{"id":58296,"date":"2025-11-24T01:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=58296"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:54:42","slug":"us-confirms-sale-of-911m-air-defense-missile-totaiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/58296\/us-confirms-sale-of-911m-air-defense-missile-totaiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"US confirms sale of $\u06f9\u06f1\u06f1m air defense missile to\nTaiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In the Indo-Pacific region, only Australia and Indonesia now operate the system, three of which the US said last year Taiwan would receive as part of a US$2 billion weapons sale, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>The National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) medium-range air defense solutions, as they are called, are made by RTX, and are a new weapon for Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said the company was given a firm fixed-price contract for procurement of the NASAMS units, with work estimated to be completed in February 2031.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fiscal 2026 foreign military sales (Taiwan) funds in the amount of US$698,948,760 were obligated,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>RTX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Used in Ukraine to defend against the Russian invasion, the NASAMS system offers a sharp boost in air defense capabilities that the US is exporting to Taiwan as demand for it surges.<\/p>\n<p>The US approved the sale of fighter jet and other aircraft parts to Taiwan for US$330 million on Nov 13, in the first such deal since President Donald Trump took office in January, prompting thanks from Taipei and anger in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The arms sales news comes amid a worsening diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Tokyo over Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov 16, Chinese coast guard ships sailed through waters around a group of East China Sea islands controlled by Japan but claimed by China, the report added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Indo-Pacific region, only Australia and Indonesia now operate the system, three of which the US said last year Taiwan would receive as part of a US$\u06f2 billion weapons sale, Reuters reported. The National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) medium-range air defense solutions, as they are called, are made by RTX, and are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}