Gov't Doing Its Best To Speed Up Arms Deliveries From US: Defense Minister

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Taiwan's defense minister, Wellington Koo, says the government is doing its best to speed up arms deliveries from the US, especially fighter jets, glide bombs and heavy torpedoes. Koo said the US has set up a special project office for some weapons orders while the manufacturer of the F-16V fighter jets Taiwan has ordered is running assembly lines 20 hours a day to overcome the backlog.

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00:00Taiwan is doing all it can to speed up deliveries of U.S. arms.

00:04That's according to Defense Minister Wellington Kou,

00:07who says the U.S. side has also set up a special office for certain weapons orders.

00:30Kou is speaking to the legislature about delayed deliveries of F-16V fighter jets, glide bombs and torpedoes.

00:40The jets alone cost more than $8 billion and were originally scheduled for delivery by the end of next year.

00:47The ministry says the manufacturer is currently running the assembly line 20 hours a day to overcome delays.

00:52Kou also gave updates on another delayed project, Taiwan's domestically-made submarine the Haikun,

00:58saying the Defense Ministry will fine the shipbuilder for failing to meet deadlines.

01:19The Haikun was originally meant to be delivered in November, but it's only finished part of its testing.

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