Overview

• More than 22,000 military personnel and thousands of civilians are participating in Taiwan’s 10-day Han Kuang exercises, marking the largest integration of armed forces and civil defense training to date.
• For the first time an indigenous Sky Sword II surface-to-air missile system was deployed in the drills alongside the Hsiung Feng III Extended Range anti-ship missile to test Taiwan’s growing domestic capabilities.
• Troops are practicing amphibious landings, rapid minelaying off Kaohsiung and urban combat simulations in Taipei’s metro system using a mix of US-supplied HIMARS rocket launchers, Abrams tanks and Stinger air-defense launchers.
• Civilian volunteers and emergency workers are undergoing large-scale evacuation, first-aid and bomb-simulation exercises under citywide air-raid sirens as part of a new urban resilience component.
• A US Marine Corps major general joined Taiwanese planners and personnel conducted logistics drills with US Transportation Command, illustrating deepening security cooperation under ongoing arms transfers.