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2019-03-16 China-Japan-Koreas
Trump Administration Approves Sale of F-16s to Taiwan
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Posted by DarthVader 2019-03-16 16:43|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Mods - I was wanting to get this over to tomorrow, but didn't hit the "Tomorrow" button. Could do that?
Posted by DarthVader 2019-03-15 17:02||   2019-03-15 17:02|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll see what we can do about getting this one run again tomorrow DV.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-15 17:07||   2019-03-15 17:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Donkyshins!
Posted by DarthVader 2019-03-15 17:36||   2019-03-15 17:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Look at the bright side, China - it wasn't F-22's & F-35's. At least this time.
Posted by Raj 2019-03-15 17:40||   2019-03-15 17:40|| Front Page Top

#5 NVidia is probably more beneficial to the US economy than some badly made fungible fraudulent goods to sell on ebay.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-15 17:42||   2019-03-15 17:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Nvidia is a US company.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2019-03-15 18:52||   2019-03-15 18:52|| Front Page Top

#7 There are big Chinese bounties for defectors who take their aircraft with them. I hope the Taiwanese are pretty good about figuring out who should get to fly their latest equipment. The F-16V has state of the art equipment on board. I would have preferred the C/D variant. Singapore's pretty good about internal security despite the fact that 70% of its population is ethnic Chinese. That's why it's part of the F-35 program and has an order in the pipeline for the most expensive STOVL variant. Taiwan, not so much.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2019-03-15 18:59||   2019-03-15 18:59|| Front Page Top

#8 We can roll it over easily, DarthVader. Had it been noticed early enough, it could have been unpublished and thrown back in the hopper — but rolling it over is the next best thing.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-03-15 19:59||   2019-03-15 19:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Would have liked to see a few squadrons of F-15X go to Taiwan. A whole new set of targets in China then opens up. Also 20+ air-air missiles come in handy when outnumbered in a defensive air battle.
Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Sproing5893 2019-03-15 20:52||   2019-03-15 20:52|| Front Page Top

#10 That Trump fella is sure a Commie-appeasing Putin's boy, isn't he?

/s
Posted by Frank G 2019-03-16 05:54||   2019-03-16 05:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks TW.

I agree. Some F-15Xs to go with this would make Taiwan be able to control the air over their island instead of a aerial stalemate that would happen now.

China has more fighters than Taiwan, but most are older and have pretty crappy technology. Combined with the anti-air that Taiwan has, the air superiority battle would be pretty close to a draw.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-03-16 12:59||   2019-03-16 12:59|| Front Page Top

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