SpaceWar.com reports: “Taiwan’s military deployed aircraft, ships and air defence missile systems in a drill on Thursday, as its defence ministry reported the detection of two Chinese balloons near the island.
China and Taiwan have been ruled separately since 1949, but Beijing considers it part of its territory and has refused to renounce the use of force to bring the island under its control.
Beijing regularly deploys fighter jets, drones and warships, and occasionally balloons, around Taiwan as it keeps up military pressure.
Thursday’s early morning exercise was aimed at testing ‘the response and engagement procedures of air defence units’, Taiwan’s Air Force Command said in a statement.
‘Various types of aircraft, ships, and air defence missile systems were deployed from 5:00 am to 7:00 am,’ the statement said, without providing details.
The last time the Air Force Command held the Integrated Air and Missile Defence Exercise was in June, a month after Taiwan President Lai Ching-te took office…”
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