KDX-II uses SM-2 Block IIIA, not SM-1.
and no comparable radar suit to go with it…
According to the Taipei Times article date 27 April 2005, in a fictitious battle simulated by the Taiwanese military two Kidds shot down 16 out of 40 attacking Chinese aircraft at the loss of one of the Kidds.
yup trust a Taiwan computer simulation to tell you the chinese ability…
I don’t see how it’s possible to shoot down planes at 200km plus before the PLAN planes use their 250km AShM ? BTW Taiwan cheated during the test by using the US reserve stats instead of the uncomparably lower Taiwan stats. lol the simulation had more reseves than active units!!!
Regarding the SSMs, what matters most is sea surveillance capability, not range. Unless your 500-km SSM is supported by a wide-area surveillance system that can detect, track & identify every moving object more than 500-km away, it is unusable. For instance the Russians had to place US-A radar and US-P ELINT satellites in the orbit to find targets for their SS-N-19 SSM. You cannot hit what you cannot track and identify.
So the PLAN Y-8 MPA is useless then…? The AWACS program is useless?
Kidd-class destroyers do well in war games: MND.
I never said the Kidd was a lemon, I said the Kidd were not comparable with the 052C!
COST-BENEFIT: It would take dozens of Chinese jets to sink a Kidd Class destroyer, according to the results of a computer simulation carried out by the defense ministry
government propaganda comming form Taiwan in hopes that it will creat false hope that the ROCN can withstand an invasion. What’s the point? What would you comment on a PLAN study on the same subjects and concluded that it would only take one plane to sink the single Kidd???
It’s called phony science!
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