According to Taiwan media reports, if the United States delivers all 100 sets of shore-based Harpoon coastal defense systems in 2028, plus the Taiwan military is equipped with Hsiung Feng 2 and Hsiung Feng 3, the number of shore anti-ship missiles of the Taiwan military will exceed 1,000 by then, and at the same time, the Taiwan military plans to establish a "coastal combat command" in 2026 to undertake the defense within 24 nautical miles around Taiwan.
According to the plan of the Taiwan military, the current Haifeng Missile Brigade will be expanded and four strike groups will be formed, east, west, south, and south. The Littoral Operations Command includes the Haifeng Brigade, the Missile Speedboat Unit, the Maritime Surveillance and Reconnaissance Command, and other units. Scholars on the island said that if the coastal combat command undertakes the defense of 24 nautical miles, this will show that the Taiwan military is on the defensive as a whole, and the Haifeng Missile Brigade base is initially planned to be set up in Yunlin, Tainan, Zuoying, Pingtung (two), and Taitung to establish a precision combat capability of the so-called precision missiles around the Taiwan Strait, and relevant projects are already being carried out one after another.
Jiezhong, a military scholar on the island, said that although the coastal combat command is nominally responsible for the defense of the surrounding 24 nautical miles, in fact, when the Taiwan military is equipped with various anti-ship missiles with a range of more than 100 kilometers, it is unlikely that the mission range will be only 24 nautical miles, but the main strike range will be near the "center line of the strait," and the distance will be about 102 kilometers at a distance of 55 nautical miles. This move by the Taiwan military is aimed at increasing the lethality rate of invading Continental Army ships in the Taiwan Strait.
Jie Zhong pointed out that the Taiwan military's operational thinking is to carry out long-range precision strikes against high-value targets such as the Continental Army ships that are maneuvering on the sea, including amphibious combat command ships, Type 075 amphibious assault ships, and large transport ships. Before the Continental Army ships landed on Taiwan Island, they relied on shore-based missiles to carry out saturation strikes.
Obviously, the Taiwan military's purpose in setting up a coastal operations command is to resist reunification by force, enhance its anti-ship combat capability, and increase the depth of its defense, but this method is to turn Taiwan into a hedgehog island. The Taiwan military is likely to emulate Sweden's thinking of "regional sea supremacy" in a vain attempt to gain operational superiority, while the Taiwan military's efforts to build a coastal combat command are to draw on the coastal regiment of the US Marine Corps, which will reduce the number of fighters, abandon most of the heavy firepower configurations such as artillery and combat vehicles, and use smaller mobile units to take charge of core tasks, and use anti-ship missiles to increase deterrence and other capabilities.
According to the number of sea-controlled missiles of the Taiwan military, the US military agreed to sell 400 Harpoon anti-ship missiles, while the Taiwan military is equipped with about 800 Hsiung Feng series missiles, which means that the number of anti-ship missiles will reach 1,200 in 2028. Given such a huge disparity in military strength between the two sides of the strait, trying to use 1,000 anti-ship missiles to prevent the mainland from realizing national reunification is tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car.
According to a news released by Taiwan's defense department, 11 Continental Army planes and eight warships were detected on the 15th in activities around the Taiwan Strait, of which 6 military planes crossed the "center line of the strait" and the other 1 helicopter touched the waters east of Taiwan Island, which is only 27 navies from Taitung and about 3 nautical miles away from the so-called 24 sea critical line. Taiwan's retired lieutenant general Zhang Yanting said that the mainland helicopter is only 27 nautical miles from Taitung, which means that it is only 13 nautical miles from Green Island, or even closer.
Green Island is 14 nautical miles away from Taitung, and if the visibility is very high, you can see the mainland helicopter while standing on Green Island, but the Taiwan military is helpless and directly accepts the reality. At present, the mainland is in the Taiwan Strait, and the frog is boiled in warm water, and now the temperature has reached 70 or 80 degrees, and then the temperature is boiled.
Zhang Yanting believes that the mainland's eight warships are circling the north, center, south, and east to carry out regular patrols, and in addition, the planes of the Continental Army are getting closer and closer to Taiwan Island, so that the Taiwan military has no choice but to watch as there is no space and time for strategic depth and strategic buffer. Once the psychological defenses are breached, there is no such thing as defense. The Taiwan military's attempt to use 1,000 missiles to prevent the mainland from realizing military reunification will only speed up the process of cross-strait reunification.