USN KNOX Class Frigate

Loại Chiến hạm Knox Class đă được cho nằm ụ ( Reserved Assess ). Chiếc chiến hạm knox nếu được tân trang với hỏa tiễn Hải-Hải , Pḥng không tầm ngắn của HQ Do Thái tân trang hệ thống chống tầu ngầm và Radar Surveillance System đây là 1 capble fighting ship for a country likes Việt Nam, Philipine. Vấn đề là có cụ nào có tiền để mua ba cái tầu chiến này ( For sure it will be in the budget ).

Knox Tân trang sẽ đối đầu với cá chiến hạm của Tầu phù

-- (Sáu Bi Da @ SaiGon.Net), January 31, 2005

Answers

Hỏa tiễn point defence : BARAK SYSTEM của HQ DO Thái

ISREALI AAM BARAK SYSTEM

-- (Sáu Bi Da @ SaiGon.Net), January 31, 2005.

Unfortunately money has been spent by Toserco-led Nguyen Chi Vinh to buy those outdated, worthless ships retired by the Russian Navy.

-- themykien (themykien@yahoo.com), January 31, 2005.

Sự Phát triển của Hải Quân Trung Cộng với mục đích duy ch́ Hoà B́ng hay để chuẩn bị cho 1 cuộc chiến tranh xâm lấn có tính toán tại Đông Nam Á

The Rising Sea Drgon

-- (Hồng Hà @ Yên Phụ.Net), January 31, 2005.

Trận hỏa mù không biết chính xác chủ đích của PLA [ Know yorself and khow your enemy you will win ]

Pictures Murky as China Up grades Force capabilities

-- (Hồng Hà @ Yên Phụ.Net), January 31, 2005.

Hải Quân Trung Cộng Đang Tập Hải Chiến với Các chiến hạm hiện đại

Không sớm th́ muộn Hải Quân của các quốc gia Đông Nam Á / Đài Loan sẽ mặt đối mặt tác chiến với các chiến hạm trên

-- (Hồng Hà @ Yên Phụ.Net), January 31, 2005.

Sub needs nose job

29jan05

THE US navy yesterday released photographs of the shredded bow of a nuclear submarine that ran into an undersea mountain this month.

The photos were taken once the submarine, the San Francisco, limped back to Guam after smashing into the mountain, which was not on its navigational charts. Officials said they were still assessing the extent of the damage.

The photos show that the head-on crash 150m below the ocean's surface destroyed a sonar dome that formed the submarine's nose and peeled back part of the outer hull.

The accident, which killed one sailor and injured 60 others, happened on January 8 about 580km southeast of Guam.

Navy officials said the submarine's crew had to take emergency measures to blast to the surface and then keep the vessel afloat.

The sub's stronger inner hull, which protects the crew's living and working spaces, held firm, preventing a disaster.

Lt-Cdr Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the Pacific Fleet, said yesterday the sonar dome, made of fibreglass, shattered in the crash.

He said parts of the dome were hanging loosely when the submarine returned to port.

The San Francisco, an attack submarine, was commissioned in 1981.

Its nuclear reactor was not damaged.

Navy officials have said the San Francisco was travelling at high speed, more than 30 knots, when the crash happened.

They have reassigned its captain while investigators determine whether he bears any blame.

Military officials have said the submarine's main chart was prepared in 1989 and did not show any potential hazards within 4.8km of the crash site.

Satellite images taken since then show the wedge-shaped outline of the undersea mountain.

-- Cheers :))) Very lucky :))) (ChuyenTriHOINACH@aol.com), January 31, 2005.

Có thể Captain mistake, có thể địa bàn sai đă naviagate chiếc Hunter Killer Submarine đụng núi. Nó tương tự như bay đêm ở VN hồi chiến tranh cậu cận nhiều Radio Beacon đê? hướng dẫn cậu về sân đáp ban đêm, bay bằng instruments và Radio Beacons

-- (Hồng hà @ Yên Phụ.Net), February 01, 2005.

