Taiwan is undoubtedly today one of the countries evolving under the greatest external military pressure on the planet. Thus, the Chinese authorities have once again announced the holding of not one, but two major naval exercises in the South China Sea, and therefore near the independent island, at the start of the week. What's more, one of these exercises will focus on an amphibious assault, a threat taken very seriously by the authorities in Taipei. This explains why Defense news so often deals with Taiwanese defense programs, whether they are local programs or the acquisition of defense equipment from the United States.
In fact, Taiwan now lives in the permanent fear of an attack from Beijing to reintegrate the island by force within the People's Republic of China, as promised Chinese President Xi Jinping. In this particularly tense context, which has nothing to envy to the situation in which the state of Israel was until the David camps agreements, the intensive use of long endurance drones represents a crucial issue for the Taiwanese Defense , in order to anticipate any premise of a possible attack in preparation.
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