Han Kuang Exercise, Taiwan
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Taiwan's military conducted intensive exercises deploying HIMARS rocket systems to demonstrate readiness against possible Chinese aggression. The drills involve strategic maneuvers and simulations under realistic combat conditions.
Taiwan's newly acquired HIMARS and Abrams tanks would raise the costs of a Chinese amphibious landing, a defense analyst says.
In response to reports that Taiwan region's military will conduct the Han Kuang-41 live-troop exercise starting from July 9 — an exercise focusing on such subjects as the so-called "response to gray-zone harassment,
Much like Ukraine’s unexpectedly resilient defence, Taipei wants Beijing to understand that a military conflict would not be as easy, or predictable, as once thought.
In Hsinchu County, President William Lai (賴清德) monitored a live-fire exercise at the Kengzikou Range (坑子口訓練場) involving a platoon of M1A2T tanks purchased from the US. The tanks fired individually, in pairs and as a full platoon. Following the drill, the army said that the tanks had achieved “perfect” accuracy.
Expanded Han Kuang Exercise is simulating a prolonged PLA attack with a ‘scenario-driven, no spoiler’ approach, officials say.