La fiche Ce qu’est ce système, d’où il vient, qui le met en œuvre et pour quels modules de Vigil il est pertinent — avec les éléments sur lesquels repose chacun de ces points.
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Pertinence pour les conflits
Ceci est la fiche unique du catalogue pour ce système. Il est pertinent pour le module ci-dessous ; le Force Atlas de chaque module montre comment il y est employé.
Opérateurs
United States and the Taiwan Strait: Supplied through Taiwan Relations Act arms sales
Rôle sur le champ de bataille
Terminal defence against ballistic and air-breathing threats, forming the upper tier of a layered system alongside indigenous Tien Kung interceptors.
Points forts
A mature, combat-proven system with demonstrated capability against ballistic threats, and interoperable with the wider US-supplied architecture Taiwan operates.
Limites
Interceptor inventory is the binding constraint in any layered defence, and inventories are expensive, slow to build and — for Taiwan — dependent on a foreign supplier whose delivery timelines have been uncertain during 2026. Air defence complicates and imposes cost; it does not confer immunity, and this module avoids framing it as a shield.
Pertinence pour les campagnes
Dérivé : une organisation participant à ces campagnes porte une association d’équipement typée avec ce système. Ce n’est pas la même chose qu’un emploi documenté du système dans la campagne elle-même.
- Une pression soutenue sous le seuil En intensification depuis 2020
via ROC Air Force (Documented, moderate confidence)
Identification visuelle
A battery is a set of distinct vehicles rather than a single object: a large trailer-mounted phased-array radar panel that sits at a steep angle, a boxy engagement control station, and launcher trailers carrying angled canisters — four large canisters for the older interceptor, sixteen smaller ones for the PAC-3. The canister count on the launcher is the quickest way to tell which interceptor a photograph shows.
Emploi documenté dans les conflits
In Taiwanese service since the 1990s and progressively upgraded to the PAC-3 configuration, with further interceptor purchases notified to the US Congress across the 2020s. Batteries appear in Taiwan's announced air-defence exercises and in Han Kuang. The system's global combat record is extensive and is not Taiwanese; it is the basis on which Taiwan's own capability is usually discussed, and the distinction between a system's record elsewhere and its performance here is one this module keeps. No interceptor inventories, battery locations or delivery status figures are published.
Opérateurs par composante et par service
- ROC Air Force Documenté
Formations documentées
- ROC Air Force Air Defense and Missile Command Documenté · confiance élevée
Évalué au — 2026-07 Dernière revue — 2026-09-09