Let's just be friends.
Typed on September 22nd, waiting to be proofed, never done, posted now.
Well, at school yesterday, I was having trouble teaching. My Kindergarten is next to the biggest naval base in Taiwan. Almost every day, when I drive to school, I pass flatbed trucks with tanks loaded on top going into or out of the base. On my way home, I have to park in the main base entrance gate to make my left turn at the light, it's interesting to see the guards and what machine gun they are carrying for the day, sometimes M-16s, sometimes M-4s and when it's wet, they have this little green zippered bag over top with only the trigger sticking out.
Anyways, Friday, there were fighter squadrons flying overhead and they were so noisy, usually we get a squadron every 90 minutes or so, but these just kept coming, along with choppers and big C-130 radar planes. This never happens in Canada.
Well, thanks to Wikipedia, I looked up the Taiwanese military and they could totally kick Canada's ass although the whole country fits between Saskatoon and Regina.
Both have 4 subs, but Taiwan's work. Taiwan has 7 destroyers to Canada's 3, and 22 Frigates to Canada's 12. This is not terribly different except for the fact that Canada has 202,973km to Taiwan's 1,566km a ratio of 130 to 1.
The big difference is the Army and Air force. Canada's 66 Leopard Tanks (120mm and 62 tons)
would be up against Taiwan's 1831 tanks (M60 Pattons 105mm and 60 tons). At Taiwan's 32,26okm2 to Canada's 9,220,970km2 land area, that would put Taiwan at a much higher tank density. And Canada's 98 fighter jets (80 F-18s) to Taiwan's 421+ fighters (146 F-16s, 57 Mirage 2000s, 128 IDF Sky sword IIs, and 90+ F-5s) just doesn't stack up well. Also, Taiwan has 290,000 active troops (9th in world) for Canada's 62,300 (77th).
However, Taiwan spends only half of what Canada does on military, 8B compared to 16B, maybe it's the wages that are paid to soldiers and maintenance, also, maybe fuel costs as Taiwan never really needs to go far.
Well, lets just say that Taiwan stretches from North Battleford to Regina and is about 100km wide... and it would probably kick Canada's ass. Nice to know that Canada doesn't need all the investment in protection that some countries have.
However... this is nothing on what China's got... I'm not going to even go there.
Well, at school yesterday, I was having trouble teaching. My Kindergarten is next to the biggest naval base in Taiwan. Almost every day, when I drive to school, I pass flatbed trucks with tanks loaded on top going into or out of the base. On my way home, I have to park in the main base entrance gate to make my left turn at the light, it's interesting to see the guards and what machine gun they are carrying for the day, sometimes M-16s, sometimes M-4s and when it's wet, they have this little green zippered bag over top with only the trigger sticking out.
Anyways, Friday, there were fighter squadrons flying overhead and they were so noisy, usually we get a squadron every 90 minutes or so, but these just kept coming, along with choppers and big C-130 radar planes. This never happens in Canada.
Well, thanks to Wikipedia, I looked up the Taiwanese military and they could totally kick Canada's ass although the whole country fits between Saskatoon and Regina.
Both have 4 subs, but Taiwan's work. Taiwan has 7 destroyers to Canada's 3, and 22 Frigates to Canada's 12. This is not terribly different except for the fact that Canada has 202,973km to Taiwan's 1,566km a ratio of 130 to 1.
The big difference is the Army and Air force. Canada's 66 Leopard Tanks (120mm and 62 tons)
would be up against Taiwan's 1831 tanks (M60 Pattons 105mm and 60 tons). At Taiwan's 32,26okm2 to Canada's 9,220,970km2 land area, that would put Taiwan at a much higher tank density. And Canada's 98 fighter jets (80 F-18s) to Taiwan's 421+ fighters (146 F-16s, 57 Mirage 2000s, 128 IDF Sky sword IIs, and 90+ F-5s) just doesn't stack up well. Also, Taiwan has 290,000 active troops (9th in world) for Canada's 62,300 (77th).
However, Taiwan spends only half of what Canada does on military, 8B compared to 16B, maybe it's the wages that are paid to soldiers and maintenance, also, maybe fuel costs as Taiwan never really needs to go far.
Well, lets just say that Taiwan stretches from North Battleford to Regina and is about 100km wide... and it would probably kick Canada's ass. Nice to know that Canada doesn't need all the investment in protection that some countries have.
However... this is nothing on what China's got... I'm not going to even go there.
posted by Colin at 4:43 PM
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i don't wan't to be you're friends:P
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