Taiwan Defence | Taiwan Strait and Indo-Pacific Defence News

A grey Fijian navy patrol boat numbered 401 sails past a ship on which a US Coast Guard sailor and an Australian sailor stand watching

Fiji launches its first maritime security strategy as Australia pledges Bluebottle sea drones

Fiji's defence minister says the plan targets drug runners and illegal fishing, while Australia will give the navy solar-powered uncrewed patrol vessels.

TaiwanDefence · 34m ago · 3 min read

Cross-Strait

A white Taiwan Coast Guard Administration patrol boat marked PP-3582, decorated with flags, hangs from a crane just above the water inside a shipyard shed

Cross-Strait

Taiwan coast guard says China pairs militia boats with coast guard ships to prepare the battlefield

Answering Reuters, Taiwan's coast guard confirmed it drove off the suspected militia boat Minfudingyu 07902 in August and warned of pressure on Japan and the Philippines.

TaiwanDefence · 23h ago · 3 min read

A large white Japan Coast Guard patrol ship with a blue diagonal stripe on its hull at sea

Cross-Strait

Chinese coast guard ships tail eight Japanese patrol vessels sheltering from a typhoon in the Taiwan Strait

Taiwan's coast guard says five Chinese cutters shadowed the Japanese ships off Penghu and accuses Beijing of using Typhoon Champi to imply control of the strait.

TaiwanDefence · 1d ago · 3 min read

Cross-Strait

Satellite images show four KJ-3000 radar jets at China's Xian aircraft plant

1d ago

Cross-Strait

No Chinese warplanes but 13 ships stay around Taiwan as Typhoon Champi closes in

2d ago

Navy

New Zealand navy task group returns home after North Korea sanctions patrols and RIMPAC

HMNZS Te Mana monitored UN sanctions on North Korea for the first time, while the oiler Aotearoa refuelled a Japanese warship under a new supply pact.

TaiwanDefence · 1h ago · 2 min read

A large cargo ship moored at a long concrete pier with cranes, seen through haze from a hillside above low warehouse buildings and trees

Navy

Satellite images suggest North Korea may build a 10,000-ton cruiser and a new naval base at Nampo

A South Korean imagery firm says new materials, worker housing and land reclamation at the west coast yard point to a warship bigger than the Choe Hyon destroyers.

TaiwanDefence · 5h ago · 3 min read

Navy

China's carrier Liaoning is seen passing through the Basilan Strait off the southern Philippines

7h ago

Navy

Taiwan's navy hires two firms to chart the seabed off its southwest coast

1d ago

Analysis & Commentary

All analysis →

TaiwanDefence

Taiwan's admission that it pays for US war-game observers puts a price on quiet military ties

A 21 October 2026 report on Taiwan's NT$82.4m plan for US observers at its Han Kuang drills shows Taipei funds much of its quiet military link to Washington.

TaiwanDefence

Taiwan's plan to keep senior pilots flying to 58 may miss why most of them leave

As the plan awaits Cabinet approval, a 21 October 2026 report says workload and leave go unaddressed, while lawmakers' data point to mid-career exits to airlines.

TaiwanDefence

New photos put North Koreans at Russia's military drone hub, but their role on the line is unproven

Photos and eyewitness accounts reported on 20 October 2026 place North Koreans at Alabuga. Whether Pyongyang gains drone know-how is still an inference.

Army

Taiwanese military police in dark uniforms standing beside a black van, with soldiers in camouflage lined up across a parade ground

Army

Taiwan removes Taipei military police commander accused of hiding troop injuries

Military Police Command says an inquiry found poor leadership in the unit guarding central Taipei, after troops complained of abuse and unreported self-harm scares.

TaiwanDefence · 1d ago · 3 min read

Army

Taiwan puts 20,000 troops on typhoon standby and sends marine amphibious vehicles to Suao

1d ago

Army

Taiwan's army has 275 new M60A3 tank engines, but worn gearboxes are holding the tanks back

2d ago

Army

Taiwan army calls off Lu Sheng 2 brigade war game a day early as Typhoon Champi nears

2d ago

Air Force

Helmeted reservists in camouflage kneel with rifles behind barbed wire on grass while officials and officers watch from under a tent

Air Force

Taiwan air force keeps a reservist call-up on election day, telling 311 to vote before reporting

A venue clash left an Air Force guard battalion's reserve training starting on 28 November, Taiwan's local election day, so reservists may report until 8 pm.

