Taiwan Successfully Conducts Air Test Launch of Cluster Bomb Missile

Missile Capable of Disabling Chinese Air Force Runways

[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Jo Young-shin] Taiwan has successfully conducted an aerial test launch of cluster bomb missiles targeting China.

On the 13th, Taiwan's Liberty Times and others reported that the domestically produced fighter jet IDF (Ching-kuo) took off from Zhihang Air Base in eastern Taitung the previous afternoon and successfully conducted an aerial test launch of the Wan Jiantan missile in the southeastern airspace. The name Wan Jiantan means "Ten Thousand Swords."

The Liberty Times stated that the missile used this time is a mass-produced version with a range of 200 km and has already passed the Taiwan Air Force's "final operational firing verification" multiple times.

Before this test launch, the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing of the Qingquangang Air Base in central Taichung conducted measurement evaluations and assessed that the 1st and 3rd Fighter Wings have operational capabilities using the Wan Jiantan missile.

Wan Jiantan is a missile developed in 2010 by Taiwan's national defense research institute, the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST), with an investment of 3 billion Taiwan dollars (approximately 117 billion Korean won). It carries about 100 cluster bomb warheads, which can create dozens of craters on runways when attacking airfields, rendering them unusable.

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense is known to have plans for the IDF to launch Wan Jiantan missiles near the Taiwan Strait in case of emergency, striking missile bases, military airfields, troop concentrations, and radar bases along China's southeastern coast.

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