Taiwan has signed a contract with the US for maintenance of the island’s Patriot air defense missile systems, a move that comes as Washington is working to bolster Taipei’s military.
According to The South China Morning Post, the five-year contract is worth $77.8 million and will send technicians from Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to the island through 2027.
A Taiwanese military source told the Post that the technicians will be sent to Taiwan for the long term and that the arrangement will provide “timely servicing for our systems.”
The source said the deal was especially necessary since China practiced live-fire exercises in August that included firing missiles over Taiwan, which came in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visiting the island.
The signing of the contract comes as the US is looking at ways to get more weapons into Taiwan’s hands. It was revealed this week that the US is considering a plan to jointly produce arms with Taiwan so weapons could get to the island more quickly without delays.
The Senate wants to give Taiwan $10 billion in military aid over the next five years and has included the measure in its version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which senators are expected to approve after midterms in November.
Ten bbbb-Billion in military aid to Taiwan?…………………………………………………….
No wonder we’re broke….
Peace is a hell of a lot cheaper…
But not as lucrative to these ghouls. Also, what does the US produce aside from weapons and debt? Even the Hollywood movies are sh!tty and not good propaganda anymore.
Movies, cable TV, all just trash This country could have been so great, but it is now in the depths of h*ll. I am 78 and I hate each and every politician in Washington. All of them. Scurrying around like ants after sugar ($$$$$). Eisenhower was the last decent President (although he had his issues, like the coup in Iran). From him it has been a race to the bottom, one war criminal after another. Don’t get me started on our Supreme (hardly) Court.
I haven’t had your life experience, or have been around so long, but maybe JFK would’ve made good. Maybe that’s why he was “neutralized”, as they say.
And so it begins: the many wars of the BlinkenBot…. journals somewhere and sometime hence shall record that the planet was reduced to a cinder by a Nobody.
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