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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Navy establishing project for indigenous submarines

Hai Lung (Zwaardvis) class SSKThe Navy is in the process of establishing a project to build submarines on its own, Navy Chief of Staff Hsiao Wei-min said Thursday during a legislative hearing.

According to ruling Kuomintang Legislator Lin Yu-fang, between 2016 and 2019, the Navy is supposed to complete a design blueprint and budget NT$3 billion (US$98 million) to NT$4 billion for the project.

In 2001, then-U.S. President George W. Bush moved to help Taiwan acquire eight diesel-electric submarines, but there has been little progress since then, prompting Taiwan to seek its own solution.

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