NCSIST revealed new drones:

1. Albatross II (looks pretty cool, surprisingly)
2. Chien Hsiang attack drones (optical guidance and GPS guidance versions).
3. Cardinal III drone (VTOL)
4. Taiwan switchblade Albatross II drone looks more badass, worth noting that is operational radius is around 300 km, to me an indication of the range of HF-3ER, cos the Albatross I radius (150 km) is very compatible with range of HF-2/3 (~140 km).
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I've been wanting to write something about Taiwan's low altitude short-range air defense. Here is a thread:

The backbone: after 2 years of delay, the Bee Eye PESA radar (roughly comparable to sentinel, Bee Eye's competitor) passed evaluation in early 2000s. 1/ First order placed in 2011, as of 2022, a total of 34 ordered (including those come with land-based TC-2 SAMs & excluding navy orders). 2/

The "new type" IRBM. If true, I am not sure about its point. Two directional gimbal already realized on HS-15. Getting rid of 4 smaller control engines = loss in total thrust and also needs additional control unit for roll. (single chamber cant do roll). either through jet of (exhaust) gas, or additional roll engines. Not that you cant do it (typical example LM-6 and Thor), but since you get your nice little verniers, why bother at all.

Finally Taiwan's light frigate （2000-2500 tons) is officially budgeted into 2023 defense spending. I've followed the rumor for almost a year. A short thread on why it is important for TW's defense. TW navy lists its combat vessels in roughly three categories:
- Frigates/destroyers above 3000 tons - Class I ships
- Vessels below 3000 tons - Class II ships
- missile boats and patrol boats - Class III ships

Taiwan Navy will spend about 100 million USD and 11 years to upgrade its OTO 76 mm guns with STRALES system and DART munitions, according to the 2023 defense budget news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/… sorry, roughly 330 million USD.

So many thanks to @AkachiYousoro for his tip, I think we have the first footage of the failed April 2012 Unha (KMS-3) launch! Never have i seen such beautiful close up frames! Followings are reasons for April 2012 launch (not 2009):

Rockets in April 2012 launch and 2009 launch have small fins, unlike the December 2012 and 2016 rockets (bigger fins). This leaves us two possibilities: April 2012 or 2009 footage.

i'm posting some pics about NK tracked chassis cos i just finished categorizing some folders .... first is the light chassis VT-323, the north korean type 63 with a lot of variants. 1) APC...





VT-323, 2) anti-tank guns... and mortar (pic 3,4)?