The delivery of one of the 12 P-3C submarine-hunting aircraft from the United States was behind schedule due to a malfunction in its flight control system, a Taiwanese Air Force official confirmed Thursday.Taiwan received the first P-3C aircraft last September, and three more were scheduled to be delivered to Taiwan by the end of 2013, according to the Air Force.
However, during a legislative committee session Thursday, lawmaker Lin Yu-fang of the ruling Kuomintag revealed that the three sub-hunters should have been flown to Taiwan from Guam in December, but only one arrived here on Dec. 12.
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Good. Our military is being crippled by budget cuts and has less than half the budget of other developed nations (not including the US or NK). Our soldiers are currently having to resort to using sub-standard equipment and we are scraping the bottom of the barrel for funds to buy necessary military equipment, technology and vehicles. People who know nothing of the military's situation or just dismiss it without knowledge as unimportant need to stop. Anybody who knows anything about our military or is in it knows very well that it is getting a slap in the face from people who think their view is more important the actual soldier's and people's who know what they are talking about. These soldiers are willing to stand in the line of fire and take a bullet for you and we are treating them like trash and giving them scraps.
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