{"id":48383,"date":"2025-05-12T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48383"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:40:08","slug":"taiwan-holds-first-live-fire-of-us-high-tech-rocket-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/taiwan-holds-first-live-fire-of-us-high-tech-rocket-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Holds First Live-Fire of US High-Tech Rocket Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan conducted Monday its first live-firing of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) purchased from the United States, as the self-ruled island upgrades its capabilities to repel a potential Chinese attack.<\/p>\n<p>China claims Taiwan is part of its territory and has threatened to use force to bring the island under its control.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan would be massively outgunned in any war with China and for decades has been buying US military weapons and equipment as a deterrence against Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch of 11 HIMARS were delivered to Taiwan in November.<\/p>\n<p>The truck-mounted units can launch multiple precision-guided rockets at the same time, and has been used by Ukraine against Russia in their ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>AFP journalists watched Monday as Taiwan&#8217;s army launched rockets from the HIMARS at the Jiupeng base in southern Pingtung County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan conducted Monday its first live-firing of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) purchased from the United States, as the self-ruled island upgrades its capabilities to repel a potential Chinese attack. China claims Taiwan is part of its territory and has threatened to use force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan would be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48384,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48383\/revisions\/48384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}