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The Warzone.

With Taiwan’s first domestically made submarine seen entering the water for the first time and about to start at-sea trials, observers have had their best chance to look at the boat in more detail, revealing some intriguing — and advanced — aspects. The Hai Kun (SS-711), which was launched in the southern port city of Kaohsiung last September, as you can read about here, is a diesel-electric design, part of eight planned hulls that are set to revamp Taiwan’s desperately aging submarine force.

I wasn’t aware that Taiwan even had a submarine force.

There has been a lot of discussion of ‘Texas secession’ in various venues of the Web among people who do that sort of thing, much of it focusing on whether Texas would be economically viable as an independent country, with the burden of maintaining its own armed forces a key topic. Well, if Taiwan has its own submarines, surely Texas wouldn’t find it too much to do the same…?

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