Next year will see Taiwan take delivery of some big-ticket US weapons – including more M1A2T Abrams tanks and MQ-9B SkyGuardian drones – from a nearly US$22 billion long-delayed package of arms sales.
The shipments will mark the highest annual volume of arms arrivals in years, significantly strengthening Taiwan’s deterrence and war-fighting capacity amid mounting threats from Beijing, according to two reports recently submitted to the legislature by the island’s defence ministry.
One report on… South China Morning Post
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