Theo báo chí Mỹ th́ hải đồ không ghi đúng đá ngầm .

Nh́n cảnh chiếc tàu ngầm ta nên suy nghĩ sử cách biệt giữ Tây Âu và Á Châu .

Hồi đệ nhị thế chiến máy bay Mỹ bay và vận chuyển chậm hơn máy bay Nhật .

Hồi chiến tranh Triều Tiên cũng vậy máy bay Mỹ cũng thua Mig .

Nhiều người chê Mỹ dở .Sau chiến tranh người ta mới khám phá là máy bay Mỹ được bảo vệ bằng những lá chắn bằng sắt dày ,do đó khi bị bắn sinh mạng của người hoa tiêu an toàn hơn tụi Nhật và cộng sản .Bọn Nhật và cộng sản chúng nó chỉ cần chiến thắng hơn là bảo vệ phi công .

Ta có thể bảo bọn Nhật và cộng sản xem rẻ mạng sống con người hơn tụi Mỹ .(Sự thật đúng không các bạn ? 9 thằng ngư dân CHXHCN bị Chệt giết Mỹ không nói một tiếng ,nếu như một thằng tỵ nạn VN quốc tịch Mỹ bị Chệt giết như vậy Mỹ sẽ la làng lên và Chệt trước tiên sẽ xin lỗi liú lo và chuyện sau tính sau ).

Hiện tượng xe Nhật hay Đại Hàn cũng vậy ,khi có tai nạn khá nặng đa số đi nhị t́ .

-- thich du thu (toollovers@comcast.net), February 01, 2005.

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Nhi`n ca'i Sub wrackage thi` cu~ng pha?i no'i la` Sub na`y "cu+'ng" qua speed -da~ ghi, tuy nhie^n it is a shocked news :))))

To^i co' la`m vie^.c qua 1 va`i phi co+ Cargo cu?a US Airforce, ca'i dome truo+'c mu~i la`m ba(`ng fiber-glass nhu+ng pha?i du`ng 1 loa.i so+n co' ti'nh ca'ch nhu+ Antenna nha^.n frequency cho rada, va` sau dome la` ca'i rada disc tro^ng nhu+ TV-disc qua saterlite, to^i O ngo+` Submarine cu~ng du`ng ca'ch na`y, how can it stand still under high pressure of the deep ?????

-- Accident is a way you can not void :))) Murphy's law :))) (ChuyenTriHOINACH@aol.com), February 01, 2005.

Cả thuỷ thủ đoàn của chiếc Hunter Killer Sub này phải cám ơn các Naval Architectures và Naval Engineer đă vẽ kiểu tốt và Sfaty Margine is very high Risk Factor = 10 t0 -9 ?????

Cái Sonar Dome có double wall tựa như 2 hay 3 lớp vỏ nên 2 lớp bi damage th́ lớp sau cùng vẫn đứng vững, lối này gọi là damage tolerate.

-- (Sáu Bi Da @ Sài G̣n.Net), February 01, 2005.

dit-me , doi thoai voi chu Sau-bi-da ngo ngan mot ti cho vui.

dau tien , cai ten cua chu la su xi nhuc cho nguoi VN. bi-da la mon choi cua de cuoc tay-phuong , ong noi ,ong ngoai , to tien VN cua chu may deo dat ra mon choi nay . Tai sao chu may vinh danh mon choi cua de cuoc ?

tau chien frigate chi la tro-chien -ham hay ho -tong -ham cua US Navy. dit-me , dem doi dau voi ham -doi Trung-Cong the deo nao duoc ?

Cach xa ham hoi dich , ban chua toi thi tau-ngam dich da an-goi bat ngo thi danh dam con-cac gi ?

[ frigate ship couldn't be attack-ship, enemy- subs will destroy it by surprise , ...frigate class-ship are just a support-ship to protect convoy .].

them vao do, mot ham doi Trung -Cong moi lan thao dien tren bien chung vai tram chiec , ham doi My cung phai ne xa , thi dam ba chiec frigate [ ma chu trinh bay ] thi xung dang gi ma doi dau voi dich ??

