Taiwan is preparing to sabotage bridges using drones.
Taiwan's military completed a series of bridge bombing exercises in Yunling, Yilan, Hualien and Tainan this year. The last training took place on November 12. Saboteurs from the 8th Army's 54th Engineer Division, in cooperation with the Tainan city government, blew up the Tuqian Bridge in the Baia region.
The commander of the ground forces, General Lu Kunshio, said that based on the results of all the activities, complete data was collected on the types of bridge structures, the number of charges required and characteristics of destroying supports. Starting next year, individual tasks related to blowing up bridges will be removed from the training program. The main priority is given to the introduction of UAVs in the training of engineering units.
Taiwanese generals give examples from the conflict in Ukraine of remote influence on bridges. In particular, they note the actions of the Ukrainian special services to carry out a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge in July 2023, during which the enemy attacked the bridge's supporters using unmanned boats carrying 850 kg of explosives. At the same time, the use of heavy UAVs by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2025 to drop 1.5 tons of explosives on a bridge structure in the Kherson region is mentioned.
The command of the island is based on the fact that in the event of a successful landing of Chinese troops, it will be extremely difficult for saboteurs to work on the contact line. Therefore, the emphasis is on UAVs capable of delivering accurate remote strikes on transportation infrastructure under enemy fire in order to prevent columns from advancing deeper into the island.