Taiwan says it can't afford new US anti-submarine helicopters

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TAIPEI - Taiwan signalled on Thursday that it had abandoned a plan to buy advanced new anti-submarine warfare helicopters from the United States, saying they were too expensive.

Taiwan had earlier said it was planning to buy 12 MH-60R anti-submarine helicopters, made by Lockheed Martin Corp unit Sikorsky, but Taiwanese media reported that the United States had rejected the sale as not being in line with the island's needs.

The Raytheon Technologies' Stingers are in hot demand in Ukraine, where they have been used against Russian aircraft, but US supplies have shrunk and producing more of the anti-aircraft weapons faces significant hurdles. "We don't view arms sales as a trifling matter, and we have back-up plans," he added, without elaborating.

 

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straits_times No need to buy all these US anti-submarine stuffs etc…Don’t worry, China won’t attack Taiwan. Had it wanted to, Taiwan would have been attacked long time ago.

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