SPARE PARTS: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the package was Washington’s seventh under Biden, ‘demonstrating its high regard for Taiwan’s defense capabilities’By Kayleigh Madjar / Staff writer, with CNA
SESSION ON DEFENSE: A navy official told lawmakers that a plan to build a frigate was updated to address China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the Strait/ Staff writer, with CNA
Taipei, Nov. 2 (CNA) A recent assessment of proposed military hangars to be built in a Taichung air base has shown that they would be capable of withstanding hits from the Chinese Dongfeng series of ballistic missiles, Air Force Chief of Staff Huang Chih-wei (黃志偉) said Wednesday.
A Taiwan air force training jet has crashed in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, in a training mission, killing the pilot, according to the island’s military.
TAIPEI - Taiwan’s air force suspended flight training of new pilots on Tuesday (May 31) after a jet trainer crashed killing its pilot, the defence ministry said, the second fatal accident the air force has experienced in 2022. The ministry said the AT-3 jet crashed during a training mission from the Gangshan air base in the southern city of Kaohsiung.