Taiwan wants to buy rocket launcher from America's AGM-158 aircraft, in Beijing context pressure on Taipei.

Lee Shih-Chiang, Leaders of the Planning Department of the Taiwan Defense Agency, today said Taipei is looking for a long-range journey to launch from AGM-158 JASSM aircraft, but Washington has not said whether the proposal

Taiwan is developing a variety of long-range missiles, capable of attacking many targets deep in mainland Chinese territory, and looking for more modern talents from the US to improve military capacity.

JASSM rocket mounted on B-1B American bombing in 2018. Photo: Drive.

Information was given only two days after the Chinese Foreign Foreign Minister Lac Ngoc Thanh announced that the country was never for Taiwan independently.

China always considers Taiwan Island as a provincial waiting, even by force if necessary.

Taiwanese armed forces often focus on the island defense from potential attacks from mainland.

AGM-158 JASSM is a long-range journey rocket from the plane, technology application reduces the Radar reflector area developed by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force.

The original JASSM variant has a range of 370 km, while the AGM-158B JASSM-ER range has a range of more than 900 km.

After this weapon was listed in 2009, Lockheed Martin handed over a total of 2,000 ammunitions to the US Air Force.