Taiwan reports lowest altitude incursion by Chinese military plane ANI | Updated: Apr 28, 2021 01:12 IST
Taipei [Taiwan], April 28 (ANI): Taiwanese military intercepted a Chinese spy plane apparently trying to test Taiwan s radar capabilities by flying at an extremely low altitude of only 30 meters.
On Monday, Taiwan s Ministry of National Defense announced that a Y-8 electronic warfare plane (Y-8 EW) and a Y-8 tactical reconnaissance aircraft (Y-8 RECCE) intruded into Taiwan s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), Taiwan News reported.
According to the MND, it dispatched aircraft, issued radio warnings, and deployed air defence missile systems to monitor the activity.
Local military aircraft tracker tracked the aircraft s flight paths as well as radio broadcasts by the MND. It stated that Y-8 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) plane was detected that day as well.
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The ROC’s two territories in the region have strategic and political significance, yet both are difficult to defend.
Taiwan’s Coast Guard in March twice conducted live-fire drills on the Pratas Islands – known in Chinese as the “Dongsha” – located in the South China Sea 450 kilometers southwest of Kaohsiung. Such exercises were rare in years past. The Pratas are tiny, without permanent inhabitants, and remote. Among territories administered by Taiwan, only Itu Aba (Taiping Island), part of the Spratly Island archipelago, is more far-flung.
Yet the Pratas’ geography makes them vulnerable to Chinese coercion. Not only are the islets far from Taiwan, they also are flat and devoid of any natural defense positions. Beijing claims the Pratas along with almost all of the 3.5 million-square-kilometer South China Sea, where it has built many military installations. The Pratas are closer to Guangdong Province than to Taiwan – about 260 kilometers fro
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Taiwan still keen on acquiring JASSMs from the US
20 April 2021
by Gabriel Dominguez
An official from Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) said on 19 April that Taipei is still keen on acquiring AGM-158-series Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSMs) from the United States.
Li Shih-Chiang, director of the MND’s Department of Strategic Planning, was quoted by the Taiwan News website as saying during a session of the Judiciary and Organic Laws’ parliamentary committee that a request for the sale of the land-attack cruise missile to Taiwan has not yet been approved by the administration of US President Joe Biden.