Backlog of billions of dollars' worth of US weapons including tanks, drones set to arrive next year, boosting island’s defence capacity
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 US arms sales progress shows that Taiwan faced a backlog of US$21.54 billion across 18 active arms orders, some of which had yet to arrive. Of these, 15 were on schedule, two were delayed and one was ahead of schedule. Nearly US$4.5 billion worth of systems were in the process of being delivered.
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