RoCAF to hold live air-to-air firing exercises over Taiwan Strait

Taiwan will use its IDF and Mirage 2000 fighters for three live air-to-air firing exercises starting from today over the Taiwan Strait.

ROCAF Dassault Mirage 2000-5Ei Aoki-6
By Toshiro Aoki (http://jp-spotters.com/7603LL.html) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

From Sept. 19-23, IDF fighters from Taichung will hold their live firing exercise at restricted area R11 and from Sept. 26-30, Mirage 2000s from Hsinchu air base will be practicing over restricted area R9. Both units will repeat the live firings again together from Oct. 3-14.

The exercise is significant as the exercise areas border the so-called “middle line” over the Taiwan Strait.