The People's Liberation Army military aircraft have recently become the norm to patrol Taiwan, and the situation in the Taiwan Strait has heated up. In addition, Vietnamese fishery vessels have continued to infringe the Nansha Taiping Island waters. Taiwan's "Coastal Patrol Administration" recently announced that the Dongsha Islands and Taiping Island were separated in March. The annual live artillery firing was carried out on the 1st and 23rd, and drills were conducted to simulate "intrusion" incidents by the People's Liberation Army and Vietnamese fishery administration ships.
Dongsha Islands
Taiwan's "Coast Patrol Administration" claimed that in recent years, disputes have continued in the South China Sea, as well as cross-strait tensions have heated up, and Vietnamese fishery vessels have frequently intruded. Therefore, this artillery live-fire training on the sea is mainly to simulate the entry of PLA and Vietnamese ships. Sea area, Dongsha Island training time It is from 8 am to 9 pm on March 1. The firing range extends from Dongsha Island to the sea for 8 nautical miles, with a maximum ballistic height of 12,000 feet. The training time on Taiping Island in Nansha is from 8 am to 8 pm on March 23. At that time, the range extends 5 nautical miles from the center of the island to the outer sea, and the maximum ballistic height is 12,000 feet; however, if the weather is bad, it will be implemented from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on March 30.
It is reported that Taiwan's "Coastal Patrol Agency" was established in 2000 to replace the Marine Corps originally stationed on the island, and continues to guard Dongsha and Nansha Taiping Island. It conducts routine training every year and arranges artillery firing every quarter. On the 1st and 2nd, The drill on the 23rd was the first quarter of this year's island-wide defense artillery weapon live-fire training against the sea.
The "Coast Patrol Agency" claimed that the live ammunition firing on Dongsha Island and Taiping Island was a routine artillery training, once a quarter, and the training was designed and implemented by the Southeast Sha Branch of the "Coast Patrol Agency". The Taiwan military did not Participate in drills. As for whether this military exercise will use the 120mm mortar , 81mm mortar, 40mm anti-aircraft gun , 40mm howitzer, T─75 machine gun and 20 machine gun and other artillery weapons equipped on the island, The Coast Guard declined to disclose.
Dongsha Island and Taiping Island held drills in March. As early as January 25 this year, Taiwan's "Maritime Commission" asked the "Fisheries Administration" to make an announcement to remind fishermen to avoid dangerous areas. However, due to the rising military situation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the mainland Military aircraft patrolling Taiwan's southwest airspace has become a regular practice, so this routine live-fire shooting into the sea still attracts attention from all walks of life.
It is understood that the mainland has also been conducting intensive military exercises in the South China Sea recently. According to a CCTV report on February 27, the southern theater naval high-sea joint training formation recently organized live-fire shooting drills on multiple subjects such as main gun sea firing, air defense and anti-missile. The Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration showed on its official website on December 26 that the Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration issued a navigation warning, saying that there will be military training in the western waters of the South China Sea Leizhou Peninsula . The exercise will last from March 1 to March 31, lasting for one month.
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