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By Zachary Keck
According to local media reports, Taiwan is expanding the scope of its UAV surveillance operations on China.
Taiwan is using unmanned surveillance drones to monitor possible missile launches in the Taiwanese strait has aimed across the Taiwan Strait, according to local news accounts.
According to an article published in the Taipei Times, Taiwan’s military has begun expanding the deployment zone of its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from airspace over eastern and southern Taiwan to airspace over the Taiwan Strait. Consequentially, the report said that the UAVs can detect military movements along China’s coastal region.
The Taipei Times cited an anonymous military official as the source for the report.
A report in the Liberty Times, the Chinese-language sister site of the Taipei Times, quoted the military official as saying that the drones allow Taiwan’s military to “monitor China’s military movements in the southeastern coastal area,” according to the South China Morning Post.
Read the full story at The Diplomat