Taipei Times
Date: Jul 15, 2020
By: Staff writer, with CNA
An Indigenous Defense Fighter from the air force’s First Wing takes part in the Han Kuang exercises yesterday.
Photo courtesy of the Ministry of National Defense
The aircraft included Indigenous Defense Fighters and Mirage 2000 fighter jets, photographs provided by the Military News Agency showed.
The operations on the ground involved radar vehicles and the Avenger air-defense missile system — a US-made self-propelled surface-to-air weapons platform to defend against cruise missiles, uncrewed aerial vehicles and other low-flying aircraft — the Ministry of National Defense’s news service said.
Sirens wailed across Taiwan at 1:30pm, signaling the start of a 30-minute Wan An public air-raid drill, and an alert was sent to mobile phones at the beginning and end of the annual drill.
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