US sells $2.6B in tanks, missiles to Taiwan

taiwannews.com.tw

18 points·ilamont··7 comments

I'm sure they have other procurement projects going on, but in my uninformed opinion I'd think they should probably concentrate on anti-ship and anti-aircraft weapons. They've probably already lost if they need to use tanks and anti-tank weapons.

True. I would argue that Taiwan cannot stop China from having a successful invasion. They can only make it so costly that China would not be willing to pay the price. Both in manpower and political blowback.

I'm not so sure they can do that with tactical weapons. I know it's not the 50s anymore, but IIRC, wasn't the PRC known for using massively wasteful human wave attacks in Korea? They have a political system that's more tolerant to wasteful losses than a democracy.

Looking into history, countries selling military equipments to Taiwan have invaded more countries than China ever did in its history.

So I’m not sure how real is China threat for East Asia.

If you look into their history, stable China always translated to stable East Asia.

I’m really worried about all these trends and military moves on that region. We might make East Asia the next Middle East. Not to mention once it happened to them during the colonization and it took them ages to recover.

I mean given current market prices thats like what? Two tanks and a missile?

It says right in the article: 108 M1A2 Abrams tanks - US$2 billion 1,240 TOW anti-tank missiles - US$299 million 409 Javelin missiles - US$129 million 250 stinger missiles - US$223 million

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* 108 M1A2 Abrams tanks - US$2 billion

* 1,240 TOW anti-tank missiles - US$299 million

* 409 Javelin missiles - US$129 million

* 250 stinger missiles - US$223 million

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