Wednesday, June 10, 2026- Taiwan’s military has conducted a live-fire exercise in which it launched rockets toward China’s direction using a U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), in a major drill designed to simulate a response to a potential invasion.
The rockets were fired from mobile “shoot-and-scoot” launchers positioned on Taiwan’s western coast, facing the Taiwan Strait.
The exercise marks the first time HIMARS rockets were fired into waters of the Taiwan Strait from this coastal region, highlighting a shift toward more realistic combat training.
Military officials emphasized rapid deployment tactics, where launchers fire and quickly relocate to avoid detection and retaliation. The drills also included other artillery systems and were structured around scenarios simulating a Chinese amphibious assault.
The move comes amid rising military tension between Taiwan and China, with Beijing continuing near-daily deployments of aircraft and naval vessels around the island and asserting its claim that Taiwan is part of its territory.
While the United States remains Taiwan’s primary arms supplier, it does not formally recognize the island as independent, making such exercises a sensitive flashpoint in already strained regional relations.
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