On September 12, Taiwan media broke the news that during the military exercise in August this year, the PLA not only launched DF-15B ballistic missiles, but also two DF-17 hypersonic missiles. Although it has not been confirmed, but as soon as this news came out, it quickly caused an uproar, if the Taiwan authorities detected these two missiles, then why did not report it before, but only after more than a month to reveal the news?
In fact, the media on the island are "revenge for revenge" and secretly accuse Japan of not detecting these two missiles. Because during the PLA's military exercise around Taiwan, the Taiwan media initially vigorously denied that there were missiles passing over Taiwan. As a result, the Japanese side took the lead in exposing this news, and also gave a schematic map of the missile's flight trajectory. Japan's Ministry of Defense said that the PEOPLE's Liberation Army launched nine ballistic missiles that flew over a distance of 350 to 700 kilometers, four of which skimmed over Taipei.
This revelation in Japan triggered a crisis of trust on the island, and some people accused the Taiwan authorities of pretending to be confused and not only failed to intercept it, but also deliberately concealed it from the people, and did not even sound the air defense alarm. The response of the relevant departments of the Taiwan military and the DPP authorities was that these missiles were outside the atmosphere when they skimmed over Taiwan, and the relevant personnel of the Taiwan military had detected that the target of the missiles was in the open sea and did not pose a threat to the island, so no measures were taken.
Some people on the island even believe that the Taiwan authorities' air defense radar did not detect these missiles at all, and it was only after the Japanese side broke the news that the Taiwan authorities reacted passively. In fact, anyone with a certain degree of military knowledge will understand that tactical ballistic missiles have a short flight path, while the DF-15B has been modified to adopt a dual-cone supersonic design and fly very fast. It is difficult to react during the flight, not to mention that as the Taiwan military said, "the target has been predicted in advance in the open sea, so no notification has been made."
So why is it that after such a long time, there is news that the People's Liberation Army has launched two DF-17 hypersonic missiles? Because the data of the relevant departments of the Taiwan military at that time did not match the data released by the Japanese Ministry of Defense. The data on the Taiwan authorities' side is that the PLA has launched 11 missiles, while the data released by the Japanese side is 9, and the extra two of them have been said by the Taiwan media to be the PLA's Dongfeng-17 hypersonic missiles. The Taiwanese media Zhongshi's description was more detailed, not only saying that the PEOPLE's Liberation Army fired two DF-17s, but also saying that the two missiles were "not loaded with ammunition, but rather telemetry sensing warheads of test instruments."
In fact, the so-called "breaking news" of the Taiwan media is quite a bit of a taste of killing eight hundred enemies and losing a thousand to themselves. First of all, it took so long to announce the participation of the DF-17 missile in the exercise, which is even more seriously concealed from the people on the island. This move will not only not serve to humiliate Japan, but will actually aggravate the discontent of the people on the island. Not only that, but Japan has previously said that "if there is something in the Taiwan Strait, japan has a problem," and it is obvious that Japan, as the most loyal ally of the United States in Asia, has the idea of intervening in the situation in the Taiwan Strait. But the Taiwan media instead humiliated Japan, so that japan's hot face pasted a cold ass.
The third most important factor, if the Taiwan military detected these two Dongfeng-17s, then the previous report on the island is lying. As we all know, the DF-17 adopts a wave-riding body layout, and the biggest feature in addition to hypersonic speed is its end-of-orbit change capability, that is, the landing point of this missile is simply unpredictable. If the Taiwan military detected two DF-17s in advance, they still swore that they had mastered the landing point of the missiles, and whether the Taiwan military had mastered more advanced technology than the United States, otherwise how could they do such a strange thing?