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| Chaparral (Image: Wiki Commons) |
In December 2016, the American-based Company Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been awarded a $23 million dollar contract to sell Chaparral class air defense missiles to Taiwan. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the work will be done in Huntsville, and is expected to be complete by the end of 2019.
The contract is officially for 450 thermal batteries, 466 rocket motors, 150 safety and arming devices, and 248 warheads.
The MIM-72A/M48 Chaparral is an American-made self-propelled surface-to-air missile system based on the AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile system. It entered service with the US Army in 1969 and was phased out between 1990 and 1998 Taiwan bought the MIM-72 missiles from United States in the 1980s.
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