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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Taiwan fires rockets in China's direction from a U.S.-supplied mobile launching system in drill

Taiwan Exercise - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Taiwan's military fired rockets in China's direction from “shoot-and-scoot” mobile launchers on Wednesday in a demonstration of how it might try to repel a Chinese attack.

While the U.S.-supplied system known as HIMARS has been tested before, the latest live-fire exercise was the first time its rockets were fired into the waters of the narrow Taiwan Strait that separates the self-governing island from China.

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