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Taiwan says its coast guard drove away Chinese vessels 618 times this year as grey-zone pressure rises
TaiwanDefence · 1h ago · 2 min read
Quad navies open this year's Malabar exercise off Tokyo with submarine and surface warfare drills
TaiwanDefence · 2h ago · 3 min read
Taiwan drone firm AerosoarX signs deal to help Ukrainian defence company UFORCE source parts
TaiwanDefence · 3h ago · 2 min read
Taiwan's M1A2T tanks fire in the military's joint live-fire evaluation for the first time
TaiwanDefence · 4h ago · 3 min read
Philippines wants more BrahMos missiles from India and has sent a wish list, Teodoro says
TaiwanDefence · 5h ago · 3 min read
Cross-Strait
More →Taiwan says its coast guard drove away Chinese vessels 618 times this year as grey-zone pressure rises
Ocean Affairs minister Guan Bi-ling told the Cabinet that Chinese coast guard ships entered Dongsha and Kinmen waters 52 times, while Taipei funds a larger sea-air coast guard.
TaiwanDefence · 1h ago · 2 min read
Taiwan's defence minister says US backing for arms sales will hold after Democrats win Congress
Wellington Koo says support in Congress crosses party lines as Taipei waits on a US$14 billion package, including Patriot missiles, that Trump has held back.
TaiwanDefence · 9h ago · 3 min read
Navy
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Taiwan's marines plan their first gun turrets built to shoot down drones
The Marine Corps wants two 30 mm automated turrets for NT$93m next year as Taiwan's military adds hard-kill weapons to its mostly jamming-based drone defences.
TaiwanDefence · 7h ago · 3 min read
Taiwan's navy takes its new ARD-7 floating repair dock to sea for the first time
The CSBC-built dock, due for handover by 30 November, will replace the 70-year-old ARD-6 that flooded and sank inside Zuoying naval harbour in May 2025.
TaiwanDefence · 13h 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.
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Kinmen troops fire tanks and artillery at sea and air targets in quarterly Taiwu drill
Taiwan's Kinmen Defense Command ran its fourth-quarter Taiwu live-fire exercise with M60A3 tanks, howitzers and mortars against simulated landings and special-forces raids on the front-line islands.
TaiwanDefence · 19m ago · 2 min read
Taiwan's M1A2T tanks fire in the military's joint live-fire evaluation for the first time
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ArmyTaiwan dealer brings Rheinmetall MAN military truck to compete for the army's NT$23bn truck buy
20h ago
ArmyTaiwan says it will stick with new M109A7 howitzers and denies a US offer of rebuilt older guns
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Taiwan's air force reports a trainer hard landing and an F-16 stuck on a runway on the same day
A student's T-34 trainer was damaged landing at Gangshan and a hydraulic fault left an F-16 stranded at Ching Chuan Kang; no one was hurt.
TaiwanDefence · 10h ago · 3 min read
US Air Force hires CAE to keep Taiwan's F-16 training simulators running until 2032
16h ago
Air ForceTaiwan's second batch of new F-16 Block 70 fighters heads for Hawaii on the way home
21h ago
Air ForceTen C-130Js would retire Taiwan's oldest Hercules as the US starts work on the request
29 Oct 2026
Industry
More →Taiwan drone firm AerosoarX signs deal to help Ukrainian defence company UFORCE source parts
AerosoarX will use Taiwan's chip and manufacturing base to find alternative drone component suppliers for UFORCE under an MOU signed in Tainan.
TaiwanDefence · 3h ago · 2 min read
Taiwan lawmakers freeze NT$10bn of extra drone funding as committee review of defence top-up ends
6h ago
IndustryTaiwan's plan to build Anduril's Barracuda-500 missile runs into US export rules, reports say
12h ago
IndustryTaiwan's state arms institute moves to build US firm DTC's military radios in Taiwan
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Indo-Pacific
More →Quad navies open this year's Malabar exercise off Tokyo with submarine and surface warfare drills
The US, Japan, Australia and India began Malabar 2026 south of Kanto on 5 November, with Japan's Ise, India's Sahyadri and Australia's Stuart taking part.
TaiwanDefence · 2h ago · 3 min read
Philippines wants more BrahMos missiles from India and has sent a wish list, Teodoro says
5h ago
Indo-PacificNorth Korea says it tested a new air-defence missile in its fourth weapons test in a week
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Indo-PacificJapan's ruling parties set talks on a defence plan that could cost up to 80 trillion yen
11h ago