'Hellscape' strategy: How Taiwan plans to use drones to stop China in its tracks

Taiwan is accelerating efforts to build fleets of aerial and unmanned surface drones as part of a strategy to make any potential Chinese invasion more difficult and costly, drawing lessons from Ukraine’s use of drones in its war with Russia, according to a report by The New York Times.The strategy, described by US military commanders as a “hellscape”, involves using large numbers of drones, missiles and artillery to detect and attack an invading force across multiple domains.Taiwan is now seeking to put elements of the approach into practice through military exercises, new commands and plans to expand domestic drone production.Lt Gen Huang Wen-chi, director general of strategic planning for Taiwan’s defence ministry, said the island’s drone and counter-drone efforts had initially developed slowly.“Our drone and counter-drone efforts started relatively late, and initially we were trying things out as we went along,” Huang told lawmakers, according to The New York Times.He…