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State Department Approves $600 Million Sale Of Four MQ-9B UAS To Taiwan

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020

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State Department Approves $600 Million Sale Of Four MQ-9B UAS To Taiwan

A General Atomics MQ-9B SkyGuardian in flight. (Photo courtesy of GA-ASI)

The State Department approved a potential $600 million Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of four weapons-ready MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned aerial systems. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the sale on Tuesday. The sale is going through the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO), the Taiwan equivalent of an embassy. TECRO’s sale request includes four MQ-9B aircraft, two fixed ground control station, two mobile round control stations, and 14 Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigations Systems…

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