https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/defence-notes/taiwan-jet-trainer-delayed-10-years/Taiwan jet trainer delayed 10 years
The indigenous defence manufacturing policy of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen will delay the air force's acquisition of 66 advanced jet trainers (AJT) to replace the ageing AT-3 by at least a decade, Taipei defence industry sources said.
The Legislative Yuan agreed on 17 November to the delay on the condition that the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) meet a deadline of September 2019 to come up with a 'purely indigenous design' that the local aircraft manufacturer, Aerospace Industry Development Corporation (AIDC), was capable of building. If not, the air force had permission to ferret out a foreign company for a co-manufacturing deal.
In 2014 AIDC signed a deal with Finmeccanica to co-build the M-346 AJT, but that deal was nixed when Tsai assumed office in May 2016, running on a platform that promoted local manufacture of defence items. Local defence industry sources now indicate that the M-346 is still in the running, but now has competition from a new trainer being developed by Boeing/Saab, the T-X, for the US Air Force.
1. 차이총통이 갑자기 외산 훈련기 도입사업을 국산 훈련기 개발사업으로 전환
2. 단 2019년까지 탐색연구해서 국산개발이 불가능하다고 판단되면 외산 훈련기 라이센스 생산 가능.
3. 외산 라이센스시 후보기종은 M-346과 보잉 T-X임.
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