World Defence News: Taiwan has all but given up on acquiring diesel-electric submarines from the US and is expected to embark on a domestic program with assistance from abroad, a leading defense analyst told the Taipei Times. Longstanding plans to augment Taiwan’s small and aging submarine fleet gained momentum in 2001, when the administration of US president George W. |
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Bush offered to provide eight diesel-electric submarines to Taiwan for about US$12 billion. Source: World Defence News
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