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Taiwan uses FPV drones against armored targets in live-fire exercise

Taiwan’s Army Unmanned Systems Training Command ran the exercise with six units, testing armor-piercing FPV strikes under simulated battlefield conditions.

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Taiwan’s army has used first-person view drones to attack armored targets for the first time in a live-fire drill, adopting tactics seen in the Ukraine war to expand strike options against the People’s Liberation Army, according to SCMP Economy.

The exercise on Monday focused on how operators can fly FPV drones that stream real-time video to goggles, then carry armor-piercing warheads in attacks on decommissioned tanks and armored ammunition carriers.

SCMP Economy said the drones carried out frontal and flanking strikes in both single-drone and coordinated two-drone attacks, with the drill involving six units drawn from artillery commands, the Marine Corps, and the military police.

The reporting also noted that FPV drones are typically designed to be more maneuverable and acrobatic than other drone types, supporting accuracy in combat.

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