President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday performed an inspection of a Marine Corps base in Taoyuan, where she shouldered a Taiwan-made rocket launcher, saying it was “light and handy.” During Tsai’s inspection tour of the 66th Marine Brigade base, she was briefed on some of the weapons systems used by the Marine Corps, and showed particular interest in the Kestrel anti-tank rocket launcher, an individual shoulder-launched weapon system developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology, the military’s top research unit. Tsai picked up an unloaded Kestrel and balanced it on her shoulder, saying it was “relatively light and handy.” Made of fiber-reinforced