TAIPEI, Taiwan, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The Taiwanese army has taken delivery of its first indigenously built Thunderbolt-2000 mobile rocket launcher system from the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology.
Under a $483 million contract, all 50 of the truck-mounted multiple rocket launcher systems are destined for the army's 21st Artillery Command, a report by The China Post said.
The wheeled Thunderbolts -- also called the Ray Ting 2000 -- will replace the army's Kung Feng VI 117mm rocket system, also built by the CIST and which entered service 30 years ago.
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