Taiwan's Army to hold live-fire drills next week: military source
ROC Central News Agency
09/04/2022 12:34 PM
Taipei, Sept. 4 (CNA) Taiwan's Army is scheduled to hold live-fire military exercises in southern Taiwan next week that will test the combat capabilities of its various units, including its combat helicopters and armored vehicles, amid rising tensions with China, a military source told CNA on Sunday.
The Eighth Army Corps will hold the Lien Yung drill (聯勇操演) in Pingtung County's Joint Operations Training Base Command from Sept. 5 to 8, the source said.
The Army's Combined Arms Battalion, snipers, tanks, armored vehicles and mortars will be tested using live-fire exercises during the four-day drill, the source said.
Army Aviation and Special Forces Command will also dispatch their AH-64E Apache and AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters to join the exercises, the source added.
The Eighth Army Corps comprise the troops responsible for guarding southern Taiwan's Tainan, Kaohsiung and Pingtung cities and county.
Lien Yung is a large scale live-fire military drill that the nation's Army normally holds six times a year at the Joint Operations Training Base Command.
It is the second largest drill for the armed forces, following the annual Han Kuang series of exercises that involve all branches of the military.
(By Novia Huang and Joseph Yeh)
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