TaiwanDefence · 17 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

Air Force

Cabinet warns Songshan airport move would leave a critical gap in capital defence

16 Oct 2026

Air Force

Taiwan's Brave Eagle trainers logged 212 engine blade repairs, mostly blamed on runway dust

15 Oct 2026

Air Force

Taiwan's air force delays radar guard platoons to 2029 as China-free vehicle bid stalls

15 Oct 2026

Industry

A camouflaged French Army CAESAR truck-mounted howitzer with its barrel raised on a snowy training range

Industry

Thai firms to supply 34 support vehicles for the Malaysian Army's new CAESAR artillery regiment

Chaiseri and Thai Defense Industry signed a deal for ammunition, repair, recovery and fire-control vehicles to back Malaysia's 18 CAESAR howitzers.

TaiwanDefence · 16h ago · 3 min read

Industry

Indo-Pacific

Fiji launches its first maritime security strategy as Australia pledges Bluebottle sea drones

Fiji's defence minister says the plan targets drug runners and illegal fishing, while Australia will give the navy solar-powered uncrewed patrol vessels.

TaiwanDefence · 34m ago · 3 min read

Indo-Pacific

Fiji launches its first maritime security strategy as Australia pledges Bluebottle sea drones

Top Stories

New Zealand navy task group returns home after North Korea sanctions patrols and RIMPAC

Indian Army to train civil defence instructors in 12 states for drone, air-raid and hybrid threats

Kim Jong Un tells North Korean company commanders to turn their units into self-reliant combat teams

Philippine coast guard drives a Vietnamese fishing boat out of Lawak Island waters in the Spratlys

Satellite images suggest North Korea may build a 10,000-ton cruiser and a new naval base at Nampo

Cross-Strait

Taiwan coast guard says China pairs militia boats with coast guard ships to prepare the battlefield

Chinese coast guard ships tail eight Japanese patrol vessels sheltering from a typhoon in the Taiwan Strait

Satellite images show four KJ-3000 radar jets at China's Xian aircraft plant

No Chinese warplanes but 13 ships stay around Taiwan as Typhoon Champi closes in

Navy

New Zealand navy task group returns home after North Korea sanctions patrols and RIMPAC

Satellite images suggest North Korea may build a 10,000-ton cruiser and a new naval base at Nampo

China's carrier Liaoning is seen passing through the Basilan Strait off the southern Philippines

Taiwan's navy hires two firms to chart the seabed off its southwest coast

Analysis & Commentary

Taiwan's admission that it pays for US war-game observers puts a price on quiet military ties

Taiwan's plan to keep senior pilots flying to 58 may miss why most of them leave

New photos put North Koreans at Russia's military drone hub, but their role on the line is unproven

Army

Taiwan removes Taipei military police commander accused of hiding troop injuries

Taiwan puts 20,000 troops on typhoon standby and sends marine amphibious vehicles to Suao

Taiwan's army has 275 new M60A3 tank engines, but worn gearboxes are holding the tanks back

Taiwan army calls off Lu Sheng 2 brigade war game a day early as Typhoon Champi nears

Air Force

Taiwan air force keeps a reservist call-up on election day, telling 311 to vote before reporting

Cabinet warns Songshan airport move would leave a critical gap in capital defence

Taiwan's Brave Eagle trainers logged 212 engine blade repairs, mostly blamed on runway dust

Taiwan's air force delays radar guard platoons to 2029 as China-free vehicle bid stalls

Industry

Thai firms to supply 34 support vehicles for the Malaysian Army's new CAESAR artillery regiment

Taiwan's missile institute finds suspected Chinese-made part in its air-launched Hsiung Feng III project

Paraguay's air force to receive 15 retired Taiwanese AT-3 jet trainers

Russia threatens Japan with countermeasures after Terra Drone delivers interceptor drones to Ukraine

Indo-Pacific

Fiji launches its first maritime security strategy as Australia pledges Bluebottle sea drones

Indian Army to train civil defence instructors in 12 states for drone, air-raid and hybrid threats

Kim Jong Un tells North Korean company commanders to turn their units into self-reliant combat teams

Philippine coast guard drives a Vietnamese fishing boat out of Lawak Island waters in the Spratlys