US To Provide Conventional Submarine Technology To Taiwan

[Zarvan]

Taiwan submarine program


US defense contractors will help Taiwan to construct its own submarines by providing Taipei with conventional technology to counter threats from China.

Taiwan last year launched a plan to manufacture its own submarines amid deteriorating relations with China after its hopes of buying them from the US came to nothing.

The US state department has approved granting license necessary to sell Taiwan the technology needed for its submarine project, Taiwan defence ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi said Sunday.

“It is part of a process. We’ll take it step by step,” Chung-chi told AFP.

China has protested at the move, saying the US should stop official exchanges with Taiwan to avoid “damaging Sino-US relations”.

Washington switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 1979 but maintains trade relations with the island and is its main arms supplier.

“The announcement from the US is the first step. Whether we are talking about components, systems or other technology, US manufacturers would still need to obtain export permits,” Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Ding-yu who sits on the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee said.

Taiwan’s navy currently operates a fleet of four submarines, bought from abroad but only two of them can be deployed in the event of war.

The other two were built by the United States in the 1940s and are only used in training as they are too old for combat.

The first domestically-built submarine is expected to be deployed within 10 years.

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[war&peace]

That's really good actually USA should provide all its technologies to The Republic of China.

 

[The SC]

The US does not operate conventional submarines! How can it provide their technologies?
It was said in some news that Saudi Arabia will have German submarines made in the US.. all the US can provide is the electronics and navigation systems..

 

[Azeri440]

The US does not operate conventional submarines! How can it provide their technologies?
It was said in some news that Saudi Arabia will have German submarines made in the US.. all the US can provide is the electronics and navigation systems..

just because US only operates nuclear subs doesn't mean US defense contractors don't have the technology to build conventional subs aswell.

 

[The SC]

just because US only operates nuclear subs doesn't mean US defense contractors don't have the technology to build conventional subs aswell.

They don't.. they will have to build a whole new industry.. and they are not interested in that..Egypt wanted some conventional subs in the 90s and were send to the Netherlands to get the submarines as such, and the US would have worked on the electronic and other components.. So thinks did not change now.. The most recent proof is that KSA wants the US to equip German made Type-16 for it.. this is still going on.. Add the Australian French-made Barracuda subs that will be fitted with US sensitive components..