TANK-BUSTERS: The sale is part of an arms package announced by the US in December 2015, originally for 769 missiles along with training equipment and support systems
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 31, 2018
By: Lo Tien-pin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Taiwan and the US have sealed a NT$3.8 billion (US$130.5 million)
A soldier simulates shooting a Kestrel anti-armor rocket during a military drill at Pingtung County’s Joint Operations Training Base Command on March 4, 2016. Photo: Lo Tien-bin, Taipei Times
deal for 460 TOW-2B Aero radio frequency (RF)-controlled anti-tank missiles, which are to be delivered to Taiwan annually starting this year, with the final batch to be received by June 2024, a Ministry of National Defense source said yesterday.
The TOW-2B missiles are superior to the TOW-2A missiles the military currently uses in that they are wirelessly controlled rather than wire-guided, the source said.
The RF capability allows the missiles to more easily damage or paralyze enemy tanks by attacking them at more vulnerable points, the source said. [FULL STORY]
