Navy plans to build three more missile corvettes by 2023
12/16/2020 05:27 PM
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Taipei, Dec. 16 (CNA) Taiwan s Navy has decided to build three more of the upgraded version of its Tuo Chiang-class missile corvette by 2023 amid a growing military threat from Beijing.
Vice Defense Minister Chang Che-ping (張哲平) said during a legislative hearing that the Armed Forces originally planned to build three upgraded Tuo Chiang-class missile corvettes by 2025.
The first one the Ta Chiang (塔江) was launched in a ceremony in Yilan on Tuesday presided over by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文).
But due to the increasing military threat from China, the military asked the project s main contractor, Lung Teh Shipbuilding, to build the remaining two corvettes on order more quickly and produce more of the ships in a short amount of time, according to Chang.