Taiwan signed a “letter of offer and acceptance” in late September.
TAIPEI – The Taiwan Ministry of Defence has signed formal agreements with the US government allowing it to buy as many as 1,000 attack drones from AeroVironment Inc. and Anduril Industries Inc. to aid in blunting a potential Chinese assault on the island democracy, according to people in industry familiar with the transaction.
Those contracts could be signed soon, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the unannounced action.Attack drones have burgeoned into a major component of modern warfare. Russian and Ukrainian forces have deployed thousands of drones to spy on each other and, while unmanned aerial vehicles were used in an Iranian attack on Israel in April.
In June, the State Department notified Congress that it approved the sale of as many as 291 Anduril Altius 600M-V systems valued at US$300 million and as many as 720 AeroVironment Switchblade 300 “B” model drones valued at as much as US$60 million.
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