TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s defense ministry released a video of missiles hitting a target ship during a training exercise on Friday (Aug. 23).
The defense ministry said Hsiung Feng II and Hsiung Feng III missiles had been fired, one of which was launched from a National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology base on Taiwan’s southeast coast, per CNA. The ministry said the test firing hit the targeted ship.
The ministry said the missiles were fired in the early hours of Friday morning. It also said Hsiung Feng II and III missiles were fired from Navy vessels at sea.
The video released by the defense ministry also showed a Kuang Hua VI-class missile boat and the ROCS Fu Chiang being used in the training exercise.
The defense ministry also said that Dassault Mirage 2000, AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-Kuo, and F-16 fighter jets were used in the exercise. The aircraft were used to fire MICA, Sky Sword II, and AIM-120 missiles, it said.
The video was published in Youth Daily News, a defense ministry publication.