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2021/04/11 11:13 Mast stepping ceremony for the Yushan. (Military News Agency photo) Mast stepping ceremony for the Yushan. (Military News Agency photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The Navy’s domestically built amphibious transport dock, named “The Yushan”, is scheduled to be launched later this month and will be able to transition between military and humanitarian roles, depending on the necessity. The Navy held a mast-stepping ceremony on March 18, which was presided over by the Navy commander, General Liu Chi-pin (劉志斌), and the chairman of CSBC Corp., Cheng Wen-lung (鄭文隆), Military News Agency reported. General Liu said that he believes with the close cooperation of CSBC and the National Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST), the ship will be delivered without any issue to become the Navy s first vessel that can conduct rescue missions in peacetime and engage in combat during wartime for the n
2021/04/08 14:28 An earlier version of the NCSIST radar system (Wikicommons, Hsuan Shih-sheng photo) An earlier version of the NCSIST radar system (Wikicommons, Hsuan Shih-sheng photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The military-run Youth Daily News accidentally revealed the presence of a sophisticated secret radar system in the island county of Penghu in the middle of the Taiwan Strait, reports said Thursday (April 8). The slip-up came as Taiwan faces almost daily incursions by Chinese military planes into its air defense identification zone (ADIZ) and Chinese spy ships approach its waters, possibly to observe the missile tests planned for this month. A Navy unit wrote to Youth Daily News from Penghu on March 26 with pictures showing a military truck in front of a ship. While there was no comment in the report about those photos, English-language website Alert 5 said on March 29 that they showed an “anti-stealth passiv