Taiwan’s 333rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade carried out nighttime “imminent-combat training” on December 31, 2025, in response to China’s ongoing Justice Mission 2025 exercises around Taiwan Island, according to a post by Taiwan Monitor on X during the reporting window from 2:16 a.m. to 4:16 a.m. UTC. The training occurred over the past two hours amid the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command’s second day of drills on December 30, which involved destroyers, frigates, fighters, bombers, and ground units north, south, and east of Taiwan to test joint capabilities, as stated by the PLA Eastern Theater Command in the previous report. A separate post by someplaosint on X during the same period summarized PLA Navy shipbuilding for 2025, noting commissions of one 003 aircraft carrier, one 075 landing helicopter dock, one 055 destroyer, seven 052D destroyers, four 054A frigates, and two 054B frigates, totaling 213,000 metric tons displacement and 752 vertical launch system cells.
