{"id":133283,"date":"2021-12-30T04:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/taiwan-is-getting-40-new-paladin-howitzers-from-the-united-states"},"modified":"2021-12-30T04:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T12:22:56","slug":"taiwan-is-getting-40-new-paladin-howitzers-from-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/taiwan-is-getting-40-new-paladin-howitzers-from-the-united-states","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Is Getting 40 New Paladin Howitzers from the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taiwan-is-getting-40-new-paladin-howitzers-from-the-united-states2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thus, the M109A6s help bring more modern mobile capability to Taiwan\u2019s artillery forces, and brings to the table GPS-guided shells precise enough to pose a serious threat to point targets like landing craft and armored vehicles (at least when they aren\u2019t moving much).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, forty relatively modern howitzers will not dramatically affect the unfavorable balance of power Taiwan\u2019s armed forces must hedge against. However, they are a modest step forward towards modernizing Taipei\u2019s ground forces for a possible conflict one can only hope is never fought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus, the M109A6s help bring more modern mobile capability to Taiwan\u2019s artillery forces, and brings to the table GPS-guided shells precise enough to pose a serious threat to point targets like landing craft and armored vehicles (at least when they aren\u2019t moving much). Of course, forty relatively modern howitzers will not dramatically affect the unfavorable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}