Taiwan to study building of submarines

The Ministry of National Defence has launched efforts to study the feasibility of building indigenous submarines, according to a statement released yesterday.

The ministry "is accurately reviewing the relevant plans and budgets" for a four-year project it brought to the National Defence Industrial Development Foundation late last year, based on a resolution by the Legislative Yuan that Taiwan should build its own submarines, the statement said.

Under the project, research will be conducted in four major fields - design, equipment acquisition, building capability and testing, the ministry said.

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