軍售

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(a) 涂鉅旻, 呂伊萱 and 蘇芳禾 (台北), 美軍售兩大亮點 反輻射飛彈、遠距遙攻精準彈藥. Liberty Times, July 1, 2017.
http://news.ltn.com.tw//news/focus/paper/1115197

Note:
(i) AGM-88B高速反輻射飛彈  AGM-88B HARM  (from me: AGM: air-to-ground missile; HARM: High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile, where radiation" is electromagnetic radiation omitted by radar to do its job; for more than a quarter of a century, US has rebuffed Taiwan's request for it, which can home in radars, rendering China blind)

In truth, it is unclear whether it will be 88 B or C.
(ii) AGM-154C遠距遙攻精準彈藥  AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-154_Joint_Standoff_Weapon
(JSOW for short; section 4 Current operators: Taiwan is NOT one of them)

In weaponry, standoff means attack from a distance outside the range of enemy's fire.

(iii) Mark 48 torpedo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_48_torpedo
(section 5.2 Future operator: Taiwan)
(A) section 5.2 cites
Wendell Minnick, US, Taiwan Move Forward on New Torpedoes. Defense News, Sept 8, 2016
http://www.defensenews.com/artic ... rd-on-new-torpedoes
("said a Taiwan Ministry of National Defense (MND) official. * * * Taiwan procured two Dutch-built Sea Dragon-class 海龍級 (Zwaardvis [Dutch for 'swordfish'] Mk 2) submarines in the late 1980s. The recent $200 million procurement of 32 UGM-84L Sub-launched Harpoon Block II anti-ship missiles will also give the Dutch-built submarines a bigger punch"  
(B) 朱明, 【獨家】美現役MK 48重型魚雷 列今年對台軍售清單. 上報, July 22, 2017
www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?SerialNo=695
("不過，美方只同意提供給「非北約主要盟邦」軍售等級的MK 48 Mod 6 AT（Advanced Technology），不是Mod 7型")

US Navy has used MK 48 ADCAP Mod 6, but never Mod 6AT. It is not clear what is 北約主要盟邦 軍售等級?  ADCAP Mod 6?  (ADCAP stands for ADvanced CAPability.

* MK 48 Heayweight Torpedo. US Navy, undated
www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_displ ... mp;tid=950&ct=2
("The MK 48 Mod 6 torpedo reached Initial Operational Capability (IOC) in 1997 * * * The latest version of the MK 48 ADCAP is Mod 7 Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System (CBASS) * * * [that] reached Initial Operational Capability in 2006")
* Taiwan bought two submarines in 1980s from the Netherlands, but could not acquire torpedoes (which Taiwan has not been able to produce). Eventually Taiwan managed to snag SUT (Surface and Underwater Target) torpedoes, in one fell swoop (meaning no upgrade etc). See
朱明, 112枚「水貨」魚雷常凸槌德製印尼組裝17年前購入無保養. Taipei: Apple Daily, Oct 15, 2003
www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily ... ne/20031015/426530/
("這批在十七年前 [1986] 透過印尼海軍採購的一百一十二枚德國魚雷，屬於秘密交易不能見光，德國原廠並沒有直接負責這批魚雷的後勤維修與技術支援，加上魚雷尋標器部分組件是在印尼生產組裝，就如同買了「水貨」又得不到原廠保固服務，魚雷品質一直讓海軍提心吊膽")

(iv) So all of the above three are weapons Taiwan receives for the first time.
(v) Together with 16 standard missile-2 (SM-2 or RIM-66K; "目前服役於國軍的四艘紀德級驅逐艦，每艘最多可帶68枚，射程153公里，是海軍最長程的防空武器," quoting (2)(a) below) surface-to-air missile, all four types of weaponry (50 AGM-88B HARM, 46 MK 48 Mod 6AT heavyweight torpedoes, and 56 AGM-154C JSOW) are made by Raytheon.  (Mod stands for mode; and AT, Advanced Technology.)

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(b) 鄒景雯, 軍售幕後》美五小時前通知台灣. Liberty Times, July 1, 2017.
http://news.ltn.com.tw//news/focus/paper/1115198

the first two paragraphs:

"美國在廿九日（美東時間）決定總金額約十四．二億美元的八項對台軍售案，這些軍購清單，皆是台灣長期爭取的項目，之所以選擇在這個時間點公布，背後的決策考量耐人尋味。我方高層研判，川普與習近平可望在下週的G20元首峰會見面，在此前夕，華府打出此一對台軍售牌，頗有調高對話架式的意義，極有可能與施壓北京對於北韓問題採取更大力度處理有關。

"美國行政部門在廿九日下午三點將軍售案通知國會前，大約是在當天上午十點先正式告知了我駐美代表高碩泰，而後在中午左右、約兩小時前，也禮貌性知會了中國。

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(a) 程嘉文, 120億！ 美對台軍售30%花在新竹這裡. 聯合報, July 1, 2017

(b) "台幣433億元的軍武給台灣，其中有約120億元將用在改良新竹樂山上的「鋪路爪」[PAVE PAWS or AN/FPS-115] 長程預警雷達 * * * ['從2003至2011年，政府投入新台幣410億元的預算' to build it: (2)(a)] 去年（2016）12月才花費8億元升級該雷達，如今又要再花大量預算，且改良細節 [美] 不透露"  三立新聞網, July 1, 2017.