Taipei, May 25 (CNA) The United States will help Taiwan obtain the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO’s) Link-22 secure data link system, according to a Ministry of National Defense (MND) official on Thursday.
Lee Shih-chiang (李世強), head of the MND’s Department of Strategic Planning, made the statement to lawmakers during an interpellation at the Legislature following a recent local media report about the military seeking to acquire the NATO system.
Link-22 is a secure digital radio system that is primarily used by military forces as a tactical data link. It is able to provide beyond line-of-sight communications that interconnects air, surface, subsurface and ground-based tactical data systems, while also facilitating the exchange of tactical data among the military units of participating nations.
Lee was also asked whether NATO’s secure system will be interoperable with…
