Taiwanese officials are optimistic the made-in-Taiwan submarines in the pipeline will shore up national defense as China ramps up its own naval power.
are understood to have contributed so-called"red zone" or sensitive technologies toward the submarine program. Taipei has not disclosed the precise number foreign governments that sanctioned components sales to Taiwan.
Taiwan's first locally built submarine, classed Hai Kun or Narwhal, is seen during unveiling ceremony at the CSBC Corporation shipbuilding company in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan on September 28, 2023., which is expected to enter service next year after sea trials, brings Taiwan's standing submarine fleet to five. Of the other four aging boats, two were purchased from the Netherlands in the 1980s and two were former U.S. training submarines built during World War II.
Adm. Huang Shu-kuang, Taiwan's former chief of general staff who heads the submarine program, said earlier this month that the slated eight Hai Kun-class boats would bolster the country's defenses to the point that"I don't think we will lose a war." Taiwan has been increasing its domestic defense production capacity in recent years, producing weapons and weapons platforms in pursuit of an asymmetric strategy to deter
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