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Taiwan enacts $7.5 B, six-year drone law and signs US USV and UUV production deals

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Taiwan has signed into law a six-year programme allocating approximately $1.26 billion annually to build a domestic drone industry, prioritising coastal reconnaissance UAVs, coastal attack UAVs, and small attack unmanned surface vessels. A first procurement wave targets more than 40,000 attack drones, 600-plus reconnaissance platforms, and 100 attack craft by 2027. Two parallel bilateral agreements were announced: US firm Havoc and Taiwan shipbuilder CSBC agreed on 10 September to jointly manufacture autonomous surface vessels on the island using Havoc’s autonomous control, inter-platform data-sharing, and degraded-comms resilience software; and US Vatn Systems signed an August agreement with Taiwan’s Chungshan Institute to co-develop and produce the S12 autonomous underwater vehicle — described as capable of reconnaissance, deception, and potential strike roles with AI-assisted control — in Taiwan. Taiwan’s president separately inspected drone operator training demonstrating the Jinfeng-3 attack UAV, Switchblade-300, and Altius-600M systems, stating that conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East had proved drones are transforming modern warfare.

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