By Admin 
Taiwan has taken a big decision to strengthen its security. In view of the threat of a possible attack from China, the government has proposed an additional defense budget of US $ 40 billion. This money will be spent in the coming years to build a new and modern multi-layered air defense system T-Dome. This is the first time that Taiwan is bringing forward such a big security investment plan.
American pressure and increasing defense spending
This decision has come at a time when America is continuously demanding Taiwan to increase its defense budget. The Taiwan government has said that this special budget will be spent in phases between 2026 and 2033. President Lai Ching-te has already talked about taking defense spending to 5% of GDP. Currently, Taiwan has increased the defense budget for 2026 to $31.18 billion, which will bring the total defense expenditure to 3.3% of GDP. President Lai wrote in the Washington Post that the new budget will be mainly used to buy arms from America. According to Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Ku, $40 billion is the upper limit of the budget and will be used for precision strike missiles, joint weapons development and military technology procurement.
What is T-Dome and how will it work?
This defense system was announced by President Lai on 10 October. He compared it with Israel’s famous Iron Dome, but said that its capacity would be much greater than that. According to defense experts, T-Dome will deal with many types of threats, not just small rockets. This system is being designed to stop attacks like Chinese fighter planes, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones.
Super-network will be built by connecting to the existing defense system
Taiwan already has many important air defense systems-
- US Patriot PAC-3 missile system
- Indigenous Sky Bow and Tien Kung System
NASAMS system will be available soon
T-Dome will connect all these with modern radar, sensors and a command center to form a single defense network, which will be able to rapidly detect the threat and destroy it immediately.
T-Dome will have two main parts
According to national defense experts, in this system-
- Command and Control System – which will take data from all radars and sensors and decide which missile to fire at which threat.
- Interceptor layers- where missiles will be deployed at different heights and distances, so that every incoming missile or drone can be stopped.
Why did Taiwan find this system necessary?
Taiwan has learned from the Ukraine-Russia war that only a modern air defense system can save civilians, military and important places. Experts say that if Taiwan is able to stop China’s initial missile attacks, then Beijing will think twice before attacking. According to the report, China has the capability to fire hundreds of missiles in just three minutes from ships and land-based launchers deployed around Taiwan.