Brothers, this time we will talk about the other side, and I haven't talked about it for a long time. Recently, there was an earthquake on the other side of the river, and it is still a very sad thing. But to say that the other side is really not a person, there is no mourning for a moment, and immediately began to make small moves, preparing for the first joint land and air exercise between the United States and Taiwan, and also using the M1A2T main battle tank purchased from the United States, this is already an obvious and sausage cutting and stepping on the red line, let's take a look.
According to Taiwan media reports, the United States invited Taiwan to participate in a joint ground and air exercise to be held in Mississippi in the second half of the year, in which Taiwan will dispatch M1A2 main battle tanks purchased from the United States to participate in the exercise, which is also the first time that Taiwan's armored forces have conducted a joint ground and air exercise with the US Army.
Specifically, there are two groups of people who have gone to the United States to participate in the exercise, and one group is the seed instructors of the Taiwan Army who are undergoing M1A2T refitting training in the United States, and they will use 18 M1A2Ts that have just left the factory and are still hot to participate in the exercise. The second group was to select some so-called elites from the Fengshan Army Military Academy on the island. At present, there are 24 M1A2T units produced in the United States, and the current monthly production is 4 units, of which 18 units will participate in this exercise until the end of the year, and the first 38 units will be postponed to the fourth quarter of 2024, that is, the end of the year, and will be transported to the island by means of Taiwan wheels. If the delivery is completed, it will be the first time that the island will have a new third-generation main battle tank, which will also improve the island's armored combat capabilities, which is worth paying attention to.
Judging from the use of this batch of M1A2T, it was originally used for the so-called central strengthening of garrison capabilities, that is, the so-called stubborn defense of Taipei. However, after the verification of the Han Kuang exercise, this plan was rejected and instead deployed on the northern coast to carry out beach counterattacks, that is, anti-landing operations. Securing Taipei Port and Taipei Airport, preventing PLA from going ashore and using Taoyuan Airport for large quantities of air transport. This is mainly because the M1A2 is too heavy and has poor mobility power, and the weight of 63 tons is very cumbersome in urban warfare, while the M1A2T special version for Taiwan does not have depleted uranium armor and additional armor, and its defense is still very poor. At the same time, the combined reliability and power of the AGT-1500 gas turbine and the X-1100 gearbox are unreliable. And even more bizarrely, the budget of 108 tanks was given only 16 M1070A heavy trailers and semi-trailers, and the timely delivery of these tanks to the battlefield was very problematic.
Of course, we don't have to worry too much about the other side here, after all, Shuai Huamin, a retired general on Taiwan Island, said that they have been buying garbage for decades, and this batch of M1A2T is just a customized version of garbage. With regard to the M1A2T landing on the island and the joint exercise conducted by the United States and Taiwan, we must be more soberly aware that the United States has insisted on going its own way on the Taiwan issue. In particular, at the invitation of Biden on April 2, the heads of state of China and the United States also had a phone call, and Biden made it clear that "six noes and one unintentional", not to mention that the words are still in the ears, that is also the voice just fell, but put down the phone The United States is still selling arms, stepping on the red line, and conducting military exercises, which is completely insincere, and the words of the Americans are now a punctuation mark that cannot be believed.
Of course, this is not difficult to understand, in terms of the current pulling ability of the United States, in terms of the geostrategy around us, whether it is the South China Sea issue or Japan and South Korea, it is completely impossible to grasp the glass ball, that is, the Taiwan issue still has a little effect, Biden will definitely not let go of this only life-saving straw and bargaining chip. And the maximum pressure that the United States is best at is to decide that the United States will continue to increase its weight on the Taiwan issue, increase its weight, and finally try to achieve the greatest results in the negotiations.
In general, the wheel of history will not be blocked by any third-generation tank, and these 108 M1A2T are likely to become the appetizer of the KD-10 carried by the Wuzhi-10 on the beachhead. It is too unrealistic to think that the people on the island can exchange a gold medal for avoiding death, even if it is a conjugated father and son Israel, Biden still has an ambiguous attitude to let it cease fire, not to mention Taiwan Island with different origins and different cultures, languages and skins, where are their roots and where is the way out in the future, if it is not clear, it may really be too late to regret it.