DSCA approved delivery of the Stinger missiles for three European nations: Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy. The procurement is handled via NATO NSPA. In the case of the two former states, the delivery is probably caused by a need to replenish the stockpiles, after some equipment was handed over to Ukraine. The US-made MANPADS is relatively expensive, compared to the Polish Piorun system for instance.
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The HJ-10 is meant to be launched from the ZBD-10 armored vehicle.
Key point: Beijing has been training to invade Taiwan now for some time. It has also ramped up its miltiary modernization and its threatening rhetoric.
Months back, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) announced that it had conducted a test of a new anti-tank missile system as part of a so-called “Taiwan Drill.” The exercise, which was conducted in an island-landing exercise from the Bohai Bay earlier this year, was only disclosed on Tuesday and was possibly meant to serve as a message as much to Taiwan as to the United States.