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■Taiwan air force keeps a reservist call-up on election day, telling 311 to vote before reporting ■US Army's new warfighting guidance plans for a prolonged fight along the First Island Chain ■Taiwan's navy will hire fishing boats and civil aircraft to map its likely invasion beaches ■Kagoshima asks Tokyo to put a midnight curfew on 400 Marines lodging on Tanegashima ■USS Theodore Roosevelt docks in Yokosuka ahead of Keen Sword with Japan ■Lu Sheng 2 attackers drive from Kaohsiung into Miaoli in three days as Taiwan's defenders fall back ■Taiwan air force keeps a reservist call-up on election day, telling 311 to vote before reporting ■US Army's new warfighting guidance plans for a prolonged fight along the First Island Chain ■Taiwan's navy will hire fishing boats and civil aircraft to map its likely invasion beaches ■Kagoshima asks Tokyo to put a midnight curfew on 400 Marines lodging on Tanegashima ■USS Theodore Roosevelt docks in Yokosuka ahead of Keen Sword with Japan ■Lu Sheng 2 attackers drive from Kaohsiung into Miaoli in three days as Taiwan's defenders fall back

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Grey hull and deck crane of a Taiwanese navy minelaying vessel moored at a pier, with a sailor on deck and a small boat in the water behind

Taiwan's navy will hire fishing boats and civil aircraft to map its likely invasion beaches

The navy plans to send civilian survey firms with sonar and airborne lidar onto its red beaches, feeding a NT$1.25bn data centre for minelaying and submarine hunting.

TaiwanDefence · 2h ago · 3 min read