Viet-kieu co rat nhieu tuong ta hai-quan , chu em co gang ma hoc hoi nhung nguoi nay thi moi kha duoc, tranh suy nghi theo bo -oc hat-dau cua minh .

-- chi-bua (mingo@netscape.net), February 01, 2005.

dit-me , doi thoai voi chu Sau-bi-da ngo ngan mot ti cho vui.

Chú chi bua bắt bẻ không đúng cách bởi vậy mà chú không có vợ con ǵ hết, khó tính hay bắt bẻ!!! Anh sáu Bi Da ảnh thích chơi Bi da th́ có ǵ là lạ, dân Nhật, Đại Hàn, Việt nam chơi Bi Da từ lâu cái tên Sáu Bi Da có lẽ anh ta sinh thứ 6 và thích chơi Bi Da . Miền Nam ḿnh c̣n có nhiều tên quái đản như chú Tư cầu, ba Xích Lô, Tám xe be có ǵ là lạ

dau tien , cai ten cua chu la su xi nhuc cho nguoi VN. bi-da la mon choi cua de cuoc tay-phuong , ong noi ,ong ngoai , to tien VN cua chu may deo dat ra mon choi nay . Tai sao chu may vinh danh mon choi cua de cuoc ?

Bỏ Qua đi Tám cho bà con nhờ đi ống bơ Rỉ

tau chien frigate chi la tro-chien -ham hay ho -tong -ham cua US Navy. dit-me , dem doi dau voi ham -doi Trung-Cong the deo nao duoc ?

Nước nhỏ bị nước lớn ăn hiếp, để bảo vệ lănh hải đầu cần tầu chiến lớn, tụi Na uy, Thụy Điển, Đan Mạch là điển h́nh. Tân trang chiếc Frigate như anh Sáu Bi da đề nghị sẽ biến tầu thành tầu chiến đối đầu với tầu của Hoa Lục. Tầu nhỏ dễ lẩn chánh, ngoài chống Tầu với Hỏa tiễn hải-hải, nó c̣n có Anti-Air [ 76mm OTTO, 40mm OTTO All CIWS + BARAK System có decoys], Tầu c̣n gắn ASW Torpedo và ASW Rocket. Chú mày già thành lẩn thẩn, cứ đội h́nh 3 chiếc có thằng Tầu lặn nào dám vào, ba cái Jiang Hù, Soveremenny th́ Radar signature quá lớn dễ bị dánh đắm, tui nói là không 1 hỏa tiễn mà Salvos.

Thôi tui không nói nhiều cho chú học lóm

Cach xa ham hoi dich , ban chua toi thi tau-ngam dich da an-goi bat ngo thi danh dam con-cac gi ?

[ frigate ship couldn't be attack-ship, enemy- subs will destroy it by surprise , ...frigate class-ship are just a support-ship to protect convoy .].

them vao do, mot ham doi Trung -Cong moi lan thao dien tren bien chung vai tram chiec , ham doi My cung phai ne xa , thi dam ba chiec frigate [ ma chu trinh bay ] thi xung dang gi ma doi dau voi dich ??

Viet-kieu co rat nhieu tuong ta hai-quan , chu em co gang ma hoc hoi nhung nguoi nay thi moi kha duoc, tranh suy nghi theo bo -oc hat-dau cua minh .

-- chi-bua (mingo@netscape.net), February 01, 2005.

Chi bua gets a life, you do not contribute much for VAS like CTHN, you are a pimple

-- (Hai Au @ Hang Sa.Com), February 01, 2005.

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cu+' nha('c -de^'n 2 chu+~ "Thie^'n Heo" la` to^i nho+' Vietcong :))))

PS: WHo was that jerk :)))))

-- Cheers :) (ChuyenTriHOINACH@aol.com), February 01, 2005.

