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Taiwan wants to buy land-based Phalanx weapons system to protect underground air bases

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Taiwan is seeking quotations to supply a land-based Phalanx weapons system to help protect its underground air bases at Hualien and Taitung.

A land–based Phalanx weapons system assigned to B Battery, 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment conducts a test fire mission to maintain mission readiness at Camp Manion, Iraq, Jan. 6, 2017. The LPWS targets and destroys incoming enemy munitions before they are able to cause damage to an area. B Battery, 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment conducted the fire mission in support of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, the global Coalition to defeat ISIL in Iraq and Syria. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Christopher Brecht)

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Cost to dismantle ex-USS Enterprise to exceed $1 billion

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the cost of dismantling the former nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise may exceed $1 billion.

USS Enterprise makes its final voyage. (9100691233)
By Official U.S. Navy Page from United States of America Photo by John Whalen/U.S. Navy (USS Enterprise makes its final voyage.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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