2020/07/15
The Ministry of National Defense issued a press release on Han-Kuang #36 live fire exercise featuring precise ammunition in coastal battle
The Ministry of National Defense said today on July 15 that Han Kuang military exercise #36 will be carried out today in the form of coastal battle, which will be a live fire exercise featuring precise ammunition based on combat planning devised jointly by the Army, the Navy and the Air Force for the purpose of strengthening collaborative skills in real-time warfare and evaluate training results of employing live-fire ammunition.
The MND noted that the exercise is based on a framework of defensive combat with simulation scenarios, in which the enemy launches air missile attack from various distances. The Army, Navy and the Air Force are all required to take part in this drill, which takes place in designated aero- and naval zones of the Jiu-peng Training field. The purpose of it is to assess the collaborative attack efficiency as well as training results in military respective branches, living up to the integration of combat and training.
In this live fire exercise, the MND said, all the long-distance precise missiles, except Standard I, ended up hitting the given targets, including SUT Thunder, Hsiung II, Hsiung III, Gong I, Gong III, Patriot II, demonstrating sufficient military readiness for defending Taiwan.