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■Japan and the US agree to close a Marine helicopter pad beside a college at Camp Schwab in Okinawa ■South Korean and US troops rehearse a counter-artillery fight with KTSSM, Chunmoo and ATACMS ■South Korea hands eight overhauled MD 500 military helicopters to the Kenya Army ■Japan's air force ends seabed recovery of its crashed Global Hawk and turns to finding the cause ■US Army activates a permanent air defence battalion on Guam against Chinese and North Korean missiles ■US Army's Typhon missile launcher arrives at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa for storage ■Japan and the US agree to close a Marine helicopter pad beside a college at Camp Schwab in Okinawa ■South Korean and US troops rehearse a counter-artillery fight with KTSSM, Chunmoo and ATACMS ■South Korea hands eight overhauled MD 500 military helicopters to the Kenya Army ■Japan's air force ends seabed recovery of its crashed Global Hawk and turns to finding the cause ■US Army activates a permanent air defence battalion on Guam against Chinese and North Korean missiles ■US Army's Typhon missile launcher arrives at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa for storage

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A line of tracked K9 self-propelled howitzers fire their long barrels on a dusty field, with gun smoke drifting towards wooded hills

South Korean and US troops rehearse a counter-artillery fight with KTSSM, Chunmoo and ATACMS

About 4,100 soldiers from both armies ran a five-day counter-fire field exercise tied to Hoguk 2026, alongside drone-hunting air defence shoots in Boryeong.

TaiwanDefence · 2h ago · 2 min read

A line of grey warships sailing in formation across open sea

South Korea's navy takes about 20 warships into combined Yellow Sea drills with US forces

The manoeuvres, part of the annual Hoguk exercise, run to 23 October and include live gunnery, anti-submarine warfare and maritime interdiction training.

TaiwanDefence · 3d ago · 2 min read

A South Korean army tank with crew in the hatches drives off a pontoon raft onto a riverbank as soldiers walk alongside

South Korea folds two postponed US drills into its Hoguk field exercise

Seoul says the 19 to 30 October drills will absorb two allied field drills cut from Ulchi Freedom Shield, as Taiwan also moves to unscripted war games.

TaiwanDefence · 16 Oct 2026 · 3 min read