TAIPEI: Taiwan on Monday launched computerized war games featuring its newly acquired AH-64 Apache helicopters helping counter a simulated attack by a Chinese aircraft carrier group, officials and media said.

The five-day drill, part of the island’s biggest annual military maneuvers to be held in Sep–tember, is aimed at testing the island’s defense capability against the fast expanding military might of the giant neighbor, defense ministry officials said, declining to go into details.

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