Taiwan Setting Up Its Own Defense Innovation Unit

Taiwan Thunder Tiger VTOL UAS

 Taiwan Thunder Tiger VTOL UAS, one of the country's many commercial-led drone projects.

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SINGAPORE—Taiwan’s newly appointed minister of defense says he plans to create a technology development division similar to the U.S, Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), with the goal of nurturing greater defense-commercial development and increasing the island nation’s asymmetric...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for Aviation Week's Air Transport World magazine and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for Aviation Week.

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