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Taipei, Aug. 7 (CNA) Taiwan's Army will conduct live-fire artillery drills in Pingtung County on Tuesday and Thursday to test combat readiness in response to recent Chinese live-fire military exercises surrounding Taiwan, a source familiar with the matter said Sunday.
The military is to conduct planned live-fire artillery drills in Pingtung County tomorrow and on Thursday to test the combat readiness of units amid China’s live-fire military exercises around Taiwan, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday. The drills to be held near the county’s Fonggang (楓港) would involve 78 155mm self-propelled howitzers and six 120mm mortars, the source said. They would be carried out by the Eighth Army Corps’ 43rd Artillery Command and 333rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, and the defense commands in Hualien and Taitung counties, as well as the coast gua...
PINGTUNG: This week’s drills are to involve 120mm mortars and 155mm self-propelled howitzers, while a separate annual exercise is planned for next month/ Staff writer, with CNA
Taipei, Aug. 1 (CNA) Taiwan's military will hold live-fire artillery drills in Pingtung County on Aug. 9 and Aug. 11 as part of a follow-up to the annual Han Kuang exercises that concluded last week, an anonymous source told CNA on Monday.
The Wiesbaden-based 56th Artillery Command, which went back online in November 2021, was put in charge of Dynamic Front, an annual NATO drill. More than 1,500 American troops are among the total of approximately 2,400 from 19 countries.