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The island’s military is working to learn the lessons of the Ukraine war and boost its asymmetric defences against the PLA
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Lawrence Chungin Taipei
Published: 7:04pm, 18 Aug 2026
Updated: 9:11pm, 18 Aug 2026
Taiwan’s army has for the first time used first-person view (FPV) drones against armoured vehicles in a live-fire exercise, adopting tactics pioneered during the Ukraine war to strengthen its asymmetric capabilities against the People’s Liberation Army
The exercise on Monday highlighted efforts to broaden strike options beyond traditional firepower such as rocket systems and heavy artillery
The Army Unmanned Systems Training Command brought together six units from the military’s artillery commands, Marine Corps and Military Police for the exercise
Under simulated battlefield conditions, operators flew FPV drones carrying armour-piercing warheads against decommissioned tanks and armoured ammunition carriers
FPV drones – which stream real-time video directly to a pair of goggles worn by the pilot – are usually designed to be more manoeuvrable and acrobatic than other drones, allowing greater accuracy in combat
The drones conducted frontal and flanking strikes in both single-drone and coordinated two-drone attacks, according to the Youth Daily News, a defence ministry-affiliated newspaper based in Taipei
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