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■Taiwan's first land-based Harpoon missiles due by year-end as navy plans fourth littoral combat group ■Saronic urges Taiwan to buy reusable autonomous sea drones as grey-zone patrols wear down crews ■Taiwan coast guard sends Chiayi and new cutter Penghu to Palau on second Friendship Fleet voyage ■Philippine defence chief seeks brigade-sized Army force and stronger Marine presence on Palawan ■Taiwan's Volcano minelayers to arrive in a single batch next year as training mines come first ■South Korea moves to curb athletes' military service exemptions as conscript pool shrinks ■Taiwan's first land-based Harpoon missiles due by year-end as navy plans fourth littoral combat group ■Saronic urges Taiwan to buy reusable autonomous sea drones as grey-zone patrols wear down crews ■Taiwan coast guard sends Chiayi and new cutter Penghu to Palau on second Friendship Fleet voyage ■Philippine defence chief seeks brigade-sized Army force and stronger Marine presence on Palawan ■Taiwan's Volcano minelayers to arrive in a single batch next year as training mines come first ■South Korea moves to curb athletes' military service exemptions as conscript pool shrinks

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A missile trails a white smoke plume into a blue sky after launching from a grey warship, seen from the ship's foredeck with a deck gun in the foreground and open sea behind.

Taiwan's first land-based Harpoon missiles due by year-end as navy plans fourth littoral combat group

Senior officials said on 7 October that the first missiles for Taiwan's Harpoon coastal defence system will arrive before the end of the year, with a new littoral combat group to form in 2027.

TaiwanDefence · 2h ago · 3 min read