Mike Yeo

Malaysia and Kongsberg signed a deal in 2018 for supply of an undisclosed number of NSM weapons to equip six new Littoral Combat Ships.

The contract covers the three Aussie frigates that will be built in Japan.

The approved supplemental budget is much lower than the NT$1.25 trillion proposed by the Lai administration, with the funding going towards two separate US arms packages for Taiwan.

This year's budget represents a six percent increase over last year's defense spending.

India has also been approved for howitzer, helicopter sustainment packages

The program will keep the submarines in service to the 2040s, 20 years longer than originally planned.

South Korea's Ministry of National Defense expects its first nuclear-powered submarine to enter service in the mid-2030s.

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“Norway's action has created more than just a bilateral contract dispute. It raises a deeply troubling question about whether international agreement and strategic partnership can still be trusted at all,” Malaysian Defense Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin said at the Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore.