Taiwan passes extra $8.6 bln defence budget as China threat grows
Taiwan’s parliament on Tuesday passed an extra spending bill of nearly $8.6 billion in its latest bid to boost defence capabilities against an increasingly bellicose China. Armored vehicles from Taiwan’s military parade The government proposed a five-year special defence budget of around TW$237.3 billion from 2022 as Chinese warplanes breached its air defence zone at unprecedented levels last year. Democratic Taiwan lives under constant threat of an invasion by authoritarian China, which claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory to…
Indian Air Force Seeks Made In India Missile Defense System
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has conveyed to the government that it would prefer to induct India's very own multi-tiered Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) program including medium and long range surface-to-air elements rather than the US made NASAMS-II networked air defence system, Livefist has reported. The indigenous missile defence program has successfully completed its first development phase and is expected to be deployed by 2022. The Indian government is currently locked in negotiations with its American counterparts over a potent…
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