{"id":4326,"date":"2018-10-16T22:27:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T22:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2018-10-16T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T22:27:20","slug":"taiwanese-military-drill-tests-war-plan-against-chinese-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/16\/taiwanese-military-drill-tests-war-plan-against-chinese-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"TAIWANESE MILITARY DRILL TESTS \u201cWAR PLAN\u201d AGAINST CHINESE INVASION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TAIWAN-F-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3574\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TAIWAN-F-16-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TAIWAN-F-16-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TAIWAN-F-16-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TAIWAN-F-16-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TAIWAN-F-16-560x380.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TAIWAN-F-16-260x176.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TAIWAN-F-16-160x109.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/TAIWAN-F-16.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defence World<\/p>\n<p>The armed forces of Taiwan yesterday conducted large-scale air, land and sea exercises from 5am to 8am on Monday as a response to a simulated Chinese invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The drill put into practice air and anti-air components of the \u2018war plan,&#8217; which the armed forces have drawn according to experience derived from past Han Kuang military exercises, an official told Taipei Times.<\/p>\n<p>The aerial component of the drills was unusual in the number of aircraft and the amount of equipment involved, as six Lockheed Martin F-16s and two Dassault Mirage 2000s flew with a full load of missiles, ALQ-184 electronic attack pods and double drop tanks, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Ground crew began preparations at 4am and the fighter jets took off at 5:40am. Additionally, four indigenous craft simulated an emergency landing from Taichung\u2019s Ching Chuan Kang Air Base to Hualien Air Base, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.defenseworld.net\/news\/23523\/Taiwanese_Military_Drill_Tests__War_Plan__Against_Chinese_Invasion#.W8X05RG_yUk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defence World The armed forces of Taiwan yesterday conducted large-scale air, land and sea exercises from 5am to 8am on Monday as a response to a simulated Chinese invasion. The drill put into practice air and anti-air components of the \u2018war plan,&#8217; which the armed forces have drawn according to experience derived from past&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/16\/taiwanese-military-drill-tests-war-plan-against-chinese-invasion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TAIWANESE MILITARY DRILL TESTS \u201cWAR PLAN\u201d AGAINST CHINESE INVASION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}