval crew member practices flag signals on board the Perry-class frigate "Yueh Fei" during a naval fleet training mission off the island near Suao, 23 May 2004. Rival China vowed to "crush" any independence attempts before Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's overtures to Beijing in his inaugural speech, 20 May 2004. Meanwhile leading defence journal Jane's Defence Weekly said 23 May that two multi-billion USD arms deals to supply submarines and destroyers to Taiwan were mired in political and financial troubles. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK LIN (Photo credit should read PATRICK LIN/AFP/***** Images)

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Taiwan naval crewmen raise the national flag before docking a Taiwan-made Perry class missile destroyer during a military drill in Suao, Taiwan May 23, 2004. China's leaders on May 24 denounced Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's inaugural speech as a cloaked address on independence and said Beijing would pay any price to stop him on his road to statehood -- even losing the 2008 Olympic Games (news - web sites). Photo by Richard Chung/*******

[J-10]

Nice pics :D

[stateofequilibrium]

Asian girls in uniform.. is there nothing better on earth?

[Skullknight]

There is currently an upgrade program underway for the IDF. The new platform will be called F-CK-1C/D. It will be enhanced for strike missions, and it will be quite a lot more capable than the current versions. Only a portion of the fleet will be upgraded. They are also looking at using extra F-16A/B engines on an upgraded F-CK-1, but we'll just have to see what happens there.

[xjym2002]

IDF does not look like F-16, but a mixture of F-16 and F/A-18 and sexy.

A joke is that Taiwan pilots call IDF "I Don't Fly", which emphasize the need of enhancement. But I'd say the name F-CK is definitely not a good one.

[Ghostwolf]

And people say that the PRC copies a lot of stuff. rofl

Are you referring to the Indigenous Defense Fighter design? Well why don't you ask Lockheed Martin? They are the ones who help designed IDF, so basically Taiwan "copied" the design with Uncle Sam's approval. As for their PFG-2 "Cheng-Kung" Class frigates, they are license produced version of the US O. H. Perry Class frigates except the helo deck is about one meter longer, and I do not think that is copying at all, at least they "copy" them with the original owner's permissions.

[epc]

Just to clarify: Calling IDF "I don't fly" were not the pilots, but critics and media. There was one high profile crash during testing. Also during its first public unveiling in front of the president and media, the plane blew its nose landing gear tire while taxiing. Some people started joking that IDF really meant "I don't fly," and as with all jokes, this one stuck even though it was unjustified.

Of the 3 frontline fighters in the air force, IDF has better safety records than F16 and Mirage 2000. Many pilots also prefer it, as it has two power plants instead of one.

F-CK stands for Fighter, Chin-Kuo, Chin-Kuo being the name of an ex-president.

Taiwan-produced OH Perry Class frigates are longer than the US version, because the Taiwan version carries more weapons.

[GrimmyRX]

And people say that the PRC copies a lot of stuff. rofl

Are you referring to the Indigenous Defense Fighter design? Well why don't you ask Lockheed Martin? They are the ones who help designed IDF, so basically Taiwan "copied" the design with Uncle Sam's approval. As for their PFG-2 "Cheng-Kung" Class frigates, they are license produced version of the US O. H. Perry Class frigates except the helo deck is about one meter longer, and I do not think that is copying at all, at least they "copy" them with the original owner's permissions.

Actually, I was more or less making a joke/crack at the amount of "Of such and Such design" you had to put in your comments. *Shrug* it's really no less than how much the PRC copies itself.