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Australia's Mogami frigates and Japanese missile tests on its ranges are on track, Tokyo says
TaiwanDefence · 19h ago · 3 min read
PLA graft chief Zhang Shengmin joins the Politburo as the plenum seals Zhang Youxia's expulsion
TaiwanDefence · 20h ago · 3 min read
Koizumi and Kang hold first talks since the Yasukuni visit and agree to step up defence ties
TaiwanDefence · 21h ago · 3 min read
A quarter of Australia's troops are not medically cleared to deploy, defence chiefs tell senators
TaiwanDefence · 22h ago · 3 min read
Lai promotes five generals and tells them to make drones the eyes of Taiwan's military
TaiwanDefence · 23h ago · 3 min read
Cross-Strait
More →PLA graft chief Zhang Shengmin joins the Politburo as the plenum seals Zhang Youxia's expulsion
The party plenum closed on 29 October by ratifying the purge of 16 senior officers and leaving the Central Military Commission with just two members.
TaiwanDefence · 20h ago · 3 min read
Lai promotes five generals and tells them to make drones the eyes of Taiwan's military
An air force officer moves up to a three-star post at the Air Combat Command as the president ties unmanned systems to logistics, readiness and care for troops.
TaiwanDefence · 23h ago · 3 min read
Navy
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USS Colorado will be the first US attack submarine to rotate through Western Australia under AUKUS
The US, Australia and Britain named the Virginia-class boat as the first for Submarine Rotational Force-West at HMAS Stirling, starting in late 2027.
TaiwanDefence · 3d ago · 3 min read
South Korean navy flight instructor becomes the service's first pilot to log 10,000 accident-free hours
Park Ki-hyun, a former navy helicopter pilot who now trains new aviators at Mokpo, reached the mark on a training flight on 23 October, the navy said.
TaiwanDefence · 4d ago · 3 min read
Analysis & Commentary
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Xi's purge leaves the PLA short of generals, but analysts in Taipei see no let-up in pressure on Taiwan
Willy Lam told a Taipei seminar on 28 October 2026 that only a handful of PLA full generals remain. A thinner high command need not mean a quieter strait.
TaiwanDefence
What India's approval of Project 18A destroyers settles, and what it leaves open
India's defence council cleared Project 18A destroyers on 26 October 2026, but their size, number and engines are still unsettled and service entry looks a decade away.
TaiwanDefence
India's nod for 335 more K9 Vajra guns could make a desert-bought howitzer its mainstay facing China
India's October 2026 approval of 335 more K9 Vajra-T guns builds on lessons from Ladakh, but a long road from approval to contract still lies ahead.
Army
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Taiwan's army parks all 29 of its Apache gunships while the US checks a suspect transmission
Taiwan has reportedly grounded its whole AH-64E fleet after a US Army stand-down over gearbox failures, and may clear low-hour airframes first for readiness.
TaiwanDefence · 1d ago · 2 min read
Nineteen Taiwanese service members have died by self-harm this year, more than in all of 2025
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ArmyTaiwan air force C-130s fly stranded travellers home from Kinmen and Matsu after Typhoon Champi
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ArmyTaiwan army drops score sheets in base training and adds battlefield stress first aid
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Air Force
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Ten C-130Js would retire Taiwan's oldest Hercules as the US starts work on the request
Military sources say Washington has begun processing Taiwan's request for 10 new transports, with the case due by next May and funding from 2028.
TaiwanDefence · 1d ago · 3 min read
Taiwan has two of its six MS-110 spy pods for F-16s, with the rest due by December
2d ago
Air ForceTaiwan air force keeps a reservist call-up on election day, telling 311 to vote before reporting
17 Oct 2026
Air ForceCabinet warns Songshan airport move would leave a critical gap in capital defence
16 Oct 2026
Industry
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Chips marked CN inside army training drones land a famed model-helicopter maker's founder in custody
Taichung prosecutors won detention of Align's founder and his wife after army teardowns found Chinese chips in two batches of training drones.
TaiwanDefence · 18h ago · 3 min read
South Korea finishes developing its own Marine attack helicopter, with production due to start in 2027
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IndustryIndia's tri-service headquarters signs a five-year AI pact with Sarvam that covers targeting
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IndustryCourt pauses South Korea's bidding ban on LIG D&A as a KF-21 missile contract waits on a November hearing
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Indo-Pacific
More →Australia's Mogami frigates and Japanese missile tests on its ranges are on track, Tokyo says
Koizumi and Marles met in Cebu on 29 October for their eighth talks and welcomed a September survey of Australian ranges for Japan's hypersonic missile.
TaiwanDefence · 19h ago · 3 min read
Koizumi and Kang hold first talks since the Yasukuni visit and agree to step up defence ties
21h ago
Indo-PacificA quarter of Australia's troops are not medically cleared to deploy, defence chiefs tell senators
22h ago
Indo-PacificBeijing blames Manila for its low-level seat at ASEAN defence talks, and Teodoro pushes back
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