TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The largest-ever Taipei Aerospace and Defense Technology Exhibition opens Thursday at Nangang Exhibition Center.
This year’s show centers on “Advanced Defense, Sustainable Flight, Resilient Supply Chains, and an Unmanned Future,” and will feature more than 400 companies from 14 countries, per CNA.
The Armaments Bureau will debut two of four new drone types — a bomb-dropping drone and a loitering drone — and will display the D3 infantry fighting vehicle prototype developed with the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology.
NCSIST will also showcase its Kuai-Chi unmanned surface vessel and may debut the Ching Feng loitering drone.
CSBC Corp. is expected to present achievements under the Indigenous Defense Submarine and Shipbuilding program, along with its newly developed unmanned vessel, Endeavor Manta.
US systems including the M1A2T tank and the HIMARS rocket system will be on display.
Foreign contractors slated to attend include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Anduril, and Czech firm Excalibur Army. Domestic exhibitors will include the Ministry of National Defense, the National Space Organization, the Taiwan Aerospace Industry Association, AIDC, and Thunder Tiger.
