The No. 36 Han Kuang exercise opened on July 13. Due to COVID-19, the exercise incorporated a drill to prepare for biological threats in Kaohsiung for the first time. Meanwhile, military aircraft could be seen flying from western Taiwan to Hualien and Taitung in the morning.


The exercise opened at 6 a.m. with two C-130s taking off from Taichung Airport for Hualien Air Force Base. Seven C-130s from Pingtung and IDFs from Hsinchu, meanwhile, headed to Taitung Air Force Base. Meanwhile, At Kaohsiung's E-Da Hospital, a biological emergency exercise was held to simulate an explosion outside a veterans' home. Chemical troops arrived and disinfected the area. At the hospital, patients had to undergo a second round of disinfection. This is the first time the Han Kuang exercise incorporated a special biological threat response drill due to COVID-19.



漢光36號實兵演習從上午六點開始，由台中清泉崗派兩架C-130飛往花蓮空軍基地，屏東也派遣7架C-130和新竹的IDF戰機飛往台東空軍基地。而在高雄的義大醫院，也有一場生物疾病緊急狀態演練，在榮民之家外牆傳出爆破聲後，化學兵先出動來進行消毒除汙作業，接著再把病人送到義大醫院，抵達之後還要做一次消毒除汙，才能送進病房裡面。這是今年漢光演習最大的特色，因為疫情的關係，國防部第一次把相關威脅的應對加到了演習裡。