https://taiwanstrait.com/tags/osint/ Recent content in OSINT on Taiwan Strait Hugo en-us Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://taiwanstrait.com/pla-air-activity-around-taiwan-halved-in-the-first-half-of-2026/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://taiwanstrait.com/pla-air-activity-around-taiwan-halved-in-the-first-half-of-2026/ <p>Taiwan&rsquo;s Ministry of National Defense has published a daily count of detected PLA aircraft, naval vessels and government ships every morning since 2020. It is the most consistently maintained open-source series in the Indo-Pacific, and for four years it moved in one direction. Summed across the first six months of 2026, the fighter component comes to 1,334 sorties — less than half the figure for the same period in 2025, and the lowest operational tempo since 2023.</p>