INDIGENOUS DEFENSE: Despite Chinese obstruction, the project is on track to have a blueprint completed by next year and a prototype by 2024, Yen De-fa said
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 29, 2019
By: Staff writer, with CNA
The contract design phase of the nation’s first indigenous submarine project has been
A model of an indigenous submarine prototype expected to be ready by 2024 is pictured in this undated photograph made public by Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Ting-yu yesterday. Photo: Screengrab from Wang Ting-yu’s Facebook
completed and the prototype would be ready by 2024, Minister of National Defense Yen De-fa (嚴德發) said yesterday.
After a closed-door legislative briefing, Yen told reporters that the military has acquired all the export permits needed from foreign contractors to complete the contract design for the first domestically built submarine.
The completion of the contract design was the first phase of the submarine project, which is to be followed by the blueprint design, then construction of a prototype and mass production, he said.
In the next phase, the military would need more export permits, Yen said. [FULL STORY]
