![]() It would be the first drone sale after President Donald Trump’s administration moved ahead with its plan to sell more drones to more countries by reinterpreting an international arms control agreement called the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Congress could choose to block a final agreement. The deal has to be approved by members of Congress who may receive formal notification as soon as next month, two of the people said. officials have approved exporting the drones with weapons attached, one of them said. While the sale of the unmanned aerial vehicles has been tacitly authorized by the State Department, two of the people said, it is not known whether the U.S. The SeaGuardian surveillance drones have a range of 6,000 nautical miles (11,100 km), far greater than the 160-mile range of Taiwan’s current fleet of drones. sources familiar with the negotiations, in a deal that is likely to ratchet up tensions with China. WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The United States is negotiating the sale of at least four of its large sophisticated aerial drones to Taiwan for the first time, according to six U.S.
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