Test was conducted last year off Pingtung County
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/06/07
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
The Navy’s Hsiung Feng III missile (By Central News Agency)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Hsiung Feng III missile only needs 71 seconds to destroy a target at a distance of 47 kilometers, Taiwan’s military news agency said Friday (June 7).
The result was achieved during a live-fire drill last July 16 off the coast of the Jiupeng base in Pingtung County, the Central News Agency reported.
The Navy sent its Tian Dan Cheng Kung-class guided-missile frigate to the area in June 2018 to prepare for the exercise. At 7:10 a.m., the ship fired off the missile, and at 7:11:11, the target was reported destroyed. [FULL STORY]