Is Taiwan ready to launch rockets to shoot down Chinese fighters?
Not only maneuvering track fighters, Taiwan has dispatched mainland Chinese anti-aircraft missile response systems.
Yesterday on October 11, via social network Twitter, the Taiwan Self-Defense Force announced that a mainland Chinese Y-8 hunting plane had just violated "Taiwan's air defense identification area". In response, the Taiwan Self-Defense Force said it had dispatched fighter jets to monitor the enemy, and deployed a closely monitored anti-aircraft missile system.
Since a few months ago, Taiwan has started using surface-to-air missiles to monitor mainland fighters entering the territorial airspace. This can be seen as an important step in how Taipei copes when it increases its combat readiness, in particular it can fire missiles to air.
In fact, Taiwan has been constantly improving its air defense capabilities and deploying more air-to-air missile systems. Several websites recently published pictures of Taiwan's deployment of the MIM-23 Hawk short-range air-to-air missile systems. This is a line of highly versatile rockets that Taiwan has bought from the US for quite some time.
At the end of August, the Taiwanese media reported that the island's Air Defense Force was considering buying more Phalanx melee artillery systems to defend against missiles, unmanned aircraft.
In addition, Taipei many years ago also purchased Patriot missile systems from the US with a range of up to hundreds of kilometers,