Mainland civilian drones (aerial cameras) have repeatedly flown over Kinmen, Taiwan to take photos of sentry posts. Yesterday, another drone of unknown origin flew over the restricted waters of Shiyu Island in Kinmen. shoot down. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen reiterated yesterday that “we won’t provoke disputes, but that doesn’t mean we won’t fight back.”
The Taiwan Army Kinmen Defense Command confirmed yesterday that an unknown civilian drone was found flying into the restricted waters of Shiyu Island at noon. The drone crashed into the sea and no wreckage was found. This is the first time the Kinmen garrison shot down a harassing drone since the day before yesterday for the first time to drive away a drone from the mainland.
Hu Xijin: Don’t make it a new point of tension between the two sides of the strait
There has been no official response from the mainland on the drone flying over Kinmen. Hu Xijin, the former editor-in-chief of the state-run Global Times, believes that Kinmen should exercise restraint on these drones and “don’t make things a new point of tension between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.”
Hu Xijin pointed out that according to what he has learned from many parties, the drones that have appeared near Kinmen recently do not belong to the People’s Liberation Army, but are civilian drone enthusiasts in Xiamen. Post aerial photos or videos to your social accounts.”
Some Taiwanese media quoted sources as saying that the Ministry of National Defense has urgently dispatched the Air Force flight management unit, dubbed the “Bird Fighting Team”, to bring “drone jamming guns” to support Kinmen, so as to ensure that the small and fast-moving drones can be hit. The number of people is about 30 to 40 people. The report also pointed out that the Army has ordered troops stationed in Kinmen to shoot down any drones if they are found.
In addition, the Ministry of National Defense released the “Chinese Communist Party’s Military Power Report” a few days ago, estimating that the mainland has 8 possible actions against Taiwan, including “the use of civil aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, sounding balloons, etc. to intensively and continuously intrude the sea and airspace around Taiwan.” “Gray zone” operations, other operations are cognitive operations, joint military deterrence, joint air and sea blockade, seizing outer islands, beheading operations, joint fire strikes, and all-out offensives.
The report also mentioned that the PLA’s live-fire military exercise around Taiwan Island last month is to break through the first island chain and expand the exercise area to the Western Pacific, hone the combat effectiveness of the joint command of the theater, verify the combat plan against Taiwan, and improve anti-access. /area denial of combat capability, etc.
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