Six more Min Jiang-class fast minelayers are due from Lungteh Shipbuilding by the end of December, which takes the ROC Navy from four hulls to ten. Each boat carries between 32 and 64 Wan Hsiang mines and lays them from fixed tracks amidships and aft. Run the full fleet at two sorties apiece and Taiwan can put somewhere between 640 and 1,280 mines across the approaches to its harbours in a matter of days.

Taiwan’s Army has crossed a symbolic and operational threshold: on June 10, 2026, it conducted its first-ever live-fire exercise with US-supplied HIMARS launchers on the island’s western shoreline, sending rockets directly into the Taiwan Strait from Taichung. Every previous HIMARS firing — including the system’s Taiwan debut in 2025 — took place on the Pacific-facing east coast, safely pointed away from the mainland. This time, the precision rockets flew toward China.