SEAL Team Six, the US Navy commando unit that killed Osama bin Laden, has spent more than a year training to help Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, according to a new report.

Members of the team — which is one of only two hyper-elite “Tier One” special operations squads in the US — have been preparing to deploy to Taiwan in the event that China’s People’s Liberation Army crosses the Taiwan Strait and invades the democratic island, the Financial Times reports.

The details of the training, which is taking place at the team’s secret base at Dam Neck near Virginia Beach, and how the commando unit would be used if war were to break out has remained top secret, according to the UK newspaper.

But SEAL Team Six is often entrusted to carry out America’s most sensitive and difficult missions.

On paper, SEAL Team Six — officially called the Naval Special Warfare Development Group — exists to test, evaluate, and develop technology and tactics for all naval warfare. In reality, the commandos have made headlines for decades for executing some of America’s most daring and dangerous secret missions.

The unit famously carried out the rescue of Richard Phillips when the American captain’s container ship was taken hostage by Somali pirates in 2009, events that inspired the Tom Hanks movie “Captain Phillips.”

The SEAL team’s legacy was forever secured two years later when it conducted a daring nighttime raid on bin Laden’s Pakistani compound in 2011, killing the mastermind behind al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks.

While the Pentagon has regularly sent other special operations units to help train and bolster the Taiwanese military, the US Defense Department has said all its forces “prepare and train for a wide range of contingencies.”

The US has previously stressed that war with China is “neither imminent nor inevitable,” but the American military has notably sped up its contingency preparations after 2021, when then-US Indo-Pacific commander Phil Davidson warned that China could attack Taiwan within six years.

Those same alarm bells were rung by the CIA last year, citing reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered his forces to be capable of invading Taiwan by 2027.

Beijing regards the island as a renegade province that must be reunited under the banner of the Chinese Communist Party — by force if necessary.

America is obliged to help Taiwan — an island of 23 million that makes more than 90% of the world’s most advanced microchips — defend itself against China under the Taiwan Relations Act.

President Biden has stated throughout his term that US forces would assist the ally should Beijing invade.

However, it remains unclear if the US would engage in combat against China given its policy of “strategic ambiguity” toward Taiwan.

Following the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s massive military drills this summer, US Adm. Samuel Paparo warned that America would decimate any foreign forces trying to invade via the Taiwan Strait, saying the water would turn into a “hellscape.”  

Paparo told Japan’s Nikkei newspaper at the time that China’s invasion was akin to “a rehearsal” for an invasion.

The Chinese Embassy in Washington has warned the US to cease any military action around Taiwan.