{"id":163,"date":"2007-08-10T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2007-11-03T23:07:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T15:07:19","slug":"hunting-season-for-rocaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Hunting Season for ROCAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsca.osd.mil\/PressReleases\/36-b\/2007\/tecro_07-41.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Security Cooperation Agency<\/a> of the United States:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, August 8, 2007 &#8211; The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States of AGM-84L HARPOON Block II missiles as well as associated equipment and services. The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as $125 million.<br \/>\nThe Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States has requested a possible sale of <strong>60 AGM-84L HARPOON Block II missiles<\/strong>, 2 HARPOON guidance control units, 30 HARPOON containers, 30 HARPOON extended air-launch lugs, <strong>50 HARPOON upgrade kits from AGM-84G to AGM-84L configuration<\/strong>, missile modifications, test equipment and services, spares and repair parts for support equipment, training, publications and technical documents, U.S. Government and contractor technical assistance, and other related elements of logistics and program support. The estimated cost is $125 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US had previously sold 58 AGM-84G to Taiwan.\u00a0 Now that they are selling 50 upgrade kits, does it imply that ROCAF has already expended eight AGM-84G in exercises?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Defense Security Cooperation Agency of the United States: WASHINGTON, August 8, 2007 &#8211; The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Taipei Economic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}