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Taiwan begins indigenous submarine construction

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The Taiwanese navy held a keel-laying ceremony for its first indigenous submarine on Tuesday, a year after the eight-vessel project was launched at a new facility in Kaohsiung.

The $16 billion Indigenous Defense Submarine (IDS) Program seeks over a decade to double Taiwan’s existing fleet of four aging conventional diesel-electric submarines, two each of Dutch and US origin. The first IDS submarine is scheduled to be built by 2024 and delivered to the navy the following year.

Taiwanese shipbuilder China Shipbuilding Corporation is constructing the submarine at an approximate cost of $1.8 billion.

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