Ha?i Qua^n vu`ng DDo^ng Nam A' ne^'u kho^ng gia^`u nhu* Ma` thi` co' the^? ta^n trang loai Knox Class Frigate

Norwegian Navy ASW FRIGATE

-- (Hai Au @ Hoang Sa.Net), February 01, 2005.

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Tha^.t ra, trong chie^n tranh "Sea-Game" thi` My~ va^~n ma.nh ve^` Aircraft Carrier cu`ng ca'c Tomahak va` loa.i ma'y bay nho? unman plus Submarine, China -dang ba`nh truo+'ng nhu+ng O the^? beat - duo+.c, na(m 1982, vu. Argentina -do`i chie^'m la.i Falkland Island ma` UK tu+`ng colonise bao na(m, nho+` My~ giu'p ne^n UK -da~ tha('ng nhu+ng cu~ng kho^? so+?, Argentina du`ng phi -da.n cu?a Pha'p ba('n cu~ng khu?ng khie^'p nhu+ng vi` ho. O -duo+.c hua^'n luye^.n chu - da'o ne^n thua cha(ng :)))

Mo+`i -do.c thu+? :

(FWD)

HMS Conqueror (S48) possibly returning home from the Falklands War in 1982 (seems to be a Jolly Roger on the tower, The British Naval tradition is to fly a Jolly Roger when returning to port when the sub made a kill at sea. The Jolly Roger would have "x"s for every kill they made.).

HMS Conqueror (S48) Falkland

Sinking of HMS Sheffield

Sinking of Belgrano Falkland HMS Sheffield on fireTwo days after the Belgrano sinking, on May 4, the British lost the Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield to fire following an Exocet missile strike. The Sheffield had been ordered forward with two other Type 42s in order to provide a radar and missile "picket" far from the British carriers. After the ships were detected by an Argentine Navy Air Force (CANA) P-2 Neptune patrol aircraft, two CANA Dassault Super Etendards were launched, each armed with a single Exocet. Refuelled by a C-130 Hercules shortly after launch, they went in at low altitude, popped up for a radar check and released the missiles from 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 km) away. One missed HMS Yarmouth, due to her deployment of chaff, but the other hit the Sheffield. The weapon struck with devastating effect, hitting the centre of the ship and starting raging fires which quickly spread, killing 22 sailors and severely injuring 24 others.

Whilst fighting the fire, Yarmouth reacted to a possibile attack from an Argentine submarine, firing anti-submarine weaponry. HMS Sheffield was abandoned several hours later, gutted and deformed by her still- burning fires which lingered on for six more days. She finally sank outside the Exclusion Zone on May 10, whilst under tow from the Yarmouth, becoming an official war grave. Meanwhile the other Type 42s were withdrawn from their precarious position, leaving the British task force open to attack.

The tempo of operations increased throughout the second half of May. UN attempts to mediate a peace were rejected by the British who felt that any delay would make a campaign impractical in the South Atlantic storms. The destruction of the Sheffield had a profound impact on the British public, bringing home the fact that the "Falklands Crisis", as the BBC News put it, was now an actual shooting war

-- Cheers :) (ChuyenTriHOINACH@aol.com), February 01, 2005.

dit-me, cac chu co 1 loi nhin thien -can va nhuoc-tieu .

nhat la chu sau-bi-da , [ anh thi chi choi bi-da-lo ]. mot nuoc nho muon danh mot nuoc -lon ,thi hay bat chuoc VC danh My - truong ki khang -chien -danh toi nguoi Viet cuoi cung -

Voi China NAVY VI DAI bao trum gan het phan West cua Thai binh duong ma cac chu KKK xui dai VC dem Frigate doi dich .!!! ??? Day la su ngu xuan bam sinh cua cac chu KKK cong voi su ngo ngan cua lu tuong ta an hai VietNam cong tru thua tran ....ma cac-chu phot ra nhung tu tuong ngo -nghe ![ stupid].

Cac loai tau de danh nhanh rut manh tren bien [ nho danh lon ] phai dung PT - kieu danh bat ngo [surprise] thi may ra moi thang duoc ! Tuy nhien China Navy qua manh , chi gai ghe cho no ma thoi , may ra kieu du -kich an mon , thinh thoang danh trom roi chay , keo dai chung 10 nam ,thi may ra moi thang .

