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Taiwan forgoes MQ-8B purchase

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Taiwan has decided against buying the MQ-8B unmanned air vehicle and will channel all funds into buying 8 MH-60R naval helicopters instead.

US Navy 110930-N-JQ696-401 An MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle (cropped)

By U.S. Navy photo by Kelly Schindler (www.navy.mil) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons


The report added that a sea-borne fixed-wing unmanned air vehicle based on the Albatross drone has flown successfully from a warship several times.

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