Taiwan Is Rushing to Make Its Own Drones Before It’s Too Late

Spandy For several years a few years, drones were instrumental in the war. Conflicts in Ukraine, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sudan and other places showed how the autonomous vehicle became a part of the modern war.

This is a fact Taiwan knows it all very well. The nation of Island, I’m afraid Inevitable occupation from ChinaThere is both the need and the industry needed to create a firm and advanced program of the Nou-Hau and the industry.

Taiwan, which set an ambitious goal to produce 180,000 drones per year in 2028, struggles to create this industry from scratch. Produced less than 10,000 last year.

“Taiwan is definitely the ability to make the best drones in the world,” says a policy analyst at the Cathy Fang, democracy, society and the emerging technology (DSET) Research Institute.

So why not?

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Fang and his colleagues released a long report on June 16, which was just how the Taiwan’s Drone industry was. According to research, the country was produced in the last year, 8,000 to 10,000 drones (UAVs), current ratio and ambitious goals with structural problems. Studies have been stycied by “high production costs, low internal procurement and minimal foreign state orders” of Drone production of Taiwan.

Fang and other DSET researchers informed about the details of the reports in Taipei offices in May.

Taiwan lived in danger of Chinese occupation for decades, but in recent years has made it an opportunity to another. Beijing, until 2027, announced the intention to complete the aggressive modernization of the Salvation Army; Taiwanese officials say the occupation can come to this early, but it can be said that the current term of Xi Jinping before the premier is almost 2029.

Which form, exactly, the Fear of military analysts in Taiwan, a fear of military analysts that may be completely combined: after a full occupation of the air and the sea.

This means that Taiwan has an innovative solution to defend itself and the imperative to come quickly. According to the American Commander in 2023, Taiwan’s self-defense means Taiwan’s Strait to “Hellscape” to Hellscape. This strategy, the Chinese Navy and Air Force do not need to be explicitly destroyed, but the protection of Beijing’s allies of Beijing should be irrigated with long advances for a long time for rallies.

Taipei is already some of these right. In 2022, the government has launched the national team, a program, an application for adaptation to measure a program, state and industry. In particular, the team, defense strategy, learned lessons from Ukraine who are very confident in small, tactical, inexpensive UAVs, who are able to implement many missions and integrate in underground units. Today, the country plans to buy 4.5 million small drone of Kiev this year, for a long-distance missile missile program, its autonomous land vehicles and its next sea drones.