US Navy surveillance drone spotted flying just off southern tip of Taiwan, TW Military News.

Date of sighting: Dec 2020

Location of sighting: Taiwan Air Space

News source: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4073571

Now I saw a similar US drone over my apartment building just about two weeks ago. It was circling the area and then it moved off across the city. Yeah I know what they look like, I use to be a USAF SAC flight line airman working on B1s, B2s, and KC135 tankers. This was a drone I saw and it was a US drone too. These drones are armed and ready for combat against the Chines invading jets. So smart of America to use drones to fly over Taiwan and protect us in our hour of need. Thoughtful and caring of President Trump to keep an eye on Taiwans freedom and insure it stays safe. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

Taiwan news states: TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Aircraft spotters detected a U.S. Navy surveillance drone flying just off the coast of southern Taiwan Wednesday (Dec. 9), well within the country's air defense identification zone (ADIZ). At 3:28 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, the Beijing-based South China Sea (SCS) Probing Initiative posted a tweet claiming that a U.S. Navy Northrup Grumman MQ-4C Triton was operating over the South China sea that day. Aircraft spotter Jort Enthusiast at 3:30 p.m. announced on Twitter that a USN MQ-4C with the Mode-S hex code AE5C76 was flying just south of Taiwan and "high above the South China Sea." Three minutes later, Twitter user Ketagalan wrote that the aircraft had passed through the Bashi Channel. At 3:35 p.m., aircraft spotter Tokyo Radar wrote that a U.S. Navy unmanned aerial vehicle was located to the south of Taiwan at an altitude of 46,000 feet at 4:24 p.m. Japan Time, or 3:24 p.m. in Taiwan. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has yet to issue any comment on the drone's alleged flight.

USN MQ-4C (#AE5C76) is operating over the #SouthChinaSea, Dec 9. pic.twitter.com/6xPMdpQORP

— SCS Probing Initiative (@SCS_PI) December 9, 2020

Taiwan's 8 planned submarines could sink Chinese invasion fleet In Minutes, Taiwan Military News.

As Taiwan commences the production of eight new submarines, a warfare expert was cited on Wednesday (Dec. 2) as saying a Chinese invasion fleet would be highly vulnerable to the submersible warships. On Nov. 24, Taiwan officially began production of eight attack submarines, the first indigenous watercraft of their kind in the Navy's arsenal. The underwater vessels will be constructed at a specially designed new shipyard in Kaohsiung by Taiwan's CSBC Corporation. Taiwan currently has a rapidly aging fleet of four submarines, including two Chien Lung-class submarines, SS-793 Hai Lung (Sea Dragon) and SS-794 Hai Hu (Sea Tiger), which were purchased from the Netherlands in the 1980s. Older still, are its Hai Shih-class submarines, SS-791 Hai Shih (Sea Lion) and SS-792 Hai Bao (Sea Leopard), which were acquired from the U.S. in the 1970s and date back to the 1940s. Meanwhile, over the past decade, China has aggressively built up its navy to over 300 warships and submarines, making it the largest navy in the world. China plans to continue to expand its armada to 450 ships and 110 submarines by 2030. It is for this reason that Taiwan has felt the urgent need to build up its fleet of submarines to counter the threat of a full-scale invasion by the communist country. After decades of being denied purchases of submarines and components from foreign shipbuilders due to pressure from China, Taiwan in 2015 decided to build its own fleet, with the prototype expected to cost NT$49.36 billion (US$1.72 billion) and scheduled to be completed by the third quarter of 2024.