The tactical missiles used by the Haimas Multiple Launch Rocket System have a range of up to 300 kilometers. If the 43rd Artillery Finger in the south is deployed in combat readiness, the firepower can cover the Bashi Channel and intimidate the Communist fleet. The picture shows the Ukrainian armed forces successfully using the ATACMS tactical missile system assisted by the United States to carry out precise strikes against military targets in Russia. （圖取自洛馬官網）
[Reporter Luo Tianbin/Reporting from Taipei] The asymmetric fire network of the first island chain has undergone a shocking evolution, and the firepower of Taiwan and the United States has quietly formed a cross-border attack! As the 43rd artillery unit of the Eighth Army of the Chinese Army is about to receive the HIMARS multiple launch rocket and be deployed for combat readiness, Southern Taiwan's long-range strike fist is officially tightened. At the same time, the US military has recently launched a series of counterattacks on the islands at the northern tip of the Philippines. The firepower ranges of Taiwan and the United States have fatally overlapped in the Bashi Channel. This major Taiwan-US military linkage is equivalent to building an impenetrable defense chain in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait and the Bashi Strait. If the Communist fleet intends to attack from this sea area in the future, it will face saturated firepower attacks from both ends.
According to a report by the US military media "Defense News", during this year's "Balikatan" joint military exercise, the US military transported the Haimas launch vehicle to the northernmost island of the Philippines, only about 160 kilometers away from Taiwan, for the first time to conduct high-mobility exercises. Clark, commander of the U.S. Army Pacific, even revealed that the U.S. military even successfully transported a huge amount of missiles and ammunition stored in South Korea across regions to the Philippines to cooperate with Haimas in conducting live-fire exercises. The U.S. military then used military ships to quickly move the Haimas to Balabac Island near the South China Sea, highlighting the U.S. military's elusive "cross-island chain ammunition transportation" and island-hopping capabilities in the first island chain.
On April 23 this year, the US military practiced Haimas rapid deployment on the northernmost island of Itbayat in the Philippines, unloading the launch vehicle from the C-130J transport aircraft and moving it to the deployment position.該島距台灣約160公里。 （取自美軍DOVDS網站）
Military sources pointed out today that the island-hopping deployment of the US military in the northern Philippines echoes the strategic deployment of the Chinese military in southern Taiwan. After receiving this batch of Haima equipment, the 43rd Artillery Command of the National Army stationed in the south experienced a qualitative leap in combat effectiveness. The ATACMS tactical missile configured by Haimas has a range of up to 300 kilometers, and the precision rocket also has a range of 70 kilometers. In the past, Army artillery could only passively bombard enemy troops on the beach. However, now that the 43 gun finger has been incorporated into the Haimas combat readiness, its firepower range extends outward from the inland of southern Taiwan, directly including the entire Taiwan beach, Taiwan's southwest waters and the Bashi Channel within the scope of asymmetric strike defense.
When the 43rd artillery finger in southern Taiwan extended southward and connected with the U.S. military's fire network extending northward at the northern tip of the Philippines, the two directly formed a "north-south pincer attack" death trap in the Bashi Strait. During wartime, as long as the Communist Party's aircraft carrier formations, Type 075 amphibious assault ships or large frigate groups attempt to pass through the Bashi Strait and enter the southeastern waters of Taiwan to implement a blockade, they will be exposed to the dual ballistic missile threat from Taiwan's main island and the Philippines' outlying islands. This intersecting and overlapping long-range missile network can carry out precise ballistic point-kill and saturation assaults against the core military vehicles of the Communist Army, leaving the Lao Communist warships without a safe channel to follow in the southern Taiwan Strait.
In addition, the "multiple position positions" and road driving training emphasized by the 43rd Artillery Division's Seamaster Unit have greatly improved the battlefield survival rate. The rocket vehicles were broken into pieces on the open southern highway network, hit and run, and combined with the island-hopping maneuvers of US military boats among the outlying islands in the northern Philippines, they formed a "ghost artillery connection" on the first island chain. The flexible changes in the asymmetric firepower of the two countries force the Communist Rocket Force to disperse a large amount of reconnaissance energy during war, and also force the Communist surface fleet to withdraw at least 100 to 200 kilometers to the open sea. This joint defense network of "U.S. military controlling the island and Chinese military controlling the coast" secretly coordinated by Taiwan and the United States has essentially severely damaged the Communist army's plan to attack southern Taiwan.
