Exercises last ten days and are focused on the “response to gray zones of harassment”, “joint operations against disembarking” and “defense resistant islands,” and more pieces of American weapons will be presented during them.
These are the longest exercises with the wark ammunition that Taiwan has ever performed, the previous ones lasted five days.
On the first day, Taiwan Forces will simulate scenarios involving Chinese militia ships and vessels of the coastal guard in “harassment” near Taiwanese waters. War ships will be arranged in key coastal areas in preparation for possible escalation, according to the Ministry of Defense.
Mobile radar units and counterbroadenship systems will be placed on strategic points, while special units will provide key infrastructure such as ports and docks, in order to preserve the functioning of society.
Major Tung Chi-Hsing, Director of the Department of Joint Operations Department of the Ministry of Defense, said in July that the first three days of the focus will be on a joint response to “tactics of the gray zone” – forced actions that do not cross the open conflict.
After those three days, the exercises will pass in the “full combat operations” phase, Tung added.
China rated Tuesday that Taiwan’s military exercises are a “self-definement trick” performed by an island.
(Vijesti.ba)
