The Taiwan military's most important annual military exercise, the "HanGuang Exercise," will take place on September 13, after which the Taiwan military will conduct combat drills in the next 5 days and 4 nights, with the exercise being carried out with "real troops and local live ammunition."
The Taiwan military's current exercise has the following aspects:
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, epidemic + typhoon + drill, this "Hanguang exercise" became a three-in-one test. </h1>
During the epidemic period and the typhoon encountered in this exercise, the Taiwan military first transferred the training strength to disaster prevention and relief, and then to combat, unexpectedly forming a three-in-one test of "exercise, disaster prevention, and epidemic prevention." The Taiwan military said that this can temper the Taiwan military's dispatching ability. 30,000 people from the Taiwan military participated in the exercise.
Due to the invasion of the Delta mutation strain, the Taiwan military conducted a second exercise this year after last year's biological exercise, through which the military and civilian medical energy was integrated.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, exercise "without the assistance of the US army, they will fight the mainland army." </h1>
Due to the epidemic, the Taiwan military has not invited the US military to participate for two consecutive years, nor has it invited the US military to come and observe. However, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) sent representatives to observe.
Recently, although the high-level Taiwan and the United States touched on the renaming of Taiwan's representative office in the United States during the US talks, if the two sides of the strait really go to war, the US military will not come, and I am afraid that even the US military itself will not know. It is possible that the Taiwan authorities are also worried, so in this year's "HanGuang exercise," the Taiwan military set a "same life on the same island" in its operational concept, that is, it envisioned that there would be no US military rushing to help, but that it would use the natural dangers in the strait to confront the mainland army in defense. However, the Taiwan military said that although it is not set to fight jointly with the US military, the Taiwan military hopes that the US military can provide real-time dynamic intelligence of the mainland army.
The purpose of the "HanGuang exercise" is to verify that the Taiwan military makes full use of the strait barrier and the terrain of the island to create local superiority on the battlefield and force the mainland to fail in its mission to attack Taiwan.
In view of this, some mainland netizens said that without the help of the US military, the mainland will destroy the Taiwan army in seconds.
<H1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, exercise "interception of Continental Army aircraft". </h1>
On the first day of the exercise, various types of fighters of the Taiwan military conducted a training exercise on the retention of combat strength. At 9:00 a.m. on September 13, F-16 fighters from Chiayi Base began to enter the Taitung Zhihang Base, but unexpectedly, before the two F-16s of the first echelon were about to land, it was suspected that there were Continental Army aircraft on the stage, and two "Mirage-2000" fighters loaded with live ammunition immediately took off to intercept, and the F-16 landed at the Zhihang Base after pulling up and circling.
Therefore, if a war breaks out between the two sides of the strait, the possibility of the continental army plane entering the airspace of southwest Taiwan is quite large, and at this time, the Taiwan military fighter is likely to take off from Taitung to intercept, because it is the fastest way to deal with the continental aircraft from here.
During the exercise, the Taiwan military also verified the tactical tactics of the southwest airspace, simulated the bombing of the runway of the Pingtung Army's airfield, and changed the fighter plane to take off and land in the winter combat readiness road and then replenished it.
In recent years, the Taiwan military's annual "Hanguang Exercise" has added new high-difficulty courses, such as the 2016 drill to block the Snow Mountain Tunnel, and the take-off and landing of fighters on the highway combat readiness; and the 2020 drill submarine launch torpedo. This year, the difficulty course is "Enabling the Good Winter Combat Readiness Road to Allow Fighters to Take Off and Land" of the September 15 exercise.
Due to the frequent presence of continental military aircraft and warships in the airspace of Taiwan's southwest sea, the focus of the "Han Guang" exercise was also placed in the 4th Operational Zone in southern Taiwan, and anti-landing courses were selected near the Manfeng Fishery in Pingtung. The first two "Han Guang" centers of gravity in the central 5th Combat Zone.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fourth, exercise "combat power preservation", nicknamed "the great escape". </h1>
This year's "HanGuang Exercise" of the Taiwan military was conducted in accordance with the defense concept of "preservation of combat strength, overall air defense, joint sea control, and United Nations soil defense."
Among them, on September 13 and 14, the overall air defense and combat strength preservation tactics were carried out, simulating the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wing of the Air Force and the northern part of the army being attacked by continental aircraft, and all aircraft entered the Hualien Jiashan base, and then took off from Taitung to the open sea to bomb. After the Taiwan military issued the order, the Taiwan Air Force 'Mirage' fighter and F-16V fighter flew to the east urgently for combat strength preservation and follow-up combat force deployment and support. IDF fighters were stationed in the western base for joint defense. Taiwan warships left the port urgently to dock. The river defense battalion of the Sixth Army corps of the Taiwan Army stationed at Guandu will be equipped with M60A3 combat vehicles, CM33 clouded leopard armored vehicles, M106 mortar vehicles and other equipment for "combat strength preservation" deployment, if the mainland army goes down the river to attack Taipei, that is, fire blockades the mouth of the Freshwater River.
On September 16, the Taiwan military will carry out heavy artillery fire to show the anti-landing combat strength of the Taiwan army.
In fact, no matter how Taiwan exercises its combat strength, the mainland's recovery of Taiwan under the circumstance that the two sides of the strait are not equal in strength will certainly be "a quick battle and a quick decision." (Inoue Frog)