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The Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone as shown in orange boundaries in the lower left of the diagram. The Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone is an air defense identification zone of the Republic of China (ROC), which covers Taiwan Province, its surrounds, and a large portion of the Chinese mainland. A theoretical "median line" was ...
The Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF; known colloquially as the Taiwanese Air Force) is the military aviation branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces, based in Taiwan since 1947. Founded in 1920 by the Kuomintang , the ROCAF's primary mission now is the defense of the airspace over and around the Taiwan Area .
An air defense command and control structure was developed in 1950, creating five air defense identification zones around North America. If radio interrogation failed to identify an aircraft in the ADIZ, the Air Force launched interceptor aircraft to identify the intruder visually. The air defense system reached its peak in 1962.
Earlier on Thursday, the ministry said it had detected 15 Chinese military aircraft which entered Taiwan's air defence zone, referring to a broader area of air space Taiwan monitors rather than ...
Senior ministry intelligence officer Hsieh Jih-sheng told the same press conference there have so far been no live fire drills in China's seven "reserved" air space zones, two of which are in the ...
China's air force over the past three years has routinely flown into the air space around Taiwan. Since August it has regularly sent jets across the strait's median line, which had previously ...
Taiwan Space Agency (abbreviated TASA), formerly the National Space Organization (NSPO) from 1991 to 2023, is the national civilian space agency of Taiwan, under the auspices of the National Science and Technology Council. TASA is involved in the development of space technologies and related research.
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan activated its defence systems on Thursday after reporting 37 Chinese military aircraft flying into the island's air defence zone, some of which then flew into the western ...