Taiwan News  
Date: 2019/05/19
By:  Central News Agency

(By Central News Agency)

A wide range of military equipment, weapons and vehicles, including F-16V fighter jets from the United States, Taiwan’s indigenous Clouded Leopard armored vehicles and two U.S.-made Perry-class guided missile frigates will take part in this year’s Han Kuang live-fire drills May 27-31.

The Han Kuang exercises, Taiwan’s biggest annual military drill, are divided into two parts, which are computer-aided war games held April 22-26 and nationwide live-fire drills to be staged May 27-31, a Ministry of National Defense (MND) official said under condition of anonymity.

The live-fire drills will involve the Army, Navy and Air Force to test their coordinated response to simulated assaults by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from air and sea.

Taiwan’s first F-16V modified by the local Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) will take part in an exercise on a freeway-based emergency airstrip in Huatan Township in Changhua County May 28.    [FULL  STORY]