Two More Tuo Chiang-Class 'Carrier Killer' Stealth Corvettes Enter Service
Two more Tuo Chiang-class corvettes, built for speed and stealth, have entered service as Taiwan seeks to bolster its asymmetric warfare strategy to counter China's much larger naval force.
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00:00Two new domestically built stealth warships have entered service with Taiwan's Navy.
00:05These corvettes are the 6th and 7th Tuozhang-class ships to join the Navy's fleet.
00:10They're designed to be fast and hard to detect,
00:12and they're armed with Taiwan's domestically developed surface-to-air and anti-ship missiles,
00:17including supersonic missiles.
00:19This has led to them being called carrier killers.
00:22The corvettes are part of Taiwan's asymmetric warfare strategy,
00:25aimed at countering China's much larger naval force.