A U.S. congressional committee questioned the U.S. Navy on Thursday over what it called 'alarming delays' in weapons deliveries to Taiwan, asking why production sometimes languished for months or years after purchasing deals were signed.
Committee chairman U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher speaks during a House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party meeting on "Taiwan Tabletop Exercise ," a war games simulation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 19, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade...
"Bureaucratic delays within the Navy are impeding the timely production and delivery of key weapons to Taiwan – including critical anti-ship missiles – and undermining efforts to prevent war," the lawmakers wrote. Gallagher and Kim said 10 months after Taiwan's December 2022 acceptance of deals to buy 60 air-launched Harpoons and 135 SLAM-ER missiles, the Navy still had not asked contractors to submit bids for production. Such lengthy timelines were not unique to those two systems, they added.
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