Do la chien luoc , chien thuat tren bien cua Chi-bua day do cho cac chu KKK.

-- chi-bua. (mingo@netscape.net), February 01, 2005.

Thằng già cup thùng thiếc ăn nói ngu như con chó chệt ghẻ Mă viện. HQ Trung Cộng đă đánh thắng ai ??? Đă làm chủ nửa Thái B́nh Dzương, thằng ăn nói lếu láo cho bọn cẩu chệt Bá Quyền nghèo rớt mồng tơi Peking Duck Quack Quack.

Mở con mắt to ra mà đọc : HQ Do Thái rất nhỏ nhưng cũng choảng Liên Hiệp Ả Rập nếu kể về vũ khí, Xe chồm, Đại Pháo, Scuds, SAM, MIGs, Sokhoi, Tu-22, Chiến Hạm, Tầu chiến tối tân gấp mấy lần Trung Cộng mà Quân Đội Do Thái c̣n đè bẹp. Đừng nghĩ chuyện lấy thịt đè người. Nếu chiến tranh xảy ra không có vùng Kinh tế nào của Chệt Sẽ An Toàn.

Căn cứ Hải Nam và Hoàng Sa là 2 điểm phải zứt trướt tiên, tao không để tụi mày chơi tầm ăn.

Căn cứ HQ Zhang Zhang sẽ tắm trong biển lửa, tụi mày có Hỏa Tiễn nguyên tử nhưng không được sài tại sao ? Tụi UN nó sẽ cho mày ăn nguyêntử trước nếu Thằng chệt muốn sài

Chiến Tranh không có lợi cho thằng to sác Trung Cộng

-- (Sáu Bi Da @ Sài G̣n.Net), February 01, 2005.

Sao lại không ?

HQTC vô cùng vẻ vang đă đánh thắng được vài chiếc nghe cây của CHXHCN ,giết được 9 tên CHXHCN và bắt sống nhăn răng 7 tên cùng gây tử thương cho chừng 7 tên .

Sau khi giết người HQTC c̣n bao vay CHXHCN và truy cứu đến tận sạ huyệt Cuả CHXHCN ,may nhờ kinh nghiệm "chém vè " giỏi cha truyền con nối nên bọn ngư dân này trồn thoát .

-- thich du thu (toollovers@comcast.net), February 01, 2005.

(FWD) RELATED LINKS

China's Growing Navy Worries U.S. China's Growing Navy Worries U.S. International Herald Tribune December 31, 2004

One day in November, a nuclear-powered Chinese Navy submarine quietly slipped past this western Pacific island, home port for five supply and ammunition ships positioned here by the U.S. military for rapid deployment around the world.

"We are watching them," a crew member of a U.S. Navy nuclear attack submarine said at an American fast food restaurant while on shore leave here. "The Chinese are a real concern."

Ever since the U.S. Marine Corps defeated Japanese forces here 60 years ago, the Marianas have been widely considered an American lake. Now, the United States may have to get used to sharing the western Pacific with China, the world's rising naval power.

According to military analysts, China is rapidly expanding its submarine force to about 85 by 2010, about one-third more than today.

"They want to become the dominant power in the western Pacific, to displace the United States, to kick us back to Hawaii or beyond," said Richard Fisher Jr., who studies Chinese naval strengths and strategies for the International Assessment and Strategy Center, a Washington research institute.

China is embarking on a $10 billion submarine acquisition and upgrade program and is buying destroyers and frigates and equipping them with modern antiship cruise missiles, according to Eric McVadon, a retired U.S. Navy admiral who served as defense attache in Beijing in the early 1990s.

"The Chinese are converting their surface navy into a truly modern antiship cruise-missile surface navy," McVadon, now an East Asia security consultant, said after attending a naval review conference in Hawaii. "The modernization of their navy has taken a great leap forward. Their nuclear sub program has taken off like wildfire."

