Taiwan deploys advanced American missiles in part of the annual exercises Military news

HIMARS is used in military exercises aimed at enhancing the island’s ability to combat threats from China.

Taiwan began to deploy the latest and most accurate strike weapons, and high -caliber missiles from the United States, as an annual part Shooting exercises To increase the island’s ability to face potential attacks from China.

On Saturday, two armored trucks were seen with high -movement missile systems (HIMARS), which is enlightened throughout the city of Taichung near the central coast in Taiwan, on the fourth of 10 days of Han Quang exercise, the most comprehensive annual exercise, according to Reuters.

Military spokesman, Colonel Chen Layan Jia, said it would be important to hide the hemmar from the enemy’s air reconnaissance and satellites, “or even enemy agents behind our lines” until the shooting order is given.

China Taiwan is its own province and has long threatened to use force to bring it under the control of Beijing.

Over the past five years, China has increased pressure around the island, organizing a series of intensive war games and patrols in the daily air force around the region.

Earlier this week, the Chinese National Defense Ministry said that Han Kwang’s training was only a trick and self -trick.

On Thursday, Taiwanese President William Lay Cheng Ter said that the training was conducted based on “widespread realistic combat training.”

Last year, Taiwan got the first 11 units out of 29 units, and tested it for the first time in May.

Weapons, which have an area of about 300 km (190 miles), have the ability to hit coastal targets in the southern province of Fujian in China on the other side of the Taiwan Strait.

While the United States, the largest supplier in Taiwan, imported defense weapons, is committed to law to consider threats to the country as a “major concern”, it is still unclear whether Washington, DC, during the era of President Donald Trump’s administration, will deploy forces to confront a possible Chinese attack.

Reuters, quoting the unveiled Taiwanese military officials, stated that the exercises were not described and designed to repeat the complete fighting conditions, starting with the enemy’s simulation attacks and invasion scenarios.

Officials said the training aims to show China and the international community, including the United States, that Taiwan is determined to defend itself against any Chinese attack.