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Casa Branca avança com venda de armas a Taiwan
October 14, 2020 - A Casa Branca está a avançar com uma venda de armas a Taiwan, que vai certamente irritar a China. Admite-se que o negócio multimilionário inclui sete sistemas de armamento muito avançados.
The Trump administration notified Congress on Tuesday that it will seek to sell MQ-9 drones and a coastal defence missile system to Taiwan, Reuters said.
The possible sales follow three other notifications first reported by Reuters on Monday. These were for a truck-based rocket launcher made by Lockheed Martin Corp called a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), long-range air-to-ground missiles made by Boeing Co called SLAM-ER, and external sensor pods for F-16 jets that allow the real-time transmission of imagery and data from the aircraft back to ground stations.