In contrast, Russia, which once had 90 submarines in the Pacific, has mothballed all but 20. Japan has 16 submarines and no plans to buy more. The U.S. Pacific Fleet has 35 submarines, with many considered to be the most modern in the world. "We don't have to worry about losing control of the seas anytime soon," Richard Halloran, a military affairs analyst based in Honolulu, said by telephone. "But the Chinese are moving a whole lot faster on military modernization than anyone expected a short time ago."

For its open-water navy, China is concentrating on submarines. The immediate goal, analysts say, is to blockade Taiwan, an island nation seen by Beijing as a breakaway province.

In response, the U.S. Navy is reversing an old Soviet-era formula, where the United States had 60 percent of its submarines in the Atlantic and 40 percent in the Pacific. In addition to shifting toward keeping 60 percent in the Pacific, the United States recently set up an antisubmarine warfare center in San Diego.

In January, Guam is to receive a third U.S. nuclear attack submarine, the Houston. In three years, the United States will have brought from zero to three its forward deployed submarines in Guam, the U.S. territory 240 kilometers, or 150 miles, south of here. Since March, the United States, using satellites and maritime surveillance planes, has detected Chinese submarines in waters west of Guam.

The Chinese Han Class submarine that passed near here cruised first near Guam. From the Marianas, the Chinese submarine went north to Okinawa, where Japanese forces detected it Nov. 9 as it shadowed a joint naval exercise between the United States and Japan.

Violating international law, the submarine passed between two Japanese islands without surfacing and identifying itself. Japan protested strongly, and Japanese officials said they had won a private apology from Chinese officials.

The rise of China's navy is watched with apprehension in the Pacific, where, down through the centuries, the islands have long been playthings for the world's maritime powers: Spanish, American, British, French, German and Japanese.

"I have talked to several Chinese residents here who are quite proud that China will have a big navy again," Samuel McPhetres, regional history professor at Northern Marianas College, said in an interview. "But are two big maritime powers willing to share the Pacific?"

In October 2003, a destroyer and a supply ship from the Chinese Navy made a goodwill visit to Guam, reciprocating a visit made one month earlier by two U.S. Navy ships to Zhanjiang, in southern Guangdong Province. It was the first call by U.S. warships to the headquarters of China's South Sea Fleet there.

But a few years ago, alarm bells rang in Washington when Chinese companies were the only bidders for a U.S. Navy ship repair facility that was to be ceded by the Pentagon to Guam's territorial government. Washington stopped the sale. Later, Guam signed a 20- year lease with a Japanese company.

Today, Washington is cautious about extending to Chinese tourists the same Guam-only visa privileges extended to South Korean tourists.

Robert Underwood, who served until 2003 as the territory's nonvoting delegate to the U.S. Congress, warned that huge Chinese tourism might scare away military strategists who are investing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Today's era of carefully negotiated port calls and surreptitious surveying reminds some historians of an earlier era.

"In the 1920s American military and Japanese military had to size up each other to see what the challenges were," Daniel Martinez, National Park Service historian at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, said in an interview in Saipan. "You could see today the potential of what was happening in 1930s, when the U.S. and Japan sought to spread influence throughout the Pacific." Japan's influence is eroding with new air links from here to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

"The Chinese influence in the Pacific islands will be very, very big, bigger than Japan's today," Hiroshi Nakajima, executive director of the Pacific Society, an academic group, predicted in a recent interview here. Eventually, Nakajima said, "Chinese interests and the American interest will clash."

