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Taiwan pyrotechnics sale raises question mark
A $62 million contract for hand-held signal flares is raising questions in Taiwan defence circles.
Security Signals Inc, based in Cordova, Tennessee, won a firm-fixed-price US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract to supply Taiwan with five types of flares: M125A1 green star cluster, M158 red star cluster, M159 white star ...
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