Taiwan fires HIMARS rockets into Taiwan Strait during military drill amid China tensions

A Taiwanese Army HIMARS launches projectiles during the exercise on Wednesday. PIC/AFP

Taiwan's military fired rockets in China's direction from "shoot-and-scoot" mobile launchers on Wednesday in a demonstration of how it might try to repel a Chinese attack.

While the US-supplied system known as HIMARS has been tested before, the latest live-fire exercise was the first time its rockets were fired into the waters of the narrow Taiwan Strait that separates the self-governing island from China.

The military said it used reduced-range training rockets, which don't fly very far off the coast before going into the water.

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