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Overview

The TAIWAN Navy's primary mission

The Navy's primary mission is to defend the island against a Chinese blockade and to protect Taiwan's sea lines of communication (SLOCs). The ROC Navy is charged with maintaining control and surveillance of the waters that surround Taiwan on all sides. The Navy also takes part in joint operations with the Army and Air Force. Including some 30,000 marines, the ROC Navy forces number around 68,000 officers and men. The Taiwan Navy has over two dozen major surface combatants. In addition there are four submarines, about 100 patrol boats, 30 mine warfare ships, and 25 amphibious vessels. Despite the Navy's ability to refurbish and extend the service life of its vessels and equipment well beyond expectation, until recently a large portion of the fleet consists of obsolescent World War II-era ships. The Navy's modernization program is intended to replace its aging fleet of surface combatants with newer ships like the French-built Lafayette- class frigate and a domestically-produced variant of the U.S. Perry- class frigate. Taiwan is acquiring advanced antisubmarine warfare technology which will likely improve their ability to counter PLA submarines operating off the coast of Taiwan.

Taiwan's Kuang Hua [Glorious China] naval modernization consists of a number of separate projects:

Kwang Hua Project I is the the building of the new generation Cheng Kung class frigates modeled on the US Perry-class frigate. Kwang Hua Project II includes the purchase of six Lafayette-class (Kang Ding-class) frigates from France, which is the centerpiece of the Kwang Hua-2 project for the construction of 16 ships. Kwang Hua Project III includes the 500-ton Jing Chiang class patrol boats. Kwang Hua Project IV includes the lease of eight Knox-class frigates. Kwang Hua Project V is the much delayed plan for the "secondary class warships of the second generation" to build several 1,500-2,000-ton patrol boats with stealth capability that will be a supplementary combat force for "primary class" warships. Kwang Hua Project VI includes 30 large 150-ton fast attack missile boats with stealth features.

The ROC Navy has been developing a second generation of missile frigates and missile patrol boats. The first domestically built missile frigate (FPG-2) was built and handed over to the ROC Navy in May 1993, with the expectation that one such frigate would be produced every 11 months from then on. Construction of the Navy's first missile patrol boat was to be completed by March 1996, with the rest to be finished by 1999. The Navy General Headquarters is in charge of developing and maintaining the Navy's combat readiness, as well as commanding and supervising all its subordinate fleets and ground units. Under its command are the Naval Fleet Command, the Marine Corps Headquarters, the Navy Logistics Command, Headquarters of the Naval Area Command, the Area Service Office, the Naval Base Command, and the Bureau of Maritime Survey. The subordinate Navy units, in descending order, include the Naval Fleet Command to the fleet , group, and ship levels. The Marine Corps units, like those of the Army, extend from the Marine Corps Headquarters, through division, regiment, battalion, company, and platoon. Navy GHQ oversees operational and land-based forces. The former consists of:

2 destroyer fleets and 1 frigate fleet; 1 amphibious landing fleet and 1 amphibious landing vessel fleet; 1 submarine group; 1 mine vessel fleet and 1 mine-sweeper/layer fleet; 1 logistical service fleet and 1 logistical rescue group; 1 Hai-chiao speedboat group; 1 anti-submarine helicopter group; 1 Hai-feng shore-based missile group; and 2 marine divisions, 1 landing tank regiment, and 1 operational service regiment.

Logistical support is carried out by one fleet of auxiliary craft while another fleet of auxiliary craft is assigned to disaster relief duties. The Navy's coastal SAM batteries employ Hsiung-feng missiles which resemble US Harpoon missiles.

The Chinese Naval Academy (CNA) offers cadets courses similar to those in civilian colleges of science and engineering. During a four- year training period, they take special military courses, including navigation, marine engineering, equipment maintenance, and serve an apprenticeship aboard ship. Just prior to graduation, CNA cadets sail abroad in an armada dubbed the "Fleet of Friendship" for two months of hands-on training. In recent years, the "Fleet of Friendship" has sailed as far as the Middle East and South Africa. During the long voyage, future naval officers are given a chance to practice their combat skills and tactics and to enrich their navigational experience.

-- Life on earth never been withou WAR :))))) (ChuyenTriHOINACH@aol.com), February 01, 2005.

Luhai / Luhu ,Watch out fpr low flying Su-22k armed with Harpoonski / Gabriel ASM

-- (Sáu Bi Da @ Sai Gon.Net), February 02, 2005.