BEIJING: Chinese combat helicopters conducted live-fire drills with missiles off the country’s southeast coast, state media said on Thursday, without confirming whether the exercises took place in the sensitive Taiwan Strait.

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) exercise took place Wednesday and involved various types of helicopters that tested “all-weather operational capability of the air force at sea,” the official Xinhua news agency said.

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