JIUPENG, Taiwan: Taiwan confirmed off its missile firepower on Tuesday (Aug 20), launching a battery of surface-to-air missiles in entrance of reporters throughout a go to to a delicate check web site on a distant a part of the island’s southeastern coast.
Taiwan, which China views as its personal territory, has complained of stepped up Chinese language navy exercise as Beijing seeks to claim its sovereignty claims, and Taipei has been strengthening its deterrence talents.
Missiles are a key a part of Taiwan’s defence technique, each US-made and domestically-developed.
On the Jiupeng base in Taiwan’s Pingtung County, the navy check fired each US-made Patriot and Taiwan-made Sky Bow III missiles into the skies as daybreak broke, whereas a warship off the coast fired a RIM-66 Normal missiles.
