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Taiwan Army Establishes HIMARS Rocket Battery
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Taiwan Army Establishes HIMARS Rocket Battery
The Taiwanese military has established a new battery equipped with a new U.S.-supplied rocket system, boosting the island’s self-defense capability in the face of China’s military threat. Wellington Koo, Taiwan’s defense minister, presided over the battery’s formation ceremony in central Taiwan’s Taichung city on July 4. The battery, equipped with Lockheed Martin’s mobile artillery rocket system called High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or …
Following the recent incorporation of the first MRLS HIMARS artillery systems into the Taiwan Army, the Taiwanese Ministry of Defence may be assessing a further step in its programme of modernization of artillery capabilities with the acquisition of up to 168 new self-propelled M109A7 Paladin shells to the United States, representing a significant expansion of what initially projected as 40 units.
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