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Defense Institute Reveals Plans For New Domestically Built Submarines

April 05 2017

Taiwan

Taiwan has plans to build eight new submarines to replace its aging boats, says a new report by a government defense research and development institution, as reported by the Central News Agency (Taipei).

Officials from the National Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology say that the NCSIST will draw on experience from an ongoing modernization program for the navy's two Hai Lung-class subs for the domestic construction program.

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